Calico Ghost Town & Needles

Second day of our vacation, we leave Los Angeles and travel to Needles. It is a long drive and we planned to visit Calico Ghost Town before we stop at needles for overnight and continue our journey to Grand Canyon for the next day. But before we leave Los Angeles we want to see the HOLLYWOOD sign of course. We asked the person at the hotel where we can see the sign and he told us to go to Griffith Park Observatory. Set our GPS to that place. it up in the hill and passed so many beautiful houses on the way to the hills.

The best view we can took with our camera.Hmmm need larger camera

Griffith park Observatory

Misty view from the top

After  half and hour there, we leave the place and off to find Calico Ghost Town.

Long Drive with dry scenery

Arrived at Calico around 1PM, was really hot that time 42 degrees.

 

History of the Town

Built using bottles

Mini Train at Calico

Our Hotel in Needles Desert Mirage Inn & Suites

The room

 After Check in at our hotel, we went to look for an ATM and grocery store to buy some drinks and food.
We found this Cute signboard of the town.

Near Colorado River.

Our 2nd car after my husband change the 1st one

The plate Number

Driving in sunset to find place to eat for dinner.

Dinner at Best Steakhouse. 

Our dinner for that night.

Universal Studio Hollywood

As what we planned. The 1st day of our holiday, destination Universal Studio.

The park open at 9:00AM, so we were there earlier to avoid long queuing at the entrance. When we were there, it is already busy with people who waiting for the ticket counter to be open. We are lucky because we already bought our ticket online. For ticket price you can find it here.

a Must photo. red carpet.

Ride that you must try in Universal Studio

Transformer The Ride in 3D

The Simpsons Ride

Studio Tour.

Our Comment from the above rides: Unforgettable experience. All in 3D but the feeling is like riding the real roller coaster. Studio Tour is amazing, they have the largest 3D show for King Kong 360. So if you have a chance to go to Universal Studio don't miss the fun. Especially the King Kong. We felt that we were surrounded by the Dinosours..haha. They also show us how is the stunt movies made. They show us a few scene that used in movie making.

Knight Rider Car

 

 

 

Desperate housewife scene.

There are all man made city. Look real in the movie right?

Other attractions are:

Shrek in 4D.

After finished exploring the studio we have our lunch. Fries, Fried Chicken and Salad.

This one is very delicious, but I forgot the name

We finished around 2.30PM back to our hotel and rest. In the evening, we walked to the Walk of Fame street at Hollywood Blvd.

The longest limo we saw

Hakim was so happy to met Volvorine, even though its not real

We ended up dinner at Burger King

Tired but still can smile.

My Burger as big as Aishah's head.

The Arrival Day..

Continuous from my previous post..

After 12 hours and 40 minutes in the plane, we finally landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 6.10PM on 30th May 2012, Wow 1 day earlier. When we arrived, we need to get our rental car. We follow the Rental car company's bus where he brought us to the place where we have to pick up our car. 

 Again waiting for so long, luckily the counter for online reservation was open. It took almost one hour the person at the counter discussed with my husband about the car. OMG..Once my husband got our car, we rush to find our hotel. But no worries, with our helper TOMTOM, we did find our hotel very easy.

Our 1st car, Chevrolet.

Our Hotel

Very clean and neat.

After we arrive at the hotel, we have to find some food. so we saw a pizzeria near by our hotel and went there for take away of Vegetarian Pizza.

We could not sleep very well that night, All of us woke up at 4:00am in the morning and watched TV beside enjoying our Lays chips.