At the request of the younger travelmates on my recent trip to LA, our group went out to a diner that was still open after midnight that served pancakes and French toast.
I had passed by it earlier in the day.
And it looked like this at night.
Feeling still full from earlier, I just ordered ice cream which I was told was going to be two scoops. They didn’t tell me each scoop was so huge.
My recent trip to downtown LA had something to do with this event that was held at the Microsoft Theater.
And it is one impressive theater. At a 7,000 people capacity, anywhere in the audience you sat, it seemed that you had a center-stage view.
The VIP area.
Backstage public area.
And we’re on.
Backstage before and after show.
The first night in LA was a massive welcome dinner for our huge travel party. Our mysterious-looking ride to the restaurant.
In Little Tokyo for an izakaya party.
And the first morning was another sunny day. Downstairs from the hotel where outside seating seems to be the norm for the eateries in the complex, I had a nice not-too-heavy breakfast.
So I took off on another trip on Thursday, June 29 but before doing so, stopped by a local voting post to cast an absentee ballot for the upcoming election for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
This trip is an unusual one for me in that I am with a group of people including colleagues and people from other companies to go to a convention being held in LA this weekend.
Zipped to LA. Our plane landed much earlier than scheduled and had to keep taxiing round and round the same route more than three times until our gate was ready.
Finally in and out of the terminal at LAX.
Our rooms were not ready so off to the Grand Central Market behind our hotel for some lunch.
Ordering lunch
Took a table near this nice bar (but didn’t buy from it) and waited for our lunch with a nice cup of cold craft beer.
Lunch is served. Had a really good lamb burger.
Walk back to the hotel.
Checked in.
My view.
On the first day of my visit to Seoul, Korea, between my hotel and the venue of the convention I’m attending, I found two locations that served soft ice cream next to each other. I was naturally torn about which to try today having foregone lunch as I was full from breakfast and knowing that a lunch meeting awaited tomorrow.
What I chose and it was great.
Where it came from.
Very nice.
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