Planes, Trains, and Automobiles... and feet.: The City of Glitz and Glamour

Next stop... Los Angeles! We headed to LA and the route we took, brought us down the California Pacific highway. We got some awesome views of the cliffs and ocean meeting up and also saw a beach full of Elephant seals along the way. Then we headed to Pasadena to meet up with a great friend of mine from back in the days of late middle and early high school... Stephen Finkel! He and his housemates were incredibly gracious to let us stay there for the couple days and I couldn't thank them enough. That night Stephen took us up to the Griffith Park Observatory which is on a big hill near the Greek Theatre, where a show was getting ready to start so it was crawling with people. Then he took us to this burger place that was a bacon lover's heaven (Most everything had something to do with bacon... bacon ketchup, bacon thousand island dressing, even bacon salt).

The next day was a SUPER busy day. It started out with Dad and I heading into the downtown section of LA. First thing I noticed was the transit system of LA is very nice and well done! Congrats to them on that. We got to the city and at our first stop we got out and saw the City Hall building, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and the Disney Concert Hall. Then we headed to Hollywood. We walked up and down Hollywood Boulevard and saw the stars on the Walk of Fame and saw the Dolby Theater, and TCL Chinese Theater, and the Hollywood sign off in the distance.

We went back to the house and picked up our car at that point and went for a "leisurely" drive in the city. We drove to the Sunset Strip and down Sunset Boulevard, drove around through Beverly Hills, up and down Rodeo Drive, and then down Santa Monica Boulevard out to Santa Monica. There we walked to the beach and walked up the Santa Monica Pier and watched the sunset from there. Then we had dinner on the pier and made the 30 mile drive back to Stephen's in under an hour (wooo LA traffic win!)

The next morning we drove around Pasadena in the morning and stopped by the Rose Bowl, met up with Stephen one last time before we headed out of town and then stopped by the house where Father of the Bride took place. Then we headed out on our way to the next stop...San Diego!