modern family, santa monica and venice beach

Tuesday 14th October 2014

Today we wanted to check out the filming locations for Modern Family.  We looked up the addresses and head out to the houses.  They were all within a few miles of each other.  We first went to Phil and Claire's house, then to Mitch and Cam's house and lastly to Jay and Gloria's.  I have to say the neighbourhoods that these homes are in are really nice.  They surely are not places that we could afford to live.  From there we drove to Santa Monica and parked the car.  We walked from Santa Monica to Venice Beach Jetty and back!!  Wow what a long way.

Had to check out the muscle beach gym and snap a few pictures.  The guys there don't seem to care, I think they like the attention.

Headed back to the motel and grabbed some Ihop for dinner.  Tonight is our last night in LA, tomorrow we head to New York.

claire and phil's house

 

mitch and cams house

 

jay and gloria's house

 

santa monica pier
end of route 66

 

looking towards malibu

 

walking track between venice
and santa monica

 

santa monica pier

 

muscle beach gym

 

the boys working out

 

venice beach jetty

 

 

wall art at venice beach

six flags magic mountain

Monday 13th October 2014

Today we hit six flags magic mountain.  This is just purely a park full of roller coasters.  It is like the typical Disneyland setup but just for thrill seekers.  We went on two roller coasters in the first few minutes of being there and they were amazing.  However they made us both feel sick.  They were the X2 and the Viper.  They were so fast and so all over the place sending you upside down and spinning around as they went.  The rest of the ones we went on after that were fine.  There are 12 roller coasters in the park and we did all but 2 as they were closed for renovation.  My favourite one was the Superman ride which is almost the same as the Tower of Terror back in the Gold Coast Dreamworld.  Stayed there until 6.00pm which was the park closing time and then headed back to the motel.  Had Applebees for dinner as it is next door to the motel.  Works out that this is the Applebees that we come to every time we have stayed in LA and we are staying next door to it this time.

six flags magic mountain

 

 

 

100mph!!

 

superman

 

green lantern

 

goliath

 

all the coasters from the carpark

la, petersen auto museum and griffith park

Sunday 12th October 2014

Well it was our first full day in LA today as we didn't do much on Saturday after we arrived.  Planned to go to the Petersen Auto Museum today to see some nice cars.  Ended up doing their vault tour which takes you downstairs to see cars they have in storage.  They keep about 300 cars down there that wont fit in the actual museum.  The tour was good and there were some really nice cars.  Just one of the Rolls Royce's we saw was valued at $25 million.

Headed up to the Griffith Park Observatory to look over the city.  The view was great albeit a bit smoggy.  Did about an hour walk around the park up towards the Hollywood sign.  Took in some great views of the city and Hollywood before heading off to meet some friends Lee and Jean who flew over on the same flight as us.  Met them at their motel and drove to the Outback Steakhouse at Glendale.  Had a really nice meal and spent a few hours chatting about what we had all been up to.

Not sure what the plans are for Monday at this point in time.  What I do know is that our laptop is on its last legs and is giving me the proverbial shits.  It keeps freezing up and running slow.  Time for a new computer.

 

 

petersen museum

 



chrysler turbine

 

sports car display

 

50 years of mustang

 

 

barn find mustang
(sat for 40 years undiscovered and unrestored)

 

griffith observatory

 

view from walk

 

 

vegas baby!!!

Monday 12th August 2013 to Thursday 15th August 2013

gold and silver pawn and mustangs everywhere

Sunday 11th August 2013

Indianapolis and corn fields

Saturday 10th August 2013

Today we went to the Indianapolis speedway for a look.  There were no tours operating due to an event that was being held.  We had a look around the outside and then we had a look through the museum.  After that we got some lunch and started to head for Detroit.  Found a nice little motel right in the cornfields on the outskirts of Detroit.  I have always wanted to run through a corn field so here was my chance.  About a minute after looking in the corn we saw a snake and that killed that idea.  Tomorrow we head to Detroit before we fly back to Vegas.

Indianapolis speedway

 

water fountain

 

entrance to middle field under track

 

motorbikes on track

 

history of indianapolis

 

museum

corn fields near detroit

 

looking at the corn

 

hiding in the corn

 

snake!

 

little bugger

 

view from our motel room

 

franklin park conservatory and botanical gardens and richard and bronte go to white castle

Friday 9th August 2013