recap-celebrity house hunt

One thing I have never done in all of my time here is go on a tour of celebrity homes. And since I am too cool for school to do one on my own, I decided to drag a tourist with me. Who better than my mom who reads more tabloids than anyone I know.

We started the tour on the Santa Monica Pier. Us, a family from Wales and three older ladies from Texas all in matching cheetah print. (Rahr!) We jumped into the topless 10 passenger van and instantly queue up was The Beach Boys, and their signature surf guitar. We put on our headphones and the driver warned us that only one side of the ear piece would be working that day.

We learned about all of the real estate that the former governator owns in Santa Monica, and usually Arnold is out and about, but of course not that day. When we passed by Hotel California, queued up was of course Hotel California by the Eagles. Anyone who knows me well, knows of course that I hate both the Beach Boys and the Eagles, so I was very happy that only one side of the headphones would be working that day.

And we saw where Robert Downey jr, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ron Howard lives and the place that Elton John is moving into, with of course modest improvements before he moves in.

We headed up the 1 with the wind in our hair. Saw Bob Hope's house, Leo's house, Jeremy Piven's, Demi and Ashton's house and Charlize Theron's house-who is usually very friendly and will come out, but of course not that day.

We stalked someone who might have been Jeff Bridge's son. Imagine if you will, you are Jeff Bridges son and you are trying to cross back over the 1 and there is a car load of ladies in Rahr! print matching outfits and you can hear a man whispering, in a loudspeaker mind you...

"that looks like a bridges, maybe his son, or grandson, I haven't seen him before, but it does look like a bridges brow line, hmmm.. I am not sure."

It was at that point, that I really realized that I was on a Safari.

And we headed up toward's Malibu Surf Beach and saw where Matthew (I don't like shirts) McConaughey, Pamela Anderson, Kid Rock and Sting lives and Adam Sandler, who is very nice and will come out to sign autographs, but of course not on that day.

We had a brief 5 minutes on the beach to dip our feet in the freezing Pacific Ocean , which felt so nice, The Texans stayed in the van.

We headed back up the 1 and I saw who owns that crazy looking neo-Japanese house and of course it is owned by Oliver Stone.

Two hours later we were dropped off where we began and headed to the new Mall-opolis for lunch and as we were enjoying guacamole. (fresh avacados are god aren't they?) we saw Giuliana Rancic come up the escalator. Which made mom very excited, because she likes all those shows. She is a lot taller in person and very pretty.

I think it made mom's day and later we saw her doing a little "on the promenade" piece and mom snapped pictures.

This day marked the last day of mom's visit and I asked her what she wanted to do on her last night and of course we ended up here: