Tuesday was eventful and Wednesday even more so

My sleep cycles are all over the place. I intend to keep it that way. After years of always waking up way too early I am enjoying the fact that I now sometimes wake up at 8AM and other mornings at 10:40AM. I know that I won't be able to do this forever, but I am enjoying the freedom of random sleep cycles right now.
Tuesday turned out to be a very gray day with light drizzles. It was lovely. LA looks incredible against a gray backdrop; buildings, trees and hills etched against that backdrop.
After Alexander got home from his morning job we drove out to Silverlake. I spotted a store driving by the previous evening that I want to take a look at. It's a little design store on Silverlake Blvd called Yolk .
They had some incredibly funky items. There were some mobiles that caught my eyes and beautiful kitchen towels. It made me wish I had loads of cash and a solid home again. But I guess that would all have to wait a couple of years.
Another store we visited was
Monkeyhouse Toys on the same street. It was filled with all kinds of cute and bizarre toys of the Asian variety.
We stopped for coffee at a little bakery called Black Door Bakery. Apparently dogs are welcome, but on this day there were none and I had appreciated that.
After coffee we headed out to Eagle Rock. I wanted to buy a bread tin and a pan for baking beskuit, so Alexander suggested going to Target . Yay! My first 'mart' experience in the States. But it turned out to be fairly (and I guess predictably) dull. So I picked out two pans, some tea towels and left. By this time we were both pretty hungry, so we went to Auntie Em's also in Eagle Rock. Gorgeous little cafe and afterwards I found out that the place is really loved amongst the famed in LA. We had chicken noodle soup, made with pasta rice. I'm hoping to go back soon to try out the ginger pecan cake. It looked decadent!
We came home after lunch and I decided to put my bread pan to the test. A delicious coffee date bread is what came out of the oven.
We left home early evening to visit LA County Museum of Art . It's free on Tuesdays, but we only had about half an hour before closing time. So we just looked at one of the exhibitions.
We spent a long time after driving around in the drizzle, trying to find a place to eat. It's not hard to find a place to eat here really, there are millions. But somehow we could not make up our minds, and since I insisted on taking Alexander out to dinner I suppose I must have made a choice before we left the house. In the end he picked Electric Lotus in Los Feliz. It's a really funky Indian restaurant where they often host DJ's. The decor and layout was really funky and the vibe trendy but not over the top. The food was fantastic. My favorite part was that the music was loud enough so that the people at the next table could not hear your conversations, but we could hear each other perfectly. It made for a really intimate feel at a regular table, if that makes sense to anyone.
We came home after diner, had fresh coffee date bread and tea for desert, before crawling into bed.
As some of you might have noticed in this post I figured out how to add links. I think I'm obsessed now. Yesterday was another brilliant day. But I'll tell you more about that later. Now, I am going to bake beskuit!