well, we had ourselves a weekend alright. parents came in thursday night and it was pretty much continuous activity until i dropped them off monday morning. father’s office thursday for a dinner of the best burgers ever was a good start to things. friday we drove up to wine country, found our hotel and some mexican food, then drank the afternoon away one sample at a time. i think it’s safe to say my mom was a little giggly by the end. decent steak dinner at the hitching post in buellton, then a few games of pool that i completely lost to my dad, three in a row. shameful. after all the beverages though, it ended up being an early night.

the rest of the weekend back in LA was fairly low key, but still good times. saturday was an excellent food day with zankou chicken for lunch and cube for dinner, which are both amazing, obviously. in the afternoon we strolled around the neighborhood (melrose, the grove, etc), and we stretched out dinner with an extra bottle of wine and basically called it a night. when you start at 5 it’s a little tougher to make it past midnight.

then sunday, brunch at toast, watching some sports on tv, and a nice afternoon BBQ. sadly lots of people had other plans, but even with a small crowd it was nice to have a family-style afternoon with parents and friends intermingling. considering they’ve only been out here once at graduation, it was long overdue and good to see that everyone got along. also, we cooked both beer-boiled bratwurst AND carne asada, so by the end of the day i was too stuffed to move. soooo good.

overall it went great. they had fun, we had fun, and i think we represented LA pretty well. if only i had another day or two to do nothing, but hey, that’s why it’s wonderful that memorial day is coming up this weekend. summer has arrived and the good life is here.