Crowne Plaza ~ Beverly Hills...Just Sayin'

Well here we are!!! Crowne Plaza Beverly Hills HELLO! Yeah Yeah not the best pic of our view but hey ~ we are in Beverly freaking hills!!!!!
The first lady we dealt with was absolutely awesome and I am remiss in not mentioning her name as I was so darn tired I didnt take any notice. She was noteworthy as she was so gentle and lovely. I will find out and report back. She helped us with the whole tipping thing as well. Bless her for not ripping us Aussie yokels off. We had read some reviews of The Crowne Plaza but decided to make up our own minds. The room is old but clean and we really feel comfortable here.
We had been told not to sleep but seriously? We were completely exhausted and both fell into the fabulous beds here at the Beverly Hills Crowne Plaza and fell into a deep and restful sleep. We got up and went for a walk to stretch our legs and do a reccie to see where and what we needed to know. Called into the The Pavillion shopping center thing and brought some essentials and we saw AJ Rochester ~ from Excess Baggage ~  doing some shopping........Nothing more to say on that. I am hanging to do some real Supermarket shopping when we are in Polk City.

We decided to go to the bar here and have a complimentary drink and grab some food as we were both starving. Well ~  talk about Australia in LAville. We started chatting to Aileen Fahl from Domain One Real Estate in Mackay and her hubby  Ian Fahl from BAE Engineering in Paget... *rolls eyes* Seasoned veteren travellers who gave us some very sage advice on all things American before they left to fly home. They also knew quite a few people we both knew.......THAT was interesting in itself.
Had a sensational meal at the bar along with our drinks and met Luis and Jesus who helped us out with the whole tipping thing. Bloody hell Fab Readers ! the tipping thing is doing us in but we think we may have finally got the plot. We have been lucky in so far as we are such easy marks when you think of it. They could tell us some crap and we would pay it but they seem to have been very helpful and we are happy to pay what they say. Jesus managed to get a few aussie coins out of me after 2 glasses of a really good Californian Riesling.(My fault yes but DAMN if that Riesling wasnt delicious!!!!!) Mr Fab tried some American beer and ended up having 3......
Right then ~ Mr Fab is asleep and I am on my way. Tomorrow we are going to go for a walk in the morning to grab some breaky and have a look around. We will then just get on a bus and go where it takes us to see whatever looks intersting!
I LOVE being a rebel........going where the wind takes me..........