Thursday 20th August

So, Thursday.

We got up and headed out to the walk of fame again, intent on doing the whole thing this time.

This is where the recount gets boring - there really isn't much to say.

First stop was Grauman's chinese theatre. Its a whole lot smaller in real life than it looks in pics and on TV. We still have to get a decent photo from across the road. Anyway, we took pics of as many of the concrete hand/foot prints as we could - they were cleaning half of it and had it roped off.

After this we kept on walking to the 'beginning' of the walk, which was across the street. There were a couple of special stars - we assume they'd either moved them there especially or they'd been placed there especially to begin with as technically it wasn't part of the walk of fame, just in the area where the starting star is. These stars belong to Elvis, and the Beatles. The Elvis one had 2 vases full of flowers just sitting on it. Talk about respect.

After this we headed back along the road, getting all the stars on this side.

Theres this little movie theatre thing belonging to Disney, and a little store/soda stream (real 50s/60s looking 'bar' thing) place next to it. We were in here the day before to check out the merchandise.

So we kept on heading along, loads of little dingy looking shops everywhere. We got to a place that was selling apparent movie & tv props, I wasn't real sure just what was fake but JT seemed to believe everything they were telling him. Not exactly easy when they have a blank t shirt on the wall claiming it was Kristen Stewart's in Twilight. A blank black or dark blue t-shirt - seriously? Even if it was, why would you buy it? It could have been anybody's! :P

After this we found a store selling shoes and jeans, predominately. They had converse all-stars which worked out to be about the same price as back home, only they had ones I'd never seen before. I got some low tops - a pair in leather and a pair in pvc (patent, as they call it) - they're really nice.

JT bought some jeans and some jumpers and we were on our way.

A bit further along and we hit Skooby's - the hotdog place I'd seen online. Fantastic hotdog, and definitely the best chips I've ever had - though thats not hard when they make them themselves.

Eventually we got to a road that went south from Hollywood Blvd which also had stars on it. Intent on seeing them all, I began walking down. Halfway down this block and we'd not recognised any of the names (we were at the end of the walk that had all the old-school actors/singers/etc on it) and decided to come back up.

Soon enough we hit the end of the road and went across to finish up the side we'd started on. Nothing much to say here, we made no stops 'til we got to where we'd begun. Once here, we headed back to the hotel to dump our purchases.

Eventually we headed back out to wander around some more, hit the rest of the chinese theatre's concrete prints and went straight on in to Madame Tussaud's. For some reason I'd read online that it was really expensive - turned out only $25 entry. Anyway, we got loads of pics. It was really creepy walking into that room at first, but I got used to the mannequins quickly.

Strangely the pics make them look even more real. Some of my pics are just bizarrely accurate.

Thats most likely due to never having seen these people in person, I assume.

Eventually we headed back to the hotel to rest our tired feet & legs some more. We've done so much walking around since we hit Dallas, its painful!

After bumming around for ages we decided to make the trip to Amoeba Music - a bit of a long walk. We get there and they're doing some launch for the Inglorious Basterds soundtrack, looked like they were going to have someone there doing a signing. We walked in, realised there was basically no access to the aisles of music, and walked back out. Not happy! (Turns out Quinten Tarantino was there...what are the odds, huh?)

We headed back along Hollywood Blvd (Sunset Blvd was a bit dodgy) and tried to find someplace to eat. We ended up back at uWink - the waitress thought it was hilarious that we were back so soon, she really liked us - pretty sure it was because we tip well :P

After ordering way too much food yet again, we ended up back in Hot Topic. I bought a nice shirt for myself, as well as some other goodies.

After getting back we watched a bit of TV before heading to bed.