Today, I am back at home after my Southern California trip. The night before we left, we had a sunset margarita in the hot tub, accompanied by some chips and salsa, and a very filling dinner of homemade enchilladas! They were delicious. The other girls had smores to top off the night by one of the fire pits at the hotel (obviously I had way too many enchilladas because I refused the smores!).
The next day we decided not to get up at 5 a.m. and to take a leisurely drive up the coast and on into L.A. for a few hours of sightseeing. Unfortunately, for reasons undisclosed here, I had a very bad morning and I was in the worst mood for the rest of the day. Apologies everyone.
Upon stepping out of the room, we discovered the weather was not going to be on our side. It was raining. Lovely. Extra to the moody pot. We still drove up through Laguna Beach, just to say we did ;), and took a few pics and then headed into L.A. to drop of Joanne's mom's friend. We spent a few hours in Beverly Hills, after Kristi cautiously navigated through the busy and rainy streets of the 90210. Rodeo Drive was dead due to the rain. We had lunch at Mr. Chow, supposedly a celebrity hot spot. I wasn't too impressed, but we had chicken satay (mistakenly given to us by the waiter, but oh well), Chicken Joanne (lemon sauce), vegetable and shrimped sauteed/fried rice, lettuce wraps with squab (I'm told this is a kind of bird), and potstickers. A bit pricey due to being in Beverly Hills but cool experience to say we ate there. No papparazzi taking OUR pictures though.
We then circled the streets again...GPS...to find the Marc Jacobs store for JoJo. WOW. They sell a lot of pricey things there...$600 for a dress, yikes. Who can afford that crap?! Although, they did have some affordable stuff in there too, like wallets, keychains, rainboots....after that we went to the Long Beach Airport. Love L.A. traffic. NOT. Even more so not to love: the Long Beach Airport. Its pretty small, a little ghetto. The restaurant there was good though. Rachel was kind enough to buy me a Dragon Burger and two Blue Moons to take the edge off my moody day. Thanks RK!
The plane boarded about a 1/2 late due to some serious maintenance issues. One of the seats had to be fixed. We ended up in Oakland not too late; however, Joanne's dad ran into some traffic due to construction so he was a little late picking us up. We got home to Antioch around 11:20 and said hello to the puppies who missed us dearly! Came home to a sick husband with no voice :( Back at work. Hooray.
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