After a long travel day on Monday, we arrived in Pasadena, where we moved into my Aunt Annie’s apartment for a few nights. On Tuesday, we drove over to West Hollywood to visit cousin Jeff and his partner, Eric. Jeff’s parents Jack & Patty were there visiting them for Thanksgiving, so it was nice to see them as well. Jeff recently renovated my late Uncle Jim’s house and it was fabulous. After a fun lunch at Burger Bar on Melrose, we drove back to Pasadena.
On Wednesday, we went to Palm Springs with Janie, JB, Camille & Evelyn to stay with with John & Toni Fitts for Thanksgiving. They have a beautiful 1920’s Spanish Revival estate and were very welcoming to our family for the holiday. During the days there we explored the desert area around Palm Springs and took the tram up Mount San Jacinto. It is the largest cable car in the Western hemisphere and it rotates as you go up the mountain. You go from 2,000 feet to over 8,500 feet in elevation in ten minutes…quite a spectacular scene.
Thanksgiving was a fun gathering of family and a few friends. Everyone helped with the meal, and Jimmy got lucky and was seated next to Nancy, a friend of Toni’s,and a fellow Playboy Playmate from the early ‘70’s (See “Friends Along the Way” for a cheesy shot of Jimmy). Mat’s lucky day was Friday, when John allowed him to drive his new Bentley Coupe through their Palm Springs neighborhood. This car costs as much as most of our houses. Mat did a great job and Jimmy held his breath in the back seat hoping for no accidents.
We headed back to Pasadena on Saturday, Jimmy’s birthday, and Janie stoked us with a behind the scenes tour of Warner Bros. lot. After a fun afternoon, we headed to LAX, had some birthday martinis at a cheesy airport bar and boarded the jet for our overnight trip to Fiji.
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