On Saturday I drove back down the 405 past Wilshire West again in order to get to San Pedro for the “Taste of San Pedro” event. It looked a lot larger on their website than it ended up being. It boiled down to a bunch of pizza and lemonade booths interspersed with things like “Tom’s windows and doors.” We were at the “taste” all of 30 minutes (including the time to eat aforementioned pizza and lemonade) before leaving. The festival was in a small park on top of a cliff. The booth actually blocked the ocean view, but once we left we could see the beautiful waves crashing upon the rocks below the cliffs. The water was a mix of blue, green and red (floating plants off the shoreline). It was an awesome sight. I saw a trail to go down the cliffs to the rocks below and vowed to come back (my friend was not wearing proper climbing attire).

After staring at the rocks we hiked the opposite direction up the hill to Friendship Park. (Yes, movie lovers, that is the place from The Usual Suspects) The park is a very serene beautiful place, on a grass covered cliff jutting out above the ocean. The grass and foliage were immaculately taken care of.

After Friendship Park we set our sights on the new “fountains” in San Pedro. Designed as a miniature Bellagio fountain we’d heard they cost 14 million dollars to build. It didn’t look like 14 million to me. The Fountains consisted of pizza shaped wedges with one larger than the other that were about two feet off the ground so that water would slowly cascade off the sides. Every fifteen minutes a water how would commence consisting of three different size water jets twirling and spitting in time with the Peanuts theme.