Rodeo Drive

Thats right, I went shopping on Rodeo Drive today!!!! I braved the L.A. freeways (it took three to get there) and drove to the most famous high end shopping on the west coast. I had three goals: 1. find it! 2. have coffee in a cute little cafe and 3. look at really nice expensive stores.



Sorry this picture has glare, I took it through my windshield with my cannon point and shoot. This is looking down Rodeo Dr.


Here is the Subaru on Rodeo, I was really suprised to find street parking. Interesting note: We have the only Subaru in CA, or at least L.A.. Jason and I have only seen one other Subaru since we have been here. Back home in Seattle, we have mistaken other Subaru's to be our own, they are so common. My friend who lives down here was teasing us asking what this strange car was we were driving?


First Sean and I found a neat little French cafe.


Sean really loved the salt and pepper shakers. Whatever makes you quiet...I mean happy.


This is what $8 oatmeal looks like.

When I was looking at the menu I noticed all the coffee drinks were served as single shots. Hmm I thought, I usually get a double shot, but since this is a French cafe I thought it would be wise to stick to the single. Wow, I am so glad I did, it was super strong! Their single tasted like a quad shot, but oh, it was gooood.

Pictures from Rodeo








The front of the Harry Winston store looks like it's melting. It was 100 degrees today, maybe it is!


This was a beautiful dress in the Dior window.





Most of the stores did not have price tags on the merchandise. You know the old saying, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it", well that is true here!


This is the Versace store. I walked through this store and all the sales people were standing like mannequins around the store.


Here we are outside Versace. We are sporting the spring line from Old Navy.


All the sales people were dressed in very nice suites in all the stores, perfectly pressed and looking flawless.


I just happen to catch a nice car in this picture, but really, there were so many nice cars here I could have taken the picture at any moment and captured some kind of nice vehicle.





This Ralph Lauren store is amazing.


The entry is an atrium, there is a fountain down at the end of all the plants.


I finally got up the nerve to snap a picture inside one of the stores. This is in Ralph Lauren.
A cashmere sleveless sweater caught my eye here, it was $600.


I saved the Coach picture for last. We were parked right outside of this store and went in to look just before we headed home. I was admiring a gorgeous purse and a sales associate came up and asked how I was doing. "Oh fine, just looking" I said, he looked down at my purse and said, "so were are you from?" LOL... my purse/diaper bag/hiking bag gave me away!!!




Here is my purse, it is actually a hiking bag from REI. Now why would he think that I was from somewhere else!!!!


"I'm from Seattle" I said, "Oh", he said with a smile and head nod. It was a very funny moment, he looked at me as if to say, yea, I can tell! I had a good laugh when I got back to the car.

I called Jason and the conversation went something like this..... (Sarah) "Hey honey, guess what! I'm shopping on Rodeo Drive!!!!! " (Jason) "What!...why are you there?....don't buy anything!!!" (Sarah) "Oh honey, I didn't. Hey, can I buy a $300 Coach purse?" (Jason) "NO" click!



Oh well, I'll go back and try again another day:)