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After a Breakfast of coffee and an egg and bacon sandwich (and Donna had returned the mug she attempted to walk away with), we set off down Hollywood Boulevard. There was something mesmerising about the stars on the pavement - it was hard not to constantly look down in case you missed 'a good one'! d*** Van Dyke was definitely a highlight as we both screamed out his name in unison as we spotted him! Donna was on a mission to find David Bowie and succeeded in a cheeky photo on the pavement with him.
We stopped off in one of the many halloween costume shops to pick up some items for that night. It was dress up heaven! We settled on a cat and wolf combo with some obligitory fake blood.
After that we carried on up to Grauman's Chinese Theater to see the hand and feet prints of the stars. This was insightful. We learnt that Tom Hanks has his finger on the pulse of punctuation trends and threw in cheeky hashtag back in '97! We also learnt that John Wayne has disappointingly teeny tiny feet, but that Michael Caine has a rather impressive length - of shoe.
After watching a fight between Darth Vader and a Pumpkin, refereed by Michael Jackson, we checked in at that night's accommodation, Banana Bungalow Hostel, just a little bit down the road on Hollywood Boulevard and started to get ready for Halloween. We got tickets to the Haunted Hay Ride at Griffith Park becaue I'd seen some celeb instagram a pic of it last week and I'm easily swayed like that! But I'm glad I was as it was amazingly scary!! It was in a disused Zoo in the park with creepy music and dry ice galore, topped off with sinister characters walking around and jumping out at you. And that was just the queue!! We were then put on a trailer with about 20 other people which was pulled through the dark woods by a tractor. On the route there were around 6 'scenes' set up that we drove through, all based on real incidents in the area, with yet again more people jumping out at you, whispering in your ear and touching your hair! We had everything from burning children from the orphanage to evil clowns. We were definitely pooping ourselves ... well apart from when one had to be told to say it not spray it as he spat in Donna's mouth, and a few of the zombies had rather lovely sixpacks that were a bit distracting!!
After that we had a walk around and listened to some paranormal invesitgators talking, they described a dark man who was terrorising a young child, to which one of the zombies walking around rightly pointed out in a rather squeaky voice 'racist', and trundled off to scare his next unwitting victim.
After letting one of the ghosts know his Scottish accent was pants we headed back across Hollywood to catch the end of the Santa Monica Boulevard Parade. Which was essentially around 1000+ people walking around admiring each others costumes and asking for pictures with each other. The costumes were very impressive, it was quite a surreal experience to be surrounded by Khaleesi on one side and The Addams Family (yes an actual family, children and all, dressed up as them!) on the other!
At around 1.30am the surrealness was all too much and we headed back to the hostel, wiped the blood off our faces and went to sleep. Without any nightmares thankfully!
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Mum Sounds amazing. Glad you didn't have any nightmares!
Amy I actually would have s*** my pants. Sounds amazing, though.
Grandma Just caught up with you.