It was our last day in LA. The high was “only” 78 — just like back in PA 😂
For thumbnail purposes I’ll got to mid-day, which we spent at Griffith Observatory. Its white facade and green metal domes are iconic and have appeared in numerous movies — the most recent I remember it being prominent was LaLa Land. Here’s shot of the city of Los Angeles from there.
For a brief educational moment, for those of you not familiar with LA geography, this is looking left (southeast ) from the observatory — to the right you can see the high rises of Century City, and on a clearer day than today the Pacific. Straight east are mountains and we could just see a couple snow caps there.
When I got up, K had found a breakfast place on the way — it was called Alcove. It was “cute.” By which it means you can eat outside under umbrellas and the building was covered onto the roof by some California vine.
I had the lemon ricotta pancake meal.
K had their eggs Benedict, which had Meyer lemon hollandaise sauce.
Got a double thumbs up. We recommend and would return again. They had good looking baked goods, too — a chocolate chip bread pudding, for one — that we didn’t get to try.
In terms of our little slices of life, today was again game day. I was wearing my Purdue hat again (it’s the only one I brought, for obvious reasons). Well, both times in line to see the shows in the planetarium (we saw 2 of their 3), there was someone else in Purdue gear next to us and we ended up talking. The first were 3 women originally from Indiana, 2 live in SF and one in Atlanta and they decided to meet and go to the basketball. The next…well, I didn’t really talk much to him.
The planetarium was pretty neat.
On the way back to the apartment we stopped for ice cream. This was lunch. We shared, as you can see from the two spoons. It is buckeye, coffee chip, apple pie and monkey business from lower left clockwise.
But this was the best part. You have to know the Geico “don’t become your parents” ads to fully appreciate this one —
He did this for like ten minutes! No one took him aside and said “there are people who work here that do this”…😂
It was a long jog (45 minutes) to the parking garage at the game and we walked in with an old guy (and, yes, I’m saying this) who had coached there forever. Saw Rick Mount play against Lew Alcindor in the sixties.
The game was exciting. Not particularly well played, including back-to-back turnovers up 3 in the last 2 minutes. We lost by 2 as they made a 3 with 8 seconds left. And we missed two shots at the end. 😪
The ride back, the long way and the highway, took 20 minutes. We got home “early” and are packed and ready to go.
It’s been fun. I hope you enjoyed it. Till next time — again from Cali :)
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