Laur’s, Andy and bump do LA and Vegas, baby – Day 4

[jockey]

Laur's really loving your trippies, you pics are great too!

 

[DOPEYUK]

Wow Laur's-your reports are wonderful-and I'm very envious of all the fantastic places you and Andy get to go to. Your photos are amazing and fill me with a warm glow on a drab Thursday afternoom when I am bored at work! Have to drag Grumpy to Hollywood-but it's Dublin on Saturday (to pick up the Madonna album before it's available in the UK), Disneyland Paris in September and Disneyworld for Christmas this year!

 

[arieljasmine]

Wow Laur's-your reports are wonderful-and I'm very envious of all the fantastic places you and Andy get to go to. Your photos are amazing and fill me with a warm glow on a drab Thursday afternoom when I am bored at work! Have to drag Grumpy to Hollywood-but it's Dublin on Saturday (to pick up the Madonna album before it's available in the UK), Disneyland Paris in September and Disneyworld for Christmas this year!

Aww, thanks, I'm pleased that I could cheer up your afternoon. Sounds like you have some great trips planned too, any chance of a trippie?

Laur's x

 

[wils]

Another great day - I love the photos - hopefully one day I'll get to see the sites for real!

 

[SusanEllen]

My parents were not impressed. Found it to be run down and sometimes sleezy. To be honest it takes a lot to impress my parents lmao. I so want to see the hollywood sign.

Just to clarify the difference between Hollywood and West Hollywood--West Hollywood is between Hollywood (where the Walk of Fame and Grauman's Chinese Theatre are) and Beverly Hills (where Rodeo Drive is). West Hollywood is high rent and glamourous and the place you might spot the stars shopping. Hollywood is an LA neighborhood (unlike West Hollywood that is an incorporated city separate from LA--but surrounded by it!). The first time I saw the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard that Laur's just described so beautifully, it was very run down. Then about a dozen years ago the Disney Company took over the El Capitan Theatre and restored it to its former glory and that sparked a rejuvenation of the blocks immediately surrounding it. Since then the Academy Awards people decided to build a theatre for their Oscars show (the Kodak Theatre) right across the street from El Capitan. The Hollywood and Highland Shopping Mall was built, too, with each new construction meaning the removal of more of the seedy little tourist t-shirt shops.

So, if you want to see opulent Hollywood wealth when you visit, you still can. Just be sure to travel a mile west of Hollywood Boulevard. It's there in all it's glittering glory, I promise.

 

[Minniespal]

Another fantastic day Laur's with beautiful photos

 

[DisneyJo]

It sounds a great place to visit and your hotel sounds as though it's in a great postition

 

[florida sun]

Laurs, brilliant report, fantastic to see Marilyn Monroe attractions (my idol). Im loving this report, your photos are wonderful.

 

[mark&sue]

When we went in 1999 Mark was very disappointed with Hollywood as it seemed as dirty as London, but it sounds like it has improved so may go back again when DVC is up and running in Disneyland sometime in the future


susan

 

[Nubbedy]

I'm really impressed Laur's with the amount of stuff you cover in a day, especially at 13 weeks pregnant. I would have been exhausted. Liked the look of the Spring Sale in the Disney Store - 50 - 70 % off, did you get anything?

Sara.

 

[arieljasmine]

I'm really impressed Laur's with the amount of stuff you cover in a day, especially at 13 weeks pregnant. I would have been exhausted. Liked the look of the Spring Sale in the Disney Store - 50 - 70 % off, did you get anything?

Sara.

Thanks, Sara, I just slept a lot in the evenings! I was very good and didn't buy anything at the Disney store as I was saving myself for Disneyland!

Laur's