I’m comfortable being behind the scenes and observing.  I don’t (usually) attend social or charity functions unless I’m running a video camera.

One weekend a while back, my lovely wife, as a part of her job (although I suspect also just for fun), needed to make an appearance at a charity event.

You could look at me as her driver, her escort (hey, now doesn’t that sounds kind of risqué) or just as her husband-in-tow).

Any way you look at it, I was there along with my wife and suddenly I was being invited to mingle and partake of the food and drink being provided to the well-to-do of Los Angeles society.

The setting was quite amazing.  An older hotel on the West side of MacAthur Park, the building is well restored, but serves as a location for other than its’ original purpose (Whoa, sorry for getting a little wordy there. It ain’t a hotel anymore).

My lovely wife knew many of the attendees and recognize many more.

It was a “taste of” event and many restaurants were serving frustrating (to me) snippets and samples of their representative dishes.

We ate, I drank, we socialized with some of the people my wife interacts with in the course of her job with LAUSD.

At the end of the day, I never had to get a sound bite and I didn’t have to ship video.

Later that day, my body craved a chili-dog.  I guess a News Photographer can take a day off, but he’s (me) still a News Photographer.

Happy Monday.  Anybody want to hear about my weekend?