We were determined to have a bit of a slower paced day today.
We woke up late and Rhiannon jumped online looking for things to do. She suggested
a tour of the Warner Bros. Studios.
We booked tickets online for the 12:20 tour and drove down to Burbank where the studios are.
We were forced to get a Starbucks coffee (which was like drinking camel piss
after he was fed asparagus).
The tour was good; we got on the cart with 11 other people.
Venezuelans who can’t follow direction (I’ll get to this later) and fat
American Ellen fans.
We headed around the back lot in the cart with the tour
guide Victor explaining all of the sets and what shows they were used in (shows
like Friends, Mike and Molly, True Blood, The mentalist, 2 and a half men etc).
We also saw some cool sets that were used in classic films (East of Eden with
James Dean, Batman, Some Audrey Hepburn movies, Cool hand Luke, Gremlins etc).
We got to go into a Warner Bros. Props and costume museum
which was pretty awesome, had actual costumes and props from 80 years of film.
Some examples: The piano played by Sam in Casablanca, Batman’s costume, Clint
Eastwood’s costumes, John Wayne’s rifle, Elizabeth Taylor’s costumes etc. heaps
of cool stuff).
We then got to go into a sound stage and check out the set
for the show 2 Broke girls (gay). Whilst driving through the back lot the
fatties yell out “There’s Ellen” Sure enough, Ellen Degeneres was riding a bike
through the lot with Portia De Rossi with her
There was also a small car museum containing 2 Batmobiles
(the shit batmen – George Clooney and Valerie Kilmer). It also had the General
Lee from the Dukes Of Hazard, The Ford Gran Torino from the Clint Eastwood film
of the same name. It also had the Harry Potter Weasley car and the bike ridden
by Johnny Depp in the crap remake of Willy Wanker and the Cockolate factory.
Finally we got to go into a part of the set that was the
Central Perk Cafe in the show Friends. Weird seeing the full set. Pretty good
though.
Tour over.
Afterwards we checked out some guitar stores on the way to
Santa Monica – They all sucked and had stuff all of what I wanted to see.
We got to Santa Monica around 4pm. Walked down the huge
boulevard of stores then out to the famous pier. We walked the length of the
pier. A lot of dodgy looking characters and the smell of marijuana filled the
air.
I was looking over the edge of the pier when I spotted a
seal frolicking below us (I don’t know if you can frolic in water but to f’kin’
bad!).
We walked around a bit more. Came across a woman with a
cardboard sign telling everyone that they are sinners and god is fed up with
it. I filmed it...I was happy.
We went back to the boulevard to look for some dinner. We
had a crap meal at some joint (Georges Bistro). Undercooked pasta with a too
watery sauce. Rhiannon had a chicken something with reconstituted mashed potato.
All in all…turd burger.
We got a crepe and it got cold so BAM..back to the car and
to the hotel.
Oh yeah..there was also a guy who had weird classes, a push
bike and a house on his head saying “I’m not Elton John, Don’t look at me that
way”
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