Trip to LA

Ok it has been a very busy weekend here in L.A. My girl was trying to stuff as much as possible into my visit and she did a great job but now I'm exhausted lol.

So the trip to LA has now come to an end and I am exhausted. Boy we did a lot of stuff in two days. It will probably take me a week to recover from everything.

Let’s see, Friday we started at a restaurant right after coming from the airport called Alpine Village. It was suppose to be an authentic German restaurant but let’s just say it was pretty ghetto and the food was average, this was not what I was expecting, man I miss Germany. That’s ok, hopefully we’ll be there in May J Damn ticket prices better start dropping though because right now they are $1330 or so. Anyway back to the LA trip.

So we get back from the restaurant and I’m tired as hell so off to bed I go.

Saturday we are up way early, 0700hrs (which technically isn’t that early for me considering the time difference but damn it I was tired) so we can get an early start to go wine tasting in Solvang, CA. Now on our way there, Nicky and Caesar are telling me about this movie I just have to see called Sideways that has to do with the area (ok I am basically putting the name in so I don’t forget later when I go to watch it). It ends up being a two-hour drive to Nicky surprise she thought it was about an hour. So we get there and it’s about 1030hrs and we are starving. So we stop at the tourist info booth and ask about which vineyards to go to and what restaurant to eat at. We figure we will eat then go taste some wine at one spot, as we don’t have too much time since we are having some BBQ at 1700hrs. We trot off to the restaurant the guy in the tourist booth told us expecting some good food; it may have equaled IHOP if we are lucky. It was mediocre but we were starving so what could we say. Now had we taken our time and walked around a bit first we came across several other nice looking places we were sure would have had better food, such is the punishment of impatience. We did buy a few things while walking around and then prepared to go to the vineyard. Now though we are a little skeptical in regards to if this place will be any good as the same guy from the booth had recommended it. As we pull up to the Sunshine Vineyard though, it looks promising.

We go pay our $15 to get the up-graded version of the wine tasting and start to have at it. Sometimes the little snacks they had were better than the wine lol. The best one we all agreed on was a red wine, Ethos 2005. I think we tasted a total of 12 wines, 4 whites and the rest reds.

On the drive back both Nicky and I were struggling to stay awake, man wine makes you sleepy. I managed to stay awake but Nicky on the other hand not so much.

So we’re off to....

BY THE WAY DON’T WORRY THERE ARE MANY PICTURES AS PER REQUEST OF SEVERAL PEOPLE

Cesaer & Paul's house for BBQ where we manage to stuff our faces just in time to run out the door to get on our way to the Laugh Factory on Sunset Blvd. (This is the part I have been looking forward to). We had a really good time. The picture below is of me and Dwayne Preston, MC for the night. Who by the way was one of the best we saw that night. He could have done a lot more and we would have been happy.











We saw :

Dwayne Perkins, *****

Natasha Leggeri , **

Jeremy Hotz, *****

Dom Irrera, *
Dane Cook, **

As you can see we had our favorites, and neither one of them was on the stage long enough.

As this blog is getting long I will continue on a new blog.