slycat | California 2008: Day 2

Not too sure how long I can keep providing these daily accounts of my holiday considering what happened last year but I'll do my best, even if it's just to kep a record of what I did for myself :).

Anyway, due to the time difference, I ended up falling asleep half way through the Sarah Connor Chronicles around half 9pm only to wake at about 12:45am. It took me a while to realise that this meant 45 minutes past midnight rather than noon as I was suddenly concerned that I may have overslept and missed my opportunity to go on a tour with

blizl. After the initial shock, I was able to sleep on and off until around 5/6am at which point I just gave in and watched some episodes of American Dad on my PMP before

hunterkitty was awake. Breakfast consisted of a microwavable frozen "Breakfast Bowl", the concept of which had been alien to me before I had it. It was quite nice but was a tiny portion. Hunter went off to work (below the apartment) at 8.30am so I just lazed about until

blizl turned up in his Prius.

As I was hungry, we stopped by a mexican restaurant where I had... something. It basically consisted of beans, rice, chicken, salad and 2 soft tortillas. It was OK but I wouldn't get it again out of choice. After filling up on food and drnk, we set off for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which seemed to be less interesting than I had expected as most of the stars were for people I had never heard of. I still took some photos anyway for the sake of it before we departed for the Griffith Observatory which gave us some fantastic views over the city and the famous Hollywood sign. After taing some snaps and taking in the scenery (despite the clouds), we then set off for Paramount Studios. Of course I naively forgot abut the writers guild strike which was going on, and so naturally, the studio was being circled by lots of people with protest signs. I still got a few snaps of the Paramount gates but didn't get to close. After that, we took a trip through Beverly Hills, past Bel Air to the pacific coast before working our way back to Pasadena. Thanks to the insane traffic, we only got back to Pasadena at just after 5.30pm, when Hunter finishes work.

We then ventured to Italian restaurant Cafe 322, meeting

kaysho there (who had the amusing license plate of "Yiff Me") for fantastic pizza. However, due to us all filling up on the free bread, none of us were able to finish our meals. We took the remainder to go and then walked down to the Cold Stone Creamery for dessert. Following the experience I gained from going to Cold Stone with

daiwuff, I went for the small. It was totally delicious, and I was able to finish it too! After that, we said our goodbyes to Kaysho and headed back to the apartment where Blizl picked up the 1kg of Cadbury's chocolate I got him from the airport duty free shop and then he disappeared back to his place.

In all, I considered it a rather productive day haing been able to meet some new furs, see some of the sights of LA and also get some great grub! Tommorow, we're off to Disneyland :)