October 4, 2012

October 4, 2012

We decided that, for convenience sake, we will stay at the chamber designated area for RVs.  It will avoid a lot of driving back and forth to get to the activities.

Our friend, Jo, arrived here in Lone Pine soon after 11:00, and after resting for awhile, we went to the festival office to get our tickets.  That took some time.

We went back to the MH for lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before going for a drive into the Alabama Hills.  Many movies were filmed here, mostly westerns.  Last week, scenes from the movie, Tonto, were filmed in the Alabama Hills. A casting call went out in the area for Indians to be in one of the scenes.  

Shucks!  We might have been able to watch the filming from afar if we had been.  Two years ago we met two “locals” who sat on some rock at a distance away and watched movies being made when they were kids.

At 6:00, we went to a gala affair at the film history museum here in Lone Pine.  There was a buffet dinner, with very good food.  A lot of people attended, some in very fancy western wear.

Once we were back at the motorhome we watched several episodes of Zorro.  That is something we have done over the years when we have been with Jo.  The three of us enjoy watching Zorro.  We are easy to entertain, eh?