Hollywood - LA, CA, USA

December 29 2007

Holywood in Los Angeles, California

We just joined our friends Ravi and Sabarish in their evening walk. Our intention of setting out of house on saturday afternoon was to get groceries for the week. But we ended up going for 3 mile walk and then Holywood. Though we are planned things take their own turns in an unplanned way. But that was good in a way. Our long dream of seeing holywood came true. especially for me after being here for almost 4 months.

The Kodak theatre in Holywood is a place where Oscar awards are presented to best performing individuals/teams of Holywood. It s really amazing to see at night. So colourful. The entire street has black granite footpath(I assume its a granite. Not sure). On the footpath, there are names of artists who have won the Oscar award. Every name on the star is associated with a symbol. There are three symbols. One for musician, one for TV star and one for Movie Star. Its really fascinating to see the names and people scream when they read out names that are familiar to them. I too exclaimed when I read names familiar to me.

There are many talented artists who ob their own perform on the streets gaining visitors attraction. Only a part of this street is crowded. This part of the street gains attraction. We roamed all around the kodak theatre. We saw the coloured water fountain at level two. We saw the chinese screen at level three. There are restaurants at level four. Level five does not allow visitors. Only invitees to hotel party allowed.

We had a nice view from level floor.

We got down and headed towards the chinese theatre which has foot and handprints of oscar award winners.

The hotspot here was Willy Smith footprint and Handprint as it was taken on 10th of december 2007. People posed and took snaps in front of that.

On our way back I saw a person dressed as an evil. So nicely dressed. Red Coloured dress. He had worn a long boot. He was a giant. Me a lilliput in front of him. I also saw spider man and gvrass hopper like dressed people. There was another person who was dressed like a ghost. His face was masked. He had a knife in his hand. He was surprising people by showing knife. He pointed knife at Sabarish. He was gone for a moment. He held his breath for a second. Then that ghost put the knife through his mask eye. Was scary. The Grasshopper was sticking to the tree. Suddenly it would hop at people scaring them. It was in all a good experience. A worth visit. We ended our tour by having yummy food at Thai Patio. Came home at 12:20am. First time ever I am so late home.

So dont miss holywood if you have come to California.

Wish I will cover Universal Studios before I leave.