Last day of fun in the LA sun…started with a run on the beach.
Followed by a cold shower (again!! gah!!) and a trip to Gjusta.
The hype is for a reason. The place is drool inducing and the people are all super friendly and nice and even though you feel pretentious for being there, there’s somehow the most laid back feel at the same time. Everyone seemed to know everyone’s names and regulars were talking to the baristas, and they were super helpful EVEN THOUGH THEY DON’T SERVE DECAF.
They also had an oven that was broken so they were limited in the bread options. Lucky for me they had the one I wanted.
I spied this rye seed thing in the case and immediately asked what it was and if I could have it on my lox breakfast plate. He said sure! It also comes with labneh, lox (I let him pick which he wanted to give me) and all those yummy capers and pickled things. I put it in the back of the car for safe keeping since it was my lunch on the road. Kyle got a hummus and turkey sando for his lunch.
We ordered breakfast too naturally.
I got a biscuit with jam and asked for a fried egg too, so they just threw it on the side for me.
Exactly what I wanted.
Kyle got a bagel egg and bacon sammie thing.
We took it to a park in Westwood so the kids could play while we ate…we were hoping to get them a little exercise before trapping them in the car for hours and hours. They had already eaten at the rental house before we left so they were perfectly content to collect sticks and climb while we noshed.
My biscuit was so good. I don’t know what made it unique, but it wasn’t like any other biscuit I’ve had. It was more whole grain like or something? But not “healthy” tasting. But not buttery tasting either. And the jam had a zing to it – maybe cranberries? Sadlt the egg was cold, but that wasn’t the fault of Gjusta. That would be due to the heinous staff at Starbucks who lost my order. And after waiting 20 minutes I finally was like hellooooooo??? And they were like, hmmmmm. And the kids in the car were like LK^(%$JDBFO*S&^)*$Y%RLFHI. So that was a real lose lose. Starbucks can’t figure out a decaf order for the life of them. What is so complicated!?!?
Finally we hit the i-5.
Lunch break! Kyle took over driving so then it was my turn to dig in.
SO GOOD!
Miracle of miracles we only stopped ONCE on the whole drive home!? Crazy right? It was long, but V slept for 2 hours so that was awesome. P only slept for 45 minutes, but he can listen to the same 7 books on cd on repeat and still think it’s a treat, so he’s easy to keep entertained.
And now we are home sweet home.
