1986-2019 a small update.
Well, dexter_fox and I visited the Santa Monica pier last night. It was a date night. More on dinner later.
I mentioned to Dex that one of my best memories from 1986 was of visiting the Santa Monica pier at night about age 13. I used to fish there during the day looking like a dorky kid from the 80's. We'd been talking about about visiting the pier again, but had many false starts and cancelled plans. But yesterday, I braved through L.A traffic and we found a city-owned parking structure right in the middle of tourist central. I thought about parking on the beach like the old days, but glad we didn't do that. The crowds were awful down there. As expected, there were never-ending phone tourist zombies.
We walked 3 small blocks to the Santa Monica Pier and wandered around about sunset and the early evening hours. We saw the old arcade and Dex played a couple games. He won 4 tickets. Ha! The cheapest thing these days was 20 tickets for a Tootsie roll! Inflation is everywhere! Still, it was more fun to see than to partake. We took in the Pacific sunset and it was danged cool even though the ambient temperature was a nice 67°F. Sorry to our East coast friends :P.
We didn't spend very much time - the Pier is really a place for kids and young dates. When we got back to the parking structure to pay, a nice surprise was that that city parking structure is free for 90 minutes! Ooooy! We would have paid, but it was nice that the welcomed tourists enough that we didn't have to.
After dealing with LA traffic back home, we stopped at our favorite BBQ joint for dinner. This time though it really was mediocre. Maybe different cooks? Dunno.
That was our day yesterday. The 1986-2019 night Santa Monica beach pier fast was broken. I'm so glad that I shared it with my love! Not bad for the first of many 'date nights' to come :) 🦊🐻🦊🐻🦊🐻
I mentioned to Dex that one of my best memories from 1986 was of visiting the Santa Monica pier at night about age 13. I used to fish there during the day looking like a dorky kid from the 80's. We'd been talking about about visiting the pier again, but had many false starts and cancelled plans. But yesterday, I braved through L.A traffic and we found a city-owned parking structure right in the middle of tourist central. I thought about parking on the beach like the old days, but glad we didn't do that. The crowds were awful down there. As expected, there were never-ending phone tourist zombies.
We walked 3 small blocks to the Santa Monica Pier and wandered around about sunset and the early evening hours. We saw the old arcade and Dex played a couple games. He won 4 tickets. Ha! The cheapest thing these days was 20 tickets for a Tootsie roll! Inflation is everywhere! Still, it was more fun to see than to partake. We took in the Pacific sunset and it was danged cool even though the ambient temperature was a nice 67°F. Sorry to our East coast friends :P.
We didn't spend very much time - the Pier is really a place for kids and young dates. When we got back to the parking structure to pay, a nice surprise was that that city parking structure is free for 90 minutes! Ooooy! We would have paid, but it was nice that the welcomed tourists enough that we didn't have to.
After dealing with LA traffic back home, we stopped at our favorite BBQ joint for dinner. This time though it really was mediocre. Maybe different cooks? Dunno.
That was our day yesterday. The 1986-2019 night Santa Monica beach pier fast was broken. I'm so glad that I shared it with my love! Not bad for the first of many 'date nights' to come :) 🦊🐻🦊🐻🦊🐻