Yet another weekend full of parties and fun stuff…
My cousin, Michelle, celebrated her birthday with a lunch event on Saturday, June 6th around noon at Tokyo Table in Irvine. I’ve never been there before and the whole area was very Asian. The other stores and restaurants surrounding it had a very Asian theme. It was really cute with all the different font lettering they choose for their business signs. Inside of Tokyo Table, Michelle had reserved her own room that was separated from the rest of the other customers. It was really nice inside.
After we were done eating, we walked to one of those sticker pictures store nearby. I guess these kinds of pictures are called “purikura”. It’s a Japanese thing that is like sweeping the US. haha! It was a really interesting and fun experience. You get to pick different head pieces to wear then take pictures with crazy graphic backgrounds and in the end you can decorate them with cute or hilarious graphic icons!
Here are the end results of the tiny sticker pics scanned (bad quality, I know):
After that event, I got ready to go to LA to spend a nice evening with Matt.
On Sunday, June 7th, the festivities continued. Michelle had another birthday celebration for other friends who couldn’t make it to the Saturday event. This time she had a BBQ picnic at Corona Park in Costa Mesa. She provided the food and drinks, and I think that party was a big success. A lot of people showed up, and I really enjoyed myself.
I did have two major dilemmas, though. After driving 12 miles and arriving to the park, I was about to take some photos, but it just didn’t work and I realized that I forgot my memory card at home! I felt really bad. I knew it would have been okay since there were many other people there who also had cameras and were taking pictures, but I still felt bad. I decided to go home and get it. Then I realized that I don’t have my car keys. I checked and my car key was in my ignition (turned off) resting there. Nailah was super nice to offer to give me a ride to my house so I can get my memory card and a spare key for my car. So we probably missed an hour of the party, but it was no biggie. We stayed until the end. Actually it was suppose to end at 5pm, but we stayed there even over 7pm. We were all having such a fun time. We knew it was time to go when the sun was setting.
Here are some highlights from the picnic:
Michelle and Garrick hold hands while riding on their bikes fairly fast.
Michelle opens a gift from Tammy.
Michelle is surprised at some of the never before seen images I gave her.
Millie laughs at the funny photos.
Some of us decided to keep the party going by meeting up at Lucky Strike for Social Sundays $1 Bowling! It ended up being Michelle, Garrick, Ryan, Matt, and I who went bowling. I was experimenting with slower shutter speeds to create crazy light effects. It was fun. Here are some of the pictures there:
And finally on Monday June 8th, Matt, Michelle, and I went to go see Metric at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. It was really fun! It was a great weekend!
