Awoke after a good nights sleep in one of the most comfortable beds I've ever experienced - One of the highlights were the monogrammed pillow cases with our initials on them (CAM & SFO - some may say "wanky", I say "that's cool!).
Some history about Beverly Hills; It began with a Spanish land grant assigned to Maria Rita Vladez De Ville & known as "El Rancho Rodeo De Las Anguas - The Ranch Of The Gathering Waters). It was Spanish explorers & Missionaries who transformed California from Indian Territory to ranching & farming country.
Today Beverly Hills is a 5.7sq mile city with 33,000 residents & a daytime population of 200,000. The ties to entertainment remain strong & the city's 900 retailers serve as emporiums to the stars, with many famous names residing here. The powerhouses of the film industry, such as Castle Rock Entertainment, The Firm, Dreamwork SKG & many others also call Beverly Hills home.
Star gazing is a major past time with big name stars & the familiar faces of supporting casts spotted regularly around the bars, restaurants & clubs.
Today was designated "Shopping Day", so we headed off to the "Beverly Center" for some retail therapy. I had a lot of fun shopping in Macy's @ the Ralph Lauren area & picked up a bundle of bargains @ "cents in the dollar" of what I would have paid in Australia.
After shopping & lunch @ "Harper's" on Santa Monica Blvd, we headed back to the hotel to change, had a bottle of Moet in the lobby lounge & then headed out to dinner. We left the hotel at the same time as Wendy who was heading off to the airport for the flight home; Now when you stay @ "The Pen", you don't travel to dinner by taxi, no you take their "house-car", which is a "Rolls Royce Phantom". That was impressive.
Dinner was at another Beverly Hills institution "Mastro's Steakhouse", renowned for its steaks @ seafood. The amazing thing about the food & how it's served, is that the steak comes out on a normal plate that is extremely, and I mean extremely hot & the meat is actually still cooking on the plate as you begin to eat it - Wow. Again for the trip home, no taxi, the Rolls came for us again - could certainly get very use to this style of living.
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