We all met up at the Rain Bar, our hotel's lobby bar and grill. After some wine (I had beer) Marty, Marguerite, and I hopped into Jacquie's car and she drove us around and down to a part of town she likes to visit called Manhattan Beach. I had never been there before, but it was awesome. It kind of reminded me of San Francisco or Seattle. It was very hilly and had a great view of the Pacific Ocean. It totally changed our opinion of Los Angeles.
We ended up going to this place called Sloopy's. It was just normal American cuisine, but it was a very funky atmosphere and very unique. The restaurant is actually a covered atrium and there is a fire pit in the center of the building. The weather was rather chilly and it had rained earlier in the day so the fire pit was quite welcome.
I ordered the pastrami on a poppy seed bun and some onion rings and finished it off with what has to be the best peanut butter milkshake I have ever had.
After dinner, Jacquie drove us around the area before heading back to the hotel.
Marty and Marguerite and I went back the lobby. They have free Wi-Fi in the lobby and they needed to borrow my laptop to get online and work on their schedules for June (our bids had just come out for the next month).
The next day we met up with Jacquie again for our scheduled flight from LAX to Orlando, which was pretty uneventful. We were full because of the holiday weekend. After Orlando we said our goodbyes to Jacquie and then flew back to base and up to Tulsa for night two of our layover.
This morning we had a full flight back to base. A lovely older woman gave me a nice smelling Amish candle. Our turn-around to Reno was long, but we were not full so it wasn't too bad and the folks were nice.
Our Captain, Paul was gifted in calligraphy so he made us a thank you sign out of ACARS paper.
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