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Eating

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Veronica and Erik’s lives revolves around eating. I don’t sit down and have breakfast at home very often, but I love it when it happens! They had sneaked out and bought fresh bagels in the morning while I was sleeping.

It’s been really hot lately, and I just wanted to jump in the water. We drove up to north of Malibu, but the spot we wanted was all busy and with a $8 entrance fee. We did not want to pay to go to the beach, so we returned back south and had lunch at Malibu Seafood.

After me jumping in the ocean and some shopping on Main Street I got a request from the backseat for donuts.

San Diego

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The troublemakers are here! We started off with road tripping to San Diego for the day!

The universe didn’t want me to be so excited so this happen.

Now I have to figure out what to do next with this phone. I have not had much luck with it.
First thing first though, let’s get something to eat!

I like San Diego, it has a more chill atmosphere than Los Angeles, and the buildings look cool.

We didn’t stay long in San Diego and took the coast home, stopping in Laguna Beach for ice cream.

LAX

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My friends were supposed to get in yesterday, but they were 26 hours delayed. It all worked out to the better, now I had time to tidy up my place and pick them up at the airport.

May Flower

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My 9 year old niece called me and asked if I wanted to buy a May Flower. Kids in Sweden sell these little pins and stickers throughout April and the proceeds go to kids in need. 
I sold them once when I was a kid, and I remember it was pretty dreadful and kind of a hassle. 
Since it’s going to a good cause, I thought I’d help the kid out, buy a sticker and put it on my old beaten up laptop.
But then the other day the sticker showed up in mail together with an awesome note from the 9 year old asking if I was gonna put it on my scooter.
Now I kind of had to tag my scooter, and send a photo to the my niece. It looks pretty awesome!

Bye Bye Mammoth

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Or as I like to say it; Let’s close this shit down! 
Even though they got a bunch of snow over the weekend and the mountain stays open for another month, this will highly likely be my last ski day of the season. 

Slasher and his posse is moving houses in a few days. I made sure I’m busy all through May so I don’t have to help with the move.

Winter

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I woke up to winter! I don’t remember the last time that happen!

Waiting by Chair 23 for ski patrol to do their magic and secure the mountain from avalanches. The 40 minute wait was well worth the waist deep snow! It almost killed me though, I don’t think I’ve ever skied that much snow. Or if I have, I was in better shape back then.

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Off to Mammoth

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I got a snow alert on my phone earlier today, stoked since I had already planned on heading up to Mammoth anyway! 

I’ve been craving Banana Cream Pie for a while, and had never been to Marie Callender’s – another American fine dining establishment, so we stopped by in Lancaster for dinner.

Pretty depressing and as gross as expected. Marie Callender’s box is checked and I don’t have to go there again. Ever.

A few hours into the drive we saw a bunch of arrows and flashing lights, that we totally ignored. About a mile later the wind was picking up and shortly after that we passed by an overturned semi-truck. The reactions in the car was “oooh, that’s why, it’s to windy they wont let the trucks pass” and “aah, I was to slow, I should’ve taken a photo!”
2 minutes later we passed another overturned truck, I was quicker on my phone this time.

We had just about calmed down from seeing the two overturned trucks when this came up on our left;

3 overturned trucks on a less than 5 minute stretch! Ok that’s enough, it’s not fun anymore. Never seen anything like that before, better slow down!

Mammoth welcomed us with 2 feet of new snow. The plow had been nice enough to stop by, but ignored the driveway, so let’s start the weekend with shoveling snow at 10pm!

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Sockerbit Los Angeles

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I have a severe sweet tooth. I have somewhat managed to curb it while in US, because frankly the sweets here sucks. It either tastes like petroleum or has a unnatural sweetness to it. Same goes with baked goods, not so hot in the US of A. They put cream cheese in the Danish Pastries for example. “Cheese Danish”? Please people, it’s supposed to be grandma couch, not cheese!
I got a text from a friend that they’ve open a Swedish candy store by the Grove. We had to set up a candy date!

I got flashbacks to when I was a kid. We had two candy stores in the town where I grew up. One overpriced chain store called Jam Jam. Is this store still around? No one in my generation seemed to like the candy in this store. We much more preferred Ebbas with the old lady behind the counter that gave you free samples. Ebba retired though, and no one wanted to take over the store so it closed down. So sad.

I like that it is a bit of a hassle for me to get to Sockerbit, if it was walkable, I would probably be there every other weekend.

Tuesday Afternoon

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I had a meeting scheduled for tonight, but it got cancelled so I hit up the driving range instead. I didn’t totally suck today, didn’t hit very far, but I think I learned a lot during my lesson on Saturday.

I hit a medium bucket of balls, it only takes about 45 minutes so I thought I should head over and hike the stairs after, but as I pulled up at home I got reminded about the Culver City Farmers Market down the street and though golfing was enough exercising for one day.

I love cauliflower but have been a bit worried about the evolution of this tasty thing. What’s up with the green and purple cauliflowers? Is that natural? I turned to the internet and found out “Purple, orange, and green cauliflowers haven’t been genetically engineered; rather, they are natural mutants of white cauliflower”  so that’s all good.

About 30 minutes later I had spent all the cash I had on me and returned home. I love where I live.