Month: January 2017

Little Tokyo

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On Friday night we stayed in downtown LA in anticipation of the Women\’s March the following morning.  Hotels were pretty booked but we found a room in Little Tokyo.  We were just down in that area last weekend so we knew it would be a good place.

We really wanted to try out Kula Revolving Sushi Bar.  Last weekend the wait was 2 hours but we got there early enough that we didn\’t have to wait too long.
The sushi went revolving by you on the lower belt or you could place a special order on the tablet and it would come zooming down to you on the upper belt.  

All the plates were pretty small and $2.25/plate so we got to try lots of different things.  When we ordered Quinn\’s California Roll we mentioned that it had crab in it.  For some reason, it just doesn\’t taste the same now and Quinn\’s not so sure about the crab.  Although he did say he would still order it at our favorite local sushi joint.

When you\’re done with a plate, you pop it in this plate disposal device and it adds a plate to your bill.

If you order 15 plates you get a special prize that automatically comes down the clear shoot.  Quinn was so excited to get a California Roll Sushi Pen!

It was our first revolving sushi experience and we loved it!!

This and That

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Quinn gave his old bike to his buddy Hayden so we went out for a test drive on Sunday.  And then they climbed a tree.

Quinn\’s new obsession.   I\’m sure you will be seeing much more of this in blog posts to come.

I am obsessed with winter sunsets and you will be seeing more of these too.

Quinn and his cub scout den had a tour of our local police station.  The boys had so many questions about the jail and the inmates.  

SkySlide

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You might have seen the post on FaceBook about our ride down the SkySlide.  It\’s a new glass slide 70 stories up that recently opened in downtown LA.

Quinn says that he is afraid of heights so I wasn\’t quite sure how this was going to go.  Look at that face!

They make it pretty easy to access.  Here\’s the top of the slide.

I went first.

Then Quinn.

There may have been a couple of terrified screams from him coming down the slide but he was happy he did it.

Then Don.

A look at the slide from another angle.

Some pics from the observation deck.

The ocean was a beautiful, shiny gold.

 The Hollywood sign in the distance.

Snow on the mountains.

After the slide we walked to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) about a mile away.  And then walked through Little Tokyo on the way back to the car.    We also had an uneasy walk through skidrow at sunset but we made it.