Donna in Hollywoodland

Mission Impossible & Kabuki's

Being without a car for a few weeks in LA is such an interesting experience.
The buses are weird. The people on the buses are weird. Even the bus drivers can be weird.
But it is helping me to do more walking and get more exercise.

So today, when I had plans to meet friends at the Arcight , I decided to do something that I would not recommend that any single woman in LA do :
I walked straight down Sunset Blvd.
Starting in Los Feliz, all the way down to Sunset and Vine.

I gave myself an hour. And I was really surprised when it only took me a little over a half hour.
Even stopping and taking a few pics, or standing in the shade for a second.

And walking down Sunset Blvd wasn't that bad.
No one really bothered me or harassed me - which I had expected.
Instead the bad part about it where the sections of Sunset that were Dirty and Stinky.

It seems certain blocks are old and just don't clean up after themselves.
And other blocks are new and clean and pretty.
So I held my nose as I walked through the stinky parts.

Arriving at Sunset and Vine nearly a half hour early to meet me friends - I headed over to the Coffee Bean .
I got an LA Times and an Iced Frappacino - which I am sure completely un-did the slimming results of my walk down Sunset.

I called my friends on my cell phone, and ended up meeting up with them over at the Arclight.
We bought our tickets, and headed then headed over to Kabuki's Japanese Restaurant for lunch.
I ordered a Seafood Salad which was alittle strange. It was green salad, topped with a crab salad, which was good.
But it also was topped with a weird potato salad that I didn't know if I liked or not.

After we ate, we headed back over to the Arclight Dome, to see Mission Impossible .
We sat in the first row of the balcony which was perfect.

After it was over, my friend asked what I thought about the movie.
"Well it was loud", I said.

And yes, my friend drove me home. I wasn't walking back up Sunset Blvd.