Browse Day: March 25, 2007

old stomping grounds

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After my evening with the girls, I headed over to Brother’s apartment and spent the night. We loafed on the couch and watched cheesy movies on ABC family until it was time to go to sleep. In the morning, we were up pretty early and shared a breakfast burrito at the farmer’s market in Santa Monica. Later in the day, we went to Westwood to check some stuff out. It was kind of cool to be walking down Le Conte and past the UCLA Medical Center and then up Bruin Walk to the UCLA Store. The store looked about the same and they were selling Final Four t-shirts like they were made of gold or something. I was there to buy a sweatshirt for myself and picked out one for Jes too. On our way back to the car, we stopped at Diddy Riese for some 35-cent cookies (they used to be 25 cents back in the day) and had lunch at In N Out. It’s hard to believe that I graduated almost 10 years ago. Sheesh, I guess I’ll have to wait another 10 years before I purchase another sweatshirt.

food, food, and more food

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On Saturday, I had a full day…literally. Kevin and Karrie were in town and we went down to San Marcos to taste 5 different noodle dishes at a place called Noodles and Co. at around 12:00 pm. The dishes were all mediocre so we went next door to Chick Fil’A for nuggets and waffle fries. After that, we drove to the fancy St. Regis in Dana Point for coffee and dessert at about 3:30 pm. We then drove back up and got home at 5:15 pm. At 5:30 pm, I got back into the car and drove up to Venice for a 6:30 dinner date with the girls. We ate at Primitivo on Abbott Kinney where they served tapas and wine. It was so fun to share a variety of small dishes from risotto to scallops to cheeses to bacon-wrapped dates. And of course, I tasted 3 different wines by the half-glass. Tasty tasty fun.