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Sunday 24th July 2005 - Los Angeles: Universal Studios

We breakfasted at Starbucks on Sunset Boulevard, Bekky havnig her favourite Frappacino. Then we drove down to Beverly Hills and had a nose around some of the manicured and perfect residential areas. Looked for the Hollywood sign.... and couldn't find it! Drove to Universal Studios and met Angela, Colin and Elliot there. Spent the day at the park. Afterwards, went for a very very nice italian meal at a restaurant in the complex behind Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

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The main event of the day was a trip to Universal Studios.
Let the fun commence!
By complete coincidence, Angela, Colin and Elliot were in L.A. at the same time as us so we'd arranged to spend the day together.....
We took the studio tour
The tour took us around working studios and TV and film sets.....
And we were shown a few special effects like this "flash flood on demand"....
This is the set of TV show Desperate Housewives (one of Marina's favourite shows)
And this is the set of Hitchcock's "Psycho"
Spielberg used a real aircraft to create this disaster scene for War of the Worlds
Guess what? It was a hot day. Not tha twe knew what "hot" was at this stage of the holiday!
Colin practising his opera singing ;-)
Bekky looking cool in a Goth kinda way
Jack looking cool... in a Jack kinda way
On the set of Backdraft. When the explosions started it was *really* hot!
The day's grand finale was the WaterWorld spectacular show....
Note the aircraft which "flew" in and crashed!
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