{"id":3824,"date":"2010-04-20T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2010-04-29T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T02:17:20","slug":"universal-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/04\/20\/universal-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I noticed via TripIt that a former colleague from LaSalle Bank was coming to town for a week on business, so we arranged to have dinner. We ate at Karl Strauss Brewery – the beer was wonderful and the food was also quite good; I had their mac and cheese with meats – extremem comfort food!<\/p>\n

The Universal City CityWalk is really amazing – we walked around and I took pictures (all taken with my BlackBerry Curve)….<\/p>\n

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They have a wind tunnel where you can “fly” <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A close up of King Kong <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A panorama of the CityWalk from where I walked in by parking <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The sun setting through the Universal Pictures logo sculpture <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I noticed via TripIt that a former colleague from LaSalle Bank was coming to town for a week on business, so we arranged to have dinner. We ate at Karl Strauss Brewery – the beer was wonderful and the food was also quite good; I had their mac and cheese with meats – extremem comfort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,153,143,403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-los-angeles","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t