Ian, one of the guys from the group I hang out with had a bit of a gathering down at the beach. The weather was really really lovely. Spent 2hrs in the surf. I managed to break a boogie board in half by being thrown off the crest of a big breaker. I checked out the local pier and a few shops and we attempted to play volleyball but had to use jandals which are rather useless because the sand was so hot.
We then went and had a drink and some food at the Huntington Brewery. Great food here. I had a very very unique and yummy Chocolate Chip Calzone with melted white and dark chocolate inside and a lump of vanilla ice cream. It was exquisite.
I have also been down to Hollywood just to check it out and have a drive round. It certainly is not what you think it would be. Rather small in terms of the nice spots and the streets surrounding the central Hollywood Blvd area are very depressed, almost ghetto like. Not too cool really.
It was kinda cool seeing the cliched things such as the Walk of Fame, and all the hand and foot prints of various stars not to mention the 100s of stars on the boardwalks. All representing some one 'famous' though I had not heard of 90% of them. The smog was also not too bad so we got a pretty good view of the big Hollywood sign.
Tabetha knew an old friend down that way working as an editor for a TV channel. He knew of a good Indian place so I had my first Indian since I left NZ. It was pretty good though not spicy enough. Strangely they did not give the option choosing how spicy it should have been.
On the way home we drove though Downtown LA and checked out little Tokyo. For all the bad wrap LA gets its was ok, and there is potential. Still they will need to move the ghettos more than 1 or 2 blocks away from the nice spots. The contrast over a block or two was huge. Almost felt like a warzone in parts and all you needed to do was drive a block too far in the wrong direction.
7 years ago
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Great work.
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