So TimrehIX, How was your trip?
I am back from my trip to LA. I have pictures if any one is interested. My time line is a little fuzzy so the event I will post about will only be in general order.
I pack all my stuff and go to Blakes the day before we are to leave. The plan is to get up at ass crack of dawn and pick up our traveling companions; Lock and Cody, then go to the airport. The morning of, Blake is backing out of the garage and backs right in to my car. I had parked as far over as I was comfortable with and there was plenty of room for him to back out but he just wasn’t expecting a car to be there so he backed right in to it. I watched him do it too. I started waving my arms trying to get him to stop but apparently he saw my wild flailing and thought “What is TimrehIX doing? *BANG*.” So now I have a gash along the passenger side of my car.
When the group gets to the airport I find out that SouthWest doesn’t have the complementary crappy orange juice any more. I loved the crappy orange juice. It was the best orange juice you ever seriously debated the wisdom of drinking ever. I was very disappointed to find they only offered coffee. Lock did buy me some OJ and it wasn’t even crappy. I loved my non-crappy orange juice.
The day we got in to LA we didn’t have anything planed. When you fly non-rev you aren’t guarantied a seat and we needed four seats. But we got in around noon so we had some time to fluff around. We asked a lady at the front desk of our hotel where we could go eat. The Concierge wasn’t available so she said we could take the trolley and find a place in West Beach. (I don’t know if that is the correct name. but it was a beach.) When we got off the trolley we realized it was freaken COLD. Apparently it was 50-something that day. So we wondered around and had lunch as some place that looked interesting. Most places wouldn’t open until 5pm and it was around 1 and we were starving and cold. I thought I saw the pier from the end of Falling Down so I took a bunch of pictures and told every one where we were but once I got back I looked it up and I was wrong. I know that pier was in some movie, but I have no idea which one.
On our first full day we went to the La Brea Tar Pits. It was interesting. I got to see a wall covered with Dire Wolf sculls. And they had a mammoth skeleton on display. Right in the middle of the main building they had a “fish bowl” where you could see paleontologists working. I wonder how it feels being watched by strangers all day. I assume you get used to it, but I hate being watched. After a day in the “fish tank” I would have to go home and sit in the dark for a few hours. There was one hot bear daddy paleontologist though. WOOF!
The next day we went to Griffith Park. We went to the Zoo and we went to the Observatory. The trip to the zoo was your standard Zoo experience; walk around and hope the animals you want to see are outside as you walk by. Most of the animals were active, but the bears were hiding. The observatory was great. We got there just before sunset which we were told was the best time to get there. They have a wing dedicated to the sun which only works during the day, because you need the sun. They have a bunch of things you need the stars for too, telescopes and such. So we got to do both sets of things. We saw two shows. One was about the evolution of astronomy and the other was about the big bang. The high light for me was the Foucault Pendulum. It illustrates the rotation of the earth, it was sweet. They use an electro magnet to keep it moving and as a visual to show movement they have a little table with pegs all in a line, that get knocked down one by one.
One day Loch and Cody wanted to go off on there own so we let them do whatever and Blake and I went and wondered around the walk of fame. I took some pictures of some stars with interesting manes on them. We went to Grauman's Chinese Theater and took some pictures of the foot prints but it was so bright I couldn’t make out what I was shooting. I kinda just pointed a clicked hoping it turns out. There were a lot of people out front in costumes. They had two batmen, classic and modern, both chubby. There was a Superman that was so skinny his costume was hanging off him. The only one that had a halfway decent costume was Supergirl and that was only because Supergirl has had so many costumes you can slap together a matching costume from miscellaneous bits of clothing and have it still match one from the comic. I got a picture with her and a non authentic Batgirl. I was disappointed that the slapped together batgirl got in the picture but then I decided she was proto Misfit and it was ok.
