This was, surprisingly, the view from our hotel room this weekend. It was a beautiful day in Long Beach Saturday. We got in around 4:00 and went for a walk at Shoreline Village. It was so gorgeous and clear that we had to stop at the Yard House just to sit and watch the boats and the people go by. I actually had a cocktail which I never do. It was some crazy cherry vodka lemonade mix and all it did was give me a headache. We headed back to the hotel to get ready and showed up at about 7:40 for the reunion when dinner was supposed to start at 8:00.
There was no one there. The little book that was given out listing all the people attending only had about 40-50 people in it. This was out of a class of over 600. WTF? We went inside anyway, took a quick look around, and bailed. Carl didn't know anyone there and as we perused the reunion book we quickly realized that most of those attending were divorced single moms who still lived around LA and then about 5 guys from Carl's class who he didn't know who were cops in the LA area. Needless to say that is not our crowd.
We left and headed to Roscoe's. Carl called up a friend of his who he knows lives in LB and he came over and met us. We hung out for a couple of hours at Roscoe's sipping lemonade and people watching while Carl and Orlando talked about the good old days of rock n roll.
Carl seemed a little disappointed, but then pointed out that the real reunion was in June when we came down and went to the Crucified show and Carl saw all his old band friends. Those were his buddies, not the people he never knew and never liked from highschool.
So we ended up spending $190 for a reunion we didn't attend and had great chicken and waffles instead of hotel catered food just like we wanted to anyway.
Overall it was a good trip. Like I posted on Friday it's just great to get into the city and be with other people, walk along the ocean hand it hand, eat great food, and spend time with the one you love.
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