Fun, Fun, Fun!

Now that I'm back in good ol' LA, it's back to the drudgery of school. There ain't a whole lot to look forward to other than weekends. Thank goodness for NZ in a few months! It'll definitely give me something to strive towards. Just gotta get through a little bit more before the big payoff. Wish me luck. In the meantime, survival and fun weekends (oh...and good grades too) are the short term goals. In an effort to achieve this goal, this weekend I had some help from Cat. Fresh from a trip to "the motherland," we had an awesome time catching up on our recently completed spring breaks, reminscing about the days of yore, "eee-key-ahh" commercials and good times in general. Never a dull moment I tell ya. Anyways, enough of my blabbering...here are a few pics (thanks again Cat).

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Here's our lovely homemade meal. Rice, chicken curry & sukiyaki. The empty Zippy's container was filled with the curry and (unfortunately) not chili. Sukiyaki was courtesy of Cat. Thank you yet again! Brooke Fraser and the Cardigans provided a lovely background music for an equally lovely dinner.

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Next stop after dinner...Mashti Malone's. Tasty, tasty ice cream for those of you who haven't been. They have some crazy flavors there. That's "saffron rosewater" on the left and some sort of cherry flavored stuff with rice noodley things on the right. Good ice cream, excellent "ahm-bee-yahn-se" and cool times playing with Nikon's manual white balance. Apologies for the squinty eyes...I seemingly have no control over them.

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Here's a clever reminder for confused people trying to park. Hopefully you can read it..."Ice Cream Only!" No real comment is required...

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Final stop for the evening was a quaint French style cafe named Figaro. Small tables outside, candlelit, french waiters, french words. Can anyone say flashbacks?! Made me miss Paris more than anything else this week... Clockwise from left: Tarte pomme (apple tart), earl grey tea, (me), and coffee (sorry, can't remember the kind). Such a truly charming place. LA really needs more places like this. Come to think of it, LA needs to be more like Paris (or any other non-US city for that matter). NZ, Ice Palace, DZ, Paris, Beijing and random funny stuff were topics of discussion. Will have to try the duck at the restaurant the next time I'm around.

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And that, my friends, was my awesome saturday evening. Merci Beau Coup, "Door-chair", Arigato and Mahalo to Cat for the good times. Let the countdown begin for NZ!! 3 months to go!!!