MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JANUARY 16–22, 2017!

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JANUARY 16–22, 2017!
A visit to the ostrich farm and wineries up in Solvang, a rainy week in Los Angeles, visiting out of state cousins and a whirlwind food tour of LA eats…plus admitting to myself that I have a big crush on Stella Gibson…anyone?

Enjoy!

I documented this day fully, but here are a few snapshots of a Monday we had off for MLK Day.

Touring the wine-making portion of a vineyard/winery outside Solvang

Wine tasting

Some cheese and treats

Soaking up the sun

Semi-bundled

A quick pitstop to get free tastings at another winery. I’m bad with names…

I then convinced everybody to go to a nearby ostrich farm that I’d been to in the past

How could you resist these faces

They are pretty aggressive, actually…but…in a thrilling way I guess

Getting hungry!

Beautiful dusky light and glow

Tackled

On our way to dinner

Mmmm not bad

Back to the office

Suddenly my hair feels and looks really really long

Tristan has that top of hill parking going on this month

Sweater my mom got me for Christmas

Filled up my car at the gas station and noticed all these flavors of Kettle chip…Himalayan salt??? New York cheddar?!?! Chili Lime!??! Korean BBQ?!?!?!

DON’T HURT MEEE

Extra bundled

Had to get in on this Meitu action

Lovely rainy evening

Tweedy helping me on this rainy evening with some freelance work

Zach made chili in the cast iron pan for some reason, but hey it turned out well

Chili on rice with cheese and a soft boiled egg

Playing Overcooked, the most delightful game.

Tweedy sleeping on Ders’ laptop

Moved aside everything in the workroom to make room for an inflatable mattress

A tight squeeze, but it fit!!! (Zach’s cousins are coming into town)

Irises poppin’ off

On Thursday Zach picked up his cousins and brought them to have lunch with me at work

This was their first true LA visit, so we wanted to take them to try all the food they can’t get in Utah

Lychee martinis while waiting for our table at Quarters, a Korean BBQ place

Overwhelmed by the food

Octopus and chicken

Marieeeee

Quick selfie in the mirror with the ring light around it

Late night UCB show

So bummed that it’s raining when his cousins were in town…at least it’s not as cold as in Utah!

Special shoutout and thank you to Mindy!!!! Mindy saw that in my ADIML at Disneyland that Zach was looking for a Tower of Terror pin (since it’s now gone from the park) and she got one for him from Disney World during her visit. SO KIND! Thank you again.

Visit to Grand Central Market

Pupusas!!!

And sharing a pizza from the market

Peeked into the Bradbury Building

Angel’s Flight

Checking out the architecture

Tile flower behind the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Little Tokyo!

*Squee*

Sloth too cute must kill

Cafe Dulce special donut holes!

Happy hour at Cole’s!

Last Bookstore!

And final stop on the happy hour tour, Seven Grand

Cousins!

We rushed over to our reservations at Badmaash

Butter chicken samosa….OOOO

Tandoori chicken winnnggggg

Chicken tikka poutine

Butter chicken and a pork curry dish. This tamarind pork curry was SO GOOD. It reminded me of beef rendang weirdly enough, I’ve only had beef rendang twice so I’m not expert in Malaysian food…but I’ve been craving good Malaysian food ever since I had it in London. This came close in flavor!!! (From what I could remember)

Downtown at night

Morning donut!

Blue Star from Portland made it to Venice

Horchata flavor

Walked around into some shops, did some window shopping

Hi!

Off to brunch!

Mimosa and a bloody mary

Brunch crew

Walked over to see the water, but it was soooo windy we had to get out of there

UFO footprint?

Visiting our friend’s brewery out in South El Monte…they have a brand new tasting room that is big and gorgeous and we’re so excited for them!

Chilly

Kevin brought out the brewery kitties

*Tears of joy*

Margie had to head out earlier than Chris, so we said goodbye at the brewery!

And for dinner…how about some hot pot!

More Overcooked!

Cuddly boyo

Sunday morning, the weather switched between pouring and drizzling for the whole day

Diner food

Dropped Chris off at the airport

I tidied up the house

I was watching Skins and doing some freelance work while Zach chilled hard

Our naughty delivery dinner

Finished Season 2 of The Fall!!!! guys. I’m so obsessed. I’m obsessed with the show but especially with Gibson and have a mad crush on Gillian Anderson as Gibson. *love her so much* No spoilers if you’ve finished it, I know it’s an old series…but I’ve not caught up yet

Goodnight!

Much love friends.