I'm wishing....

I can't believe that it has been almost three weeks since I had visitors and this is the first time I have had the chance to write about it.

So.... Without further ado 3 days in LA.

This is the first time I have had visitors come by train, which was fun. Unfortunately my IPad is so backlight that my sign reading Eden/Isom looked more like i was shining a pane of light towards them. Design flaw. Fortunately it doesn't look like we have aged a day since the last time we saw each other 5 or so years ago.

From that train it was to another train and off to the depths of Union Station to take the subway to my apartment for the nickel tour. I would say dime, but my apartment is small and our tour was super quick because our taxi arrived almost instantaneously. Planes, trains and automobiles for sure.

It was not a half hour in before we saw our first celebrity, Snow White walking up Normandie in Koreatown. Probably wishing for her true love to find her that day.

I got a good round of chuckles from the back as the cab driver and I launched into an exchange of directions a la The Californians. (Take Normandie, to 6th Avenue, to Hauser, to beverly and down Fairfax so you can drop off in front) If you haven't seen the SNL sketches you really should. We really do spend a lot of time talking about routes. My route that day was strategic. Hancock Park really has some amazing houses, plus some celebrities live their like Muhammad Ali, as we learned from our Taxi driver, one of the few people i have met who have lived in LA all their life.

We were dropped outside the Farmer's Daughter, which has become the hotel of choice when family visits as does our first stop which is always Cafe Marmalade.

We had shopping on our brains and got a good workout hitting the stores in the Grove which worked up an appetite for the restaurant I chose for dinner,one of my favorites The Little Next Door. One of the best places to escape LA while being in LA.

I am bad at math and it seems like they are too. You can get an entire prix fix menu for $28, which includes soup or salad, any entree on the menu, and dessert. (Psst..most of the entrees are over $20 and they don't give you smaller portions)

I got a salad, a heaping bowl of moules and frites and the soufflé which come warm with gravy boat of creme anglais and real whipping cream. I ate every last bit.

To be continued, but here are photos. If it were possible the Farmer's Daughter got cuter since last time I was there.