Booms and I decided to go to Universal Studios, Hollywood. Since neither of us had ever been to this one. The math for admitance didn't add up in my head though. $69 for a day pass, $69 online for a week pass, and $79 for a year pass. I would love to spend only $10 more and visit here all the time, but I feel the cost of the plane ticket wouldn't be able to justify it for me. We both bit the bullet and paid the $69 for the day. It certainly was a blast. Numerous things and shows to do. The best part of the day th "Line Ride" wasn't operating. The most we waited for a ride or show was 15 minutes (Jurassic Park and the Simpsons Ride). Without sounding like a 5 year old there isn't much I can tell you about the park. Below is a list of rides and attractions we saw:
· Shrek 4-D (pretty funny)
· Jurassic Park the Ride (it's like Thunder Canyon meets Snake River Falls meets anamatronic dinosaurs)
· The Simpsons Ride (best ride there)
· Terminator 2 3-D (Also a fun show)
· Waterworld (Lots of special effects, fire stunts and of course water)
· Hollywood Back Lot Tour (a 45 minute tour of sets and scenes used in movies)
· House of Horrors (I misread this and thought I was going to see my ex girlfriends pop up - I'll give you a second to catch the joke)
· Blues Brothers (alright we were eating lunch right next to it and heard the whole show, I'm counting this)
Of course our day wouldn't have been complete without a photo op with Bart and Lisa Simpson. That's two more celebraties I can add to my list, done and done. It seems my gambling addiction carried over in the form of a shopping addiction. I went nuts in the Kwiki Mart. So much Simpsons crap that I don't need, but felt I had to have :)
We made our way back to the subway and went home. We had to mentally prepare for our hike to Mount Cahuenga. Adam was already home from work and was ready for the four of us to Hike to the top. Four men with a plan and a mission. To counquor that mountain. We hopped in the Jeep and had Vicki guide us once again. We parked in a near by neighborhood and began our ascent.
I'm going to pause for a minute to tell you that I don't care how old you are, it is possible to look somewhat decent with a shirt off and be out of shape. The is me in a nutshell. It took us about 30 minutes to climb up that mountain, by the time we reached the top I was about dead. But in the end, it really was worth the climb. From that point you had a 360 degree view of Los Angeles. Everything from the back of the Hollywood sign to the Warner Bros. water tower to the streets of Beverly Hills. It was truly amazing.
There is also another unique item on top of the mountain. A single standing tree. Two years ago there was a fire that raged through Los Angeles. It wiped out everything in its' path, except for this single tall tree. People used to write messages and leave them at the base of the tree. Everything from "Good view. Good Sex" to more personal notes; as if that isn't personal enough.
Well of course it only takes one ass hole to ruin something great. Someone decided it was a "great" idea to burn all of those notes. They are all gone. Luckily there was a man, a man we've come to know as Froggy. He was working on a documentary about this tree and was able to read every since note into the camera. This is before the douche bags of the area decided to have a bon fire with peoples memories, wishes and dreams. Froggy spent a few weeks retyping every single note and made it into a book with an introduction.
I told you before we had a mission, it wasn't just to climb the mountain. It was also to deliver that book so that future generations could write in it and leave behind how the mountain, the view, california, and life made them feel. Thoughts that could and would be left for future climbers of the elite club to read and cherish. We took turns writing our own messages in there. We laughed a little bit, listened to some 30 seconds to Mars (it's the only non-poppy crap I had on my iTouch okay?!) and descended down the hill. We noticed that the hill was becoming a giant trash can, much like the streets of LA. So Froggy, Adam, Booms and I (honestly more so them) collected the trash and put in their bags.
We made it to the car in one piece. Well Booms kind of ate it on the way down and scrapped his elbow, other then that we escaped unskathed. Would our next destination be some other heroic deed to acomplish or a rescue mission in the gulf, no, after Mount Cahuenga was a trip to . . . Tommy's! One of Los Angeles' little treasures. Of course I am very boring when it comes to food and I am the first to admit that. I enjoyed my regular hamburger with ketchup only and my diet coke while the other guys chowed down on their chili burgers. Thank God they decided against ordering an angioplasty.
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