Today was devoted to checking out the houses that Gary & Betty had redone in the past and that took us from just down the street to the Pacific Pallisades. We also set out to discover LA's best wine shops.
Betty & Gary have been busy since they moved to LA in 2001. With each house that they bought, the complexity of the makeover increased, until the current house that bears very little resemblance to the original structure. This the house in Pacific Pallisades.
Along the way we continued to be barraged with a huge number of VERY high end cars, like this this new Rolls.
Following the house tour/wine discovery expedition, where one of the three wine shops visited did have an amazing range and quantity of wines, verses the others that had primarily high end product, we took a long stroll along Venice Beach.
This is a very long wide expanse of sandy beach, bordered by all variety of tourist shops and services including tattoos and psychics. It was also packed with the masses, interesting considering it was overcast and not particularly beach weather.
It was an interesting walk and a great source of exercise.
We ended up close to Santa Monica Pier where the Independent film awards were going on in a tent set up along the beach - no real star sightings today, except the girl's apparent sighting of Rita Wilson at Shutters, a hot beach front hotel.
The day ended up with a great meal back on Linda Flora and another movie, Bottle Shock, appropriately about California wines making their mark on the world of wine.
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