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California Day 3 - Los Angeles, Beverly Hills & Downtown Disney


Jodie's breakfast 

On Saturday the 22nd of October we left our accommodation at 11am for a look around a nearby Target store where I bought a couple of recipe books.



It looks as if I am mad at Jodie here! 😂

After that we headed over to South Pasadena for a look at the Fair Oaks Pharmacy; a well known pharmacy along Route 66 that has been in operation since 1915.

Unfortunately on the day we went it was open as pharmacy use only, so we didn't get the chance to have a proper look around or have a drink at the soda fountain.






We then headed over to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd, arriving at around 1:30pm. 






We located the grave of Estelle Getty, who portrayed Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (one of my all time favourite characters!)


Not far from Estelle Getty's grave was the grave of Mel Blanc "The Man of a Thousand Voices". Famous for his voice work on the Loony Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.



Then we went over to the Judy Garland Pavilion Mausoleum, where Judy Garland herself was laid to rest, after being moved from the Ferncliff Cemetery in New York as requested by her children.







We also went for a quick look around The Cathedral Mausoleum in the hope of spotting Rudolph Valentino and Mickey Rooney's final resting place but they proved more difficult to come across so we just took a few photos and left, we had a short stroll through the grounds before we left for our lunch.



The inside of the building was beautiful.










At 2pm we stopped off at Jack in the Box for lunch.




Beverly Hills was the next stop of the day, starting with the Beverly Hills Hotel 😍


We had a wander around the premises and I, of course, took heaps of photos, (I will do a separate post for that).

After we were done at the Beverly Hills Hotel we went over to the Beverly Hills Sign.


And also the Peace and Love Sculpture designed by Ringo Starr.






By this point it was 5pm, so we decided to go to Downtown Disney. After parking (which was $30!!) we headed through security and into an extremely busy Downtown Disney.




We didn't spend much time there due to how busy it was, and that it started to rain while we were there. 









On the way out we went in past the Grand Californian Hotel, where we came across a 4 foot tall Oogie Boogie that was entirely edible!












Check out the ingredients!



We also stopped in past the Disneyland Hotel to get some photos of their Halloween decorations.









And that concludes our third day in California!
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