Santa Monica was about 30 miles from where we were staying in Long Beach so we took a day trip to see the famous pier! All we can say is … it was nice, but it ain’t Ocean City, MD! … and they have the most annoying looking sidewalks!

A few weeks ago we had a very helpful sales rep at Best Buy – who just happened to be from Baltimore (another Bawlamoron as we like to say). While we were talking to him we mentioned that we would be in Los Angeles soon and he told us if we made it to Santa Monica we had to get chicken and waffles from Bruxie’s and that it would be easy to find because it was across from, of all things, the Apple store. Honestly, we have never really understood the hype about chicken and waffles, we’d tried it a couple of times but weren’t all that excited by it. But, the sales rep told us it was one of the best things he’s eaten, so we decided to try it – so glad we did!!