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Disney recently asked me to participate in their annual "Quinceañera: A Dream Come True" event as host and celebrity Godfather, to take place at Disneyland.

I arrived at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel. My VIP Tour Guide, Christy, who was a wonderful hostess, greeted me.

She proceeded to escort me to my room, where I was to relax while I waited to go down to the stage-area to perform the sound-check and meet with the producers. So I turned my computer on and started working, ordered some food from room service, and before I knew it, it was time to go to rehearsal. Here is a picture of the view outside my hotel room.

As Cinco de Mayo has been celebrated all over the Americas, I thought it would be great to talk to you about my wonderful trip to Mexico City! But before I do that I want to
introduce you to my friend and expert barman, Josh. He manages the bar at Fatfish restaurant in West Hollywood, (www.fatfishla.com) California. Fatfish is a wonderful sushi restaurant I frequent. Many times I'll meet a friend and have a bite at the
Lounge next door.

The Wednesday night before I was to leave for Mexico, I was there with my friend, Krissy Lindquist, and as we were talking I noticed this amazing video playing on the monitors behind the bar. It was imagery of animals and humans playing together in the most interesting settings.

Josh told me it was from an exhibition called "Ashes and Snow". Why am I mentioning this? You'll understand in a bit. He told me I could probably purchase the DVD online. Here is a picture of Josh and me at Fatfish.

Well I'm back in L.A. and Spring is in full bloom! I started to feel it coming on in New York City, but as soon as I landed in Los Angeles, I could smell flowers and pollen. As soon as I was back in my office, I had a full calendar lined up for me. Here I am with my team during a shoot we did for the TV Guide channel scheduled to air on May 2nd .

A few days later I shot an interview on the hit show on Telemundo called Mas Vale Tarde with Alex Cambert and the other guest was the Mexican actress Martha Higareda. She has been here only a short time and she has already landed a co-starring part opposite Keaneu Reeves. Here is a picture of the three of us on set.

From Celebrating our Big 50 in The Big Easy
To being GLAAD in The Big Apple


(Eduardo Xol)



New Orleans has made a lot of progress. At the very least you can see and feel the changes in and around the French Quarter. Do you remember the images of all of the people trying to find refuge on the bridges around the city? Here is one of the bridges with a view of the city in the background. We built a house for a family as well as a church for a community so we were crossing the bridge daily.

Dear Friends,

Right now I write to you from New Orleans as we shoot our season finale, but my experience here will be written in my next entry. This blog shall be about the snowy island of Rhode Island! What's funny is that it is so warm here that I've almost forgotten how cold it was there!

We've done a lot of Extreme Makeover Home Edition houses in the snow this year. I'm happy to say we are done for a while! No more long underwear and layer after layer of clothing. The first couple of times, it was fun, but for a native Californiano, the novelty wore off fast!

All the photos are property from Eduardo Xol.

(Photo Credit Bill and Katheryn Watson)

Well, it's been nearly a month since last I wrote and I promised that this blog would be a good one, and it is! When I left you last I had just returned from my last Extreme Makeover:Home Edition in West Virginia where we had to deal with lots of snow and cold weather. Well I was so excited to come back to beautiful sunny Southern California for the holidays! Well, just because I was finished shooting the show for the year didn¹t mean work was completely over for me. Although the holiday season was in full gear, it would still mean lots of work mixed in with play with family and friends.

The weekend after getting back from West Virginia, I went to celebrity DJ, Tony Okungbowa¹s 70's themed birthday bash held at Smashbox Studios in Hollywood. www.tonyokungbowa.com. Here I am with Tony and good friend Richard Perez-Feria looking very disco daddy!

(Photo Credit Richard Perez-Feria)

Well, my fiends, I know that I always say I¹m busy, but this time it has been insane. I¹ve been back from Kansas and Kentucky, to West Virginia, and back to L.A. again. This time I get to stick around for the holidays. YAY!

Early in the morning the day after I got back from Kentucky I had to get up while it was still dark and do a satellite radio tour. What that means is that I call into a studio on the east coast and then they connect me to radio stations around the country every ten minutes for three hours! I made myself a BIG cup of coffee for that! Here I am in my home in L.A. at 5:30 in the morning getting ready to talk on the phone.

(The credit in all the photos should read Eduardo Xol)