Belo West Coast Trip 2013: June 12 Hollywood Blvd, Huntington Beach

After having an delicious breakfast at the hotel and a "party" on the bus, we went to the Madame Tussaud's Wax museum; we saw a lot of famous people like Brad Pitt, Michael Jackson, Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, President Obama and Beyoncé. We took a lot of funny pictures! After we walked on the Walk of Fame, to see the different celebrities and musicians plaques, we did a little bit of shopping. From an over pass in a mall there we could see the famous Hollywood sign. It wasn’t what most of us had expected. With all those tourists and people selling stuff on the street “Hollywood” seemed to have lost most of its glamour.

After checking out the ”must-see place” in LA we headed to Huntington Beach. It is a nice beach city, also known as the “Surf City, USA” because of its nice waves and mild climate. The beach itself turned out to be nice and wide even though we had to wait for sunshine for almost two hours. But finally at about 4 ‘o’ clock, as Carleigh forecast, the sun came out and we enjoyed another two hours in the fairly cold water or playing beach volleyball. Some of us seemed to have underestimated the sun though, especially Nils and Arnie looked more red than white a few hours afterwards. Nevertheless, the beach was one of the highlights until now and it was also a nice compensator to the crowded Hollywood.

From there we drove to an Italian restaurant, officially named “buca di beppo”. Carleigh, Liz and Sarah however, were unable to pronounce such an unusual name, so instead they joked and just renamed it to “Bibidi babidi buuu”. In any way, we had a great time there as well! We enjoyed salad, Italian Pasta and we had delicious cake for dessert.

Back at the hotel we brought the day to a nice close spending the last few hours in the pool and hot tub, talking, and jumping in the pool. And with that the first week of our journey ended, leaving us with another 1.5 days in Los Angelas, then Yosemite National Park, and finally San Francisco.

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