Quick Trip to LA

Marla was a friend that I met through Heidi. Marla was also an old friend Of Ilene's back from the days they went to Camp Interlaken together.

About 18 years ago, Marla informed me that "I had to go out with her friend, Ilene that had recently moved to town. As they say the rest is history.

Over the years Marla and Jeff Garlin's son James, and Lane became close friends. The fact that Jeff's acting career requires them to live in LA, has done little to keep them from being close despite the long gaps between visits.

We do both spend Christmas break in Florida, and they come to Chicago each year for a part of the summer.

After they came in for Lane's Bar Mitzvah, it only seemed right that we should go to LA to celebrate James's.

The party was catered at their home. The food was great, the night was beautiful and having it at their home gave it a very warm feel.

Yes there were "Celebrities" and No I did not take their picture.

Yes while we were there we decided to do a bit of the tourist things,

We saw Lane's old sitter, if you can call someone a few years out of college "Old"

She had recently moved out there and met us down at Sunset and Vine to see the walk of the stars.

It was great to see Shauna Stannard

It was also nice to see that the city cleaned up some of the prostitutes.

While there we also took a tour of Warner Brother Studios

This is the set from Friends

The Sets were fun to see.

We had to see the "Tar Pits"

And I could not miss the opportunity to have a few Jack in The Box Tacos.

I will add some of the Medium Format Black and White pictures I took.