Santa Monica shakedown

We have had a great day today.

First practicing zazen with Brad, then going off for some good indian food and a discussion on Nina Hartley and scandinavian adult entertainment of the 70's. After we went for a margherita with some of the other members of the group, and then onwards to see the new Batman movie on 3rd street promenade. I though this movie was pretty darn good, by far the most mature batman interpretation so far, although Jaana found it a bit too long - and the development of the two-face character a bit silly with all that flipping of coins. I had no beef with it personally. Jaana is swearing over her home made bead bracelet and how tricky it is to put together. She was given the beads as a gift from one of Brads zen group (they picked it up in a very well stocked bead sotre down on Main), and it's keeping her distracted now so I can sneak in a Pacifico before bed. After all our holiday is nearing an end.

After Batman we went to a Pizza place, also in santa monica and had some food and a Stella before Jaana expertly and expediently chauffered my sorry as back home to this absurd luxury hotel of ours.

Tomorrow it looks like we will be going back to Ventura for a BBQ with Marty and Lotta wich will be fun.

I will be so sad to have to leave LA again to go back to eurrrrrope, but there is some comfort in thinking about our weeks in Sweden by the end of the month. It will be good to see our Swedish homies and families. And London has its own crappy kind of charm after all.

The long arm of the lawyer

We drove back to Oxnard and saw our new immigration lawyer. Hopefully he can get the ball rolling so we won't have to spend the rest of our lives stuck in Europe. We had some Tacos. We drove into downtown LA and nearly parked in a garage that was closed over the weekends. Luckily the nice girl let us know, and we got out without paying.
The hotel here is truly amazing. I have never been able to afford a place like this before. In in reality still can't.. or at least won't. You can find awesome deals if you do your homework online these days. There is everything here, it is grand and glitzy, and they will be ebringing us fresh breakfast to our room tomorrow morning before we go to Santa Monica to practice zazen with Brad.
Not sure what we will do afterwards, but i would like to go to Astroburger or some other retro place like that. Tonight we did the Daily Grill, which was as good as last time, and we had a fabulous glass of silly expensive dry white, a nice break from them margheritas and befitting the urban sophistication we're back into.
Jaana is tossing and turning in bed. Telltale sign I should get off the computer.