Jury duty Downtown LA

Today I had Jury Duty in downtown LA, but this is not a story about the jury duty. I actually enjoyed my day. I saw a new part of LA and some really cool and beautiful things. I also was very bored awaiting to be called in for jury duty. I think I played about 7 Sudoku puzzles, read three chapter a of book then started to fall asleep, looked at two magazines, completed one word puzzle and read a few newspaper articles. Lunch was where my day ready started to be fun. There was a farmers market with the music, food, coffee, plants-you know how farmer markets are. It was cool, not to mention I am sitting under the Los Angeles City Hall across from the Los Angeles times, down the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall (that's actually where I parked my car). There were a few parks near by and a public transportation galore. There was this WoMan (it was a man dressed as a woman) that was using a bus stop sign as a dancing pole, it was really funny, think Courtney Love trying to be sexy on a street in front of City hall dancing on a pole and then playing with her hair and stroking her leg as she lifts her already short tacky shirt.I so wanted to video tape the whole thing it was so entertaining.  

Chad was able to meet up with me and we hang out at the park that the farmers market was at.

The buildings are really cool in the Civic Center. Of all buildings the CalTrans building was really cool-very modern and sleek. On the other hand the metro station was weird.  They had people (statues) hanging from the ceiling and each of them had numbers on their shirts. 

After sitting around after lunch in the jury room until about 3:45 the remaining 25 of us were sent home-everyone cheered. We lucked out I guess, the room was completely full in the morning (probably 160 people). I took the opportunity to do more site seeing especially because the holiday decorations are up. I totally felt safe and just wandered around checking out the area and taking pictures.  All the sudden I hear all these birds singing and then I see them five of them all bright green. I think they were parakeets. Just then as I crossed the street and see a friend driving. He stopped in the cross walk and we said hi and hugged through the car window, then said a quick goodbye before we created a traffic jam. Then I walked around the Disney Concert Hall while Chad left work to meet me. We then found a nice little Italian restaurant. The food was great. So all in all my Jury duty day was really quite nice.