LA Trip - Day 1 "Can anyone say In & Out Burger?"

To begin, I must correct my english from the previous post - I said "alas", when what I should have said was, "at last" - I sit corrected.

So, our first day, we arrive, pick up our rental car, program the gps to get us to our first destination (our friends Hank & Cindy where we will be crashing for the next 5 days) and head off. We arrive in good time, so now have some time to kill. We decide to look for a place to eat near where we are, Venice Beach (Read: there is no parking anywhere near Venice Beach) but gave up quickly, so starting cruzin' down Washington Blvd. enjoying once again rows of palm trees, which occaisionally we do miss,

listening to my favorite radio station 'the wave' (actually, when we first set out from the rental car place, I turned the radio on to Barry White - which just seemed to go well with moment)
not seeing too many options of where to have lunch, when all of a sudden we see this billboard of a place just up ahead - SCORE!!

The perfect place to eat our 1st meal in LA!!!!!!

For those of you who have not been blessed with an opportunity to eat at one of these places, here's the menu - that's it (except Connie was able to order something not shown here - basically a burger without the bun - looks like a lettuce wrap with a burger in the middle) - anyway - you pick your option, then wait as everything is being made fresh

Behold - THE best burger and fries you will ever eat! And, only those who have eaten them know what I'm talking about. If I had my choice of whether we could have a Krispy Kreme in BC or an IN & OUT Burger - no competition.

The item on the left of the tray, Connie's lettuce wrap looking burger.

Anyone's mouth watering yet? Sorry Raych - I shouldn't be showing this - couldn't help it though.

Then, after a nice walk on Venice Beach (now parked at Hank & Cindy's underground parking) we were taken out for dinner at another place that just got up and running before we left LA, the Cheese Cake Factory. Another AWESOME meal, with about 30 different kinds of cheesecake to choose from for desert. Here we are with Hank & Cindy

this is Connie's meal - a little different from her noon lettuce wrap

and Cindy's meal - they were all so visually amazing.

End of Day 1 - off to a very good start!