Winchester Road Trip: Single's edition For Valentine's Day
(Cross Posted from InsaneJournal revolving_door)
So! An actual update! Holy crap. Dean and I headed out of the house this morning around 11:30 and started for Pasadena. We had a very busy schedual planned out for the day and we were determined to get out of the house.
Single's Edition of the Winchester's SoCal Trip.
Vroman's on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. It was a very large, over priced bookstore for very fancy people. If you like really obscure main stream books, go for it. If not *shrugs* then don't go. It wasn't really a place that I thought I'd want to hang out there for a long time.
Next we caught a light lunch at Target then headed over to a little cupcake place that I found to be on our way to la. It was called Dot's Cupcakes on Arroyo Pkwy also in Pasadena. The store was really nice. Their displays were pretty good. And they had little nicknacks that had to do with cupcakes and birthday stuff around the store. Dean got an Oreo Cookie Cupcake and I got Raspberry Cheesecake Cupcake. Dean would have given his a 7, which is pretty high for this guy (My brother can be pretty picky about his cupcakes. He even said that he felt like he was betraying Suzie's cupcakes. Which is awesome! You gotta go.). I say WOULD have given it a 7 but in the first bite, he got a piece of egg shell so he brought it down to a 5. I gave mine a 7 cause it needed more raspberry in the cake itself. The frosting was good and it had a nice little raspberry on top.
So, after Dot's we headed to Amoeba so Dean and his girl could pick up a few movies. I headed over to Borders where I listened to music and went over my notebook, trying to fix a few things. After that we met up and looked a books and such. After Borders, we started on our way to dinner. On the way there, we drove past a man. (And everybody will shut up and not call us names for this. If you do, keep it to yourself, we know we're assholes) And I don't just mean a guy... I mean a 400 lb man with no legs in a motorized wheel chair. He looked like an upside down Mushroom. I pointed him out to Dean as we drove past and it took a little bit for Dean to realize what he'd just seen. The way his reaction just kept getting louder and louder, I knew it was worth pointing out. I was in tears he had me laughing so hard. And it wasn't at the guy, it was at what Dean wanted to do with him. First he wanted to figure out some way to give the man a puppet cause he needed a Salacious Crum cause the dude looked like Jabba Hutt. (Shut up, we're jerks, we know!!) If you were there you would have laughed too. Dean just kept going on and on about the guy needing a Pit of Carcoon to throw hot chicks into or something. Anyway, it was funny! Anyway, that entertained us the whole drive from Amoeba to Cafe 50s.
Anyway, dinner, Cafe 50s. I got the best burger I've had in a long time. Bacon Blue Cheese burger with onion rings. Dean got a burger too and also a chocolate shake which wasn't too bad. I'm not a huge chocolate person. I got a Mint shake which was really good. So after dinner we headed back to Hollywood and went to the Arc Light Theater. Our movie didn't start till 8:00 and we got there at 6:30. So we wandered around and ended up at the bar. I (the good little boy that I am) got coffee and Dean (the not so good boy) got Vodka and Coke. And I mean 80% Vodka and 20% coke. He was smashed before we got into the theater. I had to cut him off. Honestly, it was hilarious to see him checking out chicks who were obviously with their boyfriends on a date for Valentine's day. And holy shit! This douchebag couple with their matching black leather jackets and black boots. They were the definition of EMO couple. The dude was strutting when he walked past us. My drunk brother said that he must have been perfecting that walk for years. You know how emo Peter Parker looks in the Spiderman movie? Picture that but shorter and soooooooooo much ego he needed to be cut down to size and that's what the guy looked like. Anyway, 7:45 and we decided to go catch our movie after I took Dean's drink away. He was starting to slur his words and saying things he probably should keep to himself. Ok movie, (And shut it!!) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Really depressing chick flick. The reason we went was cause Jessica loves that movie and she wanted to see it on the big screen so we went. Such a chick flick. Really depressing, good, but depressing.
So, I drove my still very drunk brother home and put him to bed. He's gonna have such a hang over tomorrow and probably won't even remember what happened or what he said. Ha. Black mail. I love being the little brother.
