The royal treatment

People here in Los Angeles sure know how to treat their starlets.
We’ve experienced this first hand with the royal welcome extended to L by the staff at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica.
At check in, one of the smiling women behind the desk came out to give the baby a stuffed turtle. [...]

Long live lobbies

A well-behaved baby and traffic-free roads made yesterday’s nine-hour drive from our home in Wine Country to Santa Monica a sincere pleasure.
Another key ingredient: random hotel lobbies along the way.
Over the course of our journey, we stopped at a Holiday Inn Express in Westly, the Harris Ranch Inn in Coalinga and a Hilton Garden Inn [...]