Sunday, February 19, 2012

I LOVE California!!!

I absolutely love California!! It was gorgeous!!!! We had such a great time there. Thank you so much Ton-Ton for showing us a good time & letting me the ULTIMATE tourist!!! I loved every second of it!!! Thank you for letting us stay with you and for buying soooo much food!!! :)


Heading to Tulsa for our flight to California!! Josh was sound asleep. Isn't he a cute sleeper??? :)The views from the airplane





In & Out Burger----sooooo goood!!!!
At Tony's house!! It was gorgeous!!!
playing on the beach
This was taken from Tony's porch! I changed the film type so it looks old---love it!!
Tony's beach house!















Brothers hanging out talking about business
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Suzanne Sommer's houseI love Tony's beach!!!



Walking to the pier!!








Surfers!


Sand bar--they build it to keep the water from the houses....when tourist season starts they plow down the sand bar


At the pier

Me & Dave!
Everyone in our van!
Walt Disney Studios


Warner Bros building

The tonight show!!! We got to see Jay Leno!!!





Universal Studios mall





This place was so cool! All kinds of popcorn
The restaurant we ate at

They played some Zac Brown Band for us!!!
Dessert!! Cotton Candy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


All that cotton candy lead to.....Mechanical bull riding!!!





------------------------------------Day 3-----------------------------------------------
Marina del Ray

Palm treeThe ladies

The men
Santa Monica PierPart I: We went on a 7 HOUR tour of Los Angeles! It was definitely a one time thing--but totally worth it!!! I became the ultimate tourist!!!

Fire escape from the Pretty Woman movie!!

The 1st stop! Hollywood Bowl!!
Tony has actually gone to this place for concerts!! Sooo cool!!!

The sign!!
Josh & I :)
Family
The church from Sister Act
Welcome to Hollywood!!!!



The cast of The Hills would hang out at the Roosevelt hotel's pool! It was so awesome to see it in real life!!




Chinese Theater---this is here actors hand prints are
Nicolas Cage
Twilight cast members!
Donald Duck
Matt Damon!
Will Smith
Movie theatreBrothers

Taking a break :)Kodak Theatre---Where the Academy Awards takes place!!


The famous red staircase
Walk of Stars!!!

Oh yes..we had to get Charlie Sheen in there!!! :)

Hard Rock--they are everywhere!!!
Jimmy Kimmel
Sooo cool!!Hello Lucy!! She looks so real!
We made it!!! Beverly Hills!!!!

The infamous RODEO drive!!!

It was so pretty!!! We only had 10 minutes to hang out here so I didn't get to window shop too much!!

Diamonds!!
Versace!!

Josh--we've been to 2 of these Tiffany's...only 8 more to go ;)Hotel from Pretty Woman


Tar pool
A scene from "No Strings Attached" was filmed here! I was so excited I got to see this---so cool!!!!
Farmer's Market!!!


PINKBERRY yogurt!!! They ate Pinkberry on the Hills t.v. show :)
Our PINKBERRY yogurt!!

Lovebirds :)Most of our group!

Graffiti
House of Blues---((I remember O-Town performing "All for Love" there years ago on "Making The Band"!!)
The one & only........HOLLYWOOD SIGN!!!!
Paramount!!


Los Angeles!!!
The Capitol Records building (also in The Day After Tomorrow movie!)
Staples Center where the Grammy's took place the Sunday we got back!!
Disney Concert Hall---I absolutely LOVE this building! I couldn't WAIT to see it in person!!


Downtown LA--this was the oldest building in downtown (I think...it was a long tour & the facts start to get all jumbled ;) )
Huge cactus!!
The whole group! Birdie & Orvil were such troopers!! Thank you for coming with us on our 7 hour tour!!!!!!
China Town! It was pretty cool!


Part II: Stars Homes! I took a whole lot more pictures of homes but these were the only ones I remember who's houses they were!

Simon Cowell's House

Jennifer Aniston's house she JUST sold!This building houses a LOT of HUGE stars!! Halle Berry & Elton John just to name a few!!

Britney's Spears house she had before her meltdown...It's UP in the HILLS!!!--------------------------------------------Day 4---------------------------------------------
Our last morning in California before we headed to the cruise ship! It was very bittersweet...we were excited to go on the cruise BUT Marina Del Ray was so beautiful I didn't want to leave!!


Thanks for these pictures Shelia!!
We totally fell in love with California :)

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