Day 17. Los Angeles (Hollywood). Sunday 5th January

With so many things to do and see in LA finding the time to do this blog can be a bit of a challenge. We're also having a few issues uploading pictures. Luckily there isn't too much to write about for day 17. We were in desperate need to find a laundry as it had been  several days since we used the last one in Banff. Luckily none of us smell! Before breakfast Christine and Andrew headed to the closest Laundromat (our hotel only offers it as a service and charges $1.50 for one pair of undies), a 10 minute walk away. After a bit of a search around we found it and it wasn't too bad. Christine stayed with her Kindle while Andrew hit the streets and went for a perve run around Melrose Ave and the other nice streets. After returning with clean and dry clothes we had some breaky and went for another walk onto Hollywood Boulevard for a bit more shopping. The girls went in one direction and the boys the other. We planned to meet later in the day at a designated spot. The girls had a great time and bought a few things, the boys weren't really in a shopping mood and headed back to the hotel for some R&R. In the afternoon the kids went to the movies to  see Hobbit 2 and Andrew watched Anchorman 2 while Christine went back to the room for a rest 2. We decided to try something different for dinner and found a Mexican restaurant. It was very noisy and the music was very loud. Cameron was struggling a bit with the atmosphere and was not feeling very well (he's got a cold) so Andrew took him back to our hotel room (which was not far) so he could go to bed. Not having much experience with Mexican food, apart from Tacos, we got some suggestions from the waitress. We ended up with a house salad, enchiladas, burritos and fajitas. The meal was great. Hollywood has become filled with people wearing either orange and blue or burgundy over the past day or so and the restaurant tonight was no different. Tomorrow night at 'The Rose Bowl' there is a big College football game between the Auburn Tigers and the Florida Seminoles and the rivalry was very apparent. There were several outbursts during the night of the teams chants, to see who could be the loudest. It was great fun to watch. After dinner we headed back to the hotel. Cameron was safe and sound and fast asleep.

Lassie is a star

A basketballer, Hello Kitty, Bumblebee and Batman all trying to make a few bucks.