What? LA Again? (part II)

Monday breakfast had already been researched and planned. After getting lost looking for the little restaurant, overlooking the Ocean at Manhattan Beach, we accidently found a parking spot right in front of it! The waitlist seemed to be a bit long, but our turn came quickly and the family before us had just given up the table that we’d wished for – perfect ocean view and right in the corner, where no one would bump into our chairs while walking by. Once again, the plan was going perfectly. The breakfast was unbelievably huge and delicious! I never leave food! Never! But this time after finishing my omelet, I totally gave up on Alex’s pancakes. I just couldn’t do it. The good food, though, (being that a man’s love goes through his stomach) kept the spirits high.

A perfect breakfast, followed by a perfect stroll by the beach, then by a perfect getting lost in LA again, just so we could accidentally and miraculously end up on the exact spot we were looking for – Rodeo drive!

 

We thought “Who needs savings!” we did a mindless shopping spree on the street where even the Hollywood stars count their last dollar bills to buy the hippest diamond necklace at the highest price…yeah, right! Are you freakin’ crazy to believe this shit? A simple chewing gum there is made of gold and diamonds! I kept asking Alex to go in one of those stores and ask them if they sell water, or how much they’d want for the Granny Smith apple, decorating their shop-window, but she wouldn’t do it. Even window shopping on that street makes your blood freeze and if you’re not careful enough, might be expensive! Thousand bucks for the best display! You shouldn’t have looked where it’syou’re your business to look! Excuse me, but my six years of labor intensive work are not worth your diamond shoes! I’d only waste this money on houses…understood? Alex and I were laughing how a simple pair of shorts cost more than the car I’ve been driving for the past six years! Aaah, so much fun! Sami had his meal on a bench in front of the Gucci store. Don’t worry! We made it look like a very pretentious lunch, so it was ok!

 

Sami's belly - full, we had to take care of ours! RFD! A must-eat in LA! Best organic vegan food we’ve ever tried! In that place we’ve seen Julia Roberts’ brother (I don’t know his effen name, come on!) and Zoli from Ignite (if you know who Ignite are, you’re very cool and privileged right now. If you don’t, you’re no punk and not worthy of an explanation)!

So Real Food Daily – Alex had a Neat-loaf, and I feasted on a Chickn-wrap, while Sami was having fun...and eating our organic bread! I don’t even want to start describing the flowerless dark chocolate fudge we sinned with for dessert!

The healthy appetites satisfied with healthy food, it was time to get lost once again, looking for another art gallery I had researched earlier. This time finding it was easier than we thought and we were pleased to find out that it was an enormous art store far down on Hollywood blvd. So, after Alex’s futile attempts to count the stars (on the sidewalk, of course, but still just as much as in the sky), we dove into the world of art again. The mind boggles, really (like She likes to say) at the amazing ideas of artists and what can be perceived as art! In this store you can find anything from books on the art of sex, to rat skeletons, to paintings from the world’s best modern artists. I think that I could easily spend days, if not weeks in that place and not get bored...imagine if we had really won the lottery…

Ah, yeah, the lottery! The famous Mega Millions! We didn’t win it again, even though we bought five whole tickets. Either way, it was fun to dream about what we’d do if we’d won the 122$ million. We talked about it all the time on the way back to Vegas the next day.

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Tuesday was a sad day! We just weren’t ready to get back home. After another outstanding breakfast at a cozy little French restaurant, a walk along the beach, and some more art, we left ourselves just enough time, so we could stop by that very first vegan restaurant again on our way out of LA, but daddy didn’t realize he had missed the highway exit for a good ten minutes and it was just one too many getting-losts for my lovely wife, who told me all she thought about my driving and refused to believe it was the map’s fault or Mapquest’s fault this time. Thank God, I thought of asking her what we’d do with all the money from the lottery, that she forgot about her anger and we both drove back off to Vegas in our car, full of dreams (not to be confused with a dream-car).

LA, we totally love you! But as soon as we win the lottery, next time we’re getting a driver who knows his way around!