Finally on the road

OK so it took a little long for me to do my first blog post on this trip because my dad and I have been having a blast and if you know us at all we like to drink and eat a lot so doesn’t make much time for blogging. I was going to try and do this the other late night but I was worried every other word would be misspelled and I wouldn’t even know what I wrote about because we have been drinking a shit ton of Old Fashions.
Anyway so ill start with the ride down. Nice, easy and no traffic at all. Well until we got into LA of course. I spent most the time reading the directions on my new camera. There are a ton of cool ass things I can do on it that I never would have thought. I used the full battery before we even got to our hotel. On the way down we stopped in at Harris Ranch. This place should be a stop for everyone who drives down to LA. You can smell you’re getting close because of all the shit, literally. But the smell of shit gives way to the smell of cooked burgers and steaks!!! We walked in grabbed a couple beers of course and watched the Giants destroying the Dodgers and Timmy being “The Freak” that he is. We split the burgers we got. I had this awesome Portobello mushroom burger. Which of course had the burger and the mushroom, but also roasted red peppers and basil aioli. Dad had a caprese burger. Also awesome!!! Melted mozzarella and great tomatoes. Top notch!!! We were talking to the bartender who was angry he had to use fresh ingredients in his drinks. Not the brightest dude. Especially him hearing me talk about the things I do at the bar. I think I remember him comparing using fresh ingredients to working at Red Robin. Again not the brightest guy in the world. But he did have another great job at the “night club” in Coalinga!!! Lol if there is a night club in that 2 horse town then I’m the president of it.
We got to LA about 7 and relaxed a couple hours in the hotel room. Place is also very cool. The Crowne Plaza in the Commerce Casio. Yep a casino right underneath where I am staying all bad. We got ready and hit the town. Drove to Hollywood, and WOW!!!! Saturday night in Hollywood is like being at a high class Marina District in SF. Women in close to nothing and loving showing it off. We went to this high end restaurant called Citizen Smith. It was old, rustic, high ceilings and more of these fantastic LA women. We sit at the bar, which looks like a great SF “mixology” bars. Looked like was it. The only one who knew anything about how to make any sort of drink was this chick. The 2 dudes I don’t think knew what bourbon was. Old-Fashion, Manhattan, Bombay Sapphire, beer, beer and more bourbon and we were set for food. LoL. Again great food. Since we still weren’t that hungry from lunch, we ordered light, or what I thought was light. Dad got a Caesar that he loved, I though tasted too much of anchovies but that’s what a Caesar is so, I can’t complain. He also got these 3 meatballs covered in sauce and cheese. I just wanted a soup and side. Keeping it light right. I got the French Onion Soup, which was off the chain. Made just the way I like it. 4 pounds of cheese, 2 big crustini’s, a whole bunch of onions and some soup. Then the Jalapeño Mac & Cheese comes out. It’s the size of my head and I can hardly look at it let alone eat it. But I drive in grabbing a bite. Loving it, but knowing ill need a spatula later to scrape it off my ribs. I hear this girl next to us comment on the Mac and cheese, so I tell the bartender to grab another couple plates and forks. The One is Vegan, so sad. Another one like Iris from work that doesn’t eat skittles!!!! But the other one was more than down I gave her a couple bites then just put the whole plate in front of her. I think when I wasn’t looking she licked the plate. Cool gals. They were turning the place into a night club so we pounded our drinks and drove out slowly looking at the forest of skin that is Hollywood and headed back to the hotel to sleep off what would be a very sound sleep. HA.