The One with the 500 Days of Summer Bench

Since we live in the mecca of movie making, I've developed a slight fascination with Hollywood and all that entails - especially significant locations - such as... the bench from 500 Days of Summer! 

Not sure why I thought to look up where it is, maybe cuz I recently watched a few Joseph Gordon-Levitt movies? Anywho, so I googled "500 Days of Summer Bench" and found out it's right downtown. Off we went! The park where this bench (and a few others) reside is called Angels Knoll - smack dab in the middle of downtown.

I heart tall buildings. (Check out the helicopter slightly below center on the right photo about to land on the US Bank building - coolio!)

There's THE bench! It's the one on the right.

The grass was covered with cotton! At first I thought it was dog hair. But then I kept seeing more and more and more and more.

I've never seen anything like this before!

Usually there is a plaque on the back of this bench stating it's from the movie, but it's been stolen, and I'm sure if a new one is put in its place it'll get stolen too. Heck, I'd steal it! (OK, probably not :)

Another group of people was there to check out the bench so I asked if they'd take our photo. Chris and Paige playing Tom and Summer:

Meanwhile Jane was hanging out in her stroller and Fox was hugging trees.

The trees are all carved up with initials.

It was really fun to re-create this scene.

Also in the exact same spot as the bench is Angels Flight Railway - a train/tram/funicular railroad thingamajig that Chris has been wanting to go on for years. I wanted to see a bench and Chris wanted to go on Angels Flight - they were literally in the same spot so it was a win-win all around! I'll blog about it tomorrow.
FUN DAY!