Close to One Hundred

The routine now includes an afternoon nap. I guess that's fine as this is vacation. It's better to do morning things and the evening ones for it just seems too hot in the afternoons. It's presently in the high 90's Fahrenheit. In fact, the TV is on and we're getting good television shots of the 150-200 acre brush fire in Griffith Park. Still, we've not seen any yellow smog while here.

Last night, we did go to Venice Beach and walked north to Santa Monica. We took a familiar bus back towards our hotel, stopping in West Hollywood on the way. We didn't stop at Beverly Hills as none of our movie-star friends are in LA at the present time.

This morning, we went for a tour of the Kodak Theater. It was interesting to see the location and behind the scenes of the modern Oscars. We also bought tickets at the Pantages for tomorrow evening's performance of Wicked. If you had the choice of Hollywood Walk of Fame stars, whose would you stand near for a photograph? I decided on Bette Davis. After that, we followed the directions from www.metro.net to find a specific vitamin / sports supplement shop but ended up at the wrong address. Still, the air conditioning works well in most buses and although all the streets look the same from the window, I feel as if we're seeing some of real LA.