A Walking Tour of Downtown Los Angeles

Today we spent the day on a walking tour of Downtown LA. Totally not what I expected! Downtown LA is really, really cool! really! We met with other AFS'ers and families at Philipe's, a forever old French Dip Sandwich Shop.

They had a whole line of phone booths... here's Sarah in one of them.



Our walk began going around China Town and then through the center of LA that started it all, the Pueblos.




Olvera Street is awesome. I loved all the colors.

Here's Emily in a cute little Mexican dress that we bought in one of the shops on Olvera Street.


Then we went down by City Hall, courthouse, and the Sister Cities sign.










Here's Sarah with some dango (Japanese dumplings)


More downtown from the ground...


The LA Times building.


The famous Bradbury building. It is used a lot in movies... They were filming today, so we couldn't go inside... maybe next time.


Matt did get a shot inside the building from the front door.



We walked by the Museum of Contemporary Art.


Then we went to the Walt Disney Concert Hall


and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels... We went down to the mausoleum.... I asked if anyone famous was interred there...


We walked by the Biltmore Hotel...


Then we went to the Los Angeles Library


and then took the Metro (subway) back to Union Station to Philipes for lunch. It was a long day, but the kids had fun and we got to see Los Angeles! We've only been living here for 15 years....


Here's the US Post Office by Union Station.


Here's Angel's Flight... a really, really short tram ride... only to avoid the stairs.