Anniversary dinner

 Yesterday's anniversary dinner in downtown L.A.'s Bestia restaurant went great. I have to admit I had some trepidation about taking public transportation yesterday. For one thing the metro blue line is being worked on and so instead of the trains you need to take a bus. We've done this before and it works surprisingly well (better in fact in my opinion that the trains!) That's because it's an express bus that speeds you on the freeway directly to downtown instead of the normal slow stops. The problem is it stops running at 7:30. Also, as many of you know we enjoy adventures but this particular restaurant "Bestia" is in the Arts district, an industrial area which though being slowly "gentrified" and someplace I don't want to be waiting for a bus stop. So the thing is we've had this very generous gift for a couple of years from Aria and family for dinner there and we thought now is the time to use it.