Blake and I went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Blake would walk around and read every plague. I would only read the plaque of what ever interested me so I was usually a room ahead of him. Throughout the museum there were pranks worked in to exhibits. Because I was a room ahead of Blake I was able to steer him in to most of them. Hehe. My favorite was a ledge with a plaque displayed on the far wall. To read the plaque you had to walk out to the ledge. A few seconds after you stand on the ledge it would suddenly drop a few inched. That startled the bigeasus out of Blake.
We eventually met L & C at The Pig and Whistle. Where we had a nice meal and saw a celebrity. We saw the plumber from Desperate Housewives. He was cute but I really have no idea who he is as I do not watch Desperate Housewives. I had my first shepard’s pie. It was alright.
L & C were planning to fly home on Sunday but were halted by an uppity SouthWest employee. So they came to the hotel room where they hung out while Blake and I went to Universal Studios. The first thing we did was go to a horror house. These things aren’t usually scary but they are startling. People and things jump out at you from all directions. We entered behind a group of Chinese tourists, three women and a man. The man would turn a sharp corner in front of the women and hide, and then reach out at one of the women when they passed. They would scream and he would laugh. The most entertaining thing was the one woman who was just FREAKING OUT. We entered a hall of mirrors and she started groping in the dark. I was standing behind her and she grabs my arm while searching for the door and then in utter surprise looks up at me and jumps back. I tried to be a calm presence and smile at her, but later I realized I had the grim specter of death on my shirt. Oops. Later there was a walkway where a man in a werewolf costume was roaring and clawing at people as they ran by. This little Chinese woman went to freak out level 10. The guy in their group ran past, and the other two woman screamed and ran past together, this woman just couldn’t do it. She hid behind me and pushed me forward I thought she was going to use me as cover so I went ahead trying to be the big strong helpful American. But when I got to the other side I looked back and now she was cowering behind Blake. When he went she cowered behind some one else. Poor thing. She finally mad it through and nothing exciting happened after that. But when we reached the end of the house she steps in to daylight and starts ranting in Chinese, laughing and hitting the guy who kept jumping out at her. The rest of the Studios was less entertaining, I liked the studio tour, but Doc Browns Chicken is best avoided.
That was most of the trip. I think I have a flicker account and I will put the photos up for any one who is interested.
I pack all my stuff and go to Blakes the day before we are to leave. The plan is to get up at ass crack of dawn and pick up our traveling companions; Lock and Cody, then go to the airport. The morning of, Blake is backing out of the garage and backs right in to my car. I had parked as far over as I was comfortable with and there was plenty of room for him to back out but he just wasn’t expecting a car to be there so he backed right in to it. I watched him do it too. I started waving my arms trying to get him to stop but apparently he saw my wild flailing and thought “What is TimrehIX doing? *BANG*.” So now I have a gash along the passenger side of my car.
When the group gets to the airport I find out that SouthWest doesn’t have the complementary crappy orange juice any more. I loved the crappy orange juice. It was the best orange juice you ever seriously debated the wisdom of drinking ever. I was very disappointed to find they only offered coffee. Lock did buy me some OJ and it wasn’t even crappy. I loved my non-crappy orange juice.
The day we got in to LA we didn’t have anything planed. When you fly non-rev you aren’t guarantied a seat and we needed four seats. But we got in around noon so we had some time to fluff around. We asked a lady at the front desk of our hotel where we could go eat. The Concierge wasn’t available so she said we could take the trolley and find a place in West Beach. (I don’t know if that is the correct name. but it was a beach.) When we got off the trolley we realized it was freaken COLD. Apparently it was 50-something that day. So we wondered around and had lunch as some place that looked interesting. Most places wouldn’t open until 5pm and it was around 1 and we were starving and cold. I thought I saw the pier from the end of Falling Down so I took a bunch of pictures and told every one where we were but once I got back I looked it up and I was wrong. I know that pier was in some movie, but I have no idea which one.
On our first full day we went to the La Brea Tar Pits. It was interesting. I got to see a wall covered with Dire Wolf sculls. And they had a mammoth skeleton on display. Right in the middle of the main building they had a “fish bowl” where you could see paleontologists working. I wonder how it feels being watched by strangers all day. I assume you get used to it, but I hate being watched. After a day in the “fish tank” I would have to go home and sit in the dark for a few hours. There was one hot bear daddy paleontologist though. WOOF!
