SNOWSTORM IN UTAH

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: FEBRUARY 4–10, 2019!

Sushi, hunting for Nandos sauce, hamburger dumplings (yes, all food-related highlights) and a weekend in the snow in Park City, Utah.

Enjoy!

Monday morning, wearing my Hufflepuff scarf to work why not.

Zach texted me this picture, who do they think they are?

A rainy and sunny combo day.

Sausage water soaker upper

Two sides of the same rainbow

Trimming, throwing, and adding handles

Home late, whipped up some spicy noodles

Zach computing while standing

Plaid and knit sweater

Another rainy day in Los Angeles

Everyday grateful for the window

Parked near a rather steamy Jiu-Jitsu studio

Wandered over to my fav nearby sushi spot

Shrimp crispy bits

Unagi for life

Wow, Valentine’s Day is on the horizon.

FOUND MY NANDOS SAUCE ONCE AGAIN.

Love a grocery run

In for the night, ready to work. Sufi by my side.

Gorgeous evening as Tristan and I leave for our evening carpool

Dinner with Marie at a place in downtown Culver City. We were recommended to try the cheeseburger dumplings…which were…pretty average but love that enthusiasm.

Tots, shrimp, and mapo tofu

Brief stop at Mitsuwa, mochi was acquired

Cleaned out Glenn’s cage and set him up fresh

Set my babies in the sun. Grow, grow, grow

Woke up in a snow paradise! Here to see Zach’s family in Utah.

Early morning sun touches the tops of the snow peaks. We’re out on the slopes today and I will *try* to ski.

Challenged myself a little more than usual (still doing greens, but at least did new ones…and a face of a blue accidentally)

Was rewarded by hot chocolate

Good selfie Zeen

Family comes prepared

The fridge was empty before they arrived

Beautiful afternoon

Get the party started

Washing and drying my napa cabbage on the drying rack

Margie works on the ají (today she’s making Colombian empanadas and I’m making gyzoa)

I work on the gyoza filling

Limes ready for the ají

She says it is crucial to mash the jalapeno (this is a rock in a bag)

Filling and sealing

Ready to be fried

The lime juice is all added to the tomato, smashed jalapeno, tomato, and cilantro. Look at that.

Look at that gorgeous empanada

Mmmmm perfection (thank you, Margie!!!!)

Watching the sky turn red

Gyoza time! The filling has been chilling in the fridge

Everybody helped fold, look at these beautiful babies

Two boardgames later we had some short ribs for dinner (made by Chris in the Instant Pot) overall great food day

Good morning, a beautiful quiet morning puttering around before others wake up.

Looks chilly out there

But somehow I agreed to go out for one more half day on the slopes

Definitely snowier and colder and again we did a few new slopes. Zach insists that I’ll get better if I can try to go days in a row. But my poor legs were sore from the day before…it was hard.

Went back in a bit early and breakfast was being served. Zach stayed out to do scary black diamond slopes and such.

Empanadas and eggs and bacon for breakfast

One more game of The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 with breakfast

Extra freezer space

And then the snow storm began

Still beautiful out there

Bundled up and ready to catch a shuttle to dinner

Snow ball

Waiting for a table with a game of pool

Wings and nachos and fries, with sides of whiskey

Sunday morning, it was time to head back to Salt Lake City but first, a stop to Main Street

Put our names in at High West

Then walked Main Street

Cold twigs

Back at High West, our space at the bar was ready.

Trying out some whiskey cocktails

FIRE

Continued the journey back down to Salt Lake City

A few hours later we were back with everybody and eating hot pot

She’s tall when you stretch her out

Had a good game of Tortuga until we realized Margie didn’t understand the rules halfway through hahah.

Over to Zach’s aunt and uncles place, waiting for the next round of snow storm to hit.

By the time we were leaving, it was full storm. Cars were skidding off the sides of the roads, the freeway was crawling so slowly with lanes out of view (covered in snow). It was a mess.

But spoiler, we made it safely back to Los Angeles later in the evening, just a bit delayed.

Thank you for reading!

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Some questions that you may or may not feel inclined to answer? I dug up some questions from a tag question website…so original. So! Let’s do it. I invite you to answer in the comments:

1. What is the last album you listened to?
2. How has your birth order affected you? (For example, you a middle child? Youngest?)
3. What do you love about living in your neighborhood?

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1. What is the last album you listened to?
   Re-listened to Album by Girls while making dinner
2. How has your birth order affected you? (For example, you a middle child? Youngest?)
   I’m an only child sadly…and I’d say I can be pretty stubborn in my way, but also have been trained to be an excellent mediator. I also value my independent alone time. Maybe there’s more obvious about me and my only-child-ness but that’s what comes to mind.
3. What do you love about living in your neighborhood?
   The trees, and the ability to leave it quickly (as in access to the freeway, which makes it convenient to get around Los Angeles)

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Much love friends.