Hello, Los Angeles!

Only in L.A. would you see a billboard for canine plastic surgery. Thankfully, if you actually go to www.puppylift.com it takes you to a funny comedy central video! This was the first thing we saw as we got to Hollywood and we weren't completely surprised!







All over Hollywood Blvd are people dressed as any character imaginable. Most of them just do this for tips or donations and some can actually make pretty good money. I thought it was pretty creepy, because you can't see any of their faces and some of their costumes are pretty rough looking. But, these guys to the right were pretty cool!

We took a TMZ Hollywood tour and it was great! But we didn't get to see any celebs :(

The Grove-Shopping Center!

                                   

The Grove is the a very nice outdoor shopping mall located in Los Angeles. It is a celebrity hot spot, especially the Farmers Market located there. There are many high end retail stores located at The Grove, as well as some more reasonable ones like Forever 21. 

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Beverly Hills

 

 At the intersection of Rodeo Dr. and Wilshire Blvd. lies the famous Hotel Wilshire. This was the fliming site of the movie, Pretty Woman and television series, Entourage. People who have stayed here include, Robert Pattinson, Elton John, Farrah Fawcett and Barrack Obama.








Fred Segal is a very high end shopping mini mall in Beverly Hills. As you can see the building is covered in ivy, as are many buildings in L.A. and they are just beautiful! This is a hot shopping venue for celebrities.

When we got hungry after sight seeing we were determined to find a pizzeria close by! My dad looked them up on his phone and we followed the GPS there. It took us to Pizzeria Mozza. After we found the discrete side door, we quickly realized this was a popular place, even at 5:15! The host informed us that tables were booked until 10:30, but we could wait 30 minutes for seats at the bar. So, about an hour later the host told us he had an empty table and it was all ours, but we only had it until 7:45. We happily took the table and ate the delicious pizza and desserts. The next day on the TMZ tour we pulled up there and the tour guide informed us that this was popular place for celebs and tables had to be reserved 2 weeks ahead of time! We died of laughter, because we had no idea what a cool place we were in.

Mr. Chows is a popular L.A. restaurant and they were almost ready for New Years Eve.

 DASH-the boutique on Melrose Ave. owned by the Kardashian sisters! It looked adorable from the outside...LOL.

The famous Beverly Hills Hotel!

Rodeo Drive!

A street view of Rodeo Drive. Of course it was decorated very nicely for the holidays.

Every store had amazing window displays including this one above in Ralph Lauren! Those are very important aspects to retail, especially when most of your customers are just window shopping-so pricey!

Bagdley Mischka was one of the stores Julia Roberts' character walked into while shopping in the movie Pretty Woman.

The Dior facade was gorgeous, but very hard to photograph due to it being 90% reflective! UGH! 

While driving down Rodeo Drive one evening we caught this metallic painted Mercedes-Benz as it pulled up right in front of Chanel!I mean, is this a perfect depiction of Rodeo Drive or what?? LOL

All in all, I must say that I was very surprised at the amount of tourists here. Granted, there were a lot of VERY high end vehicles (Mercedes, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce and Audis), but most of the people were not dressed in head to toe designer brands, as I had expected. Another surprising thing I discovered was that most of the tourists are of Asian descent. I often found myself to be the only blonde in as far as I could see!  On Rodeo Drive there were a ton of stores including, Prada, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Juicy Couture, David Yurman and BCBG Maxazria! I think my favorite was Chanel, I loved their window displays and the adorable $17,000 dress I found inside. Needless to say, I had to leave it behind. :(

Tomorrow we will be going to the Rose Parade in Pasadena! Hopefully I can get some decent pictures of the beautiful floats:)

Love, 

LST