We can live beside the ocean
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After some much needed sleep catchup and some tasty dim sum, Ian took me out to Santa Monica.
My tour of the promenade was highlighted by a crew of breakers. Their performance was itself punctuated by a dwarf-like Hawaiian who just about floored me when he did a headslide across the concrete in an old school skate helmet. I wish the crowd hadn’t been so ginormous that I was able to get a picture.
From the promenade, we ventured over to the pier. In what is truly an example of polar extremes, the volunteers of Arlington West set up and dismantle a field of crosses every day in the shadow of the midway, one cross for every U.S. soldier killed thus far in Iraq. Needless to say, their job takes them a little longer each day. A sobering experience.
Rather than eat out yet again, we opted instead for some home cookin’. On the menu tonight: seafood soup with wood ear and enoki mushrooms, steamed red tilapia and dungeness crab. Diagnosis: delicious!
Note: no Ian’s were harmed in the making of this meal, although that wasn’t for lack of trying on the crab’s part.
