Searching the Stars in Hollywood: Day 13

Heeeeey!

Tonnes of pictures today!

Sorry I'm only uploading this now, I needed help from other family members to identify some pictures.

But I'll start from the beginning, so it started with breakfast as usual and we went to the hotel's restaurant.

Dad had his usual english muffin, Kate had waffles and strawberries, Jack had pancakes which were "alright" and "the worst hot chocolate he's ever had". Mum had an english muffin dripping with butter and I had granola with berries which was so good.

Our tour man, Scott picked us up from the hotel at 10am and we set off to Hollywood Boulevard, getting to know Scott along the way. He was really nice and he knew HEAPS about celebrities and movies.

His wife is a kiwi so he could understand us and relate to our New Zealand ways.

The tour was a private one, so it was just us being guided.

First, we went to the Chinese Theatre where all the celebs put their hand and footprints into cement squares. 

A selection of them:

 Dad sizing up Nicolas Cage:

Elizabeth Taylor:

My girl, Meryl:

And poor Mel Gibson had a hot dog stand on his one:

The Harry Potter stars:

And the Twilight stars:

And a couple of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

This is us on the stairs of the Dolby Theatre where the Oscars are held:

It's weird, 'cause it's just a mall. With like, shops and stuff.

Across the road was the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio:

Then we went to the Roosevelt Hotel where all the big stars used to stay back in the day (like Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Munroe)

The lobby:

(that's Scott on the left)

The room you can see on the corner was Marilyn Munroe's home for two years:

We got to use the toilets there which were very nice.

Behind this door is where the very first Academy Awards were held:

We went past the apartments where the end scene of Pretty Woman happens:

Then we drove up to see the Hollywood sign.

Scott knew the perf place for the best photos of it.

And apparently there's a mountain lion that lives up there :O

 The fam livin' the Hollywood dream:

And then just me, because I'm a star:

Scott showed us a million celebrities' houses. 

These are just the ones we remember seeing:

Quentin Tarantino's:

• Ashton Kutcher
• Walt Disney
• Sherley Temple (hers was my fave)
• Ellen Degeneres
• Josh Hutcherson (formerly Ellen Degeneres' house)
• Zac Efron
• Justin Timberlake
• Ringo Star (he had a massive star on his driveway)
• Madonna’s multiple houses
• Britney Spears
• Katy Perry
• Tom Cruise
• The house that Michael Jackson died in
• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
• Playboy Mansion
• Tori Spelling’s old house (the biggest house in LA)

OMG Bruno Mars' house:

He's on tour at the moment though.
Probably would've invited me in otherwise, but whatever.

Just a street view in Beverly Hills:

Simon Cowell's house:

Jennifer Aniston:

Tim Burton's funky letterbox:

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air house:

A Witchy's house:

We drove down Rodeo drive and this is the shop Julia Roberts went into in Pretty Woman and got rejected by the snobby ladies:

"Big mistake. Huge!"

We also saw the place where Justin Bieber crashed his car and where he had a punch up with the paparazzi.

And where Lindsay Lohan crashed her car and stole jewellery.

Scott took us for a wander through Venice Beach:

Wasn't much action in the Muscle Beach workout station.

Oh wait, there was one impressive person working out:

The fam:

From there we went straight home.
Well, not really.
Omg, typical LA traffic! It took us over 1.5 hours to get back.
But we had lots of interesting talks with Scott about movies and celebrities.

He had worked with Cher, saw David Beckham in the bathroom, Lindsay Lohan used to be his neighbour and his friends had stayed with Harrison Ford when he was younger.
And he had maaany more connections!

Mum, Kate and I drove to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner, but the wait was too long so we just got cheesecakes to go.

 Mmmmmm look at all dem cheesecakes:

It also happened to be conveniently located opposite Kate's best friend, Nikki Sixx's radio Station, Sixx Sense: 

(he's from Motley Crüe btw)

Kate tweeted a picture of her outside his station and Nikki favourited it.

Next door was Ryan Seacrest's radio station:

We passed a Starbucks with a new flavour of tea, Oprah Chai.

Pretty sure it would just be normal chai.

Maybe with a bit more spiice.

Got back to the hotel and ate our cheesecake.

Then we made sure our bags were packed for tomorrow and everyone headed off to sleep!

This is why the others weren't available to assist me in identifying the pics.

I think everyone's ready to go back home now.

Soooooo exhausted!

My next blog will probably be up once we're back in New Zealand, so this is the last blog from America! (writing this in LAX, got about three hours to kill).

Ciao for now brown cow.

Madeleine

xx