A few weekends ago, while browsing Groupon we came across a Lobster Festival that was taking place in Redondo Beach. We were planning on heading to Santa Monica anyways for the weekend so we thought, why not and bought the Groupon. That night I had big dreams filled with delicious lobster dishes to come. After spending a few hours in Santa Monica, we headed to Redondo Beach for the Lobster Festival. Upon arriving, the festival looked huge, and my mouth began to water, I could already imagine the delicious lobster dishes we were about to enjoy. As we entered the gate, I noticed the price of admission was $12 per person for adults and $5 for children 6-12. Thankfully we’d purchased the Groupon so we saved quite a bit on admission.

We entered and I immediately started scoping out the food booths… all 7 or so of them. I thought “Ok, that can’t be right” and began walking around to make sure there weren’t some hidden further on in the festival, but sadly there was not. Here’s the kicker, only 2 of those booths were serving a lobster dish. That’s right, dish. One had Lobster macaroni and the other had lobster balls. That was it. Unless you wanted to pay $33 for a 1.25lb lobster dinner or $53 for a 2lb lobster dinner! I couldn’t believe that was it. Thank god we hadn’t paid the full price of admission, otherwise we would have been even more disappointed. I couldn’t even figure out why it was even called a lobster fest seeing how lobster was extremely scarce. We ended up heading home hungry swearing to never return. The festival had plenty of entertainment, but lacked what was the theme of the festival was supposed to be. Instead of it being called a lobster festival, I would suggest changing the misleading title to something else.

A few times a year in Las Vegas, there is a Hawaiian themed festival called the Pure Aloha Festival. The latest being the 10th annual at the Silverton Casino. At the Festival, attendee’s can try different Hawaiian foods, play carnival games, enjoy a few different acts on stage, and ride carnival rides. This was my first year attending, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The entry fee was $7 per person and any rides/food was extra, as to be expected with any event. From what I tried, food wasn’t too bad, though, there was a lot of traditional Hawaiian food I would have loved to see there. Overall I couldn’t complain too much. After a few hours there we’d seen everything there was to see, played all the carnival games we wanted and eaten everything we were there for. For $7 the Pure Aloha Festival was well worth the price of admission. If you get a chance to attend next year, go for it. It’s a good way to spend a day with the family.

Upon arriving to E3 I was looking for parking, I happened to stumble across THQ’s promotional free parking and bikini car wash to promote Saint’s Row The Third. I had no idea what I was in for. The video is quite shaky, I didn’t happen to have a tripod with me, so apologies for that.