weekend adventures.

This weekend was a good one.  I had Friday off from work, so it was good and long.  Just like every weekend should be.

We started the weekend with a nice lunch at La Brea Bakery, which is actually located in the caf at Pepperdine.  The balcony at the caf overlooks the city and the beach, so the caf kind of = a nice restaurant... kind of.  I got a mozzarella, sundried tomato, and pesto panini.  It was divine.

Next up:  We had breakfast with our pals Alan and Kristi on Saturday morn.  I work with Alan.  He is a funny guy.  And they're both super nice.  We ate at our favorite breakfast spot, Patrick's Roadhouse.  I had delicious multigrain blueberry pancakes.  They were great.  Thanks Patrick.

Straight from breakfast, Rob and I went to the Los Angeles Zoo.  If I hadn't gotten free tickets, we might not have gone.  Not because we don't love animals, but just because, oh, it was 100 DEGREES at the zoo.  Oh goodness gracious, we haven't walked around in that kind of heat for a long time.  But it was still a good time because we got to see some baby animals playing around with their moms (our favorites were the orangutan and the barbarous), some really cool mountain goats, and the chimpanzees putting on quite the show for the audience.  It was pretty cool.

Seriously, I would like to see how that goat gets down from there. 

We had to run some errands in Santa Monica after the zoo, so that was where we headed.  And pretty much stayed the rest of the evening.  We walked down 3rd Street, walked to the pier, went to the arcade (we're not gamers, I swear), and watched a street performer do a magic show.  A surprisingly impressive magic show.

I would say that the highlight was when I WHOOPED Rob in arcade basketball, and even set a high score for the machine.  Holla.