Family Fun
This past weekend, we drove down to Cerritos for the weekend. We arrived around 12:30 am on Saturday and went straight to Dayantha’s house to wish him a “Happy Birthday”. Krissy and his mom threw him a surprise party and I guess we were part of the surprise. 🙂
The next morning, I woke up relatively early and Brother took us all to Downtown Disney for beignets. 
It was a fun way to start the birthday celebration for Daddy.
After our tasty breakfast, we did some window shopping.
This is the family photo we took at the Sanuk store.
We also walked around and went to check out the area between Disneyland and California Adventure. They changed the front of CA and boy are ticket prices STEEP.
For lunch, Jes and I met up with his parents. I had a yummy Greek salad and we got do some catching up. After lunch, I took a good nap until it was time for dinner. This was becoming a very glutinous and lazy day. Aaaah…
We went to Newport Seafood for a delicious lobster dinner. It was like a competition to see who could make the biggest mess on the table.
When you have all the Chimmys together for a hands-on meal, that’s what always happens.
Koa came along for a weekend in the sun. He got to enjoy lots of time in the backyard and the front yard. Also, because it was so warm, he got a deadly bath out on the driveway. Heh heh. Here’s a video of him playing with a leaf:
Here are the rest of the photos from the weekend.
Saturday was filled with family time. In the morning, I gave the dog a bath in the backyard and he was NOT happy. It was sunnier on the driveway out front so we tied him up there to dry off and I busted out my picnic blanket from the trunk to join him. I took the sunshine for granted when I lived in SoCal but now it’s like a luxury to me. So sad. I laid out while reading my Kindle and later my mom joined me with a lawnchair. Yes, it’s pretty ghetto to be hanging out on the driveway (not even the lawn) but it was awesome and I got my Vitamin D for the weekend.
Later, we all went to the Cerritos Mall and watched Kung Fu Panda 2. It was fun sneaking in my Frozen Yogurt and hanging out with my family. The movie was pretty entertaining too!
For dinner, we drove down to OC to meet up with Marie and the boys. Cole is so big now and was super grumpy from being out in the sun all day. Brandon was his usual crazy self. The sushi was awesome and it was so nice to catch up with Marie.
When I hang out with her and the boys, it makes me miss living in Irvine.
Afterward, we dropped off my mom at home and then headed over to Ti and Thilan’s condo down the street. We were supposed to go singing in Garden Grove but this was just as good.
They were having an after-party for Titus’ 1st Bday and I got to meet Dominic, Krishani’s newborn. Melanie’s little girl Makenzie was also there and took a liking to Jes.
Surprisingly, she was pretty much attached to him the whole night and used him as a chair while we were singing. We were all confused and he actually didn’t mind the company.
On Friday morning, we left the house around 9:30 am and had a pretty smooth drive with the exception of a 6-mile stretch near Buttonwillow where they closed the road to one lane. We even stopped at In-N-Out for lunch and the dog some time with his head out the window.
At 6:30, we pulled up to the restaurant and valeted the car AND the dog! Heh heh. The valet guys were super cool about it and even rolled down the windows for him in the garage. The prime rib was yummy as usual and we also kicked in the standard peanut joke for my brother.
After dinner, we gave the dog to my parents who drove home and Brother took us to MILK for some ice cream sandwiches made with large French macarons. Yum.
Jimmy turned 36 earlier this month and Eleen threw him a BBQ a week later (5/15). The food was tasty, the usual peeps were there, and the dogs were outnumbered by babies this year.
Vyl and Bang brought Rowan and he was a new and improved happy-fresh baby. It’s cool to see how he’s changed so much since I last saw him a month ago.
Koa and Brando had a nice afternoon in the backyard until the end of the evening. I don’t know exactly what triggered it but I watched them get into a full-on brawl. Jes had to break it up and ended up getting bit/nipped by Brando in the process. Brando also got nipped on the ear and was bleeding. So of course, they got separated. Bleeding Brando got all the sympathy while Koa was stuck in the sideyard with everyone stopping by saying, “Be a good dog, Koa”. I felt horrible.
Koa turned 7 today! He’s older, wiser, and stubborn as ever. Fortunately, he’s a good dog and we like him.
On Saturday, we had lunch with Jes’ parents. We met up at a Chinese restaurant in Garden Grove and had a tasty tasty Chinese beef burrito that was fried. Mmm…
On Sunday, I took Jes back to Mitsuwa for his favorite bowl of ramen. He was afraid that it had been so long that the hype in his head was just that, hype. But it wasn’t! It’s still ranked #1.
After lunch we stopped at the Irvine house to check on it. It was really weird driving through the neighborhood and stepping into our little birdhouse again 4 years later. I was so happy to see my Japanese maple tree alive and HUGE! We cleaned up the pond and the neighbors came by to hang out like old times. Hopefully we’ll have renters soon.
On Sunday afternoon, we met up with the family for a big Thai feast. It was so nice to hang out with the cousins and their kids again. Makes me miss being away from them even more after I leave.
On Monday morning I had to get up really early to get to the BMW dealership to get our brakes checked. We got a big red warning light on the way down and it seemed pretty serious. It’s a good thing we got it checked out because we had to replace the brake pads AND rotors. Ouch. I guess it was a good thing we took Monday off.
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