Friends and Food :)

This weekend proved to be ridiculously (in a good way) eventful.  Saturday morning saw me dragged out of bed at 7:30 to accompany a certain unnamed roommate *coughcoughJessicacoughcough* to Santa Monica pier to stand in line to get wristbands for a secret show by Ingrid Michaelson.  Admittedly, I was pretty grumpy at first...okay, so it was more like more the first hour until I fully woke up, but I will say that it was definitely worth the pain of an early morning.  More on that in a second.  Anyhow, we took a short stroll through the Farmers' Market that's set up there every Saturday.  Sad to say, even though I've been in LA for 4 years, I've never been before.

From there, we hurried back so that I could get back in time to leave for dim sum at Elite for a bit of a class reunion.  Good food + great friends + excellent fellowship = love.  Yeah...I miss hanging out with you bunch of crazies....hehehe...Then we trekked out to a Tea Station and was (verbally) accosted by an old Chinese man who thought we were a bunch of 15 year olds...Granted, the difference between 15 and 22 is probably negligible to him, but it was entertaining nonetheless.

Still on Saturday, later that night we went back to Santa Monica for the show.  I've never actually been to any type of show in LA before (shameful, I know), so it was a new experience for me.  It was also extra interesting because it was actually held inside an Apple store.  Ingrid Michaelson is unfairly talented with a beautiful voice, but I often found myself studying the bass/cajon/tambourine player more than anything.  Yes, I still harbor secret aspirations of making a living as a musician.  Ahh...one can dream, no?

Anyhow, Sunday night we went out for Korean BBQ (which I must say it was my first time going in months).  I forgot how immensely gross I feel after stuffing my face with an obscene amount of meat.  But, it was, like always, simply amazing and I satisfied a craving I didn't even know I had.  As Jenny put it, one word: yum. :) Afterwards, we went to I <3 Boba (seriously, it's a heart), which is apparently the place to go nowadays after kbbq.  How anybody has room to fit anything in their stomach after kbbq, I have no idea, but somehow I managed it.  The smoothie itself was excellent, great consistency, but the boba was disappointing. Not enough elasticity.  But overall, definitely a place I'd like to return to sometime again.

And there we have it.  Two days full of friends and food.  Fun times. :)