We arrived on time Friday night, nothing exciting except we did drive through Beverly Hills en route to our hotel, an unintentional gaffe but at 11:00 local time the streets were not clogged with traffic and the lights were bright.
Saturday morning we headed out for breakfast and ended up with lunch instead. We wanted to see the ocean so drove towards Santa Monica, where the downtown streets were closed for a festival and traffic was crazy so drove north on Ocean Blvd. to PCH where my family lived for a while, many years ago.
In downtown Pacific Palisades we found my family’s favorite pizza joint so shared a large Dom’s pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms. Then we headed to the hotel for a while until my father and Jane, and brother arrived in Century City. Then we went off to an early dinner at Gladstones For Fish and sat along the Pacific Ocean outdoors under palm trees and enjoyed clam chowder, calamari, steamed mussels, crabcakes and other delights. As Jim’s allergic to anything that swims, he had a steak.
We got to bed early and have to be up soon to pack, check out and meet the folks for brunch at the infamous Nate ‘n Al’s deli in Beverly Hills. Hopefully I’ll get my smoked salmon fix. Then it’s off to LAX and home. Tomorrow is a holiday so we’ll recuperate from long flights and driving in LA traffic. I didn’t get to the Hearst or either Getty museum. Not enough time and it appears we’d rather talk and eat!
I’ll check in from Texas, probably tomorrow. Take care, Dee
Cooking with Dee 