So! An actual update! Holy crap. Dean and I headed out of the house this morning around 11:30 and started for Pasadena. We had a very busy schedual planned out for the day and we were determined to get out of the house.
Single's Edition of the Winchester's SoCal Trip.
Vroman's on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. It was a very large, over priced bookstore for very fancy people. If you like really obscure main stream books, go for it. If not *shrugs* then don't go. It wasn't really a place that I thought I'd want to hang out there for a long time.
Next we caught a light lunch at Target then headed over to a little cupcake place that I found to be on our way to la. It was called Dot's Cupcakes on Arroyo Pkwy also in Pasadena. The store was really nice. Their displays were pretty good. And they had little nicknacks that had to do with cupcakes and birthday stuff around the store. Dean got an Oreo Cookie Cupcake and I got Raspberry Cheesecake Cupcake. Dean would have given his a 7, which is pretty high for this guy (My brother can be pretty picky about his cupcakes. He even said that he felt like he was betraying Suzie's cupcakes. Which is awesome! You gotta go.). I say WOULD have given it a 7 but in the first bite, he got a piece of egg shell so he brought it down to a 5. I gave mine a 7 cause it needed more raspberry in the cake itself. The frosting was good and it had a nice little raspberry on top.
So, after Dot's we headed to Amoeba so Dean and his girl could pick up a few movies. I headed over to Borders where I listened to music and went over my notebook, trying to fix a few things. After that we met up and looked a books and such. After Borders, we started on our way to dinner. On the way there, we drove past a man. (And everybody will shut up and not call us names for this. If you do, keep it to yourself, we know we're assholes) And I don't just mean a guy... I mean a 400 lb man with no legs in a motorized wheel chair. He looked like an upside down Mushroom. I pointed him out to Dean as we drove past and it took a little bit for Dean to realize what he'd just seen. The way his reaction just kept getting louder and louder, I knew it was worth pointing out. I was in tears he had me laughing so hard. And it wasn't at the guy, it was at what Dean wanted to do with him. First he wanted to figure out some way to give the man a puppet cause he needed a Salacious Crum cause the dude looked like Jabba Hutt. (Shut up, we're jerks, we know!!) If you were there you would have laughed too. Dean just kept going on and on about the guy needing a Pit of Carcoon to throw hot chicks into or something. Anyway, it was funny! Anyway, that entertained us the whole drive from Amoeba to Cafe 50s.
Anyway, dinner, Cafe 50s. I got the best burger I've had in a long time. Bacon Blue Cheese burger with onion rings. Dean got a burger too and also a chocolate shake which wasn't too bad. I'm not a huge chocolate person. I got a Mint shake which was really good. So after dinner we headed back to Hollywood and went to the Arc Light Theater. Our movie didn't start till 8:00 and we got there at 6:30. So we wandered around and ended up at the bar. I (the good little boy that I am) got coffee and Dean (the not so good boy) got Vodka and Coke. And I mean 80% Vodka and 20% coke. He was smashed before we got into the theater. I had to cut him off. Honestly, it was hilarious to see him checking out chicks who were obviously with their boyfriends on a date for Valentine's day. And holy shit! This douchebag couple with their matching black leather jackets and black boots. They were the definition of EMO couple. The dude was strutting when he walked past us. My drunk brother said that he must have been perfecting that walk for years. You know how emo Peter Parker looks in the Spiderman movie? Picture that but shorter and soooooooooo much ego he needed to be cut down to size and that's what the guy looked like. Anyway, 7:45 and we decided to go catch our movie after I took Dean's drink away. He was starting to slur his words and saying things he probably should keep to himself. Ok movie, (And shut it!!) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Really depressing chick flick. The reason we went was cause Jessica loves that movie and she wanted to see it on the big screen so we went. Such a chick flick. Really depressing, good, but depressing.
So, I drove my still very drunk brother home and put him to bed. He's gonna have such a hang over tomorrow and probably won't even remember what happened or what he said. Ha. Black mail. I love being the little brother.