On Friday morning, we left the house around 9:30 am and had a pretty smooth drive with the exception of a 6-mile stretch near Buttonwillow where they closed the road to one lane.  We even stopped at In-N-Out for lunch and the dog some time with his head out the window.

We got to Dodgers Stadium around 3:30 with another 1.5 hours to go.  We had a dinner reservation for Lawry’s at 7:00 so we decided to just go straight to Beverly Hills instead of Cerritos.  With about 2 hours to kill, we stopped at a park on La Cienega to walk the dog.  Then we stopped at a local Coffee Bean to change our clothes.

At 6:30, we pulled up to the restaurant and valeted the car AND the dog!  Heh heh.  The valet guys were super cool about it and even rolled down the windows for him in the garage.  The prime rib was yummy as usual and we also kicked in the standard peanut joke for my brother.

After dinner, we gave the dog to my parents who drove home and Brother took us to MILK for some ice cream sandwiches made with large French macarons.  Yum.

We finally got to my parents’ house around 11:00 after a 14-hour ride from SF to Cerritos.