Being sick the past few days...

Pretty flowers Yawara gave me. Started to wonder if he did something wrong cause it was random, lol

Went to Houston to pick up our student visas from the Japanese consulate

Pretty bathrooms at the downtown aquarium there

A white tiger's lair. lol, why is she in an aquarium?!

Looking up at some fish!

A lot of their fish were surprising in size, as you can see by my hand!

The 2nd floor had these really pretty restaurants...

Bye bye Houston!

Back to LA, at Lakeside Park

This photo was taken by Yawara!

Such beautiful weather outside

I was terribly sick the past few days, now I think I'm finally getting better. Yawara's mom is scaring me with her medical techniques... Not that I don't believe them, just that there are a number of them! She was giving me a heated massage yesterday, made me drink things I've never tasted, applied stinging oitments on me, etc. lol But I'm willing to do anything to get better! And tonight, I'm supposed to sniff this weird liquid and spit it out?


Well, anyways... Came back from Houston last night because we had to pick up our visas and passports from the Japanese consulate. We need our passports asap cause we're leaving TUESDAY! And that's why we drove down there instead of waiting for them to mail it back to us... 


Off to Morning Call, French Quarter tomorrow, and Art Museum and City Park Tuesday! I don't care how sick I am, I'm going!


-Christine

Insecterium

Japanese Magnolia Yawara's mommy planted

とてもきれいよ

Yawara's mommy's soba(some type). The tempura in the back was actually much better!

And the Audubon Insectarium! Yawara is eating bugs here...

The carcasses of butterflies have never been more beautiful

The butterfly garden!

京都らしいね？

Candy with a real scorpion inside Yawara bought

On the Riverwalk!

Haagen-Dazs Cookies n' Creme Dazzler! Best Ice cream I've had in the states! Also at the Riverwalk! I've been telling Yawara to take me here since before we left to New Orleans. And now,  he finally has! And now, I want to go again and get the Rocky Road one!

And then we went to the expensive Drago's. This is their Herradura Shrimp I had. If I didn't have ice cream beforehand, i probably would have killed it, but uh, was so full from the ice cream. You should order their oysters because I usually don't like oysters, but this was really good! :9 

And now, Yawara has given me his sickness... But at least he's feeling better? Friday's plan is to go down to Houston to pick up our visas and passport... I don't wanna go since it was like an 11 hour trip to get here already... But oh well, guess i will study Japanese in the car while Yuwa and Yawara drives! >>


-Christine

Mardi Gras

My first beads! I actually caught them, unlike later, where there's a bigger crowd and I got hit in the face multiple times, lol. By that point, I was using my hand as a shield. But this was a small childrens parade in Yawara's neighborhood.

Taqueria Corona's cebollitas (charbroiled green onions) Really yummy, as simple as it may look...

ceviche

Lots of people for the 1st Mardi Gras parade

Humorous floats

Spermes!

People running with sperm cells! There was an old guy who came up to everyone with a "pizza slut" box, and inside was a penis coming out. It was disturbing and funny, but it was happening all too quickly that I couldn't get a picture of it, lol

And Karaoke at Little Tokyo afterward. Lots of fun, but the mics sucked! It made me really look forward to singing karaoke in Japan as well as eating street vendor foods, such as takoyaki, toriyaki, etc.

-Christine

A nice day at The Audubon Zoo!

Entrance to the Zoo!

A really pretty habitat for a monkey

Pretty Oaks

Albino alligator

The scene from Benjamin Buttons

Gaboon Viper Snake

After the zoo, we went to Camellia Grill, which is when my camera decided to die, so there are no pictures of that. Yummy omelets and humorous service all around!  After that we went to Angelo Brocato's for dessert. Really yummy and pretty! My head hurt incredibly after the zoo, so when we got back I went to sleep for 3 hours. When I woke up, I felt a lot better. I think it was the sudden change in weather that got to me.

Time to sleep and go running in like 7 hours!
-Christine

Yawara's mommy's birthday!

Found out last night that today is Yawara's mommy's birthday! Yawara didn't even remember... But oh well! Started the day off with a jog with Yawara and his mommy. They were sweating a lot, but for some reason, I wasn't sweating. Genetics? I unno...
Then we went to Yawara's favorite restaurant in New Orleans, Lebanon Cafe.

My favorite thing always from there are their falafels!

But after that, Yawara bought his mommy an ipod nano, a new macbook battery, and nike+ipod(the only one I helped buy, lol) for her birthday. And then we went home, napped, and took their dog out for a walk... Or Yawara did, while I took pictures! I really like Lafreniere Park, wish there was one like it near my house.Then there would be no doubt that I would take my dogs out for a walk or go jogging outside everyday!

Timmy!

Lafreniere Park

 So gorgeous...

Some roosters on a tree... Never even seen, let alone heard of this before, lol

So pretty... and it was such a nice day outside! There were so many people enjoying themselves at the park today, it made me really happy :)

Fresh fruit tart Yawara bought his mommy from La Madeline. She won't let us touch it till tomorrow morning, lol

Yummy chirashi Yawara's mommy made us!

Its supposed to get cold next week, so we're trying to do all the outdoorsy stuffs this week while the weather is still nice. Can't wait for tomorrow! The Zoo and Camellia Grill! Funnest restaurant I can tell you about tomorrow!

-Christine