We head to the Beverly Hills area from the Sunset Strip and there is this definitive line that marks Beverly Hills as separate from the rest of LA. Not only do the roads, street lights and trees change to indicate posterity but even kind of cars and like Tim said fire hydrants also have changed to coordinate the aesthetics. The real estate consists of large property's each street lined with a different tree specie and a lane way at the back where the garbage is collected so that the trucks cannot diminish the street views of the Hills. It really is all too much.
Arriving on Rodeo Drive is another experience. As you will see by the photos, unless you have thousands spare to buy a lip gloss, don't bother, just enjoy the window spectacular's. As walked down this infamous street, Tim said, "Can you smell that Mel?" and sure enough the air you breathe was lavender scented, they really do think of everything. We stopped to look into some stores such as Valentino, Prada, Chanel, Gucci and Bijan. Each store, complete with marbled stair cases and champagne on arrival. The most popular sight to see on Rodeo Drive is the store Bijan which is a men's designer store. Outside of this store you will notice a yellow and black, very rare and very expensive, 1.7 million dollar Bugatii Veyron. Well no wonder this designer could afford this car as the cheapest suit, so we found out, was $15, 000. The most expensive clothing store in the world.
At the end of Rodeo drive is a quaint little cobble stone lane way that could almost be mistaken for a slice of Paris, yet there were not to many people interested in this little lane way, yet I thought it was the best part of Rodeo drive. Of course to finish off the outstanding Rodeo drive experience is the well known Beverly Wiltshire Hotel, known best from Pretty Woman. If you look up toward the top of this magnificent hotel, you can see the penthouse that was used as Richard Gere's abode in the movie.
After our time shopping (albeit, window) with the rich and famous we headed towards the beach to Santa Monica Pier. This is where Forrest and Bubba Gump started their shrimping business, as you can see by the photos, the people certainly have capitalized on it as well. This pier was not only a beautiful beach, it had the old community amusement feel to it. There were street performers and rides all on little little rickety old pier. Tim just loved the mix of it. It had a great family feel to it. Not that we would need to come back to LA, but if we did, this is where we would stay. It is beautiful, clean and relaxed!
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