{"id":2712,"date":"2014-05-04T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2017-03-06T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:26:08","slug":"sammy-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"Sammy in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhnGDe61f3U?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>more and higher res photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewlong\/sets\/72157644104254230\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was Sam&#8217;s birthday. \u00a0She chose to have Korean BBQ for lunch and we noticed that there IS a Zion Market in LA, so we stocked up on Asian snacks. \u00a0Next we headed to Torrance for a flying &#8220;lesson.&#8221; \u00a0Really what they did is explained how everything works and then let her take the stick for most of the flight up until the landing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2933\/13922007787_174ff040ff.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We started in Torrance and flew over the port of Long Beach before heading up along the river to downtown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7185\/14108951194_040206d685_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7199\/13921939260_2570c547e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5571\/14105481462_117930b7da.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7370\/14105485812_9e6c882f3b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5337\/14128647413_1e83e96897_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7337\/14085459866_bc33c0e3bb_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we made a left turn over hollywood, flying over our own house at one point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7324\/14128672843_7be4e6daaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7429\/14128674933_129c3a13eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7060\/13921973199_7eb279668d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2899\/14085485356_be4fdd8d3c_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2920\/14108629215_a3c94d780c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then doing a loop around the sign and Universal City before heading down to the Getty Center and out to the coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7068\/14108642345_d93e410508_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We followed the coastline back down to Torrance. \u00a0The entire flight was about an hour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7335\/13922033268_60c883f551.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7353\/13922040008_08a22a45ab.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5574\/14105402451_092c9651a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7183\/14085521206_006d69215f_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7313\/14109046964_f2b1d915b8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7419\/14128736163_f845c27d2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeveleigh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eveleigh<\/a> for dinner. \u00a0 The food was slow, but it was all good. \u00a0The ceviche was probably the best as it reminded me of the poke we had in Hawaii. \u00a0The lamb meatballs were very good as well. The waiter must have put his hand on me close to twenty times and they also forgot that it was a birthday dinner until we reminded them. \u00a0For birthdays they bring out four donut holes dipped in brown sugar with berry and cream dipping sauces. \u00a0Even though the portions were small we were stuffed before the third &#8220;course.&#8221; \u00a0 We also ordered the quail and fried artichokes, a glass of ros\u00e9 and an orangy mixed drink. (all good) \u00a0It&#8217;s in the heart of Hollywood, very hipstery and &#8220;quaint&#8221; in decoration (think Cracker Barrel for Williamsburg), not my sort of thing, but Sam liked it and that&#8217;s all that counts for a birthday dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" style=\"width: 642px; height: 856px;\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash3\/t1.0-9\/1911783_10203126662264122_1013021765646953834_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" style=\"width: 642px; height: 856px;\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn2\/t1.0-9\/1544370_10203126661704108_1512445995524483246_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>more and higher res photos here. Saturday was Sam&#8217;s birthday. \u00a0She chose to have Korean BBQ for lunch and we noticed that there IS a Zion Market in LA, so we stocked up on Asian snacks. \u00a0Next we headed to Torrance for a flying &#8220;lesson.&#8221; \u00a0Really what they did is explained how everything works and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}