Day 3 we decided to do the tourist thing. We ate
breakfast at McDonalds and headed off to Hollywood. We started on the
Hollywood walk of fame and went to Mann’s Chinese Theatre where we
checked out the hand and footprints of the stars. We hit the souvenir
shops and picked up a few item before going back to the Griffith Park
Observatory. We got some great shots of the family with the Hollywood
sign in the background. We started south again, and stopped at the Red
Robin (yum) for lunch where the Highway Patrol was doing a fundraiser
for Special Olympics. We went back to the hotel, changed into swimwear
and drove down Malibu Canyon and along the Pacific Coast Highway to the
Santa Monica Pier. We rode the Ferris wheel, had cotton candy and got
our pictures taken in the photo booth. The kids won various stuffed
animals that through their various puppeteers and the annoying voices
they created, almost got left among the debris on the side of the
freeway. We stayed and played in the ocean until sunset, fulfilling my
birthday wish. We finished the day by driving through McDonalds on the
way back to the hotel. We sat in the hot tub and played in the pool
while doing some laundry before retiring to our rooms on Saturday
night. Sunday morning we loaded up the Tahoe for the journey to Las
Vegas. We checked into the Excalibur, went to the pool, and walked around the various
hotels for a while. Jake and Kyler rode the roller coaster at the New
York, New York and we had dinner at a fake deli there. We did not
manage to win at Keno at the Excalibur, but we tried really hard. We
woke on Sunday morning, went to the M&M store and the Welcome to Las
Vegas sign and started home. On the way home we passed a wreck that we
later found out was a Corvette that the driver drove off a cliff and
they found meth in the car. We arrived home after dark on Monday night
and got the car unloaded fairly quickly.
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Nice memories.
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