lessons

What I learned tonight during dinner in L.A.:

1. You can meet a boy in Vegas, get married to him after 10 weeks of dating and stay married for 44 years. (And you can be the one who does the proposing and makes all of this happen.)

2. It is possible to draw on white napkins with crayons.

3. Don't let the waitstaff choose what you will be eating; you will end up with a ginormous bill afterwards.

4. No matter how much I've eaten, miraculously, there is always room for warm flourless chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream and fresh berries.

5. You don't have to be a Reviewer to have Power.

6. It may not be possible for fish to be 100 percent organic. (There was a very heated discussion about this: Does organic beluga caviar exist, as the restaurant so proclaimed?)

7. In the 1960s, a 59 Bordeaux cost about $1.