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Friday, August 23, 2013

California

We have been having fun here in California since we are planning on moving back to Utah in a few weeks. We have gone to several late night shows.  We went to Jay Leno and got to shake his hand, Conan again, and to Jimmy Kimmel.

This is a screen shot of the show you can see the back of my head and the side of Tim's face! haha!
This was the stage for the band to play at Jimmy Kimmel.
The band playing was Luke Bryan a country singer. Not really our thing but it was still enjoyable.

We went for a day to Universal Studios and got a free season pass which was really cool since we can walk there from our apartment.  It gives us something to do when we don't have anything else to do. 
They have different rides and different shows you can go see.

 This is WaterWorld, a show they had actors doing stunts on jet-skis and boats.
We went on the Simpson's Simulated roller-coaster. It was really fun!
 They had the Simpson characters outside the Kwick-E-Mart for pictures.
We went on the Jurassic park ride which we got really drenched going on.  We also went on the mummy roller-coaster. That was my favorite but it was way too short.  They also had different shows to go see. We saw Shrek 4D, Special effects show, animal actors show, and we took the Universal studios tour.
We got to see the set for Whoville from the movie The Grinch.

We got sprayed by dinosaurs from Jurassic park.

We got to see the cars used in the Flintstones, and Back to the Future.
We got to see the set for the War of the Worlds

And we got attacked by Jaws

We also went to the Jon Lovitz Comedy club to see our friend Jay Whittaker do his stand up.

We got invited to a special premiere screening for members of the academy to watch a movie called Short Term 12. It should be up for academy award consideration this year.
We also visited the Hollywood Hills Cemetery.  There are a lot of beautifully carved statues there. 
This is the Washington Memorial.
Also a nice statue of Lincoln in one of the areas.














2 comments:

Kelsey Justice Drake said...

Universal studios is so cool! I think we should all go to CA in the next year or two and go there and to Disneyland!

Marsha said...

NIce posts, Vanella. I loved the whoville set. That looks really fun.