Magic Castle

Here we are, ready to take on Hollywood! First stop, parking near Madame Tussauds so we could walk by the Chinese Theater and down the Hollywood Walk of Fame until we reached La Loteria. Excellent, excellent food. I had vegetable enchiladas with a pumpkin seed sauce.

In order to reach our final destination, we walked back the way we came, admiring all the people dressed in costume - from Michael Jackson, to Darth Vader, to Barney and a transformer.

Walking up the hill, we came to the Magic Castle. We know someone who is a member of this exclusive club. He performs about twice a year and can invite people to come. You have to be 21 to go, so we've been waiting until Claire reached that milestone. We saw the mathemagic show by Art Benjamin. You can actually watch his show here. The castle was so crowded last night that we did not have a chance to see the big show, but we did get to see Latimer, an up and coming magician.

We have a pretty good concept of how this whole place works. Everybody drinks, bars and waitresses everywhere, everybody has a great time and thoroughly enjoys the shows. They don't seem to mind the wait for the shows, either. We thought that people-watching was fun.