Schooner Or Later

I finally, finally, finally got to hang out with Cookie after several months of not seeing each other.  She's been M.I.A. and so have I.  I'm sure school and work just got in the way and on top of that conflicting schedules.  Oh!  Cookie is my best friend.  My sister and I share her.  I've known her since I was in junior high.  We have been though so so much.  I love that girl.

She intially invited me to go hiking with her at Peter's Canyon near Santiago Canyon College, but unexpected rain stopped us from going.  We planned on going to brunch right after we hiked, so we did that instead.  She picked the Filling Station at the Orange Circle, but once we got in the car she mentioned Schooner Or Later and described how it overlooked the marina where the boats park.  How awesome is that to have breakfast, outside, while you have a view of awesome looking boats?  Sounded pretty good to me.  I was sold and was on our way towards Long Beach to Schooner Or Later.

Cookie was scared that we might have to wait an hour to be seated, but I figured it's Monday and it just rained, I'm sure no one will be there waiting to eat next to the boats, I mean, unless it's us. So we got there and what do you know?  No one was there and we were seated quickly.  The menu for breakfast was pretty good.  I skimmed through it pretty quick and landed on french toast.  French toast topped with fresh fruits... YUM!  Cookie got half the Mess.  I didn't get to that, but she said it was everything all mixed together with toasts on the side.  Pretty much it's eggs, bacon, potato, and cheese holding everything together.  Dab some Tobasco sauce on that and you're good.

Since we were in Long Beach I asked Cookie if we could stop by 4th street so I could check out a couple stores.  We went in Imonni, which is a vintage clothing shop.  I found a really cute summer dress but decided against it since the material was so thin that I'd have to wear something underneath it, like a whole body slip.  I left the store empty handed which is pretty good on my part since I'm usually impulsive in that store.  Our next stop was another vintage store that had clothing and furniture.  I'm trying to see the price range on vintage furniture for my future shoppig on house stuff.  It's so crazy expensive!  It's old stuff!  Why is it so expensive?!  On our way back to the car we passed by a restaurant that I've been wanting to check out, Noodle + Beer.  The inside if very modern looking and looks very chill.  The plate setting itself was really nice.  That is on the list under Korean Pizza and the other sushi restaurants Cookie wants to try.