I don't know why but today seems like it's gonna be a great day

Oh Tuesday, when you first started out you seemed like just any other sub-par weekday.  When the alarm went off hours before I wanted it to and didn't have any milk so I had to have left over Teriyaki Chicken for breakfast things weren't looking too bright.

But then something happened!

I got to pick Andrea up from work for lunch and a small hunch brought us to a little gathering of L.A. food trucks that we'd been to before (see Andrea's bird-day lunch). I was totally unaware that this was a WEEKLY thing - now I know where I'm having lunch every Tuesday :)  With a little investigative research I even found out the name of the awesome live musical/visual entertainment that accompanies our meals - Brad and Suzi Cover Duo!!!!

Anyway, we feasted on Argentinian delights (one had a little Cuban inspiration - the El Fidel Empanada) while serenaded by Brad and Suzi.  Thus far a pretty nice day.

Then, when Andrea got home we went on a little jog/walk around a little bit of our neighborhood and saw some pretty awesome houses/views of LA and were happy to get some fresh air and exercise in the fabulous SoCal Spring weather.

THEN we stopped by the grocery store to get the much needed milk and found a bunch of prizes that were on sale!

What a great ending to a pretty fantastic day.

Oh yeah, when we got back they actually had hot chocolate in the lobby (this almost never happens and it's always a joyous occasion when it does) AND then when we checked the mail Andrea had a package from KROQ - she won a Black Keys CD!

I am officially a huge fan of KROQ (with a facebook "like" to prove it).  This is the 3rd thing we've collectively received from KROQ (1- I won prescreening tickets to Rango and while there 2 - Andrea won tickets to see the Dirty Heads).

Not a bad day.  The only things that would have been better would have been if Chuck had a new episode yesterday so we could have watched it on Hulu (Andrea's sad that last week was the season finale of Pretty Little Liars because they consist of our Tuesday night entertainment during dinner) or if our new netflix DVD would have come today instead of how it's supposed to come tomorrow.  Oh well, I guess we'll just have to have a semi-productive evening instead of watching a bunch of stuff all night...

we're off to see the sixers, the wonderful sixers play ball

So once we finally came home from vacation we went to see the Philadelphia 76ers come to town to take on the Los Angeles Clippers.

It was a good game, the sixers won.  I think these very strange metal pieces of "art" that can be found just outside the south-east entrance to the Staples Center are meant to represent the tears of the Clippers because they are perpetually losing.

Losing or not, if I had to choose an LA basket ball team to represent it would definitely be the Clippers, because it would be WAY better than the alternative.

what happens in Vegas goes on the internet

The soundclash was the main event, but it's not like we'd go all the way to Vegas and only go to a concert

 

even if Elvis did show up!

We checked out some of what Sin City had to offer such as the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (fancy), which was pretty cool. Andrea even got the opportunity to check out the inside of a huge shoe!

We also stopped by the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens.

We made the mistake of going to eat fast food Filipino/Chinese food... blech, never again.

On the plus side the market that was attached to the little gastronomical nightmare had some gigantic pomelos that would be great to get a picture with:

It was all fine and nice, and then it came time to comeback home... yeah, never leaving Sunday morning ever again!  I think we were parked on the highway for at least an hour and rarely were going over 20 until we left Nevada.