An Interesting Dinner

Last night Jennifer, Jack and I went to dinner at the Bel Air Bar and Grill. It’s a wonderful restaurant and the ambiance is really special. White linens on the tables, candles, absolutely beautiful flower arrangements. There’s a covered patio that’s lit with tiny lights – it’s magical.

But it’s not over-the-top fancy where you have to be dressed up. Jeans are acceptable, although probably not your “holey” jeans…

Anyway, the people we are housesitting for are florists and they do all the floral arrangements for the Grill. I wish I would have taken a picture of the two huge arrangements that flanked the archway into the restaurant from the bar. Very, very nice.

So it’s Burger Night at the Grill and that’s what we had. Yummy. We were waiting for our meals when one of Jennifer’s neighbors came in and we were introduced. He’s an advertising guy here in Los Angeles and does many of the commercials that we see on television. If you watch Wheel of Fortune you might have seen the commercials where the characters are dressed as the talking letters? His work. Nice guy.

Then, a day or so ago, the fellow who lives in the apartment above us came down to introduce himself. Another interesting person. He’s an artist here who freelances at trials, etc. We visited his home studio and were amazed at the work that he has done. He also in an art teacher at one of the colleges here.

He told us that his first job was covering the Charles Manson trial! Some of the other trials he worked were the trials of O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin (that palimony case), the Melendez brothers (the guys who killed their parents for the money) AND the Michael Jackson trial. You can see some of his sketches at his website http://www.billrobles.com/.

Never a dull moment here in the City of Angels. By the way, I just checked the weather at home. At the present moment it’s -19 degrees…

2/20/2008