Shoot Out At the Steak Corral

April 22 2017

After getting up pretty late, I went to wake up MM who had slept in his van overnight (he swears it was more comfortable than it was).

A quick trip to the GOOD TIME donut store and a big pot of coffee later and we were ready to go on another trip around the city.

MM had bought a few vintage roadsigns on his travels, you know, the kind that belong on the walls of any self-respecting man-cave.  Something like this:

There was no way it was going to fit in a bag, so we went down to the local goodwill shop to see if they had something that it would be able to fit in.  Nailed it, found a great bag.  Went back to the van only to realise it was just a bit too small.   They wouldn't refund him but they were kind enough to swap it for a slightly larger bag which did the trick nicely.

So we walked around a small shopping mall that was nearby, for kicks.  There was a soccer match going on between Mexico and Spain ( I think) and the whole strip mall was loaded with guys watching the match.  I felt a bit uncomfortable taking the next snap but what the heck, it turned out pretty cool!  I'm sure if anybody saw us they'd be thinking "what the hell is that gringo doing?", but thankfully it didn't come to that.  They were all transfixed on the game.

Except for the guy in the grey hoodie on the right.  He just seems so disinterested.

Next stop, MM wanted to take some pics of a Randy's donuts sign, but I found a much better one for him.  The little boy from the steak corral seems slightly more inspiring for shooting:

Of course we could've used a real gun, but we're Aussies, we don't believe in that nonsense.  Not when a photo shoot is a better option.

After all the exhaustion of driving around and around checking out different kinds of 50s 3D signage we stop nearby to eat at an old diner in Whittier.  We get the steak special and it is BLEEDING FANTASTIC!  As in, we both like eating rare steaks.

Then we dug into some good old fashioned sherbert.  The type that Megan Draper really, really did NOT like in AMC's Mad Men.

Ours was really, really good.  I had pineapple and MM had lime so I guess it was a pine-lime splice.

A successfull shoot-out at the Steak Corral - MM with a proper camera, me with my dinky camera phone.

Smiles all around.

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