DAY 4: YEG TO LAX

Hi!! Day 4 now.

Today we ate lunch at home and then headed to Huntington Library!

No it's not a library :P it's actually a place full of art and gardens from around the world. Very cool.

I'm just going to include a bunch of pics. We went to the rainforest, the Chinese garden, the Japanese one, the Rose Garden, and the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art.

Man it was super hot out and I was super tired too. I also got a little sun burnt on my shoulders and a hideous tan line LOL . faint but still.

orchids!

look at the next pic LOL!! isn't that cray

cacao plant!

entrance to Chinese garden

I don't know why my arms look so butch :(

me with fishies. LOL!!! it was at the ends of the bridges.

lotus!

roses

LOVE this one

and this.

entrance of the Japan garden.

bamboo shoots for dayz.

After we met up with my relatives and had some nuoc mia!! finally. so good. then my moms friend and BF left us and we went for dinner with my relatives. They are my cousin once removed, his wife and my second cousin. I think that's the correct iteration. In Chinese culture though, I think he's a "grandpa" to me (I'd call him my 'sook gong' or uncle grandpa) and so his daughter is my "aunt". She's 4. LOL!! she's so cute but yes. ahahah Asian problems I tell ya!

After we stopped by the mall in Arcadia to go to Nordstrom and I finally bought my Toms and Minnetonkas!! Unfortunately they only sell their Birkenstocks online :( boo!!

had dinner at this restaurant. This other guy joined us and he used to work for my grandpa back in Vietnam! haha my mom said he helped her and my aunts a lot because they were in the same refugee camp together. He still sees them as his boss' daughters but it's funny because it's been so long already!

Kimberley (my "aunt" LOL) wanted wonton noodles and my "aunt grandma" gave me some saying it was the bomb. It really was. omnomnom

we also had bo 7 mon and ca catfish nuong. hahah I don't even like fish so I barely ate that but everything else was really yummy :)

group pic! haha
 L -> R: grandpa's old employee, "uncle grandpa", my mom, me, "auntie grandma" and in front my "aunt" hahaha.

Afterwards, I went home. Phew. tiring day but it was fun nonetheless. 

Tomorrow is more shopping and Santa Monica!! woohoo

See ya'll tomorrow :)