Across the way are the models from Hawaiian Tropic, a upscale dog bed vendor, a vitamin water company and the "California Queen" giving away various and sundry very random swag.

The event organizers have hired models to escort the stars and tell us what the current show they are on- this system breaks down quickly. Gee what part of that plan seemed dumb to you! That's fine, we're friends with John! I confess to him early on that if you're not on CSPAN or testifying before Congress, I haven't a clue who you are. He thinks I'm kidding... his bad.

Day 1: is mostly all "B" listers and soap stars, however for the most part all really nice and happy to sign our T-Shirt for charity-Vitamin Angels. The two young boys from Desperate Housewives are charming and so is Ernie Hudson from Ghost Buster fame. Finally the "talent" is given a ugly pebble necklace to wear, this helps me to no end since now I know who to ask to sign the shirt. Oh remember how I said we were in the sun, now it's freaking hot and we are frying. Our table is really popular and Sue is answering tons of questions giving away lots of product, we run out of tote bags and I now become "re-stock girl" shuttling product from our suite to the event.

Between celebrity visits we carry on with the gals from Malibu and the all other folks are super jealous cause we're having so much fun. Oh a word about the Hawaiian Tropic gals, we get the tip from the super dreamy Liam that they are stuck up! Liam, we come to find out is the general contractor doing the renovation, since all of his guys are now working the event he's hanging out with us. We allow him to join the BFF club.

At the end of the day we pack up and although fried and exhausted head to dinner at Fat Fish~sushi. It's delicious and we get to see more of the West Hollywood scene. Remember when I said that nothing is ever too gay for me, well I think I found nirvana. Boys town it is! Lordy never saw so many hot gay men in one place...seriously. This week is LA Pride, so it was really ramping up.

Day 2: We'd been wiped out of some stuff so we had to go to one of the Vitamin Shoppe stores to replenish, and Sue had taken some special orders from our newest BF's. So off to the Fairfax Rd store we went.. At 3:00 we are back at our table, however we'd pulled a fast one on the Hawaiian Tropic girls, and moved them to the sunny table and us to their spot in the shade ( stuck up and stupid is really no way to go through life) Vitamins don't need the sun, and well... they did this was our logic.

Celebrities of the day 2:
Vanessa Williams-lovely and kind
Nick from Project Runway-hilarious and fun
Jai from Queer Eye now on a pet grooming show-he was the only one I wanted my picture with-eventually I will put up on my Facebook page...
Debra Gibson- yes Debbie is Debra and just got off tour -she was fun
Kim Coles seriously tall woman and very nice

Many more, who I can't remember or didn't know.

At the end of the evening beat and exhausted we said goodbye to all our new BFF's vowed to stay in touch and consider coming back to do same for the Emmy Awards. We took was little we had left and headed to the room to quickly polish off a bottle of wine. This revived us for our extremely long walk to dinner. I'd been assured that NO ONE walks in LA... however they were not traveling with drill sargent Sue. I whined and moaned for blocks till we arrived at the restaurant. Food was pretty good, but the cool thing was the bathroom had been used by the The Doors during a recording soundcheck at some point and there was a plaque to commemorate. After three martini's this was very exciting to me, Jim Morrison I know!

I drunk text Tim and Jason about who we met and then staggered back to the hotel.

Sunday I was far too hungover for DimSum Brunch and bailed on my friend who went with a publicist and his family over in the valley. Eventually I recovered and we ran all over Bev Hills, Santa Monica and Hollywood.

Dinner was at SUR ab fab x 4 and crashed early cause we had to be up at 5 to jet home.

The jet lag hit my hair yesterday, but boy was the weekend fun! I hope that my friend does consider doing the Emmy's- cause I'm ready to air kiss everyone once again!

Seriously this was a much need break from all the political drama and apart from a few Hillary bumper stickers and supporters I chatted with then meeting some Obama folks on Hollywood Blvd registering voters I couldn't have cared less about Saturdays meeting of Rules and Bylaws, even though Bernita was keeping me well up to date!

Hope you enjoyed my "how I spent my summer vacation" essay.. now back to your regularly scheduled programing!