California Adventure, Day 3 – Friday, January 23This would be the simple day of the trip.
I checked out the hotel’s complimentary breakfast, figuring I’d pass if the egg omelet were still the offering. However, the hotel changed the menu and provided (reconstituted) scrambled eggs and sausage patties (instead of links). I got some eggs – and a mini cinnamon roll. I took the breakfast back to my room and ate while I read news on my iPad.
After breakfast, I did my daily walk – along the same neighborhood street that I did yesterday. I got my steps in.
Back in my room I relaxed and read more news. At 10:00 am my brother picked me up in the hotel garage. We drove to Orange, CA for an 11:00 am meetup with my sister. I hadn’t seen her since my parents’ memorial service almost three years previously. My brother and sister meet up for lunch on Fridays, and I was crashing their routine.
My brother knew I like
Yoshinoya, and that’s where we met up. Both of our cars arrived within moments of each other, at 10:50 am. Pretty good timing.
As I often do, I had checked out the
Menu online and had a good idea of what I wanted. I usually get the original gyudon beef – but I always wanted to try some of the other proteins. So I decided to get a Combo meal, which allowed me to choose an additional protein. I wanted to try the teriyaki grilled ribeye. And from previous experience, I declined to get vegetables.
Service was quick; the restaurant wasn’t busy at all – there were lots of empty booths and tables. I was rather disappointed in the teriyaki as it was not subtle but instead was slathered with a strong teriyaki sauce. It was too much. If I ordered it again, I’d request no sauce on top. The gyudon beef was perfectly fine, as always. (It’s not like I go to Yoshinoya very often – but generally at least once every time I’m in southern California.)
Most importantly, I got to spend time chatting with my siblings. We spent
five and a half hours (11:00 am - 4:30 pm) talking about all sorts of things. We had fun reminiscing about the past and bringing each other up-to-date on the present. Good times! Yoshinoya was handy as we could camp there for the duration without bothering anyone. The restaurant never got busy at all.
It was a weekday, so there was rush hour traffic when we went our own ways at 4:30 pm. For my brother and me, we were going against the flow of traffic, so it wasn’t too bad. My sister, on the other hand, had to head south with many others. My brother dropped me off at my hotel at at 5:20 pm. It had been a good day.
(Regretfully, I forgot to get a photo of the three of us. 😔)
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