Day 45

Today we got a true LA experience, crawling along the freeways in rush hour traffic! but as we are on holiday it was no drama, after about an hour we got over the other side of the city and into Universal City, home of Universal Studios, and yes it was Ruth's choice. So it's a theme park with a tour of the studio lot (basically movie sets), they were filming Desperate Housewives today too, Eva wanted to catch up but the director wouldn't let her. There was some set up going on for Gilmore Girls too (Lyds tell Cam). The rest of it is about rides named after Universal Movies e.g. Jurassic Park, Shrek, The Mummy etc. Was a fun day and I even had a starring role in the Special Effects show where I got my arm cut off and also hit by lightning and fried! The must see thing here is the Waterworld show where you get soaked, there's plane crashes, pyrotechnics and jet ski stunts.

After a day here (and after I got my third meal taking advantage of the all you can eat pass I bought) we cruised Hollywood Boulevard, a seedy part of town really, but it just coincided with a movie premiere at the Chinese Theatre, it was Jessica Simpson's new movie, and lo and behold just as we rocked up so did she, us in a Dodge Stratus and she in a stretch limo and heaps of security. The crowd went wild and she ran across the road to give them some love, so Beyonce in NY and Jessica Simpson in LA, not bad. We then drove home via the Sunset Strip and a wee look at some more shops in Santa Monica.