The day starts out a little frustrating as my coms unit will not turn on, so we take the charger with us and decide to ask at the church if we might plug it in. It means that to give directions I must use hand signals and shoulder taps to communicate but we do pretty well and arrive only a few minutes late.
We went to church this morning at Expression 58 we were greeted by the cutest little girl Savannah (3) and many people introduced themselves and made us feel at home, including Heather who told us that an Aussie couple attends the church. During the service the Pastor Shaun Boltz is giving words of encouragement to different people. Even down to nailing people's birthdays/anniversaries etc. He is talking to one particular young woman and says I see a ray of sunshine over your mother, suddenly from the other side of the church the woman's mother calls out and says "my name is Sunshine!" she is the young woman's mother and Shaun did not know that! it's a very cool word. After the service Heather introduced us to Sarah an Aussie who lives in LA and works in the film industry as does her husband (who was at home with their 2 year old who is unwell). It was nice to hear an Aussie accent. She told us about the lookout at Griffith Park and the observatory.
The church didn't have a carpark so David had parked the bike up the road a bit in a strip mall carpark. There was a Radio shack there so we got a connector that connects the CASSETTE DECK! (yes you are reading correctly our 2007 model bike has one) anyway connects it to my iphone so we can play our music through the audio system. We test it out and it works really well happy days!! and even better my coms unit turns on woohoooo.
There is a Subway there too so we have some lunch before heading over to Universal Studios. While we are there a family comes in, an older couple, a young woman with a little boy and a young man with Downs Syndrome (Trisomy 21). We watch as the young man with T21 helps the little boy with his drink and gets him a straw and a napkin and generally looks after him. And the little boy who is as cute as a button is such a chatterbox. After we finish our lunch David says "We need to talk to this family" it turns out that it's Mia, her son Nico (3) her parents and her younger brother Joe (25). Nico is full of questions about our pins and patches and when he finds out that the motorcycle outside is ours he gets soo excited. So David asks Mia if it would be OK for him to sit on the bike. When we go outsider Nico is a little frightened to sit on the bike so David sits on it and puts him on his lap and lets Nico rev the engine he just loved it. Mia takes a photo and gets our email address so she can send it to us. What a gorgeous little encounter.
On the way to Universal Studios we spot Griffith Park and turn off to check out the observatory there are cars parked all along the side of the road up the hill and a sign states the carpark is full but we decide to ride up the hill and find that there is motorcycle parking right near the entrance to the observatory huzzah!! From the lookout we can see the HOLLYWOOD sign. We then go inside to check out the observatory.
We arrive at Universal Studios fairly late we change clothes in the parking lot ha ha (we are at the back against some shrubbery) as soon as we are through the gate we hot foot it down to the Studio tour bus. There is a big line of people waiting but it goes fairly quickly. The tour itself is really good with some special treats I'm not going to spoil on here for anyone and a good look at some facades, vehicles and outdoor sets. After the tour we went on The Mummy ride after going on the best coaster ever last night this was a bit ho hum. Then we went on the Transformers ride as single riders (which means we get split up but we get through really fast! should have done this all along!) it's a 3D experience ride and REALLY good. To get to the lower level there is 4 really long escalators with flights of stairs beside them. On the way down we took the escalator most of the way and on the way back up we ran up the stairs!!! gahh
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| we ran up 4 sets of this ok ok by the 3rd set I was walking |
Then we go on the Shrek 'ride' which is a 4D experience which is pretty funny. By the time we come out the park is closing and we make our way to the bike it has cooled down a lot! and neither of us has our jacket with us ha ha. By the time we get back to Anaheim we are both really cold!! We change into warmer clothes and go to Dennys for dinner they have run out of beer!!! unaustralian!!!! and they have run out of spaghetti and meatballs so I order fish n chips and David has some chicken it was really delicious. Then we go back to our room for a beer mmmmm beer. I am having lots of trouble getting onto skype it's driving me mad I just want to talk to my Mum and my kids!!!!
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| set of the Grinch |
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| set of War of the Worlds |
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| "Thankyou! come again" |
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