Four Nights in Los Angeles

This is a continuation from here.

On Sunday, 27th December - We started the day at Farmer's Market and The Grove. We had fondue and wine at Morell's. Donno what happened, but H and I ended fighting like crazy....over silly stuff lah. But then did manage to "friend" back in the evening...with a trip to Michaels to buy more scrapbooking stuff.
What did we have for dinner? McDonald's. Donno why...but just fancied eating the porky McRib.

Big Xmas Tree @ The Grove

See Santa flying across??

View of The Grove's Cinema

Cute Sculptures @ The Grove

The next day, we literally spent the whole day at Desert Hill Premium Outlets. There's another BIG outlet next door which we didn't go. No time. Not that I bought alot of stuff... By the time I went to the GAP store, the shelves were literally EMPTY. Must be those tourists that came in the many tour buses!!! Well...what did I buy? Ann Taylor jeans and pants, BCBG stuff, Banana Republic tops plus a few gifts for family.

We did the touristy stuff on Tuesday.... like going to Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Chinese Theatre, Rodeo Drive etc... and then on to Santa Monica. You know the song that has "Santa Monica Blvd" in its lyrics?? Well, I had to jalan to see what's along this road. Errr.... not much lor. Just a whole load of traffic lights. Seems like it took us forever to get to Santa Monica Pier from Rodeo Drive.

Hollywood Sign from Afar

(Aduh! This is one reason why I want to get a terror-menerrer camera! Photos look so crappy with my little point-and-shoot)

Chinese Theatre

(H said that we should watch Sherlock Holmes here....and was pestering me to do so. But watching movie here seems like such a waste of time. Not to mention the more expensive tickets. But he said .."But then you can say that you watched where the stars watched!")

One of the Prints outside The Chinese Theatre...this is Steven Spilberg's

Godzilla's STAR!

One of the Xmas Decor @ Rodeo Drive

Actually, wanted to have drinks at Rodeo Drive, but couldn't find any place. The Luxe Hotel had a little coffee place outside, but by the looks of it, service is BAD. Guests have gone, but dirty plates and glasses still sitting on the table. So gave that a miss.

Santa Monica Pier

We had drinks and some snacks at The Lobster (think that's what it is called), and then watched the sunset ....which was nice.

Drinks overlooking Santa Monica Pier

Sunset @ Santa Monica

We drove down to Long Island on Wednesday to visit The Queen Mary. Originally, wanted to go to San Diego. But didn't want to visit Seaworld, and didn't know what else is there to see in San Diego. Can't exactly drive around, and then that's it. So settled on The Queen Mary.
From Long Island, we made the mistake of taking the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu. It was like a drive that took forever. Soooooooooooooooooo many traffic lights. Should have just taken the Freeway. Can't see much...as all the million dollar homes are behind high fences and gate.

We did go to Paradise Cove for a late lunch/early dinner. It was a good choice indeed. Yummy foods.

Look at the NICE paper napkin!

View out from the restaurant

From here, we went to try to find S1's game ...from Game Spot to Target to ToysR'Us to Bestbuy, and we couldn't find it. Since there was a Michaels in the same area. Naturally, I went in there too. But H was hurrying me this time....as we had a flight to catch. He was afraid that the queues at the airport would be long. But NOPE. It was not. We went through quite quickly. And then we are off to The Big Apple for New Year's Eve....