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GPS woman then directed us to Hollywood Blvd. after taking an intentional detour through the Laurel Canyon area (very charming) and Fry's electronics (mecca for Jim). We parked at Grauman's Chinese theatre and spent some time gawking with the other tourists on the star walk.... this is basically Time's Square with out the live theatre and more retail (Disney store, Planet Hollywood and malls) not that interesting really. Picked up hot chocolate..... since it really is quite cool but since we enjoy ridiculous sunny warm weather in Ireland and Wales I guess a day of rain in LA isn't so bad. We walked a bit of Sunset Blvd. and then on down to Melrose Ave.

By this time we're back in the car since these roads go on forever and though there are interesting pockets the spaces between them are multiple iterations of IHOP, Jack-in-the-box, KFC, Urban Outfitters.... and yet no book stores. It took forever to find a book store to purchase a guide book from. Even in the book store I had to run the gauntlet of cards, candy, DVDs and jewellery(?) to get to the books.

Once in Beverly Hills we hit the Sony store (Jim wanted to check out their new e-reader) which is not available to buy wet but he could at least demo it..... not impressed enough yet I think. We raced back to the hotel, got changed and then bombed down the coast to meet Elizabeth and Mike Agamamian, Mike is on the board of Cimtek, who live in Laguna Niguel.

We enjoyed a lovely dinner with them in Laguna beach followed by a brief walk on the beach. Very nice but we had to head back fairly early since Laguna was a little over on hour down the coast.

And that was day 2