Great weekend. My friend Norah was in town after she had been visiting San Diego for work. She took the train up from S.D. and I picked her up at Union Station downtown. Love that building! Friday was spent walking and getting lost downtown, but after my wrong directions we finally found lunch at Phillipes. We stopped by Olvera St., where they were filming a WB movie (Nancy Drew) and then went by Chinatown to drop coins in the wishing grotto. We rounded off that evening by hanging out at Najas, then checked out the new place in town called PointBreak...fun place, but may not be in such a great location for business..we will see how they do.
Saturday was for culture and we headed up the 405 to the Getty Center and then had dinner down in Hermosa at Cafe Bugaloo, a blues & mardi gras place that Norah suggested because she met the owner's father on the east coast...small world. Turned out great, which unfortunately is not how I could describe the quick visit to the Poop Deck...the place felt like a bad frat house.
Norah left this morning so today we walked to the Amgen California Bike tour that was finally
finishing in our town. The riders have been riding in the coastal towns up north and came down for the last leg of their journey in Redondo. The streets were blocked off and everyone was out to cheer for the riders...wish my dad could have been here, he would have liked it. I think they are going to try and do this every year now..they want to make it into something like the tour de france.
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