First Celina’s birthday for which Celina cooked one of the best dinners Ever. She made swoon-worthy Salvadoran tamales and to-die-for Mexican tamales too. They spoil you for other tamales. I slept over and then in the morning we went out for breakfast and Celina and I went to a theater to see The Boy and the Heron which was great.
Check this out. I only took one picture, couldn’t see the result because of the sun, and it turned out Steven’s eyes were closed. Photoshop has a built-in AI now and I selected Steven’s eyes and said “open the eyes” and look what the AI did. o.m.g.
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After the movie with Celina I stopped in Northridge on the way home to enjoy a delicious sushi dinner (thanks Steve!) with Kat and her new husband Steve, Ann’s friends passing through LA on the way to Thailand. I’ve had a couple of adventures with Kat including a stay at her plantation home in So Carolina, now sold, and a few days in Bangkok with Kat and her friend Tina.
Ann, Kat, and me, all of us 75+ years old. I call them My Southern Belles
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And then the next day I spent with Sharon. We had a fancy brunch at the Casa del Mar with a particularly delicious Bloody Mary and then did some shopping at the Century City Mall. These sculptures at the mall I’m sure were made by the same person who did the sculptures in the Café at the Honolulu Museum of Art and I like them there too. I looked it up, yes the same guy, Jun Kaneko.
(self-portrait)