L.A. Woman

It's true. I'm a "lucky little lady in the city of light".

After an exhausting day of eating, walking and eating again it was nice to just chill on Friday. The sun was shining so we made our way down to the pool to lounge about. The Roosevelt pool is fantastic and has quite the pedigree - Marilyn Monroe's first ever photo shoot took place here and artist David Hockney (famous for his paintings of swimming pools) has painted a mural of swirls at the bottom of the pool. If you are a fan of Entourage or, ahem, The Hills, you might recognize the pool from various episides. My favourite Entourage episode ("The Day F*ckers in Season 4) sees Vince getting lucky with a guest-starring Sophie Monk after meeting her at the Roosevelt pool. While there was no Johnny Drama there that day, there were definitely a few characters there to keep things interesting.

We had the good fortune of upgrading our room to a suite that day and were excited to find to out that we were scheduled to move to the ninth floor with a great view. In my research of the hotel, I discovered that there have been many *reported* sightings of the ghost of Montgomery Clift who lived in the hotel during the filming of From Here to Eternity. His room number - 928. Our room number - 924. Interesting!

I know I've blogged about how much I liked this hotel during my previous stay. I am just as impressed on this visit. The staff has been friendly and attentive - we even got a yummy fruit basket and welcome letter from the hotel manager. And our room is amazing - it's huge with a living room and two bathrooms (we only discovered the second one a good half hour after we moved in). Plus we have a great view of downtown LA of  in the distance, which makes for a great "Michael Mann-scape" view in the evening. The hotel itself is a sight to see - dark wood, tiled floors, a central fountain and sweeping velvet curtains.

We did dinner at Bar Marmont and saw only two celebs amongst the scenesters at the bar - Jesse Csincsak from Season 4 of The Bachelorette and Dylan Walsh who plays Dr. Sean McNamara on Nip / Tuck. Dinner was amazing - Mojitos, an appetizer of prosciutto and pecorino, poulet roti for moi and a braised lamb sandwich for Anca. A couple of beers back at Tropicana and then I was asleep before my head even hit the pillow.