Friday morning is when I was able to see my surroundings since I had landed after the sun went down. I was blown away when I opened our shutters and saw beautiful mountains right outside our window!! David had to work that Friday so I was on my own, I walked up and down Colorado Blvd in downtown Pasadena. I met up with David for lunch at the Yard House....all I can say is I think North Texas needs one of these!!! Such great food!! Friday night after David got back from work we walked to a restaurant called Roy's- it was an Hawaiian fusion restaurant...translation....very expensive and almost all fish! LOL But David was happy so that is all that mattered....I on the other hand was not too thrilled with my main course, I ended up getting some short ribs from the appetizer part of the menu (nothing else looked good) and some mashed potatoes...can't take the small town out of this girl!! But what I was thrilled about was our dessert!!! We ordered a Chocolate souffle...and OMG it was amazing!!!!! After dinner we walked down Colorado Blvd, it is quite a sight to see with all kinds of street performers trying to earn some $$ and then as we passed by this couple David was handed the is piece of paper....
Yeah.....so they I guess have these "recruiters" walking around handing people these things (not really by choice either as David didn't have his hand out) for Scientology.....CRAZY!
Saturday we got up bright and early and got ready and headed to HOLLYWOOD!!! We saw the Chinese Theater and right next door the Kodak Theater- they must have been setting up for the Oscars because they had all kinds of things blocked off and other stuff set up. After we had walked up and down Hollywood Blvd, we drove down to Beverly Hills!! What a difference it was from grungy Hollywood....we walked up and down Rodeo Dr and looked in all the windows....so many pretty things! We also walked to the Beverly Hilton where Whitney Houston passed away in- I took some pictures of the memorial set up outside the hotel. Then we drove down to Santa Monica! We had lunch at the Ivy at the shore- it wasn't the best...but it was ok, not worth the $$$. We walked down to the Santa Monica Pier- oh how pretty it was!!! We went down to the beach- I put my feet in the water....by the way, that water was FREEZING!! We saw some people out in the water....no thank you!!! I gathered sand and some pretty rocks from the beach and brought it home with me! We then got in the car and drove north on the PCH and watched the sunset in Malibu! I got some pretty awesome shots of the sunset while we were on the pier and some even better ones on our drive in Malibu!!
Sunday we drove down to Long beach and went to the Aquarium of the Pacific- it was pretty cool to see other sea life that you don't normally see here at the Texas aquariums. We saw a Sea Lion and Seal show- a Sea Otter show- saw some pretty scary sharks and all other kinds of sea life!!
Over all it was a wonderful trip- I could never live there though.....there was so much smog and traffic 24 hours a day!! CRAZY!!! But it was great to go out and say I have been there! :-) here are a few pictures from our trip!!
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