The exploring.

       And now we have made it to Sunday. Which means more touristy exploring. Being within driving distance of Hollywood, we clearly had to find it. Mission: Chinese Theatre. With the hour drive behind us, we found a parking deck half a block from Hollywood Blvd and headed towards the Theatre. While walking on the side street, Mom and I see someone who looks very much like Johnny Depp and get a tiny bit excited, only to be let down once he gets closer and we see he has a little too much meat on his bones. So we make it to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on to Chinese Theatre with all of the footprints and signatures of the Hollywood elite. This was awesome. Lots of celebrities and personalities and handprints and signatures and room for plenty more.

"Sid, may you never die till I kill you" Humphrey Bogart

From TCL Chinese Theatre, formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre, formerly Mann's Chinese Theatre, you can see the Roosevelt Hotel, the location of filming of the Jimmy Kimmel show, El Capitan theater, and Hollywood and Highland. So pretty much all the Hollywood I could want within walking distance. Happy girl.

Yep, this is one I took a picture of.

Technically the theater is a part of The Hollywood and Highland Center which is gigantically huge. It's also where we had a good shot at the Hollywood sign. And my day was made.

Being the local SoCal girl that I am now, let me give you a little advice: If you make it to this area you have to at least drive through Griffith Park and by the Griffith Observatory. Prepare to fall in love with the view. It's amazingly astonishingly beautiful, day or night. The homes on the way there aren't bad either. 

Once we picked our jaws back up, Mom was on yelp.com again finding some where to eat. Yelp suggested an authentic Thai restaurant and we accepted. There are so many different cultures here that I've found most restaurants are very authentic.

This place is amazing.