I can’t believe how I have been sleeping in the morning. It is so unusual for me to be getting up at 8:30 AM. I’ve been an early riser since I can’t remember when. Now that we are “on vacation,” early morning just doesn’t happen. This morning we walked Pippa, M & J’s cockapoo. We walked to the Los Angeles River and toured the surroundings neighborhoods. Houses here are very expensive compared to a similar neighborhood in New York. The lots are relatively small compared to where we live. It looks like the houses fill the entire lot. Very small front yards with no side yards.

     There is so much traffic! I think I would have a hard time driving in L.A. until I had a feel for the streets. M & N took us to the Pantages Theater for the Wicked lottery. What is the Wicked lottery, you ask. Well, the Wicked, the musical, has been sold out forever, and it’s only in L.A. for 7 more days. There were 2 cancellations today for $250 each. But in the lottery, today there were 26 tickets available.  You have to get there 2 ½ hours before the show to enter. Then 2 hours before the show, people are selected based on those who had signed up for the lottery. Needless to say, we didn’t win any tickets, but we certainly had a good time participating. 

     Then we went to Amoeba, which is this absolutely the most extensive music and DVD store I had ever been in. RJ managed to find Letters to Iwo Jima, which had been looking for and I found a copy of The Orphanage, a Spanish horror film.  M found a complete copy of Vampyr, the classic German vampire movie. So all in all, it was a good day.

     This evening we are playing Wii. Got to go!