Sept. Swanking - Pink Martini @ The Hollywood Bowl (or some such thing)

[innerSpaceman]

Um, no ... Pink's is for the after-Bowl snack.


Lunch is at Pink Taco, with dessert at Pinkberry next door. Then it's off to Trader Joe's for picnic shopping, and up to the Bowl for Hahahah, more food picnic dinner. (of course, the Pinks can be shuffled around ... but Pink Taco is way more yummy than Pink's, while Pink's is more snackable and quite the L.A. icon of late-night action)

As for the location of that picnic dinner ...welll, personally, I prefer more schlep and nicer picnic spots up on the hill ... but it really don't matter much. How many people are we talking for picnic dinner?

And how many / who is interested in the longer Pink line-up of Pink Lunch, Pink Dessert (and possibly Pink late-night snack)?


One of the advantages for anybodies getting together beforehand for the Full Day of Pink ... is we could potentially stuff all the schlepables in one vehicle, and park that vehicle in expensive Bowl parking ... while everyone else parks in (relatively) cheaper Hollywood parking and strolls up to the Bowl to meet up with the schlepables - which then require much less schleppage.

[Snowflake]

I'll follow the lead of the locals and follow iSm, he seems to know where he's going.

Looking forward to this!

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

One of the advantages for anybodies getting together beforehand for the Full Day of Pink ... is we could potentially stuff all the schlepables in one vehicle, and park that vehicle in expensive Bowl parking ... while everyone else parks in (relatively) cheaper Hollywood parking and strolls up to the Bowl to meet up with the schlepables - which then require much less schleppage.

Dear lord how much food can we eat in one day??? LOL that morning I'm doing a friggin hour on the elliptical or I'll be a-waddlin out of there. I'm not sure if I personally can do the Pink's hotdogs afterwards since it's a work nite, but I'll play it by ear.

The whole Pink Taco for lunch thing is a-ok, then pinkberry, then a stroll up and down pinktown, then trader joe's (there's one extemely close to pinkberry, so all of that requires only one parking, good idea), then up to the Bowl.

As far as expensive/not expensive bowl parking is concerned:
Bowl parking is $13 at the "official" lots. Oddly enough, the non-official lots up and down highland charge around $20, and they are actually farther.

Other options are to park at Hollywood/Highland and take the shuttle up there ($3/person I think, plus whatever parking charges the complex charges). I'm not sure how much parking is for that, but I hate the shuttle. Hate hate hate hate hate it. It is a frigging pain in the ass to find and take on the way back. I know the Conemonkeys do it all the time tho and think it is swell (when they take the subway in), but I do NOT want to carry all that stuff on a shuttle and have to deal with teenagers screaming where to stand at you when you're trying to find the right one back. To me, it is worth a measly few dollars to not deal with that.

I suppose we could just pack everything in one or two cars, but then there's the logistics of having two carloads of people up at bowl parking waiting around for the rest of the group to walk a mile and/or take a shuttle, then find them, THEN start schlepping. Do-able, but massively time consuming.