Yesterday, Sunday, Eryn and Mimi and my spouse and I headed downtown to a Gem and Jewelry Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
As is often traditional with our group, one of us drives while the others navigate, using their cellphones to combine GPS and traffic information from Waze, Google, and other sources all at the same time. Beats singing "99 bottles" as we ride.
We're all frequent visitors to the show and frequent buyers, so many of the vendors know us and are especially happy to show us the various "shiny objects."
A pendant, about 1-3/4" long, caught my eye and wouldn't let me go, so it came home with me.
Meanwhile, while I was negotiating over my pendant, my spouse was across the way examining an opal necklace, but, after much consideration, she walked away from it for now.
Eryn and Mimi also scored with swag for themselves and presents for their family.
We spent several hours walking up and down the aisles of the show (my pedometer recorded about 3,000 steps) and, of course, had a great deal of fun!
Once back at our car we started to decided on where to go for dinner. I had a place in mind, an ethnic place that we'd never tried before that offered several varieties of mole (moh-lay) sauce, but when we went to check on hours and things we were very sad to learn that it had suffered a fire just four days before! Hopefully, we'll get to try it in a month or two.
Someone suggested one of our favorites, Miceli's Italian restaurant, and it met with an instant and unanimous round of approval.
Miceli's not only offers superb dinning, it has singing waiters who are awesome. Surrounded as it is by film and television studios, it is a near perfect place to score an audition.
Our own waiter was magnificent as he belted out Nessun Dorma and other opera and showtune selections.
After a wonderful, and very filling, dinner we headed back to my home where we caught up on episodes of Becoming Us, one of the best transgender oriented television shows so far.
We broke our Becoming Us marathon with late night dessert at a nearby Denny's.
A lovely fun day and evening.
Hugs,
Persephone.
Originally Posted by ReineD
