Before heading to Los Angeles we said goodbye to Greg and Garrett. I am so glad that I contacted Diana because we had a fantastic time with her family, and I'm also really glad that we decided to stay two nights! This was our first time staying with a host for more than one night and it really made a difference and I really hope we get to see them again some day. It started to rain as we left Newport Beach which made sightseeing in Los Angeles slightly difficult and the traffic slightly worse!
Josh and I weren't interested in seeing that much of Los Angeles but we did have just a few things to check out. One of them was the La Brea Tar Pits, located right in downtown LA. Unfortunately the rain made it look a little like a pond... also unfortunate is Josh's face in this photo!
We also drove along Hollywood Boulevard and Josh forced me to take this photo of the street sign... he was very excited to be in Hollywood, and his enthusiasm definitely made up for the terrible weather!
Our favorite stop was the Griffith Observatory. It is perched on top of a hillside overlooking the whole city and we got some really great photos even though it was pretty cloudy.
Josh REALLY wanted a photo of the famous Hollywood sign so we waited (like 45 minutes) for the clouds to clear and managed to take a few pictures!! It is a lot smaller than I expected...
We headed out of LA after spending just a few hours in the city, which was really all we wanted! The drive up to Nipomo was beautiful, and I'm very excited to drive more along the coast as we head further north in the coming days.
We arrived at our host's house quite late, even though we hate arriving at someone's house at night. We learned in Lovington that more rural locations are really scary in the dark (at least to me), and we relearned that as we tried to find Don and Lucy's house... two of the routes my GPS gave us took us to two different dead ends. Don finally directed us to his house and we stayed up talking to them for quite a while! They built their house in 1980 and it's actually a dome, and Don also built two large garages for his enormous car collection. Josh loved looking at the classic cars! They also told us about their awesome-sounding trip to Egypt and gave us advice on where to go in California and Utah, since they've done a lot of traveling over the years.
Josh's high for today was seeing the Hollywood sign!!! ...My high was how excited Josh was at being in Hollywood. He continuously sang the chorus to "Hooray for Hollywood"... complete with jazz hands. It was really fantastic!!
Josh and I shared the same low today: leaving Greg, Diana, and their kids! We had such a good time with them. Josh's "ho" was looking like a "wanker" at the skate park, wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads... and Sperrys. My "ho" was a sign we saw at an LA gas station... I guess I'm pretty ignorant, but I had no idea what Soju or Jinro were when I saw this billboard:
It was really bizarre to have no idea what someone is advertising!! (I later looked online and now I know what they are selling!)
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