We're card players too - I've heard of Mexican Train. Pooch is an LCT version of a group card game that's taken the cruisers here by storm.

Shirley - you might be on our flights out of LAX - which airlines are you flying? I'm an LA Native having grown up on the West Side/Santa Monica/Beverly Hills. We live in Westlake Village now - and we go regularly to Santa Barbara to visit DH's daughter who stayed after college at UCSB.