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This is the first of many posts about my recent trip.
Each year, my family takes a cruise somewhere. Previously, we’ve done short cruises from Galveston to Cozumel. This year, we picked a week-long out of LA. We spent two days before boarding in Santa Monica because we’d never been before.
We flew out on the Friday after Christmas and arrived around 2 pm LA time. The flight was mostly uneventful, but I did sit by a stranger. Ew. It was weird when we landed because we didn’t have to go through customs. I haven’t skipped customs in years!
We took a cab to our hotel and found it shortly after. You can’t miss it. It’s turquoise!
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It was built in 1933 |
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This is the peephole in the door |
After finding our hotel and charging our phones an additional 2%, we headed to dinner. First we walked to 3rd Street, but there was no food there. We walked back to the Ocean Avenue and found a yummy place with fish. Mine still looked like fish.
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I wanted to stop here, but my parents said no 😦 |
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Our hotel has a sign! |
After dinner, we headed to the Santa Monica pier. I desperately wanted to ride the rides and get midway food.
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The Pier! |
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The pier marks the end of Route 66. I want to drive it someday. |
We got some credits to ride a few rides and then we embarked on a journey to the ferris wheel.
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From the ferris wheel |
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The ferris wheel was so cute |
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Roller coaster time! |
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All of us were sitting near each other in the van |
Our first stop was Venice Beach.
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So it’s true…White men can’t jump! This is where they filmed that. |
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CrossFitting at Muscle Beach |
We spent about a half hour looking at houses. Most weren’t too extravagant, but some were massive.
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Bill Cosby |
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Dan Akyroyd |
We got to walk up and down Rodeo Drive, but I don’t think anyone did any shopping. It was such an expensive street. There was supposed to be a Bugatti, but we couldn’t find it.
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The Wilshire Hotel, right off of Rodeo Drive. |
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Lunch was at the Farmers Market |
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Gluten free cookie! |
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We got to spent some time wandering around The Grove after lunch. I saw no celebrities. |
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Hollywood! |
We walked up and down the Walk of Fame as well. I didn’t see many good stars, but I saw a lot of people I’d never heard of!
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The beginning of the walk is home to Elvis and the Beatles |
If there is one thing I learned during my two days in Los Angeles, it’s that people have no sidewalk manners. Does “Keep Right” have no meaning anywhere? I can’t imagine London with people just walking wherever they wanted. It would be madness.