Day 13

Yesterday was a super interesting day. After staying in LA the night before, we rose early to get to Warner Bros. studio for our scheduled tour. Our tour group only consisted of our family and 4 other people, so it was a nice small size. During the 2 ½ hour tour, we got to see and go into several different outdoor sets. It was amazing how many times one set has been changed and reused for different films….and you would never know it. I can’t even start to list all of the movies that were filmed on the sets we visited. Some of the sets were made to look like a neighborhood; others were made to look like a downtown or part of a small town. We saw an indoor set where they film a lot of sitcoms as well.

In addition to seeing sets on our tour, we got to see lots of other behind the scenes stuff. Such as: their prop/decor collection, costumes that were actually worn in the movies, where they make sets and props for the sets, etc. Over all, it was a very enjoyable and interesting tour. It was especially neat to take the tour because we could relate to some of the stuff that we saw due to our own experience with film making. We also saw just how much more in depth and over our heads real “Hollywood movies” are :)

After our Warner Brothers tour, we drove to Hollywood, saw some of the Hollywood landmarks and walked down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Even though we wanted to see Hollywood, we weren’t all that into it or impressed with it…so we didn’t stay too long there. Then, we made our way to Beverly Hills. Boy, is that a ritzy town. We drove down Rodeo drive to see all of the extremely expensive shops; so expensive and nice that I only had heard of one or two of the stores before. Apparently that is a very well-known street in Beverly Hills-though I had never heard of it until my parents told us about it, haha.

After doing all of our site-seeing late in the afternoon, we found out which city in the USA has the worst traffic/rush hour that we have ever experienced. LA has crazy 7 lane highways that you can only inch your way through. Needless to say, we made it a few hours south to San Diego. After checking into our hotel, we walked around a neat area in San Diego called ‘Old Town’. We ended our evening with dinner at an authentic Mexican restaurant.

Posted by: Emily