It may be no Kodo, but Kobe Bryant lives only a couple miles away. Apparently Kobe's house is in a gated community AND has its own gate. K.'s house has no supplemental gate, but it does have maseratis in the front and K. shops at the same supermarket as Kobe.
Headed up to Long Beach to try Alondra Hot Wings, which I'd heard had excellent wings. They were certainly better than the local place, although I should have gone for Suicide rather than X-tra Hot.
Alondra's other specialty is deep-fried twinkies. Here is what Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has to say about deep-fried twinkies:And in the South we don't just eat and eat lots of things, but we fry everything before we eat it. Now folks let me explain something to those of you north of the Mason-Dixon line--when I say we fry everything, we fry everything. At the Arkansas State Fair, you can not only get the fried onion rings, fried french fries, fried corn dogs, but you can get a fried Twinkie®. [laughter]. Yes as if a Twinkie® isn't bad enough for you, we take the Twinkie®, we dip it in batter, and then fry it, put it on a stick and put powdered sugar on top of that. [laughter]. Plus we charge you $3 for it so a 30 cent Twinkie®--3 bucks. Not a bad deal--for the people selling it. You're not into fried Twinkies®, we got fried Oreos®. Same thing. Take the Oreo®, dip it in batter, fry it, put powdered sugar on it. Now largely we eat that way because we like it. The other reason is quite frankly, and I didn't know this until I was [inaudible] is we eat that way because most of us grew up poor enough that you take the thinnest, least expensive cuts of meat and if you batter it and fry it and pour gravy on you can feed a lot more people with a lot less basic food. It's that simple. But it was also killing us. And I realized that we had to make some changes.
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/huckab082705spt.html
He's lost 120 lbs in the last two years, so I guess he knows what he's talking about. On the other hand, deep fried twinkies are damm good.
Next, headed to the Ritz Carlton in Dana Point for more desert. No pictures of this, but the lounge/restaurant was at the top of a cliff overlooking a wide sandy beach. They were having a surfing contest below, but someone had forgotten to order the waves, so a swarm of wetsuited surfers bobbed in the water, occasionally popping up on a weak swell. Had a warm chocolate cake with ice cream that cost $9 and was nowhere as good as the twinkie.Next to Angel Stadium, where the Angels were taking on the Pirates. Hat day!
From our seats we had a great view of the waterworks in the outfield, and the Ponda in the background.
The Angels display the world series trophy they won in 2002 behind glass in the lower concourse.
It was getting late by the end of the game, but we headed to the Irvine Spectrum Center to get K. some baseball cards, and also had a quick snack at Tea Station.
Didn't get back to Muffy until almost 1am - long day, but a good trip.
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