A 5.30am wake up call to get out to Dulles early for a 9am flight. We are used to sleeping in so it was a tough morning.
Lach was so tired he said yes to turkey bacon when he bought his breakfast. What is with that? There is turkey and there is bacon. If it's turkey, it's not bacon. There is no lamb ham or beef wings so there ain't no turkey bacon. Don't get me started on chicken fried chicken.....
And while we are on food, here is Lachlan's 5th unsuccessful
attempt to get a "decent coffee" in DC.
Me, I have learned to drink the regular filtered stuff. It's less stressful than dropping $4.00 on a coffee that deep down, you know is not going to meet your expectations. Give it up Lach!!
We enjoyed our 5 hour flight with free access to 30 TV channels. I simultaneously watched The Lake with Keanu, Queen Latifah's morning show and the Bobby Deniro/Billy Crystal movie about the mobster and the psychiatrist - bada bing, bada boom. We gained three hours due to the time difference so arrived in LA only two hours after we left DC........
Landed in LAX and after waiting forever for a shuttle bus, drove through 40 minutes of the most depressed, dilapidated suburbs we have seen in a long time. Car wrecks, oil rigs (????) and run down old shops.
Got to our hotel, just down the road from Hollywood Bowl and just up the road from Hollywood Boulevard (Boulevard of Broken Dreams indeed). Like Luke Wilson in Paris at Midnight, I have finally made it to Hollywood but I am 80 years too late. If you squint at some buildings, close your ears and imagine real hard, you can almost imagine what it was like in the golden years. Almost.
The beautiful old Max Factor salon has been turned into a museum of sorts but I was thrilled just to be in the same building where he worked his magic on Jean Harlow, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo just to name a few.
I read his biography several months ago so knew all about the building and his work. Max Factor single handedly invented movie make up and was responsible for all those beautiful film star faces that we have come to love over the years. Platinum blondes, bee sting lips, big fake eyelashes.
Here are some of his original products.
Also amongst the artefacts was this holy grail - Jeannie's bottle!
And of course, THE sign.
So, we only have a day and a half here which will be plenty. I'm sure there are beautiful neighbourhoods somewhere but we don't have the time to find 'em.
I will leave you with a question - who in their right mind would put their bank card into this ratty ATM? What the?
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