Several weeks ago I mentioned to Sean that a chick flick was coming out that I would like to see. I had the intention of maybe asking some girlfriends to go with me but he immediately told me that he would want to go with me. As the date approached for the release, I realized that Austenland was a limited release and it was only playing in one theater in all of LA. When I told that to Sean he was still willing to go. So we made a date!
I decided to make it more than just a movie. I've always wanted to drive Mulholland Drive so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity. On our way out of town Sean said, we're going on another adventure. It made me think of the name of our blog and I told Sean that I really like calling all our outings, adventures. They make them more memorable. This adventure ended up more memorable then we expected.
As we were driving south on the 170, Sean noticed a couple of cars in front of him start to swerve and slow down. I heard some squeals and before we knew it we saw an SUV veer out of traffic to the left, hit the median, fly into the air and flip over. A second small car (like a sports car) veered right, perpendicular with the freeway and braked before it headed down the small embankment. Of course everyone stopped dead on the freeway. We immediately wanted to jump out and help but were sort of boxed in. Sean inched his way to the side and got out to help while I called 911. I have to admit it was my first time calling 911 and I accidentally dialed 991 at first. :) Guess I was a little flustered. By the time Sean got to the car, the one passenger was already out. She was obviously shaken but I didn't see any blood. Looking at the car, I was amazed she wasn't more hurt. The front row was totally smashed by the windshield. Since there is nothing more we could do we drove away.
There were a lot of individuals who got out of their cars to help but one of the "first responders" was video taping it. Are you kidding me? The first thing you do is record it instead of helping out? Idiot.
That was the start of our great adventure! Like I said, a little more than we bargained for. We continued to Mulholland Drive and made our way up into the hills. The first overlook was called the Hollywood Bowl Overlook. I've been to the Hollywood Bowl before and I've seen headlights way up in the hills and I assumed it was this place. What I didn't expect was the crowds of tourists. We lucked out and got a spot in their small parking lot. There were tons of the tour vans and most of the tourists were actually foreigners. We hiked up a few stairs to the overlook. We've done other overlooks like Griffith Park but this was located further west so it had a slightly different view. It was cool to the the observatory and a different angle of the Hollywood Sign. It was super crowded!
There was a (German) mom taking a photo of her family and I offered to take their picture. I know what it is like to not have your whole family in a picture so I try to be conscious of that when I go places and I like to offer to take their pictures since most people aren't to willing to ask. I asked them if they were German and they said yes (I could recognize the german) and so I said Eins, Zwei, Drei when I took the photo. I think they liked that. The father said I pronounced them perfectly (my german teacher told me the same thing-too bad I just don't remember the language).
We maneuvered past the tour vans and headed further west along Mulholland to the Universal City Overlook. There was NO ONE at this overlook. We saw a bunch of cool houses and I felt like paparazzi taking their photos. From this overlook you saw Universal Studios (the theme park), the offices, Warner Brothers Studios and a little bit of Disney. We also got a different view of the Hollywood sign, practically perpendicular to it.
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