Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks

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After a long week at work, my roommate Mitch, my colleague Greg and I headed down the 5 freeway for a 2-day visit to beautiful San Diego. And yes, it was absolutely beautiful. The temperature was a comfortable, breezy 70 degrees, and the fact that downtown is walking distance from the ocean aids that fact remarkably! What was astonishing to me was that my two traveling buddies both agreed that given the opportunity, they would prefer to live in San Diego, rather than Los Angeles.

I’ve thought about that for a while now, and although I must admit that San Diego  would be, in fact, a great place to live, I just don’t know if I could give up L.A. One of the things we did this weekend was to hit up some of the local music clubs / bars that the Gaslamp district had to offer (“If you hit a gas lamp with your car, will it explode?”). Friday night, we happened upon The Shout House, which is literally a dueling piano bar. I’ve got to say, this was tons of fun, and my prior experience with dueling pianos had been completely relegated to Saturday morning cartoons. Lots of fun, but still not substitution for Largo, right here in Los Angeles.

Perhaps the best part of the trip was the food, which ranged from yummy steak :), to peanut-butter and banana French Toast, to Asian cuisine, to Cajun tortas. Perhaps the best part was watching my two traveling buddies mow down a 5 pound lobster, complete with lobster bib. I refrained from the lobster figuring that since I’ve been spoiled with lobster from Maine, the only place that God truly designed lobsters to be from.

Weekend’s over. Great trip. The weekend getaway is definitely worth it. Maybe make something like this a monthly, or quarterly (yep, I”m a geek) event!