photos from top to bottom: (1) Star Trek Museum Riverside, (2) Santa Monica Pier, (3) Santa Monica Beach, July weather, (4) idiosyncratic fashion in Venice, (5) The retail shops on the boardwalk in Venice Beach, (6) The romantic view from the hotel Erwin to Venice Beach
20.7., 15.00 clock, Erwin Venice Beach Hotel Los Angeles
We are particularly early to drive to Riverside. Where please? Well, there is not much, but at least a Star Trek museum. The kids do not have the night before, checked the Internet, including opening times.
We are lucky and the wind is always on the opposite side, so we - Breakfast at Riverside included - at 10.15 clock in front of the 110 kilometers away Museum arrive. What one does not do anything to make his children happy. We invite briefly the parking meter, when the children come back with beaten faces. The museum opens at 12:00 clock - that is 105 minutes waiting time. But what you do not everything to make children happy.
We read in the guidebook, climb a hill, feeding a squirrel now, sandwiches, and discuss with supermarket guards, whether one can wear a backpack in the market, looking for a toilet, look at houses to sit on park benches and even the waiting time order. $ 15 admission per person, which is probably true only for Trekkies. So I stay outside and wait. I can already pretty good.
already appeared after 30 minutes the rest of the family fairly well to very disappointed again. The museum consists of one room, rather than exist as promised, instead of the bridge of the Enterprise, only the chair of Captain Cirk and if you want to be photographed in it, costs it $ 19 extra. My pictures are strictly prohibited throughout the museum. I am hardly surprising that only 5 to 7 employees attending - are - us included. The other two visitors say that there is to see on any average convention more. What one does not do anything to get kids look happy.
We make it back to 14.00 clock to Los Angeles. The last stop on the trip, the hotel Erwin Venice Beach. The first impression is the parking fee is $ 28 plus tax plus tip for each delivering up or get the car. But after all, is one of the rooms are already finished and by and by all three to bed. I try along the way, to get the clock announced by 15.00 for second room. Not yet ready. 15.00 15.30 clock can also mean clock tells me the Latin American Californians. The day seems to consist mainly of waiting.
Generally I have the subjective impression that Latinos are the majority of the population in California. According to guide it will take 10 to 20 years, until it does, but at least at points such as hotels, supermarkets and shops is now almost only more Latin Americans in contact. The white Protestants remain well in all their offices, their air-conditioned houses and their BMWs. In this way, the Mexicans slowly get back what they had to hand over 150 years ago and the conversions made by the previous tenant at the object remain, fortunately preserved.
I'm going to see now whether clock can also mean 15.30 16.00 clock. I'm actually at 15.50 clock back, but only because I'm at the reception already become something of true.
19.15 Clock: When everyone woke up, we go to the beach in Venice. It takes only a minute for us is clear: it is simply too cold for swimming. So we stroll the promenade towards Santa Monica. Sounds pompous, but is actually inclined to fucked up. Some homeless people, some beggars, many tattoo, Tarot, stone jewelry, portrait and whatever makeshift roadside stalls set up and all. In between, the barkers, extolling everything up to the marijuana-Doctor. Behind this lie partly dilapidated buildings, but also some nice hotels and apartment complexes.
Even the Santa Monica Pier has its better days probably already decades behind. So we see us at the oblique types and move us as a remedy for the cold. The towels had brought at least help us against the wind to protect something. And now waiting for a dinner with Michael, the ex-partner Carol.
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