MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JUNE 5–11, 2017!

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JUNE 5–11, 2017!

Work, Wonder Woman, sicky Sufi, and two full days of theme parks—one at Knott’s Berry Farm and one at Disneyland and California Adventure. The new Guardians of the Galaxy, riding old favs before the summer blackout, and catching a Squirtle.

Enjoy!

Worked from home in the morning to head to the other Getty site in the morning—was nice to work in bed with a smoothie in the only cup I ever want to have a smoothie from.

Put my morning at home to good use, cutting that melon

Leftover fried chicken, a perfect lunch to eat while standing up running a bit late.

Heading off to film for a few hours

On set in the super secret gallery

As I was packing up heading back home I came across the most amazing wall of jasmine

Couldn’t resist pulling over and just having a second to myself on the coast

Car keys in the shoe for a solo trip to the stairs

Never gone in the evening and it’s quite atmospheric and as busy as ever.

Kind of sunset-y

Attempted salmon and roasted brussels

Wasn’t my night. Was almost in tears and didn’t think I could cry over a failed meal. It all tasted okay, just not very pretty. Sigh.

Following a YouTube workout, too embarrassed to do it in the rest of the gym

Been having cloudy days and I’m not even sad—when the summer heat comes…it’s going to be noo fun.

And also fortunately I’ve been graced with an eczema flare on my face!

Getty in the mist

Sad desk lunch

I returned the ones that were too big and got ones that fit!

New jeans and new shoes! Treating myself.

Brought board games and korean cuttlefish chips to a coworkers new place.

Tacos and Catan, what else could you want

Hmmm guess who won

Got home and poor Sufi was yelping and crying and was having a hard time walking.

You could just tell that his back was hurting him, he wasn’t well

I pet him and cuddled him and tried to comfort him till he fell asleep. Poor Sufi.

Work and then home

Decided I’d walk to meet Kiki, and thought it’d take like 30 mins but it took longer…

Some sights along the way

First place? Happy hour area was totally packed.

Second place also was packed, so we ended up here.

Not bad, good margs and jerk chicken tacos and mussels oh yeah

Went to see Wonderwoman, see what all the hype was about. And I must say…(sorry to be a debby downer), I wasn’t really a fan. But I’m also not a huge superhero fan. I just think it was a lil’ silly in the plot department (as many superhero movies are) and all the hype about it being a “feminist” superhero just made me sad when I saw it and the entire film was basically a woman through the lens of manhood/being a man/being pleasing for men. Like too many penis jokes/”oh this is what men are like” jokes my god. But did like that she was a curator or something at the Louvre…how did she get that job hook it up.

Doggos. Sufi feeling better! Jumping up and down on the couch and sitting more straight.

Semi-rainy day

Sad desk lunch

Tristan said I was dressed like a dancer so we made it happen

Walking down the hill

Friday morning. Sunrise. I was off work and our Disneyland passes are about to black out for the summer so we wanted to arrive early and ride Guardians of the Galaxy and then meet Zach’s cousins who just moved to OC for dinner…

Wrinkly weird shirt that is kinda see-through but hey kinda into it.

Our plan was foiled when we got to Disneyland parking and they told us “oh you are blacked out today…” OOPS we didn’t bother checking a Friday since that’s normally okay. Our bad.

So we regrouped and found a place to have breakfast.

Bathroom Renoir

Went to play some bball at a nearby park. I found that we could buy tickets to Knott’s Berry Farm for $45 online…so I went for it.

Had some time to kill

Finally arrived a little before 10am

One of my favorite rides ever—still holds up. It’s the best.

Wind-blown hair ahaha

Casual brothel at Knott’s

The most humiliating position to ride a rollercoaster ah.

Knott’s arcade…really wanted a sriracha bottle plushie. Didn’t work out for us, we only wanted to drop $5 each haha

That stance

Wooo—on the Knott’s version of Buzz Lightyear

How did they get TWO pikachus

Can’t resist Dippin’ Dots

In classic Zeen fashion, we played another game and he beat out a child to win this Squirtle

So proud

Ready to ride Jaguar

So sweaty my god

Knott’s doesn’t really have places to put your stuff…so we got to ride with Squirtle

MY FAVORITE PEANUTS MOVIE HAD A LITTLE DISPLAY!!!!! AND PLUSHIES ASSOCIATED omg was so hard to NOT buy all of them.

Who is your fav Peanuts character?

