A Hollywood Adventure

Yesterday, the girls and I, my mom, my sister and my cousin, went on a Hollywood adventure. Most of it was excellent. There will be some movies about it. I am waiting for the other members of our adventuring party to hand over their pictures. I have Carolynn’s pictures and mine ready.

Here is a quick recap of our adventure…

Pink’s Hot Dog Stand was cool. The chili dogs were only okay. The chili was a little greasy.

The Farmer’s Market had many interesting smells. I got some Oolong Tea from a cool teashop there. We also had some awesome green tea there. I got some to take home too, but when I got home, I realized I had the same tea in a can I got at the World Markey, so I am giving that one to my mom. My sister and cousin ate ice cream with Fruity Pebbles on it.

China Town was an experience. They will haggle with you of everything and everything is so cheap.

Olvera Street was cool. It was very historic and had a lot of Mexican history. They also had some amazing food.

Hollywood was crazy. There were nuts as far as the eye could see.

The House Of Blues was cool, but Aly and AJ or on my hit list. Those little divas ruined the evening.

First, our tickets said the concert was supposed to start at 7:30. We got there at 6:45 and waited in line until almost 8:00 before they even started letting people in. Then my mom and I had to give some security guards a verbal punch in the face because they were giving us a hard time and made Catherine cry. I mean really people… these were little kids they were frisking and searching and such. We had already been waiting a long time. Nevertheless, we got in and the security guard who let us in came in and bought us drinks.

Then there was the venue itself. It was basically a bar. Three sides bar and one side stage. And no chairs, standing room only. For little girls. Lots of little girls. Probably the average age was 12. Then Aly and AJ did not even take the stage until 9:45. They made little girls STAND and wait 2 hours and 15 minutes. Catherine was half-asleep by about 10:15. We were out of there by 10:20. We heard, from the same security guard that let us in, that it was Aly and AJ who caused this mess. They were late getting there, late doing their sound check (which is why we couldn’t even go in until after 8:00); they were not supposed to have an opening act, and they did, Frankie Jordan (she wasn’t terrible either, but the crowd was so tired of waiting for Aly and AJ she didn’t have a chance.); and they didn’t go on until 9:45 when the concert was planned to be over by 9:30. Needless to say, my mom will be getting her money back for that big waste of time. Carolynn enjoyed the songs, but she was tired, her legs hurt, she was having trouble seeing and being squished by people around her.

We finally got home around 1:15 am. Everyone is just beat. Stay tuned for our Hollywood Epic video of the whole thing.