Saturday night, Judy and I finished our little project - The Capitol Building. Very cool, eh? I bet kids never built this with wine.
Sunday we went into L.A. and headed for West Hollywood. We left around 1 p.m. and didn't get back until about 1:15 a.m. A very looooonnnnggg day. We had our neighbour let Tibby out 2-3 times, and feed him.
So we went to the taping of Who's Line is it Anyway? We were there from just before 4 pm (standing in line) and didn't leave the area until after 10:30. Even though Judy had "tickets" (it's free), we still had to wait in line and they kept telling us there was no guarantee we would get in. But it moved along. We were given numbers, and we then waited in 6 different lines in 6 different places within an hour, in more or less numerical order. We then finally got into seats in the studio at about 5 pm. Those seats were the very front row - behind the cameras - but they didn't bother us.
They wouldn't let us keep our cell phones, so we couldn't take any pictures.
They introduced the stars of the show, and the hostess, Aisha Tyler, and the taping started. There was Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady, and Brad Sherwood. The original people from the show, which was quite exciting. They had Carmen Electra (can you say bimbo? - even John & Gerard thought so) and Grace Byers as guests for different skits. I got to high-five Colin Mochrie and Carmen Electra, and during one skit, Wayne Brady led a bunch of us onto the stage for a rendition of "Do you Hear the People Sing" from Les Miserables. Very cool!
I have to say, we laughed a lot. The first 3 hours or so went along very quickly as it was all quite funny. The latter hour or so, not so much, as they went over material they had already done and retaped some stuff...not always the whole thing, but bits and parts. That was kind of a drag, but we stuck it out and were quite satisfied with the whole experience.
Needless to say, we weren't up too early the next day. But we did get up and went to Desert Hot Springs for a bit of a hike up in the hills - and so John could fly his drone. This was a little hole in the wall we thought was a cave from a distance.
The views of Desert Hot Springs and the valley were very nice, but a little hazy.
We picked up a few groceries in the store in town, had dinner together, then retired early. After the previous late night, we were kind of bagged.
Then yesterday, we drove up to Joshua Tree National Park. I have to say, that's an amazing place to drive through and hike. Beautiful terrain, and of course, lots of Joshua Trees.
I took so many pictures because of the cool rock formations, and general beauty of the desert. But just a handful in this blog.
And there were lots of mountain climbers - this was only the top portion of the rock face he climbed.
This was "cap rock", for obvious reasons.
A crazy big beetle of some description. Eeeewww.
A couple of Beatle-lovers.
Sunday we went into L.A. and headed for West Hollywood. We left around 1 p.m. and didn't get back until about 1:15 a.m. A very looooonnnnggg day. We had our neighbour let Tibby out 2-3 times, and feed him.
So we went to the taping of Who's Line is it Anyway? We were there from just before 4 pm (standing in line) and didn't leave the area until after 10:30. Even though Judy had "tickets" (it's free), we still had to wait in line and they kept telling us there was no guarantee we would get in. But it moved along. We were given numbers, and we then waited in 6 different lines in 6 different places within an hour, in more or less numerical order. We then finally got into seats in the studio at about 5 pm. Those seats were the very front row - behind the cameras - but they didn't bother us.
They wouldn't let us keep our cell phones, so we couldn't take any pictures.
They introduced the stars of the show, and the hostess, Aisha Tyler, and the taping started. There was Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady, and Brad Sherwood. The original people from the show, which was quite exciting. They had Carmen Electra (can you say bimbo? - even John & Gerard thought so) and Grace Byers as guests for different skits. I got to high-five Colin Mochrie and Carmen Electra, and during one skit, Wayne Brady led a bunch of us onto the stage for a rendition of "Do you Hear the People Sing" from Les Miserables. Very cool!
I have to say, we laughed a lot. The first 3 hours or so went along very quickly as it was all quite funny. The latter hour or so, not so much, as they went over material they had already done and retaped some stuff...not always the whole thing, but bits and parts. That was kind of a drag, but we stuck it out and were quite satisfied with the whole experience.
Needless to say, we weren't up too early the next day. But we did get up and went to Desert Hot Springs for a bit of a hike up in the hills - and so John could fly his drone. This was a little hole in the wall we thought was a cave from a distance.
The views of Desert Hot Springs and the valley were very nice, but a little hazy.
We picked up a few groceries in the store in town, had dinner together, then retired early. After the previous late night, we were kind of bagged.
Then yesterday, we drove up to Joshua Tree National Park. I have to say, that's an amazing place to drive through and hike. Beautiful terrain, and of course, lots of Joshua Trees.
I took so many pictures because of the cool rock formations, and general beauty of the desert. But just a handful in this blog.
This one had pictographs inside.
And there were lots of mountain climbers - this was only the top portion of the rock face he climbed.
This was "cap rock", for obvious reasons.
A crazy big beetle of some description. Eeeewww.
A couple of Beatle-lovers.
A beautiful day. We are definitely going back to Joshua Tree to do more hiking.
We decided to go out for dinner tonight in Palm Springs. It started out to be a Mexican restaurant. No one was overly enthused about that, so we changed to Italian. Done! We went to Johnny Costa's - a place where Frank Sinatra used to frequent. Good job we didn't see him there.
So today John & Judy went off to Borrego Springs for some drone-flying and hiking. We decided to stay with Tibby for the day and catch up on a few errands, not to mention this blog!
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