It’s close…I think I’m more Marcie though

Hugging Squirtle till I die

Sorry for being me

Absorbed a few more rides and attractions, and then headed to meet Zach’s cousins

A little early so we had some cocktails. Mine had shiso in it…so good.

He’s feeling better! SO relieved.

Saturdaaaaay

Editing Cabo pics

Accidental happy face sandwich

LOOK who is back from her amazing film production opportunity in Ohio. YAY!

Spent like 30 minutes with me and then she was over me hahahah.

Tacos on my grill!

SO beautiful

Going away party for Rob!!! He’ll be in New Zealand for a while.

The next morning was a bit rainy. We thought…okay, we fucked up on Friday and we wanted to ride the new Guardians of the Galaxy before summer blocks out our passes…we’ll arrive early again.

We were only going to stay to ride the ride…and maybe a few other things.

But an hour and a half after the park opened…we got our fastpasses (after waiting in a 20 minute line to even GET the fast passes) for 8:10 PM!!!!

So we had an accidentally all day Disney day. Which was nice—our last day for a few months so we just leaned into it.

Meeko!

Pride Mickey

First person in line no shame

Couldn’t resist trying the “mangonada” which is like chamomango…chamoy and mango sorbet with tajin and chunks of mango mmmm.

Delish

Pornographic

Then we headed over to Disneyland

Haunted Mansion!

World famous JUNGLE CRUIIIIISE

Ahhh always gets me

Really want to see an elephant in person ahh

~~Magical~~

Scary Pluto balloon

Zach got everybody hooked on this phone game called “Ballz” and he worked over the course of a few days on this high score…omg

YODA HAIR

Autopia! But they changed it…now it’s got weird Honda sponsored crap all over it and the charming car puns are all gone. RIP Car Park

The park was getting crowded so we went to do some smaller attractions.

Storybook Laaaand!

AHHHH

OMFG

AW cute miniatures telling stories from Disney and fairytales

Ducks floating around the water and on the land

Headed back over to California Adventure since Disneyland had a bunch of rides go down for a few hours…and we passed this random Annual Pass holder line, got in it, and got another set of free fast passes for Guardians of the Galaxy!

Always have to get my dill pickle popcorn

I wasn’t wanted in this pic

Pretzel snack

Passed the Pixar parade on the way to Goofy’s Flight School

Love this lil’ coaster

Went back to Disneyland as rides started reopening and our fast passes that we collected throughout the day started kicking in.

I was waiting near the entrance of Tomorrowland and an older man in park uniform came up to me and just started chatting about artichoke plants and all the edible plants in Tomorrowland. Turned out that he was 90 years old…and he worked on the Matterhorn’s construction! He met Walt Disney every week during the park’s construction. It was a surprising interaction, so nice. And then as he walked away he turned back and pulled this tangerine out of his pocket and gave it to me haha. George!

Rich with fast passes ahhhh

Space Mountain has returned! (No longer is it Hyperspace Star Wars themed)

Thunder Mountain, one of my all time favs

Magical on Main Street

It was time for our Guardians fast pass!

This ride caused such a fuss because they closed Tower of Terror, the Twilight Zone themed ride and people were so sad (I was too!)

It wasn’t closed too long, but they used the same building and ride concept (dropping, falling and shooting up) but reskinned it to be Guardians of the Galaxy

Now the main entrance is the Collector’s space

Details on the walls! If you want to compare to before, I did a documented day on our last time riding Tower of Terror. You can read Part 1 here and Park 2 here (sorry if the links in the post lead to LJ, I still have some things to fix on this blog)

Cassette player

Rocket up on the top shelf

Brains!

OMG! Easter egg! The original yeti from Matterhorn in the collector’s basement ahhhh so cool.

First ride!!!!

Got right back in line for our second fast pass after

I know a lot of Disney fans were NOT excited about Tower of Terror going away…but…guys…Guardians of the Galaxy is really, really fun. I prefer the drops and bouncy style over Tower of Terror in fact. But maybe it’s just because it’s new and we had to wait like an hour in the fast pass line…haha….but I LIKED IT!

Back to Disneyland to use our last few fastpasses

Caught the end of the Main Street Electric Parade aw.

Too much fun on the weekend—had such a blast but felt like I’M NOT WORTHY. I’M TOO LAZY. I NEED TO DO MORE WORK. But also…what a nice escape before a busy summer.

Much love friends.