We enjoyed visitors from Chicago recently. Lance and Joe came into Long Beach to visit on Jan 6th-14th. We had a great time with them. Shopping, out to dinner. A couple of parties, one at my friend Will and Bob in Long Beach and one at Dale's friend Larry in Westwood. I introduced them to shopping on 2nd street in Belmont shore, and it was an instant hit with them. We all especially loved the Buffalo Exchange, left there with a pile of new clothes! It was fun for all of us. The weather was cooperative, in the 70's and sunny most days, a couple of days it was cooler and in the 60's, but still not bad on a Chicago standard for winter weather. Lance and Joe also took an overnight trip to Las Vegas where they stayed at the Bellagio hotel on the strip , they also spent one day at Universal Studios and Theme park in Universal City, http://themeparks.universalstudios.com/hollywood/website/
and also went out to the Ha Ha Cafe Comedy club one evening, http://www.hahacafe.com/index.swf and they enjoyed visiting the newly renovated and opened Griffith Park Observatory. http://www.griffithobs.org/ I enjoyed cooking for our guests and they had a great time, and said they went home very satisfied. It was great to see them again and enjoy a great visit!
Later the week they left my friend Jeff from Chicago also came into town. He was in town for business with his company and their offices in Eagle Rock. He stayed with us in Long Beach and we enjoyed visiting and having him over. It was only a couple of days, but it was very good to see him again and catch up with things. We also went out to dinner one night at La Parolaccia Osteria just around the corner from our place. http://www.la-parolaccia.com/ It is one of our favorite places to bring guests to eat!
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Oh.. btw .. I have a few movies I have recently seen and recommend you and Dale check out: Pan's Labyrinth. It's a foreign movie set in Spain during a war. It's about s little girl who's mother remarries a Captain in the armed services and his dictatorial style and the means and methods the girl uses to escape. It also has some elements of a fairytale of some sort. In watching the film, I see very small nuances to other fairytales I have read over the years, but nevertheless, it's very well written and portrayed.
The second film I would recommend is "Curse of the Golden Flower" It's set in sometime in 900ADs in China depicting the twist and turns, plotting, murder and betrayal of the Emperor and his family. Beautifully portrayed. Let me know if you see either of these two films.
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