The LACMA had lots of amazing stuff too including Magritte's "C'est n'est pas un pipe". Also had a great collection of muralists such as Diego Rivera and Sigueires (sp?)...anyway, the guy who did all those fantastic murals we saw in Guadalajara. Some very interesting American decorative arts and furniture and Arts and Craft stuff. Another amazing complex of various museum buildings with architecture that allows views of the city and surroundings while you're viewing the art. I believe it has the biggest collections of art west of Chicago.

There are an incredible number of restaurants in our area and we discovered a very cool French bistro type restaurant where the chef specialty is rack of lamb. So famous apparently we were asked if we had heard about it. We hadn't but it did live up to expectation...7 chops done very rare with a kind of escargot type sauce. Also, great potatoes with lots of gruyere...not as good as Monique's but getting close. I think we'll return there. Lots of rather interesting things on the menu even a hamburger with Roquefort called the "French Disaster".

Off to the desert tomorrow for a week so it will be good to get some swimming in and some real heat although it does continue to be in the mid 70's most of the time here and not a cloud in the sky. An unusual ridge of high pressure for the coastal area it seems.

Did I mention the Getty Centre had all the paintings in the top floors designed with special louvres that change and allow the paintings to be viewed with the natural light the painters would have used. We'll return there again when we do our next shift in LA.

So, what's going on in Victoria and B.C....any more scandals? Send me an email.