DAY 1: West Side Story

Liting has descended upon LA and it's FREEZING!!! it's 17 degrees, not that cold, BUT COLD when you're wearing bermudas everywhere! :) i'm loving it though. thought it'll be hot and what not, but it's actually kinda cold. so. dont be fooled by the months and the seasons. they are no longer what they're supposed to be.

anyway. a delayed flight and taking forever to get through customs, we took a shuttle BUS to get to the CAR rental which seems to be very far from the airport. Budget car rental, but rental really isnt that budget. it comes though, with one of those nifty GPS systems which we have to stow away in the dashboard so that the car doesnt get broken into. i didnt take a picture of the car because it'll appear randomly by itself.

So after waiting and waiting and waiting for almost forever to get the car stuff done, we finally drove to the hotel, and before it gets ravaged by my family, here it is. the beds are ridiculously high, and it kinda feels like something out of the movie "Psycho". i hope there aren't any norman bates lurking around trying to kill people.
so we took a drive to hollywood boulevard from the hotel. parking is VERY expensive here, so we parked somewhere where we could pretend we were eating so that we could at least have an hour of free parking. we took a walk down hollywood boulevard. the weather is perfect here by the way, at this time i mean. it's like aircon everywhere, but it's very cold, i think my cold-sensitive friends would not be too happy, especially when you pack for summer. in this photo you can see the hollywood sign far off in the horizon. look CLOSELY. i swear to you it's there. just look closer!!!
walking down the street, and because it's a sunday, there're lots of things going on. i saw at least 3 Jack Sparrows, Micheal Jackson and a VERY distorted spongebob. didnt want to spoil stef's image of spongebob, so i didnt take a picture. but i did take a picture of something very nice!! look!!!
what a way to be welcomed into this city, dont you think? i love free hugs!

so it's a short day today. spent most of it in a semi-conscious state. i'm gonna sleep and prepare for a new day tomorrow, which we have not planned for. we are going to, so i gotta go now.

hey unlawful, i miss you. :) check your email!

LT is in the west side! :) will keep blogging! :) bye bye! :D