Starting at about 4:05 on this clip, there is some cool color film of 1920's era Hollywood Blvd.

Oh awesome! We just toured RMS Britania, the yacht that immediately followed the Queen Elizabeth, and the last royal yacht, now docked and open for tours in Edinburgh (they won a competition to host her). Liz and Phil have great taste.

Beagles are smarter than you think. (Except I'm sure 3894 knew that already)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3EyMPzMoo

I wish I had video of my dog escaping from a kennel. She climbed one of those and got out the first time we went on vacation. From then on we always had to make a note that the keep her in one with a secure roof. She never defeated the roof like that beagle did (I love the utterly ineffectual planks of wood and the cinder block in that video), but she had a disadvantage. She only had three good paws to work with due to nerve damage from an unknown accident before we had her!

I would have loved to seen how she climbed a 12 foot fence on 3 legs.

An interesting thing I noticed was that in one of the rooms (I don't know if it was Elizabeth's or Phillip's) books about "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Fawlty Towers" were on a bookshelf. Our guide said that from time to time they'll switch out the books and add random ones just for fun.

The other tidbit I loved was that the Queen would sit and have a drink with the crew in their sitting area often.

I liked learning that the boat didn't have any double beds, only singles...until Charles and Di's honeymoon. :D

Kind of a pity when you realize what an interesting guy Prince Philip actually is. Saw a documentary about him and the nature preserve on one of their properties. He seemed like a pretty interesting person.