Montage Beverly Hills

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We took the scenic route home around the curvy wide trees thick with vegetation - old trees with knarly bottoms to their trunks, plants of varying shapes and sizes, but mainly green. It's all "artificial" greenery my mate tells me; without constant watering it would all die because LA is built on a desert. And the houses are built out of wood. Bizarre - the grand houses like the mock French chateaux, mock New England brick houses ...

... we fail!! (Surprise Surprise). We got as far as Santa Barbara, but what a nice place. Santa Babs was flattened by an earthquake early in the last century so most of the development is well within 100 years old, but it's all been constructed in a similar style throughout the last century. There are no garish 60's and 70's grey boxes, just bright white buildings, very clean and all well kept. Typically this means it costs allot to rest a head for the night, but in our new ...

... to see Rodeo Drive. We were really lucky we did this on a Sunday, as it was really quiet, so Lyn was able to park, and I got out, with Io and Tegs to look around. I don't think they were quite as excited as me at seeing Bulgari, Chanel, Tiffany, Dolce and Gabbana, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Van Cleefs etc etc. It was so quiet, it was only us and other tourists around. The shops weren't open, (not that I could have afforded to go in any of them anyway. It would ...

... remembered the time 12 years prior when my father had taken me about as far up to the front of the Hollywood sign as you could get by car. Not this time. Time was money, and we wanted to taste the good life. Beverly Hills is one of those places where it is exactly like what you hear it is. Prada, Gucci, Ferrari, wealthy noses up in the air at the passers by, you name it. No joke, I once saw a Mont ...

... the guy who invented the first wet suit and set up O Neills is from, so there are a LOT of sufers there. From Santa Cruz we headed to Monterey and Carmel. Both are nice towns, but the main attraction is the 17-mile drive which basically goes out along the coast and is owned by the Pebble Beach company. Not surprisingly the Pebble Beach golf course is there, along with about 10 other golf courses and some huge mansions. We checked ...

... stops then it shows clips of the movie with scarab beetles in it then they shoot out puffs of smoke on your legs that fell like somethings crawling on them. we also went to a thing called backdraft were your in a room and everything starts catching fire, and it is real fire. After that we went and packed our bags far anaheim, the home of Disneyland and California Adventures.

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... look the same as blue pieces of paper, but have SLIGHTLY different field requirements. After chasing down this very serious looking director guy (who looked over my shoulder in a true Franz-fashion), I managed to bribe him for a pen ("Give it to me now or else!") I finally filled out the correct form. The rest of my Pearson expreince went quite well until I reached security. I had decided to bring my laptop with me so that I would have a computer to access ...

... s it h*d been to other pl*ces (wh*t w*s to come would in the next country would more th*n compens*te), but I got in OK. And the Exorcist Girl even h*d her own wheelch*ir *nd wheelch*ir pusher on *rriv*l. I pr*yed to the God of Song th*t she would m*ke * full recovery in time for C*rnegie H*ll. I got *n *irport shuttle bus from LAX to Beverly Hills, where I w*s st*ying. I w*s d*zzled by the continu*l stre*m of tr*ffic just running p*st the *irport termin*l ...

... when we met up again but it turns out that he bought more than I did!!! We stopped by some other shops and then headed to The Strand Bookstore in Union Square before going back to Cindy's apartment. We met up with Michelle for dinner at this soul food place called Mama's. That night we went to Derek and Tom's apartment to hang out. A lot of the old Parsons peeps were there. We drank and laughed and drew on the walls a lot ...