So Kristal and I left the house at 10:15 this morning and after stopping by USC we were saying goodbye to downtown LA at around 11 am. We stopped by Cici's pizza in Chino Hills for lunch, and it was delicious as usual. There wasn't much to look at on the drive over. There was a weird elephant on a random hillside, and a pretty expansive and cool wind farm. Other then that, it was mostly mountains and deserts as far as the eye could see.
After a couple rest stops, we finally pulled into Phoenix, and after hitting our first round of traffic just outside the city, we pull into our hotel around 6. After a half hour of relaxing, we were all set to go to Rawhide Steakhouse and Old West Town until I was a genius and called ahead for a reservation. Turns out its only open on Thursday through Saturday, so good thing I call. We are going to swing by it tomorrow, and based on the ad in the hotel, it looks an awful lot like the western town in that South Park episode where they get taken hostage.
So instead of that we decided to go to a really good pizza place where Oprah apparently flies into Arizona just to eat there! But it was over a 90 minute wait so we decided to defer for a highly rated Mexican place. On the way out, we saw Chase field, home of the Diamondbacks, the ASU downtown campus, and I got splintered by a deceptive cactus.
We ended up eating at a nice Mexican place called Gallo Blanco Cafe. We both got margaritas, and for food I got a carne asada burrito while Kristal got a pork Torta. Unfortunately for me, Kristal got the better dish, so the count is 1-0 in her favor right now. After that, we swung by Downtown Scottsdale, but not much was going on, so we called it an early night.
Tomorrow we have plans all day, including trying out a Food Network recommended breakfast joint, the botanical gardens, and hopefully actually going to the Rawhide Steakhouse/Town we know will be cheesy goodness. Check back for a full update on that!
