My day 2 in LA was really my first day in LA as I was in bed ill yesterday.
Luckily, Dennis had been on the city tour yesterday and kindly agreed to drive me around a few of the sights again today so I could see them, so apologies for the duplicate photos of the Hollywood Sign, Chinese Theatre and Walk of Fame below.
We also had time to check out the John Paul Getty Museum 
and the Griffiths Observatory .
The John Paul Getty Museum is home to several art collections including painting, photography, furniture and sculpture, housed in some impressive buildings. Given that it started as his personal art collection it’s impressive, but to be honest unless your a fine art expert or particularly interested in pre-19th century furniture there’s little by anyone you’ll recognise (apart from one van Gogh apparently) and the art collections themselves didn’t seem all that impressive, even the photography exhibit which I thought I would really enjoy. Having said that, the architecture of the museum itself and it’s grounds are stunning. It’s built on hills overlooking LA and the gardens and the view you get from them is worth taking the trek up there alone.
This evening we visited the Griffiths Observatory, which was far more up my street. The Griffiths Observatory is also on top of the hills overlooking LA, so as well as being treated to some incredible night time views of the city we got to see a great planetarium show about the history of astronomy. It’s a great story and the narrator could give Brian Cox a run for his money. There were some really great exhibits, including a ‘Foucault pendulum’ , designed to demonstrate the rotation of the earth (please don’t ask me to explain), the phases of the moon, eclipses, etc. My only regret was not getting to look through their refracting telescope. As far as I know it’s one of the only places in the world where you can get to look at the night sky through a full size observatory telescope, but it was too cloudy and we were too late anyway. Oh well, still a great day.