There is a company that partners with the BLR to provide guests with a car and a driver for whatever their needs are. When I say car, I mean a Mercedes S550, and our driver has driven over 300 celebrities. He knows all of the hot spots and where things are located, so we gave him some ideas and combined them with his ideas for a great day.
Since Mason and myself both like cars, we stopped at a classic car place in Hollywood. The highlight was two old Rolls Royce cars from the 1950's era that were restored. Speaking of cars, I enjoyed seeing a lot of the top cars on the road throughout the day like Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, and Lamborghini.
I needed some street clothes, so we went to a mall to go shopping. This was kinda like my own biggest loser makeover week. I'll show you a picture later in the post.
After lunch we let the driver show us a couple of places. He took us to a spot in the Hollywood hills that overlooks the Hollywood sign on one side and overlooks LA on the other side. Here is a video and a couple of pictures.
After this we did a driving tour of the area and saw the sites around Hollywood including Aaron Spelling's house that is for sale for $150 million, the Playboy Mansion, and the Beverly Hills Hotel. From the street, you can't see anything inside the Playboy Mansion, and only the roof of Aaron Spelling's house is visible. It was still cool to see these houses, which by the way, are very close to each other.
The driver took us to a graveyard in Beverly Hills, which at first sounds creepy, but it turned to be alright. Here's some pictures of the graves.
In the first picture above, you'll notice that Farrah Fawcett's gravestone only has her name. I remember when she died, but couldn't remember if she was buried back home in Texas. Also, around the edge of the graveyard is a place where it looks like smaller graves are, but they are for people who have been cremated. Here's a picture of that it looks like.
If you look closely at the picture above, you'll notice one gravesite that is colored differently. There is a reason for it, and we walked up to it, so you can see for yourself in the picture below.
Yep, that's right, this is where Marilyn Monroe's remains are kept. The stone is a different color because everyone that visits touches the stone and it has changed colors over the years. We spent a couple of minutes looking at the other names and here is one more picture.
After we left the graveyard, we picked up Mason's sister at the airport because she is spending one week at the BLR. We arrived a couple of minutes early, so the driver took us to the cell phone lot. Normally this would sound boring, but the cell phone lot at LAX is at the end of the runway where the airplanes are landing.
Here's a picture of us in street clothes standing next to the Mercedes car with a Delta Airlines plane landing above us.
You can't see it in the picture, but I'm wearing jeans that are two sizes smaller than what I was wearing when I came here.
Also, in the picture above, you'll notice the rain clouds. It started raining a few minutes later and I didn't take any more pictures because of the rain.
After we picked up Mason's sister, we went shopping on Rodeo Drive. Let me type that again because I never thought I'd actually get to say it. Before dinner, we went shopping on Rodeo Drive. By shopping, I mean walking into stores, looking at what they have, having a mini heart attack over the price tag, walk out, and repeat at the next store.
There's nothing that we needed and a lot of the stores are for women, but I did buy a pair of sunglasses from Versace. I know this sounds expensive, but it honestly wasn't that bad and they looked pretty cool.
Dinner was at a restaurant called Cut, which is in Beverly Hills just off Rodeo Drive. Mason had been there before and agreed to pick up the tab. His recommendation was the kobe steak sampler, which is three small kobe beef steaks from around the world. The word amazing only begins to describe the taste.
Mason and his sister stayed the night in LA, so the driver brought me back to the BLR after dinner.
Today will be a day of rest, laundry, and get ready for the next week.
Closing thought for the day: This weekend marks the halfway point for my stay at the BLR. I ended the day eating kobe beef steaks from around the world in Beverly Hills wearing my new Versace sunglasses that were purchased on Rodeo Drive. Do I feel guilty for it? Not at all, because I still lost 5 lbs this past week, which is a pound per day of working out.
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