Day n° 1, Sunday

It is Sunday, October 27th, 6am.
The Mentalist theme wakes me and my dad up, in the beds of the Sea Rock Inn Motel (almost) near the LAX.
I am still a little tired, but the excitement of what we are going to see today is too big to pay attention to that!
After I took a shower and we checked out again, our first stop was the Pico House - a.k.a. The CBI Headquarters!
So we had to drive quite a bit. Other than expected, it was rather cold and very foggy outside. Kinda ironic that the first time we drove on the Sunset Boulevard, the only thing we saw was fog.

Well, to be honest, we didn't find the building in the first place but after we saw a little more of the city than planned we finally reached it! Gosh I was so nervous as we drove by to get to a parking lot.

But a place to park was found quickly near the 'back' side of the Headquarter and we got off the car and entered the property.
We walked along a little street that ended at the gate of the 'CBI'.

So my dad and I went to the front of this lovely building to take some fotos and explore the famous The Mentalist location. And let me tell you, in reality it is way smaller than on TV! xD

Of course we also took pictures of the place where Minelli had his impressive speech, after Bosco and his team were shot.

(Yeah, that guy on the edge of the pic is my dad xD)
And I bet most of you will also recognize this lot ;) Yes, it was still foggy....

Of course I also forced my dad to take pictures with me infront of the house (I didn't really had to force him lol)

But right as we took those pictures, a police officer appeared to tell us that we needed a permission to take frotos of it from the inside of the fence. Well, at least he didn't make us delete the pics we arleady had ;)
So we left the property and took some more fotos from the outside ;D

It was so awesome to really be there!!!
But we couldn't stay for ever because we had an appointment with the Warner Brothers VIP tour and the lovely Ally at 11am!
So we hopped back on the car and fought our way through the streets of Los Angeles.
At about 10am we arrived at the huge WB lot. Well, at the entrance to the building with the shop and the start of the tour. Oh yes, and by the way! The weather in Burbank was just awesome!

So... as we had like 1 hour left until the tour started, we looked through the store. And guess what. They did not have one singel merchandise for The Mentalist. NOT EVEN ONE!!! NOT EVEN THE KEY RING ANYMORE! Well, I complained, of course. lol.
Anyway! We had a little breakfast at the Starbucks that was right in the shop and I tried to get wifi to notify Jimmy that we arrived. But it didn't work :L
As I was waiting near the entrance for Ally, a security guy asked me about my favourite show. As I answeres "The Mentalist!" He assumed that I was from Fance haha xD He said "For some reason french people love that show." Well, I explined that not only french people love it and that there is a simple reason for it: It is a super amazing show! ;) Then he told me that he was just the day befor in duty at stage nine and that they were filming The Mentalist there and that that blonde guy... the main character... Simon Baker was busy, running around. LOL
At about 10.30am, the dearest Ally showed up. We finally met!! :D You can believe me if I tell you that she is just amazing :3 But I guess you already know ;D
We talked a little and then we contacted Jimmy with her phone. Just before the short 7 minutes movie began.
(IN IT WAS THE 'SHE DOES THE DETECTING, I DO THE INSULTING SCENE AND A SHORT MOMENT OF SIMON DIRECTING :3)

After the introduction movie ended, our guide led us to the cart were we occupied the best places in the first row for us :3
Of course our tour guide asked for our favourite shows and of course we let him know that The Mentalist is the best show ever :3 But well.... he told us that we won't be able to see the set because of HUGE sopoilers. I couldn't even persuade him by promising not to tell anyone about it *sigh*
Then the tour began eventually!

First he showed us some locations of severaly movies and series on the lot.

And after a few minutes we passed the water tower.

After we saw many sound stages from the outside, we passed the The Mentalist office!!! (Sorry, I couldn't get a better piture :/)

Immediatly we wrote to Jimmy that we just passed it.
Our guide showed us then a big hall full of wrapped up sets and stuff,

 the gas station, were one of the Batman cars was just placed,

 and then he brought us into another hall where we could see cars from all kinds of movies etc. like here, the yellow one is from The great Gatsby

 and that black one is from Matrix.

 Yeah, sadly Jane's car wasn't there... but we found another interesting car...
A red car saying 'Tiger' on the side. Coincidence? I don't think so :P

 We had told Jimmy that we were in the car-hall right now and so it came that when we left, our dearest Red Editor was waiting outside for us! :D

 And if you look close enough, you can see that his cart has a little Red John smiley face on it ehehe x3 (yeah, I didn't know that I was in that picture too....)
We talked a little and then we decided to meet after the tour again ;) ( as he left people were asking who he was and they were quite impressed as we told them ehehe ;) )

As we continued our tour, we first got to see the WB museum where we found lots of costumes of The Big Bang Theory, Gravity, Man of Steel, Pretty Little Liars,...., and of course a suit of our adorable Patrick Jane :3 We weren't supposed to touch any of these. We couldn't restit though. But Psssssst! ;)

Upstairs was only stuff from Harry Potter! Lots of stuff from movie 1 to the last part. 

We could also let ourselves be put into the 4 different houses. Ally and my dad were Hufflepuff... and I.... well.... I actually like snakes. And green. Green is a lovely color.

We left again after 20 minutes ane then we got to see our first set. The Friends set.

We also got to visit the The Big Bang Theory set, the Two Broke girls set, the Two and a half men set and we entered the stage of The Ellen DeGeneres show! It was all so super exciting!!!! :D But we weren't allowed to take pictures here :(

After seeing all the amazing sets, I forced the guide to please stop at the court house so we could take a quick picture.

And we also saw this well known place infront of the court house :)

He showed us a few more things on the way out and sadly the tour ended soon.
So we made our way to the The Mentalist poster at the outside of the lot!

Of course we made some pictures :)

And as Jimmy was already waiting there for us, we took some with him too! Of yourse ;)

It was so much fun meeting him that day! Jimmy is such a great guy! You gotta love him :D

As it was already lunch time, Ally, my dad and I decided to go to THE Mall! The Burbank Town Center! :)
Gosh it was so damn thrilling to be there! :D

So my dad stayed upstrairs as Ally and I took THE escalator downwards

and placed ourselves at some 'Coffee cart' ( No, no coffee here :( )

Afterwards we went back upstairs and had some delicious fish taccos!

Our further planning was going to our new motel in Burbank, checking in, getting ready and meeting Ally again to go dining at the Madeo! :)

The food was so delicious! And the service was really good, though the restaurant was well filled with lots of important looking and important pretending people! No Robin, sadly :(

In time, at about 9.30pm we were back at the motel so we had enough time to switch the TV on and watch The Red Tattoo!

This first day was just freaking awesome! We met such great people and had such an awesome time! :D

I hope we will see tomorrow again ;)
Lots of love,
Sabine xx