Traffic was a lot easier this morning on the way to Warner Bros. We got there early and was able to get onto the earlier tour. We travelled around the Warner Bros backlot and soundstages which included sets and facades from some of our favourite TV shows including Friends and Two and Half Men. We had our photos taken on the set of Central Perk from Friends (has been reassembled for tours as they show finished a few years back) and we also got to visit the set of Two and Half Men. The cast & crew are on hiatus right now having finished for the season so a lot of the props were covered with sheets but the set was still very cool.
We drove through the WB workshops where they have carpentry, metal work, plastics, plumbing and more all under the one roof and then headed over to the WB Museum and checked out some of the costumes and props including an entire floor of Harry Potter gear from the films. You can even be sorted by one of the sorting hats from the film. The tour only takes a couple of hours so we had the whole afternoon. We drove back down to Santa Monica and walked through the stalls at Venice Beach and the pier at Santa Monica.
It was still early so we plugged in the coordinates for the Nike Factory and drove out to Ontario (60miles). Traffic was shocking - bumper to bumper for 2.5hrs. The malls at Ontario are huge. We passed a Barnes & Noble and a Borders each of which would have been about the size of K-Mart. There were 2 cinemas at the mall we went to with a total of 52 theatres between them and they were not even large buildings next to the mall.
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