HOLLYWOOD

While in LA we had to have a Hollywood day!  Anyone who knows me knows I'm serious celeb gawker!  I'm always checking Perez Hilton and TMZ for the latest celeb gossip.  So it was exciting to be in that whole element and show Bridger all the craziness and exciting things Hollywood has to offer.  He was surprisingly more interested than I expected him to be.  We saw a lot of people dressed up as characters, some were definitely creepy.  I mean really, who wants to see some stranger walking down the street dressed up as the guy from Scream or wearing a "Jason hockey mask??"  Not me!  We took a lot of video of the characters.  It was funny to see them all group together and chat.  I wonder if they aspired to dress up and take pictures with tourists on Hollywood Blvd as kids?  We saw Spiderman, Darth Vador, Yoda, Elmo, Tinkerbell, The Mad Hatter, Marilyn Monroe, Spongebob, and a bunch of others.  We only took one pic with Elmo b/c Ellie absolutely LOVES Elmo.  

Right off the bat when we got out onto the blvd of course a guy walks up to us trying to get us to buy his dvd.  He said something along the lines of, "take this overseas with you," and proceeds to hand Jas a dvd.  He starts asking us where we are from and is in awe that we have 2 kids.  We disappointed him when we said UTAH...then says he thought we were from EUROPE!  Ha!  I wish...but it was quite a compliment.  He told us he was an opening act for Eddie Murphy or some comedian that I didn't care for anyways.  Bummer for him that we didn't have any cash on us or he would have suckered us into buying it.  After we had convinced him we were cash-free he finally left us alone.  I don't mind supporting up and coming peeps but I DESPISE being approached by strangers trying to sell me something.  The rest of the day went smooth with no more randoms approaching us.  We walked up to the telescope to take a close up shot of the Hollywood sign, had some lunch and snapped some pics at the Kodak Theater.  I'm an Idol fan (although this season has been a let down), but B thought it was pretty cool to see where they film it.  The highlight was when I insisted that we drive past High Voltage before we left.  This is where a lot of LA Ink is filmed.  We went around once and my pic was blurry so we rounded one more time.  When we were around the back side who did we see in the back with a couple other employees...none other than Miss Kat Von D herself!!  I was so excited b/c I think she is such a unique and fierce gal, not to mention super foxy!  It made the entire day even better!

The view through the telescope.

How far away we really were.

Kodak theater where American Idol is filmed!

The Chinese Theater.

Despite Elmo's disgusting support of the Lakers we still took a pic with him.

This was at CVS...we had forgot Ellie's wipes so need to grab some.  Jas and B found this magnifier, when B had it over his eyes we thought he looked like an Avatar! Haha

Yep...that's Kat and her very sweet ride!

This was about 2 minutes after getting in the car to head back to the apartment...I think they had a good time!