15 Dec 08 LA is Great!

16 Dec 08 LA is Great!

From Rome I flew to Seattle and visited family but didn't feel too well as I was getting over a sinus infection that started on the flight from Frankfurt.  I stayed in Seattle a few days and then flew to LA where it was warm and sunny!  I visited a friend there who really looks like he's the bass player in an indie band but Christian actually does computer stuff.  Anyway, LA was great.  Christian and I visited the La Brea tar pits where animals have become trapped and died over thousands of years.  The yellow background pic is of me with 400 Dire Wolf skulls.  Christian lives just off Sunset boulevard and not too far from where I met another friend Eric who used to live in Seattle.  Eric is 'kinda' buying a bank repo house on the hills above Sunset boulevard.  In the pics below (the one with the McDonalds sign in the middle) Eric's house is smack in the middle at the top of the hill.  From his house he has a great view of LA (pic below as well) AND below him is chateau Marmont where Jim Belushi died.  Also on a ridge below Eric's house lives Buck Henry (whose 85th birthday was yesterday).  If you know who Buck Henry is then you probably stayed up far too late when you were about 15 years old watching SNL with the original not-ready-for-prime-time-players.
R/Chris