Ricardo Diaz

Holiday parties!

Tis the season. You have to love holiday season. Sales in the department stores, everyone seems to be a little happier, and everyone throws holiday parties.

This year had waaaaaayyyy to much wine at DVB’s place. Started out the night checking out Molly & Mochi’s new loft in downtown. I am f*cking jealous!

We then all headed over to the west side for the holiday festivities. Here is a picture I barely remember taking. Shortly after this is where my memory begins to fade. Good times!

Another downtown family fun day.

Had another family fun day in downtown on a nice Sunday afternoon. The tour started at the Barker Lofts. Urth Cafe recently opened up and wanted to do the taste test. Breakfast was pretty good, but it ain’t cheap! Didn’t get a chance to try it, but I hear the pumpkin pie is legendary here!

After the MOCA we went back to the Barker Block to check out the Festival De La Gente.

A pictorial recap

It’s been a busy last few weeks. Here is a pictorial recap of some of the places I have recently visited in the last few weeks.

These first couple pictures are taken at Fernando’s loft. Been to his rooftop pool way too much! The first shot is of Neron in his loft. The second shot is of a few of us hanging out one night in the spa.

This next shot I took when Sandy and I had breakfast in Burbank at Bob’s Big Boy.

We also had a chance to check out Hollywood and Highland afterwards.

Finally, we had a nice dinner at Cafe des Artistes. I have been wanting to take Sandy there for about 7 years now, and she just now finally agreed and of course loved it.

Moving on up

My brother moved into his new place over the weekend. Congrats to him. He is now downtown in a loft and I am jealous. At least I now have a pool I can go to and get out of the valley heat. Here are some pictures of his new digs I took a couple weeks ago.

Hanging on the west side

Went out to Venice on the west side a couple weekends back to get away from the valley heat and get some of the coastal breeze action. First we took a drive by the Frank Gehry Binocular building.

This is actually the previous offices of the company I work for, Chiat Day. After the drive by, we headed to Abbot Kinney for a late breakfast and some window shopping.