Los Angeles

Day 2 of the west coast trip was all Los Angeles.  Lots of walking around old downtown LA.  We started the morning off in Anaheim and drove around Disney Land checking out the planting scheme.  Lots and lots of palm trees.

Plaza Alicante

After Anaheim, we rode on the bus to downtown Los Angeles.  The bus dropped us off and we began out walking tour checking out many different sites.  We started out at the Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry.  Really interesting architectural structure.  Then it was on to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.  We were there right when they were getting out of their Palm Sunday services.  Kind of awkward to be there as tourists at that time.  The remaining projects we visited were the Spanish Steps at Bunker Hill, Los Angeles Central Library and Pershing Square.

This section of the trip was probably my least favorite of the entire trip.  Really nothing very exciting to see.  I would have rather went to Hollywood and the more iconic areas of Los Angeles just to see what it  is really like.  

The first part of the day was one of my least favorite, but the second half of the day was one of my favorites.  We went to the Getty Center just outside of Los Angeles.  Both the architecture and the landscape around the site is phenomenal.  The facility was built because J. Paul Getty had a ton of money and wanted to celebrate the birth of western civilization.  Not really sure what that means but its a cool place.  The six buildings are mostly filled with different types of exhibits.  There are many different themed gardens on the site as well as incredible (smoggy) panoramic views over Los Angeles.