Spring Break - Friday

Today we spent the day with our friends Doug and Claudia, trying to see where we could go and what we could do on the Metro. (Again with the trains!) And - I think we did pretty well. Here's a sample:

We had lunch at Felippe's near Olvera Street. They are celebrating their 100th year in business. 100 years of YUM!

After lunch, we rode downtown to 7th and Figueroa and walked to the Fashion Institute of Design (FIDM) to see the travelling display of movie costumes in their museum. (Do we detect a pattern here?) Among others, Harry Potter costumes were on display.

The above costumes were worn by (from left to right): Professor Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), Tonks (Natalia Tina), Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Order of the Phoenix. There were other costume displays there, from movies such as 300, Blades of Glory, Elizabeth: The Golden Years, Marie Antoinette, Across the Universe, 3:10 to Yuma, Beowolf, Hairspray, and Sweeney Todd. It was really cool.

Here's Doug and Don, waiting patiently on a park bench under an arbor at the beautiful park outside FIDM while Claudia and I were inside looking at costumes.

Here's me and the angel statue (for some reason she's wearing a cat mask - I'm wearing sunglasses) outside the museum.

This is the view of the El Capitan Theatre (where The Little Mermaid is currently playing) from above the courtyard at Grauman's Theatre. We went there again because Claudia hadn't seen the footprints before. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood . . .

Here's another handprint (and my camera strap) - this time from former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda - only we're not at the Chinese Theatre anymore. These are in front of the Dodgers store at Universal City Walk. The store is pretty extensive - just about everything Dodgers you could think of. These hand prints were the only thing I found photo-worthy while we were at City Walk. We took the Metro almost to the end to get there, and fortunately there's a shuttle to take you up the hill to the mall. There's also a square with Eric Gagne's handprints next to Tommy's, but the shuttle was leaving and I didn't have time to take a picture of them. I had my priorities straight, tho' . . .

We Metro'd all the way back to Pasadena (end of the line) and the four of us had dinner at Islands. Yaki tacos - yummy! There and back again, all for five bucks. (Except for food, and the ninety-nine cent ceramic chicken necklace I bought at Olvera Street . . . ) Another all-around good day.