Another LA

After six hours unconscious sleep on the plane, we finally arrived at LA, Mike's dream place, where all the beautiful romances happen. The weather was out of our expectation, for like one out of millions chance, it was cooler than Boston during the day. Fiona's friend picked us up and drove all the way to our hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Frank Sinatra sings:" LA is my lady..." Now I"m wondering where he got that idea? LA is absolutely not a "lady", not even close. As a relatively new city, LA should be clean and modern in my mind, but on the contrary, LA is kinda dirty compared with Boston. The whole city is covered with thick gray mist. There are no green trees: almost all the trees are light colored. The buildings have no certain style, with the light colors that are similar to Miami, but the gray mist and the gray trees make LA dimmer than Miami. 

It is amazing that everyone says the same thing about LA: you can go nowhere without a car, downtown is the most dangerous place in LA, and there are a lot of Chinese people. We proved all of them in only one afternoon. It took us nearly one and a half hours to get to the hotel from LAX, and then another one and half hours to get to the restaurant from the hotel. I tried to find a Chinese restaurant on Hollywood Bl, failed. How can people order Chinese? Then I realized most people on the this avenue were visitors. But still, it's really inconvenient without even one Chinese restaurant nearby. The good part of this story is that, even though we had to drive more than a hour to get to the place, the restaurant was really good. It is ran by a Tianjin woman, and the food there was fantastic. For the first time in almost a year, I had roasted lamp and Baozi. There was even "Ge Da Soup". Oh I love this place for the good food. Checking out the menu, we thought it was nice that they didn't directly translate the meaning of the soup, or no one would want a bowl of "goose bump soup."

There are all kinds of people in downtown, making it dangerous. But we stayed in Hollywood district after dinner. It was really weird that there were so many sex toys stores on Hollywood Bl. With all the stars on the ground, this avenue should be the most fabulous place, but how come there are so many little sex toys shops, tattoo stores and palm reading rooms? I have no clue at all. The night came quickly, before I realized, we had to head back to the hotel.

Anyways, LA disappointed me a little bit today. It's like another LA from my mind. I hope it can get better tomorrow.