Busy day in LA today! After a miserable visit to MOCA, the museum of Contemporary Art yesterday, we decided today needed to be good. We started at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market this morning - but not before catching the Hari Krishna Festival of the Chariots on the way. Both good. The Farmers' Market has got more to do with eating than buying products, and we had only just had breakfast! Still fun - and there was a tremendous Marimba band on the way in. Loads of small kids, dancing and enjoying the band, as well as watching a conjuror and riding on tiny ponies.

Then we went on a mural hunt. We went to see the Great Wall of Los Angeles, which is the longest mural in LA. It is a history of LA from prehistory up to the end of the twentieth century. Well worth an explore - we had never heard of it before. Not content with one mural, we then returned to Famer John's Pig Murals, which cover the surrounding walls of a pig processing factory. The whole painting is of romping, happy pigs in the country side - unaware of their dreadful fate! Ironically, the artist, Leslie Grimes, fell to his death from scaffolding, before completing the mural in 1957. Power to the pigs!

Our last stop today was at Little Tokyo, where we wandered around, visited a Japanese bookshop we always go to and then had dinner overlooking the rooftop garden of the Otani Hotel, where we had an ace view of a Japanese wedding. Everyone was taking photos of everyone else! The groom looked rather worried.

Interesting snippit from the press. An old lady was given an instant $140 ticket - for crossing too slowly on a Zebra Crossing! She is, not surprisingly, arguing the case.