Terry and Sooz's Travels: February 25, 2019

Another quiet boring day yesterday, not really. Sooz and I walked down to the Republic of Pie for breakfast and coffee yesterday, Sunday, morning. Nice walk and good food again. We came back to our place, met Sam and off we went to Warner Brothers for a studio tour. A person Sam works with gave him free tickets for the tour and it was great. Our tour guide was like a walking encyclopedia of Hollywood history answering every question without hesitation. There were only 12 people in our group and we all road around in a single, big, electric cart. Because it was Sunday and pretty quiet on "the lot" we got to see a lot more than during the week when it is busy with productions. I took a ton of pictures only a few of which are below. We toured through sets that were used in movies going back to Edward G. Robinson through the current Ellen daily show. We went through the massive storage area where thousands and thousand of props are kept and still being used today in productions. It was a several hour tour and we covered a lot of ground. Very cool.

We then had lunch at an In & Out burger joint that was packed. It's a local thing and we ate too much again. Next up was a little shut eye back at our place and then we took an Uber to see Sam play softball on a coed team. It was fun and we were the only fans in the stands for their team so we had to be pretty loud and obnoxious.

Next up was going to see Sam perform stand-up and inprov at the Lyric Hyperion Theater and Cafe in Los Angeles. We had a really good time and met a lot of people. It is an intimate setting with maybe 75 seats very close to the stage so it felt like we were on stage with them. In fact, as part of the improv set they had Sooz and me get on stage during which they made pick up lines to us, which was kind of fun. We were impressed with how much Sam has improved his stage presence during his stand-up routine and during the improv sets. I don't know how they do it, but they all did great and were very welcoming to Sooz and me. I took a few pictures but the lighting was very low so they are pretty blurry.

We took an Uber back to our place and crashed. It was 10:00 pm local or 1:00 am Eastern so we were pretty worn out but we had a wonderful time.