There are trips we made over the years (I’m writing this in 2018) where, not knowing we’d travel as extensively as we did and certainly not knowing that we’d ever have been assembling a blog of those travels, we failed to take notes or take photos on each and every time we ventured out. This is one of those. Apparently, we had left Friday night because here we were at Goldilocks Filipino cafe in Artesia, California way too early to have driven over on this day. Besides not having any data or images for Friday, when you arrive at the end of Saturday, things will drop off, and we have nothing for Sunday. With the advent of digital photography and date stamps on photos, it is fortunate for us to have a record of when we did what; I only wish we’d been more detail-oriented about documenting these excursions.

It’s obvious why we stayed in Artesia this weekend, also known as Little India; we were here to see this blockbuster film Devdas. Seeing this movie signaled a huge change in our lives as we fell in love with the work of Shahrukh Khan, the opulent beauty of Indian cinema, and the non-aggressive, non-violent storylines, and wanted to see even more Hindi films than we were already watching. We had already been renting movies from a small shop on Bell Road in Phoenix during the previous year, but this movie was a milestone that made us more discriminating consumers of the genre.

Last month, we had Morning Glory at Mix Bowl Cafe over in Pomona; we loved it so much that we drove back across Los Angeles to have it again.

Oh yeah, there was that other dish called steamed Koo chai that we’d tried, this is what they look like. It’s funny that the staff at Mix Bowl are surprised we like these dishes as usually their “white” customers don’t like these things.

And back across Los Angeles into Hollywood for some cruising up Hollywood Boulevard and back down the Sunset Strip.

This was the other reason besides today’s movie for our trip to southern California, a performance by students of a local Halau (Hula School) demonstrating Hawaiian dance.

We are in Little Tokyo for tonight’s entertainment.

It makes us think about going to Hawaii someday.