California Day 4

April 7, 2009

Today ended up being a very laid back day for us and a day that we didn't really take any pictures. We went to a different area in Santa Monica and did some street shopping. It was a nice area of lined shops and a few restaurants.

We stopped and had lunch at a Mexican Restaurant. We wanted to see what the Mexican food there tasted like...cause you know when you leave Texas you need to be careful of anything called "Mexican" food. It was good but also different....but the margarita's were good!

We headed back to the hotel to clean up for dinner...we had made a reservation for dinner at a nice place in the Beverly Hills area...right now the name escapes me. We had a early reservation. The picture below shows the traffic we had on the freeway when going back to Beverly Hills. This was the most traffic we hit and it moved so really nothing different than Houston. But we did avoid the 405 which is suppose to be their bad freeway...we were on it once for about 2 minutes but that was late at night and no traffic.

After dinner we decided to go in search of paparazzi and celebrities. We really wanted to see paparazzi...celebrities would of just been icing on the cake. Our concierge helped us in where to go. We didn't really have much luck but we did go to Mr. Chows in Beverly Hills and hung out...only one paparazzi dude.

Jerry Douglas came out of the restaurant. Not a huge star but I knew him. He played John Abbott on The Young and The Restless. It was funny cause the paparazzi dude was taking tons of pictures of him and asking him questions about Paris Hilton and after he got in his car the paparazzi dude was....who was that?
We stayed a little longer just in case...some guy from the movie Watchman showed up but I didn't know who he was so no picture.
After a little more driving around and lots of laughs and a good time...we headed back to our hotel for some sleep...for tomorrow we head to San Diego.