Hollywood Update

Hey everyone!

There is a forthcoming video and some pictures, but until then here is an update of what we have been doing.

The first day in LA was a beach day. We all packed up the cars and went to Venice Beach. There we saw an open air gym and a skate park. Oh yeah... we also saw the ocean. We linked arms and ran into the waves head-on. The outside temperature was only around 20ish Celsius, so you can imagine that running into water was a bit cold. Simmons ended the day bright pink from the sun and I fell victim to burns as well.

Yesterday we went up to the Hollywood sign where we met the most awesome family selling lemonade at the top of the hill. The name of the place is "Hollywoodland Lemonade". I couldn't help but think that it was like this very nice lady was raising her children to be super heroes. They live on top of a mountain, and when we interrupted them to purchase lemonade, the lady and her daughter were playing timed chess. She also talked to her daughter in French. Anyway, the sign was very awesome and we got lots of nice pictures that I would love to upload if my camera wasn't in the back of the car.

After the sign we went to Hollywood Forever Graveyard. This was awesome, except it was rather hard to find specific people. If you ever go, the purchase of the 5 dollar map is not worth it. It gives you a general idea of where things are, but doesn't help to find specifics.

After we spent sunset on the Santa Monica Pier. T'was pretty, but so cold. After sunset we spent a large amount of time in an arcade on the pier. Alexandros and I played a Terminator Salvation game and beat it (with the help of 6 of Simmons' dollar bills). Much fun was had and we shall definitely return to the pier before this trip is done.

This has been a small text update... video and pictures will be up soon... promise!