Pepperdine's campus is perched on a steep hill in Malibu with a spectacular view of the beach. At least, that's what I hear. We arrived on campus before 6:00 this morning, and it was still dark out.
Load-in & cue-to-cue go smoothly, and we go to lunch at the Pepperdine cafeteria, which is quite nice. It had better be, considering the tuition here, oy.
Great salads, fresh fruit, and pretty much everything you wish your college cafeteria had.
There's a frozen yogurt machine here. Britt is happy.
After lunch, we play our first concert of 2007! It goes pretty well, but it's been a while since we've done this, so we're a little more tired than usual.
Maybe some food will make us feel better...
Highlights from our dinner at La Paz, a Mexican seafood place in Calabasas:
Sope de albondigas! AKA meatball soup. We had a version of this in Culiacan, Mexico a few years ago, made outdoors in a giant tin tub over an open fire. It was good.
This one wasn't bad, either.
Donna and PJ split the seafood paella.
I give them points for dramatic presentaion. It's like a giant crab was killed by a pile of rice.
I opt for the chicken mole poblano.
Mole poblano is a sauce, usually made with cocoa powder and 20+ other ingredients. Does it taste like chocolate? Not so much. But it was smoky, nutty, and good.
Adam has one of La Paz's specialties: Bouillabaisse Caldo De Siette Mares (for you gringos, that's "Soup of the Seven Seas") - with shrimp, fish,octopus, abalone, crab, clams, and oysters.
It's the Monterey Bay Aquarium in a giant soup bowl.
He'd better get started before that crab crawls out of the bowl.
The food is all fabulous and the portions are huge. Most everyone gets doggie bags. Do I? Of course not. I finish mine.
It's been a long day, and we feel like this:
(I'd be the chubby one in the middle.)
