December 19

We went to the Late Late Show taping last night right after arriving in LA.  The CBS studios are in Hollywood, as you would expect.  It is interesting to see how a show is taped (oh, that's right, Craig says the show is "live", Right;)  It is very different than it seems on the TV.  For example, on TV Craig is talking right to you, and moving in close to tell you a secret.  Well, in the studio, he is talking directly to a camera and not looking at the audience at all.  You can see what it looks like on TV by looking at the monitors, but that is not what I expected.  He seems so interactive.  He is, but not with the studio audience, just the at home audience.  That's good I guess, since most of his audience is at home.  They have a warmup guy, who is supposed to get you ready for the show.  It was kind of annoying to have him tell us when to laugh or applaud or stand up.  I think Craig is funny enough that he doesn't need the help.  During our taping, he did most of Friday's show then.  Not all of it, since Dame Judy Dench was on the show last night, but not at our taping.  Instead, Craig changed ties and his jacket and taped parts of next Tuesday's show.  He kept referring to stuff he said previously and then realized he was taping for Tuesday and told the audience to go to youtube and look at last Friday's show to see what he was referring to.  It was quite funny to us.  It will quite weird to the home audience.  (but that is part of the fun of the show)

Now it is Saturday and we slept in  because we stayed up to watch the show last night.  Here it is on until 1:35am. 

We will see Zanadu, the play, tonight and the Sherlock Holmes movie on Tues.  Having a nice visit with my sister and brother-in-law.

We board the ship on Wednesday.  More after that.