Weekend at LA

Tita estela was visiting her kids in LA over the weekend and we hitched a ride with her. In LA, hung out with Achie, saw her comic WIP, and over the weekend we watched some Adventure time, Paradise Kiss the Movie (hilariously horrible), and Thor (surprisingly good).

Most of the Saturday was spent walking around the Getty Villa museum that was built to look like an actual Greek/Pompeii villa.

SF outing weekend-1

My new dormmate Bonnie arrived early this morning.

Later in the morning, Colleen invited me to do some bird sketchings in the aviary near Lake Merritt (haven't been there yet) so I agreed.

What we ended up doing though was going as a big group of peeps to San Francisco to do some sketching of the SF Grand Cathedral. I thought I did a good sketch of it until I saw Cel's freaking near architecture clean etchings and just gave up. Spent the rest of the time exploring the artwork they had around the place- weird mesh of past and modern day artwork and stain glass.

Afterwards we went to the park right outside of that and drew the fountains and people-One of them looked like Dan lol- and I totally regretted not bringing a thicker jacket because it was freezing. QB lent me his but they joked i looked like a big tomato since I was tiny in his sweater.

We trekked back down SF, saw a modern gallery and couldn't decide on anything to eat so headed back to Oakland and me and Colleen decided to make a huge batch of brownies and Cel donated a tub of ice cream and Emily provided Tangled as the night's entertainment.

Afterwards I watched Alex play AC: Brotherhood and saw major backseat nerd gaming rage happening all night over Portal 2. I love this dorm so very much.

Kiddie Birthday Party

Went with my cousin and her boys to attend a kiddie birthday party (free food, yo.) Besides a ton of cute babies, shitzu puppies, it was a pretty fun.

A lot of us adults went nuts when there were free bubbles to blow- it was cool seeing all of us blowing a gazillion bubbles for the kids to go wild at.

Later on I made some chalk drawings on the ground before I left, too bad I had no camera on me. 8'C

Exploratorium

In celebration of my belated birthday(7-19), me, lal and JJ had an outing on the weekend of my choosing.

I chose the San Franisco Exploratorium which was basically like a humongous science interactive place which just ignited the excited geeky little kid in me (they even had a special exhibit that time called the Science of Color) . Had I more say in the matter, I would have been happy spending the entire day in there, but we left a little early so we'd be able to catch the BART back.

Family lake outing

For this 4th of July weekend, my family and then the cousins and their friends and family all went to a lake to swim.

The only problem was-
1) I had no swimsuit.
2) Even if I had, I was in no condition at the time to swim.

Which meant I spent the entire, bloody, scorching day having a near heat stroke (really, no joke.) under a tent while my sibs had a blast being in the cool, cool lake.

Walt Disney Museum Field Trip

Saturday Drawing for Animation class(+ extra students) field trip to Walt Disney's Museum (San Francisco)! :D 

We had to take a Bart, a Muni then a Bus ride to get there, but it was pretty fun going there and seeing Walt Disney's entire life and all the accomplishments and influences he's had on pretty much America throughout his life in and out of the studio. Afterwards we trooped over to the Industrial Light and Magic studio areas and got a picture in the Yoda fountain and our teacher treated us to Starbucks as a last bit of class enjoyment before the finals crunchtime.