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| Breakfast at our hotel, The Magic Castle Photo album for this post All photo albums |
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| We debated whether we should drive or walk, but it was such a pretty day so we decided to walk |
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| Lots of cheesy tourist stores |
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| Day or night there was always activity along Hollywood Boulevard and the Walk of Fame |
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| Hollywood High School |
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| Sunset Boulevard |
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| There were plenty of trashy areas along the way, but there were also nice surprises like this beautiful nursery |
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| Melrose Avenue |
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| We enjoyed the residential areas - looking at the nice houses and landscaping |
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| Lulu's Cafe reminded us of our dog Lulu |
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| I love coming across unexpected surprises like this turtle pond in front of an office\apartment building |
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| People were lined up at this restaurant. It took awhile to figure out what the name was. |
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| Pan Pacific Park |
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| CBS Television City apartments |
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| Holocaust Museum |
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| The Grove |
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| Farmer's Market |
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| There were so many choices - now all we had to do was decide what we wanted for lunch |
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| Derek decided on the Brazilian barbecue place with the big line. Adam wanted chinese food so Helen went with him. |
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| Food coma |
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| These purple Jacaranda trees were blooming all over the place. They were really beautiful. |
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| Museum of Art and the Miracle Mile |
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| "Urban Light" sculpture |
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| Rodin sculptures |
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| Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits |
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| Feeling what it's like to be stuck in tar |
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| Discussing how most fossils you see with the signature dark color probably came from the La Brea Tar Pits |
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| Lots of recovered animal skulls |
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| Working lab |
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| A little tar pit up close |
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| Project 23 |
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| Pit 91 |
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| Bubbling tar pit |
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| All this walking is taking a toll |
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| Adam started collecting the first of many souvenier penny stamps on our trip |
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| Adam is always climbing |
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| Park Brea was a strange place. On the map it looked like a huge park and we thought it would be a nice to check out and walk through, but in reality it's a big gated walled off mixed use housing development that looks a lot like "the projects". We ended up having to walk a pretty long way around it. |
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| Back to the Farmer's Market for some ice cream |
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| Playing in the park on the way back to our hotel |
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| Taking a break. I bet we walked 10 miles that day. |
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| Cute Minnie Mouse car |
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| The end point of Route 66 (Santa Monica Boulevard in LA) |
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| Muppet Studios (formerly Charlie Chaplin Studios - Charlie is peeking out the door under Kermit) |
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| Back at the hotel |
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| Our dogs were barking. We took advantage of the free hotel snacks and watched Due Date. |
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