MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: DECEMBER 26, 2016-JANUARY 1, 2017! (PART 2)

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: DECEMBER 26, 2016-JANUARY 1, 2017! (PART 2)
Our annual family trip up to San Luis Obispo after Christmas, hiking to a waterfall with the pups, seeing my mom’s high school self in a gallery show, and spending New Years weekend with my closest friends who came down from the Bay area.

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Woken up by Sufi

Worked on my puzzle with gecko’s assistance

Zach is back from his holiday time in Texas! We took the pups on a waterfall-hunting hike

Sufi seems weaker but surprisingly he’s the waaaaay better hiker. Tweedy is terrible…was worried he’d need to be carried

The hike involved crossing a river a few times as we headed toward the waterfall

Helping Tweedy cross the stream

The waterfall is in site!

THEY BOTH MADE IT!!!!!! To the end!!!! so proud.

Beautiful! So happy to see water here…was worried with the drought that it’d be barren

Letting the pups dry out in the sun

The hike back out!

Got back to the car…somebody had a blast

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Zach and I took my mom to Descanso Gardens

My mom was like…”let’s take a photo” but then proceeded to answer a phone call.

NOTICE ME MOM

Wandering the gardens

My mom wanted to show me the gallery space, there’s a show there about the Japanese Garden at Descanso and surprise! My mom has some photos in it. She worked there when she was in high school!

Here’s a pic of my mom (she’s in the middle) that’s in the gallery! She served tea to guests at the tea house in the Japanese Garden

Here’s a photo of my Aunt, my mom’s twin

Mom and yukata

They were setting up lights for the light up nighttime event (separate tickets) but we got a preview of the lights

Lights lights

Fog and laser show over the lake

My mom and Zach and I stopped for some Korean food for dinner. We had kalbi (marinated bbq beef ribs), spicy pork bbq, kimchi, rice, bean sprouts, tofu, hot spicy tofu soup with seafood, and assorted pickled goodies.

Got home and dad was playing with gecko

Zach and I finally finished Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life….I’ll say that my reaction at the end (to the final four words) was horror and made me mad hahah. UGH. But overall? I enjoyed the series, found myself smiling, crying, loving Emily and Lorelai and MICHELE and being delighted. But yeah…Rory is trash lol.

Friday morning I brought Glenn with me to babysit my little cousins

Watched them for a few hours in the morning

My mom came along and saw a Facebook video on how to curl hair with a paper towel or rags….which is apparently how her mom (my grandma) used to curl her hair

We played with OSMO! It’s pretty neat, they got it for Christmas. You put a little mirror on the camera, and you can draw (and play other games too) and the game puts them into the scene. Here’s a submarine we drew…

They don’t like cats or dogs (too afraid) but surprisingly they loved the gecko

They built him a little house

The final look ahha not perfect but pretty cute

My cousin came back so we headed home

Loving all the rain we’re getting

Had a nice ramen dinner with my family before packing most of my stuff and heading back to Culver City…friends are coming down from the Bay area to hang out for New Years weekend. SO EXCITED.