Joshua Tree & Las Vegas

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I took Friday off from work and we knew we wanted to go somewhere, but not where we wanted to go. Around lunch we made an impulse reservation in Las Vegas, rented a car and headed out! 
Erik made himself comfortable in the backseat.
Driving Los Angeles – Las Vegas takes approximately 4 hours on a good day with no traffic. We were in no hurry though, so we took the long route through Joshua Tree and Mojave National Preserve.  

Some 9 hours later I was deadly sick of driving and just wanted to make it there. Veronica thought I drove like a crazy woman and was not comfortable in the drivers seat, but we made it there safe and sound! Yay for Vegas!

Downtown Art Walk & In N Out Burger

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It’s been a while since I been to the Downtown LA Art Walk, and it’s not quite what it used to be. It used to be a lot of interesting art. Now it feels like it’s been a little commercialized with companies sending out girls to give out free samples of sodas. 

Food truck stop!

We didn’t stay downtown for that long before we headed back to the beloved Culver City.
I live across the street from an In n Out Burger, which is considered to be the best fast food restaurant according to the ones who knows. I’m not a fan of fast food, but since it’s THE fast food chain, we stopped by on the way home for a shake.
Erik got the privilege to go order a burger for himself and 3 milkshakes.

He came back all happy with 3 extra shakes – they’d forgotten they’d already given him three, so he was given three extras! Ok, maybe I am starting to like In n Out Burger.

Muscles at Meet

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I used to be able to hammer out a lot of muscles at the All You Can Eat nights at Meet. I have gotten weaker though, and can only do two and a half bowls. Got to step it up for next time!
Artichokes for the vegetarians!

Artichokes

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Sunday morning means Farmers Market in Mar Vista! I should eat more artichokes!

The Swedes Are Here!

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Veronica and Erik is here, how exciting!
First things first, have to go eat at Native Foods!

Going to the supermarket with these guys were like going to a candy store with kids; they were stoked for everything and bought what felt like pretty much the whole store. My fridge has never ben this full, and will probably never be again.

Having a fridge full of groceries makes me a little uncomfortable, but they promised they will eat it all before they leave.

Fish Taco

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I’m not much for fish tacos, I like the Swedish style Americanized Mexican tacos style… but fish tacos were requested so fish tacos it is!
I like to think I am fairly efficient in the kitchen and don’t like when people tell me how to cook – when I did one of my internships the breakfast chef always kept singing Sinatras “I Did It My Way” when I questioned his ways, thinking I had a better way to deal with things.
So when my friend said I had to make the fish tacos with white cabbage, a special salsa and so on, I got pissed of and made the tacos my way!  

Yellow Corn Tortillas
Romain Lettuce
Garlic Aioli (erh, mayo with fresh garlic)
Baked white fish seasoned with salt, pepper, lemon, butter and white wine
Corn, Mango and Pineapple salsa with fresh chillies
Topped with Alaskan Crabmeat

Awesome!

Coachella Day 2

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Camping out in the desert means two things; you are not gonna be cold and you will wake up early!

Since I’d already been up for several hours at 10:30am, I think it is ok to have a beer before noon.

The campsite is so clean and structured, all in tidy rows!

Major Lazer was amazing! Everyone was crazy and took their shirts off halfway through the set!

Coachella

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I’ve been wanting to go to Coachella ever since I heard about it my first summer in Los Angeles 9 years ago. The first few years because I am a music freak and I love watching bands and drunk stupid kids and eat festival food. As I grew older I wanted to go mostly because I feel it is something I should have done. This year I finally got a wrist band!

We got up at cracker dawn, stopped by the store to pick up food, drinks and ice and arrived at the festival site at 10am. We were welcomed by a 3h line to get in. The security checked every single bag (almost) in every single car to make sure no glass or sharp objects were brought in – awesome! Good thing to know we are safe at the festival though.

We made it in, pitched our tent, and off we go!

Started off mellow with Youth Lagoon – last time I saw him was in a tiny record store in Echo Park.

The snail liked him!

Only a few hours into day one and my feet are already super dirty! Doesn’t hurt that I always need 5000 layers of sunblock on my feet that seems to attract dirt.

We saw Johnny Marr which was really good, he played a bunch of old Smiths songs, and that’s always welcome!

An Elvis hybrid was there!

The classic festival ground photo… I probably wanted to take a photo of something else.

Lee Scratch Perry was most likely very high, such a character!

Stone Roses played all their hits, but were still fairly bad. I always think it’s hilarious to watch the sign language person by the side of the stage though, always entertaining!