Every day is a school day and your hips don’t lie. Shakira was amazingly insightful for such a young woman. When you’ve walked nearly 30000 steps, driven 100 miles and treated LA like your own personal eye-spy book then your hips will honestly tell you your age. Old. Very, very old!
Writing today’s blog is leaving me feeling a little overwhelmed and when I get like that it’s best to list. So, this is our day.
1. Venice beach - not awake at 8am -homeless people everywhere. Smells worse than Amsterdam.
2. Venice canals - we walked to the canals, which are beautiful.
3. Muscle beach - fit people everywhere. Paddle tennis, sweaty muscular bodies. The Long Suffering Husband had his first laugh of the day when I said, “Oh, muscle beach. I thought it was mussel beach.” For some reason I had thought it was homophonically named. I thought the seafood came first.
4. Breakfast. Stale pastry and coffee.
5. Argue - the lead to the phone navigation app is unstable and we both join it.
6. Rodeo drive - we didn’t stop but we saw the Beverley Wilshire hotel, the school, Nakatomi tower (best Christmas film) and designer shops. It was tempting to walk into one and say, “Big mistake,” but I suspect they’ve heard it all before.
7. Argue again - driving around LA with disappearing navigation map will do that, especially if you are desperate for a wee.
8. Park the car in Downtown LA never, ever, have we spent so much money on parking.
9. Find a bookshop - with a toilet! Smile. I’m happy. Everyone’s happy.
10. Walk along old Broadway - the oldest theatre district. I love history and can imagine how it was. Americans have no sense of preserving the past - they just abandoned it and moved on but the buildings give up their secrets of past glamour. One even had its own security guard who popped out and said, “No pictures.”
11. Angels’ Flight - this quirky little funicular railway gets you up a hill and was the perfect opportunity to recreate the kiss in LaLa Land.
12. Look at amazing buildings - art centres and tower blocks.
13. Disney concert hall - what a building!
14. Lunch - in the market
15. Drive back to hotel - argue a little more.
16. Venice school - where they filmed Grease. Decide not to take photos as children are coming out of school.
17. Swim - in hotel pool. Rest those aching muscles.
18. Rydel High - go back to Venice school for photos. The marching band were practising. What’s not to love about a sousaphone?
19. Santa Monica pier - sunset.
20. Should we have mussels for dinner?
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