After coming to while waiting outside the Ivy, we drove around through Bel Air and Beverly Hills. I will forever carry with me the sound of Mike giggling uncontrollably at all the mansions. We're talking size large houses here, people. We drove down the Sunset Strip and found all the hotspot restaurants and clubs. I was in my glory! We even got Colby in on the celeb-hunting and he was callling out place names from the back seat asking, "Is that famous?".
Universal Studios was awesome. I am going to e-mail the main office and commend their staff on a job well-done. There were only two rides that Joel couldn't do (because he couldn't support his upper body), but other than that, we did everything in the park. The staff were awesome at putting as at the front of the line, ushering us in first and making sure he/we were comfortable. A round of applause is appropriate here.
Some general obsersvations from the trip:
- American businesses don't take debit so we ended up paying almost $100 in bank fees from withdrawing money from ATMs
- the U.S. needs to get in on getting a loonie. One dollar bills are a pain in the butt!
- the makers of Double Bubble have begun to cheat their customers. The pieces of gum are shorter, thinner, more expensive and they don't last very long.
- Montana has more roadside casinos than you can shake a stick at
- it gets old really quick when referring to Idaho as "No! You-da-ho!"
- evidently, California car dealers don't sell very many mini-vans
- it is really tough to spot a celebrity when their image isn't frozen on a magazine page and their name is printed nicely underneath. For all I know, we could have walked passed dozens of celebs - it is really, really difficult to pick them out when they don't have hundreds of people screaming their name and cameras flashing in their face.
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