We decided to leave our neck of the woods and head to the beach. We left fairly early in the morning and beat the traffic. We made it to Santa Monica in 20 minutes. How cool is that? We hit up a small farmer's market before plopping ourselves in the sand. Ms. P was a little leery of the big bad ocean. A wave came and got her wet fairly early so she approached it with caution. It wasn't a sunny morning. Instead it was overcast but the temperature was perfect. We had fun making castles and by the end of the visit she was approaching those waves with a smile.
We ended up catching lunch at the nearby LuLu's with our good friend Jung and caught up with his life while Ms. P squirmed around. Luckily nap time approached and she knocked out while mom and dad visited with their friend.
When I was going to Michigan State University, my friends and I would always go to BW3's for hot wings. They always had a variety of flavored wings from Honey BBQ to steaming hot, hot, death wings. Wings and a beer were just the thing to satisfy a busy student's appetite. When we frequented BW3's it was a dive bar but by the time my brother graduated from MSU they swapped locations for a building across the street and turned the name to Buffalo Wild Wings and the restaurant became more like a chain thing. Well, color me shocked the other day when we went to the movies and I saw a Buffalo Wild Wings being built in the AMC Burbank 16 complex. Apparently, after looking on their website they are one of the fastest top 10 chains in the US. So of course I had to introduce the hubby to one of my favorite college treats. I don't think he is so much a fan of chicken wings so we got boneless chicken wings a.k.a. tasty little chicken chunks in two of the flavored sauc...