Hey Jake, what's up?

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This morning was a fun one in which we had to leave Annie's quietly and through the side gate which was a small narrow path covered with trees and vines.  The kicker was that Bob was carrying all of the luggage while I was trying to watch our path and hold open the tiny gates.  At the same time, the owner of the place , who we never met, was in the kitchen looking out the window at us and just waving hi.  Fun times.


So, title of our blog was because we went to this AMAZING farmers market in Hollywood because a girl we met in chicago who was from cali told us we had to try Harry's Berries.  These were definitely the best berries either of us have tried.  They had to varieties and they both tasted so different.  It was a treat.  Some things that intrigued us were organic coffee, flavored raw honeys, and flavored nuts.  As we were leaving we ran into Jake Gyllenhaal, thus the title of our blog today.  Yes everyone he cut his hair, and it was ironic because bob's been making fun of his new movie this whole trip.  And no, we didn't take pictures...too quick!






After the market we quickly drove to Venice Beach.  We didn't have much time, so we walked a bit down to the pier, took some pictures, walked the street and saw crazy people, and then got back in our car.  We drove again to Erewhon to grab some smoothies before our one and only guided tour of this trip.


Our guided tour through the company Dearly Departed Tours was a 3 hr van tour of all of hollywood/la/beverly hills.  The focus was on people who had departed us and some gruesome stories of homicide, suicides, and overdoses.  Some of the highlights were Jim Belushi, River Phoenix and Janis Joplin's place of death, Michael Jackson's last home and the house that the Osbourne's were living in while filming their tv show.


At that point we were starving so we drove to Santa Monica, our destination for the evening, and went to a restaurant that Karyn had suggested called Planet Raw.  This was my favorite place so far!  We started with a Mocha Mylk Shake that can not be described in words.  I will be getting another one!  As an appetizer we had raw vegan (no meat) sushi.  This too was delish. (that one's for you Marci)  Then we decided to experiment and bob had his new favorite kelp pasta in the pad thai and i had an ariel wrap with nori, collard greens, avocado, nut pate, veggies, coconut jerky, and fakin bakin both of those dishes being specials!!!  We were so stuffed but the special dessert was raw vegan cinnamon rolls which we couldn't pass up and thank g-d we didn't.  Wow.  


After so much food we were about to die, so we decided to walk the boardwalk of Santa Monica and as a "romantic" suggestion from our waitress we took the ferris wheel.  Pretty.  Then we finally decided to drive to Bob's Great Aunt Gisela's house where we were spending the night.  Cutest lady ever.  Went to bed on a pull out couch from the 70's with a yellow comforter.  ahhhh.... :)

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