Day 3 - Citadel Outlets & Venice Beach

Today we drove out to Commerce (a suburb of LA) to the Citadel outlet joint...Like DFO on steroids (Maria would have lost her mind!). Walked around there looking at stuff for a few hours..we ate a Ruby's diner first up while we waited for the shops to open (Pancakes and a Coke for $10..screw you Pancake Parlour!). We have noticed here that a store may be set to open at 10:00 but they will often just open whenever they want, 10:15, 10:30 etc..


After a couple of purchases we drove across LA to Marina Del Rey and Venice Beach. This drive took a shitload of time (over an hour) in shit traffic. It gave us a good chance to see what the rest of LA is actually like. It started latino then got darker as we drove on.. A lot more homeless people and crummy looking places than in Hollywood. Think of Frankston with guns hehe...


Venice beach was packed as it was around 27 degrees today. We found a park with 40mins on the meter (score!) so bumped it up and went walking.


Venice beach is really dodgy..Lots of shifty looking characters mixed with tourists..really weird combo.
We saw the Muscle beach gym where Arnie used to train which was awesome to see. Some funny looking people around though..Case and point below...

WTF?

We ate at a joint on the beach called Venice Whaler (clever name aye?). Twas good except for screwing up my order. I eventually got my Clam Chowder in a bread titty bowl...Rhiannon had Quasedilla and chips. Again, one meal shared would have sufficed, we left what would here be a full meal.


Pretty soon the legs ran out of steam so we headed back to the hotel. Not sure what we will do for dinner but I'm sure I'll tell you all about it.


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