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Today saw us jump in a cab and head on out to Warner Bros Studios!  We took part in a VIP studio tour which showed us around the back lot and sound stages of Warner Bros Studios.  We went on a live set of "The Mentalist" as they were out in Sacramento shooting for the day.  The set was all ready for shooting an episode.  It was interesting to see how a set works.  We also visited the props department where they store all types of props and they can be rented by anyone for a price.  Quite often different studios will rent each others props, which saves each studio owning the same things.

After the props department we visited the transport museum which housed vehicles such as Bat Mobiles from all movies, The Grand Torino (Clint Eastwood actually purchased this after the filming of the movie but houses it at Warner Bros as he has about 1000 cars). There was also the flying car used in the Harry Potter movies as well as Austin Powers Shaguar and The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo.

Also as part of the tour we visited the museum celebrating 90 years of costumes at Warner Bros.  These ranged from Batman, Harry Potter, Gossip Girl, Big Bang etc and also had costumes from movies such as My Fair Lady and Casablanca.  This was a two story museum with the entire top floor dedicated to memorabilia from the Harry Potter movies.  Items included costumes worn by many of the characters, the sorting hat, the giant feet worn by the stunt man playing the troll in the bathroom in the first movie and also things such as one of the giant spiders and the body used for Hermione when she is frozen from looking into the mirror. Another exciting part of our Warner Bros tour was walking into the "Central Perk" set from Friends.  Warner Bros has preserved this set as  tribute to the ever popular sitcom.  We were even able to have our photo taken on the couch in Central Perk.

Once we finished our tour at Warner Bros we caught a cab back to Rodeo Drive via Mullholland Drive, past all the fancy houses with gardeners tending to the yards.  We walked down Rodeo Drive, onto Willshire Boulevard and up Robertson Drive (where the celebs shop), went past "The Ivy" and forgot to make a reservation, oh no! We then had lunch at the Beverley Centre and then caught a cab back to Highland Hollywood Centre to walk back to the hotel.  We rested for a bit and then headed to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.  We over ordered which now means we have lunch and maybe even dinner sorted for tomorrow.  Thank god for doggy bags and hotel fridges!

The Hollywood Bowl is situated just up the road from our hotel and its prime season for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.  There are shows on all nights this week at least which means that traffic on the street outside in nuts.  There are signs out everywhere for people to park their cars and crazy men with flashing lights trying to sell their parking spots.  They obviously do this all the time as the signs made up are high quality and they seem to be fairly organised.

I guess that's is for today! Stay tuned for tomorrow as we will be hopping on a bus and heading to Venice Beach and the like.