Scenes from the Weekend

Monday, January 31, 2011

















Well well, hello Monday! Did everyone have a swell weekend? I have to be honest, I ate my way through this past weekend, which goes against rules # 1-75 on my new years resolution list. Oops! Bree and I took a road trip (I say road trip because with traffic, a stop for snacks, a trip to refill gas, and 2 looped listening sessions of Girl Talk's latest album the route there took us over an hour) we arrived in Venice for an adventurous afternoon. I am a east-side L.A. girl at heart, but I do love me some beach lovin' every once in a while. If I was forced by law to leave my beloved Silverlake, my next choice would totally be Venice. So B and I walked the streets of Abbot Kinney, dined at Gjelina and shared the most delicious Gruyere, Caramelized Onion, Fromage Blanc & Arugula Pizza I've ever tasted. We chased our lunch with the butterscotch pot de creme with salted caramel and creme fraiche and amaretto gelato. Real women order dessert, kids. Just sayin'.  Sunday was filled with celebrating best boy pal C's birthday at the Eagle Rock Brewery. We ate from the the No Jodas! Cuban Kitchen food truck and sipped some of the most delicious specialty beers I've ever tasted. The evening ended with a cookie cake (obviously!) and all of us standing around the campfire drinking jugs full of beer and reminiscing about all of C's past birthdays, and just how much we love him! A good weekend, if I do say so myself!

15 comments:

  1. i completely agree with you about dessert! i ALWAYS leave room for it.

    sounds like you had the most delicious weekend. i adore amaretto gelato!

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  2. these are such lively photos! i especially love the one of the turquoise building with the man on the roof playing a guitar! <3 i just fell in love with it. (:
    xo

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  3. love the bikes!

    http://fleursetfilles.blogspot.com/

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  4. "real women order dessert." line o' the century!

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  5. i TOTALLY ate through my weekend too and i also believe in the real women ordering dessert theory. that cake looks amazing.

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  6. you take REALLY amazing pictures! they're all so lovely! :)

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  7. Looks like a lovely weekend,and I agree with the above...you DO take lovely pictures!

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  8. Sheesh I want to eat everything you just shared. Everything! My stomach is rumbling with each halfhearted bite of oatmeal :)

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  9. Wow, looks like a really fun weekend! You have a great eye for photography!

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  10. love the pictures - those bikes are too cute! and yay for roadtrips, no matter how small!

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  11. Fun! I love that red nail polish too...and the eating, me too. It's been so snowy here and cold that all I keep doing is snacking...I need spring!

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  12. I'm jealous, sounds like an amazing weekend.

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  13. I stumbled upon your blog today and it is charming! I love seeing a fellow southern california blogger. Although, you do have the better part. LA beats my desert. Looking through your blog has made me want to explore LA, just because.

    And yes, you're right! Real women do, in fact, order dessert!

    - Laura Shane

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  14. "Gruyere, Caramelized Onion, Fromage Blanc & Arugula Pizza"?? "Butterscotch pot de creme with salted caramel and creme fraiche and amaretto gelato"?! COME on!!

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