How DJ Kaskade ended up costing me $75 and making me eat dinner at 10pm

We got back in town from Hawaii early Tuesday morning (blog post coming).  Since we literally had salsa and some noodles in our kitchen, we desperately needed to buy some food.  So last night after rush hour was over (we thought) we decided to go to the grocery store.  We left our place around 7:00 and headed to Fresh & Easy.

Now, Fresh and Easy is located smack dab in the middle of Hollywood.  It's literally next door to the Kodak Theatre and the Graumen's Chinese Theatre.  I, for one, really despise Hollywood.  It is super congested at all times, dirty, and filled with tourists (and cheap tourists shops).  Yes there are some really cool things there like the Oscars, the El Capitan, the Pantages and soon, Iris.  But, for the most part I avoid it like the plague....except for every two weeks when we go to the grocery store.

You see, when we lived in Pasadena, we had a Fresh & Easy conveniently located down the street from where we lived.  We fell in love with the place because of their products, its small neighborhood market feel and, most of all, the prices.  We save SO much money on groceries by shopping there.  For instance, we have a Ralph's down the street from us and when we first moved to our current home we tried going there and it ended up costing us $75 more to buy the exact same things we buy at Fresh & Easy.  Yes, we used a club card and bought the items that were on sale.  We decided that the distance and headache of driving to Hollywood to go to our nearest Fresh & Easy was worth the $150 we'll save every month.

So, like I said, we left for the grocery store around 7:00 last night without checking any traffic reports.  Well, as we got closer and closer to Hollywood the traffic started getting worse and worse.  Even for Hollywood standards, which often has movie premieres at night, the traffic was a little bonkers.  I looked on Google Maps and sure enough EVERY road in Hollywood was completely red indicating that traffic was basically stopped on all roads leading to our destination.

What in the world was going on?  Well THIS was going on.

So, a big thank you goes out to Mr. Kaskade for the mayhem he caused in Hollywood yesterday.  I love buying expensive groceries and eating dinner at 10pm.  Couldn't have done it without you!