The next day we went to Griffith Park. We went to the Zoo and we went to the Observatory. The trip to the zoo was your standard Zoo experience; walk around and hope the animals you want to see are outside as you walk by. Most of the animals were active, but the bears were hiding. The observatory was great. We got there just before sunset which we were told was the best time to get there. They have a wing dedicated to the sun which only works during the day, because you need the sun. They have a bunch of things you need the stars for too, telescopes and such. So we got to do both sets of things. We saw two shows. One was about the evolution of astronomy and the other was about the big bang. The high light for me was the Foucault Pendulum. It illustrates the rotation of the earth, it was sweet. They use an electro magnet to keep it moving and as a visual to show movement they have a little table with pegs all in a line, that get knocked down one by one.
One day Loch and Cody wanted to go off on there own so we let them do whatever and Blake and I went and wondered around the walk of fame. I took some pictures of some stars with interesting manes on them. We went to Grauman's Chinese Theater and took some pictures of the foot prints but it was so bright I couldn’t make out what I was shooting. I kinda just pointed a clicked hoping it turns out. There were a lot of people out front in costumes. They had two batmen, classic and modern, both chubby. There was a Superman that was so skinny his costume was hanging off him. The only one that had a halfway decent costume was Supergirl and that was only because Supergirl has had so many costumes you can slap together a matching costume from miscellaneous bits of clothing and have it still match one from the comic. I got a picture with her and a non authentic Batgirl. I was disappointed that the slapped together batgirl got in the picture but then I decided she was proto Misfit and it was ok.
Blake and I went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Blake would walk around and read every plague. I would only read the plaque of what ever interested me so I was usually a room ahead of him. Throughout the museum there were pranks worked in to exhibits. Because I was a room ahead of Blake I was able to steer him in to most of them. Hehe. My favorite was a ledge with a plaque displayed on the far wall. To read the plaque you had to walk out to the ledge. A few seconds after you stand on the ledge it would suddenly drop a few inched. That startled the bigeasus out of Blake.
We eventually met L & C at The Pig and Whistle. Where we had a nice meal and saw a celebrity. We saw the plumber from Desperate Housewives. He was cute but I really have no idea who he is as I do not watch Desperate Housewives. I had my first shepard’s pie. It was alright.
L & C were planning to fly home on Sunday but were halted by an uppity SouthWest employee. So they came to the hotel room where they hung out while Blake and I went to Universal Studios. The first thing we did was go to a horror house. These things aren’t usually scary but they are startling. People and things jump out at you from all directions. We entered behind a group of Chinese tourists, three women and a man. The man would turn a sharp corner in front of the women and hide, and then reach out at one of the women when they passed. They would scream and he would laugh. The most entertaining thing was the one woman who was just FREAKING OUT. We entered a hall of mirrors and she started groping in the dark. I was standing behind her and she grabs my arm while searching for the door and then in utter surprise looks up at me and jumps back. I tried to be a calm presence and smile at her, but later I realized I had the grim specter of death on my shirt. Oops. Later there was a walkway where a man in a werewolf costume was roaring and clawing at people as they ran by. This little Chinese woman went to freak out level 10. The guy in their group ran past, and the other two woman screamed and ran past together, this woman just couldn’t do it. She hid behind me and pushed me forward I thought she was going to use me as cover so I went ahead trying to be the big strong helpful American. But when I got to the other side I looked back and now she was cowering behind Blake. When he went she cowered behind some one else. Poor thing. She finally mad it through and nothing exciting happened after that. But when we reached the end of the house she steps in to daylight and starts ranting in Chinese, laughing and hitting the guy who kept jumping out at her. The rest of the Studios was less entertaining, I liked the studio tour, but Doc Browns Chicken is best avoided.
That was most of the trip. I think I have a flicker account and I will put the photos up for any one who is interested.