Adventuring: Unintentional Foodie Adventures with the SG

{except add more wind and less umbrella and lots of leaves}

Today was a sunny day.

Until about 5 pm.

Then the wind decided it needed some exercise. As did everyone else in the greater Los Angeles area. So it rushed and it gushed and it blew the hou-- well, not really, but it made walking anywhere near impossible and knocked out the power in several locations.

The original plan was to go out to dinner with my small group and then ice skate at Santa Monica's annual Ice rink near the beach. Just a nice hangout before finals hit and we all died.

Nope.

Premonition #1 that we probably weren't going ice skating tonight was the fact that all the trees were at an angle nearing 45 degrees when the wind blew through them. That & the growing piles of leaves and needles and branches that were about my height along the sides of the road and all over the sidewalks.

Premonition #2 that we probably weren't going ice skating tonight was the fact that  stoplight and street sign poles were excitedly bouncing in the wind as we drove away from campus. Hmm.

Premonition #3 that we probably weren't going ice skating tonight was the fact that the power went out in the area surrounding the off ramp of the freeway as we sat there for 45 minutes {oh, LA traffic}. Just *FLASH* and then darknesssssss.

Premonition #4 that we probably weren't going ice skating tonight?

It was cold and windy. Ick.

Our tiny band of four ended up eating dinner at The Counter on Ocean Park Blvd {food/review posts tomorrow maybe} and then since there was no way we were taking the chance of being blown about by the wind even more than we already were {ice skates + ice/almost frictionless surface + gusts of wind that shoved me around on dry land = no bueno}, we drove over to Blockheads in Sawtelle to eat Snow Ice inside, away from the wind.

Although it wasn't quite what we expected {winter jackets, Christmas lights and music overhead, gracefully gliding around a rink so improbably near sandy beaches, etc. etc.}, we still had fun chattering and explaining to Edy several GOC traditions like Broomball and Spring Retreat. And being so grateful we were trapped inside a car stuck in LA traffic instead of braving the over-20-mile-an-hour winds blowing outside.

Besides, foodie adventures are always the bestest. Mmm... food.