Sunday must be a tour of Los Angeles.

No rest for the wicked, we are up at seven to get picked up at our hotel for a Grand Tour of Los Angeles. A little bus picked us up and whisked us off to Hollywood where we had to queue for twenty minutes to get a voucher to be put on a larger bus. We were taken to the Hollywood Bowl first a fantastic arena with tremendous acoustics. It was a great thrill to be there anyone is anybody has played the Hollywood Bowl. Then for a reason best known to the tour directors we were taken back to Hollywood and looked at the walk of fame and the prints outside Graumann's Chinese theatre. It was very clear to us that John Wayne had very small feet.
We also saw where the red carpet is put down for the Oscar ceremonies and all that goes with that, huge black curtains are draped over shop fronts so that they cannot be seen, all pure smoke and mirrors, it certainly doesn't look quite as grand in real life. Basically the Oscar ceremony takes place in the middle of a shopping mall.
There was quite a lot of history of Hollywood and we had lunch in the Farmers' market an area full of food stalls of different types. In the afternoon we visited the city centre and then went to see the oldest house in Los Angeles which dates back to the 1830's , the Adobe House was really interesting.
After five hours on the bus we were taken back to our hotel and we then decided we wanted a walk so we trolled off to Rodeo Drive, couldn't afford anything although the Expedition commander came very close to trying on a four thousand dollar dress, unfortunately they didn't have it in her size.
We spent a little while looking for a bar to have a beer in and eventually found one on the walk back to our hotel. This was the bar you see in every film, long, dark and with jazz playing , to cap it all the beer was very good as well.
Dinner was in a steak restaurant and was superb, steak just as you imagine it. A pleasant walk back to the hotel before jet lag kicked in and we were off to bed. A interesting day in LA.