A Lady in London

After my day of Disneyland fun on Friday, I was ready for some grown-up entertainment. This started at my hotel for the evening, the W Hollywood. A drink at the open-air bar turned into a tequila-tasting session when the guy next to me turned out to be a rep for a high-end tequila brand. This was followed by dinner with my brother and his wife, who kindly came up from San Diego to have dinner with me at a Mexican restaurant nearby. This, of course, involved more tequila in the form of margaritas. By the end of the evening I was pleasantly in grown-up fun mode.

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My last trip to Disneyland was eight years ago. I don’t get to the Los Angeles area very often, and when I do I usually don’t have time to spare. But on Friday I found myself in Anaheim with one day to dedicate to the happiest place on earth.

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I have always disliked LA. I can’t help it. Growing up in Northern California, I was taught to think less of my state’s lower half. Teachers made fun of LA in school. Parents warned us against the dual evils of smog and plastic surgery. Aside from Disneyland, there was no good reason to visit the greater Los Angeles area.

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I’m at my mother’s house, where the speed of her Internet connection is about as fast as the speed of her car on the highway. That is to say, very slow. (I have to poke fun at my dear mother in hopes that she gets a new computer before I’m back in CA next!) As such, I’m going to keep this short for now and add more later.

Last weekend took me to Los Angeles, where I visited my cousin, who just had a baby on April 1. Needless to say, she was the cutest baby girl in the whole world.

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