Today is my last day here in Marina Del Rey, CA and I can’t explain how fast these last 2+ weeks have gone. But this doesn’t mean the trip is over. Tomorrow I’ll drive over to Las Vegas for a few days where I’ll be staying at the Hard Rock Hotel just off the strip. Staying at the Hard Rock wasn’t my first option since it isn’t the cheapest, but it was recommended by a few friends and my brother. They kept on saying something about eye candy, but I’ll be the judge of that! And, with it being only a few blocks off the stip, it’s an easy cab ride to the casinos. Not that the Hard Rock doesn’t have a casino of it’s own, it just doesn’t match up to the ones on the strip.

For the most part, I’ve spent my time going to a few restaurants/bars. I’m pretty sure I went out for drinks almost every night here other than maybe 2 or 3 days. The usual suspects were Tony P’s for sports, Cactus Cantina for Mexican food and “sight seeing”, and The Terrace for relaxing. Well, usually The Terrace is relaxing. Surprisingly, there were a couple of days where they had a DJ. You would have go to The Terrace to understand why that’s surprising. There was one other restaurant that we went too once, the California Yacht Club, to view the Boat Parade. I can’t explain how enormous the buffet was. I filled myself up with a small plate for dinner and finished off with a few rounds of desert, yum.

Thanks to Eric, I also managed to play a couple rounds of golf in California. Both were public courses, but were in pretty good shape. I guess it’s not too hard to keep a course in good shape when the weather is nice all year round. By the time I was on the course for the second round of golf last Monday, I was as relaxed as it gets. No matter how good or bad I was shooting it was nice to be outside drinking a few beers and enjoying the weather. Eric and I also had a few laughs along the way. Somehow, my ability to hit a righty driver over 200 yards – straight – surprises everyone. Well, I guess it should, it surprises me too. We also had a good laugh at one of the players we were paired with. We’ll just call him Mr. Professional since I don’t remember his name. At the first hole, Mr. Professional asked that we move back behind him and out of his site line while he hits his driver. It turned out being silent and still was a common request from him. I’d hate to see how he’s react to having a crowd watch him play. Early on Eric said he would lose his game in the middle of the back nine. And he wasn’t kidding. Mr. Professional lost his game big time. As for my score during the two rounds, I shot a 92 from the white tees during the first round and a 91 from the blue tees during the second round. It would have been nice to finally hit a round under 90, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Maybe I’ll buy myself a game like Eric claims to have done. In other words, he bought himself expensive clubs.

Outside of that, I helped my brother move apartments. Most days I would go to the old apartment, fill up my truck with as much as I could, then move it over to the new apartment. It worked out pretty well having a week or so overlap between the two apartments.

That’s it for now. And, as Joker pointed out, I’ll do my best to remember that they’re just chips!