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