A Neon Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day this year, we went on a quadruple date with Mom and Dad, Mike and Imelda, and Paul and Erin. Voted one of "LA's Best Alterntative Valentine's Day Events," we went on the Museum of Neon Art's "Sweetheart Neon Cruise."

Apparently, neon first made its mark in North America in Los Angeles and LA now has the greatest concentration of original neon signs in the world.
With champagne, wine, and chocolates, we rode an open-topped double-decker bus on a three hour narrated tour of the best neon signs, movie marquees and neon art in Downtown, Chinatown and Hollywood.
Our tour guide was remarkably knowledgeable and enthusiastic about all things neon and even gave us a nice little history lesson of many of the buildings along the tour, including the Wilshire Bullock's building and the recently torn down Ambassador Hotel. It was quite an unusual Valentine's Day, but a really fun night!