LA is treating us really good. It is a nice change to be back to the western culture :) Our hotel has a superb location with Hollywood & Highlands mall, Kodak Theatre, Chinese Theatre and Hollywood walk of fame just around the corner. Our first stop in LA was of course Victoria's Secret followed by other stores. We spent the first day in LA shopping and walking around Hollywood. In the evening before going to the movies we walked by a red carpet movie premiere for Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman and Winona Ryder! Even Heidi Klum attended the premiere! :)
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| Hollywood walk of fame |
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| Hollywood sign |
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| Starbucks was a must, Lili enjoying her Double Chocolaty Chip frappuccino |
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| The Black Swan movie premiere (Heidi Klum is the one with blonde hair :) ) |
The second day in LA we decided to visit Universal Studios. We took a tour of the studios and saw Wisteria Lane from Desperate Housewives, they were also shooting the show on the same day but unfortunately we weren't allowed to visit the sets. In the evening we went shopping to the Grove near Farmer's market. The place was filled with Christmas decorations and it was really pretty. The people here are really friendly and not at all as shallow as we thought they would be, we met a guy in the bus who helped us find the shopping mall. We ran into him again in the bus back to Hollywood and chatted with him for a long time. He even invited us to have drinks with him but we were too tired to join him. Many actually thought we were locals, Katja asked a guy in a store if they had passport covers and his response was oh, are you gonna be traveling and she told him we are traveling. The same thing happened when we actually bought our passport covers and the cashier repeated his words. Btw the covers are great! :)
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| Our new passport covers |
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| Universal Studios |
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| Wisteria Lane, Susan's house |
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| Gabi's house |
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| A real Boeing 747 airplane that was completely destroyed for a movie, the plane only cost them 60 000 USD but the transportation was 200 000 USD :) |
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| Christmas tree! |
The third day was our beach day. We rented a car and visited Santa Monica, Venice beach and Malibu. Btw the houses in Malibu are incredible! We spent the day chilling on the beaches and watching dolphins swim in the water. In the evening we went once again to the movies and saw Eat pray love. This time the movies only cost us 3 USD!
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| Santa Monica pier |
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| Santa Monica beach |
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| A doplhin, it was really hard to capture them on camera |
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| Venice beach |
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| Lili's new project is to take group photos as we noticed we didn't have almost any photos of the two of us in South America, Venice beach in the background |
Our last day was dedicated to shopping and cruising in Beverly Hills. We once again saw really big houses. The median value of a house in Beverly Hills is 1.8 million dollars. We were walking on Rodeo drive (and of course shopping with our parents' credit cards :)) as this crazy man grabbed us in a bear hug and started talking Finnish and Swedish to us. He is supposedly a major tourist attraction and friends with many celebrities. He embarrased us by yelling to other tourists that we are movie celebrities, the other tourists started staring at us and we just wanted to escape :) We had decided to save money by returning our rental car to the airport (which in the end was more expensive than a taxi). It also ended up being a hassle! We couldn't find the right place and we were driving in circles for about an hour asking four different security guards which was the right way. All of them had their own opinions where we should drop off the car, and finally we managed to find the right place. We now feel kind of sorry for the guy who we returned the car to as we were complaining so much.
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| The weird guy was forcing Lili to hug him |
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| Katja on Rodeo drive |
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| Beverly Hills |
As you may have noticed, we have complained a lot about the food in South America. Now we have no more complaints and we have been eating a lot. Our day started with a warm croissant and with a warm huge chocolate muffin which was already cut in half because they are so big and it would be impossible to eat a whole! After two months of no fresh vegetables, we finally were able to eat delicious salads. The second day when we went to the Universal studios, we ate yammy caramelised apples that we always have wanted to taste :) and Lili even got popcorn in the movies that she has been craving for. Our main discussion topic in South America was good food (because of the lack of it) and especially the salad in Olivegarden. This is why we didn't mind driving quite far to get the delicious salad we had been dreaming about for months, and it didn't disappoint us. We really fell in love with Pinkberry! They have the best frozen yoghurt with fresh toppings such as raspberrys, blueberrys, blackberrys, pomegranates, kiwis and over 30 other options.
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| The really healthy apple |
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| Yammy frozen yoghurts |
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