Got To Love Arizona (after a trip to California)

Roni and I went to California last weekend for the wedding of a friend of ours and also to see Niels. It was quite the adventure! Saturday morning the three of us (Roni, Niels and I) rode down to the beach to see an Aunt and Uncle, after our visit with them we decided to take a spin down PCH. We love to visit the shops and the pier at Huntington Beach. So we parked and took a stroll. We noticed that there where police cars parked on every street corner, sometimes 2 or 3. When we got to the corner of PCH and Huntington Blvd and there was a large group of demonstrators for No on Prop 8 (the signs said "HATE 8"), blocking the street and causing a commotion trying to get everyone cruising PCH to honk for them. We had to cross over the picket line to get down the pier. It was pretty crazy! 

After the wedding reception Saturday night, we still wanted to do something, so we decided to drive over to Hollywood and take a walk down the Blvd. The traffic was unbelievable getting there, if was about 11:30 PM down town LA and you would have thought that it was evening rush hour, bumper to bumper. We exited the freeway on Sunset Blvd and at about 12:30 (we left home at 10:30).  We cruised down Sunset which took about an hour, then decided to try and make our way up to Hollywood Blvd. the traffic was completely grid locked! We started to notice that there where police parked on every corner and then a couple of helicopters stared circling over head. We wondered what was going on, by the time we got to Hollywood Blvd. we could see that the police had closed off the street and that there where hundreds of people in the street marching and picketing (after checking the Internet, we found out that that there was 1000 demonstrators). Roni and Niels wanted to park and get out and go see all the crazies, but there was no way we could have found a spot to park and I was not interested in getting involved in that mess. It took us about 2 more hours of setting in traffic to even get to the freeway. IT really made me appreciate the traffic that we don't have on our freeways in Arizona!  As for the Demonstrators, YOU LOST GET OVER IT!