Thursday night we went to In-N-Out Burger, which of course we don't have in the Midwest. That's too bad too, because our Dad would love it. Dad talks longingly of the days when McDonald's served only burgers, fries, and soda and that's exactly what In-N-Out has! We each got a cheeseburger, shared some fries (those were especially good but I feel bad for the potato-peeling kid), and had milkshakes. All good. We'll have to make sure to take Dad to one so he can enjoy the simplicity of it.
Friday was Kamiah's last day out here, so we spent the day hitting some tourist highlights of LA, or at least the bits Kamiah wanted to see before heading back to the Great White North. First on the list was the Getty Museum. The grounds are lovely, but the view is...well, limited. See the contrast?
The Getty claims to be an art museum, but Kamiah read somewhere that it was really somewhere you could enjoy walking around while occasionally viewing some art if you felt like it. Turned out that was right. They have some lovely pieces, and we especially enjoyed the portrait exhibit but it didn't feel much like an art museum. So much the better for Sid! I'm not sure he enjoyed it quite like Kamiah did. They did, however, have a Monet painting of the cathedral at Rouen, where Kamiah used to live. We took her picture with it (what else to do when she's lived there?):
After that we drove along Sunset Blvd to gawk at rich people's houses. We saw Bel Air, prompting Kamiah to repeat parts of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song (Sid secretly enjoyed that, I'm sure) and then turned down Beverly Dr to look at some more accessible rich people's houses. We could even get out and walk around there without getting the bum's rush! But I have to say the signs in some yards warning of an armed response to intrusions did kind of say "Get out!"
Last on the list was Hollywood (of course). We slowed foot traffic staring at stars on the street, and annoyed Sid was calling out the names we knew as we found them, and looked at all the handprints and signatures in front of Grauman's Theater. These are for Mom and Dad:
That was a pretty full day of sightseeing (and driving - driving takes a lot of concentration here and is therefore tiring) so we relaxed at the house a bit before we met Aunt Pam and Uncle Rich for dinner. They live down in Fountain Valley, not too far away! It's nice to have some family close again. Added bonus, to get to dinner we got to drive over a bridge we'd all been staring at since we got here. It's huge and runs over the harbor here (we're next to the Port of LA) and at night they light it up with blue lights. This also allowed us an up close view of a shipping yard and about 3 billion shipping containers. Whoo hoo?
In closing, LA is pretty great. Lots to do, and no one has tried to shoot us. Yet.
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