Hollywood Night

Tonight we were invited to a surprise birthday party for my friend Ray. I know Ray from around 2000 when he was just a graduate intern at UOP and I was his preceptor. Ray then went on to graduate and continued working at the pharmacy this time as a pharmacist. We'd always have great fun working and being silly. That was when working at this location was the best...work didn't seem like work.

So back to the party; Grace (Ray's wife) arranged for the surprise party at Memphis Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd. It is a very cool Victorian house built in 1902 and it is the last Victorian house left on Hollywood Blvd. It began as a school then over the years finally became a restaurant. They serve southern cookin which was good but overpriced. For the prices of the appetizers, entrees etc we could have spent the same money at Morton's. There were about 30 people for the dinner party and later about 10 of us went a couple of blocks to a club called Element to go dancing. There was a line of 15 people but one of the guys knew or arranged for us to bypass the line and let us in. Cool. It was a basic club with seating area, stage and dance floor. It was weird that there were six tables with seating that had carafes of juice or mixers on the the table but no one was sitting. There were some women and men standing by dressed all in black with headsets on. We later found out that to sit at a table you had to buy a bottle of booze. I guess that I've been out of the loop for a while but this was new to me. Oh well. I guess that is why everyone was standing holding their drinks because there was nowhere else to put them. Hector and I had a great time dancing but by midnight it was so crowded we decided to leave the others and go home.

We had a really fun time last night. The boys got a sleepover with their auntie so we didn't have worry about them. I don't think that we've been dancing in such a long time so it was fun staying up late.