Whatever life you wear, it will become you

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Cute!

So beautiful.

Delicious :)


Day Five – The City of Manhattan Beach, El Segundo, Korea Town

      Just when we thought that we would never see Tammi again…  instead of going to Santa Monica and Venice Beach, we decided to visit Tammi at her shop. When we got to Manhattan Beach we went straight to visit Tammi and to say hello. She insisted on offering to bring us to places to visit and even said it was her own fault for being nosy but we just couldn’t thank her enough for doing all of this for us. Afterwards, we said we would treat her to dinner but she said that she would take us to Korea Town to try the best tofu soup ever (I was thinking… yes! I love Korean food J). So we went to the beach to tan for roughly three hours (we sort-of-maybe-kind-of fell asleep on the beach). We couldn’t help it! It was extremely relaxing. Headphones on, jamming to some Musiq and just soaking up the sun hoping to not get a sunglasses tan. After tanning, we went to grab some Cold Stone ice-cream. I had heard good reviews on this Creamery in Toronto so I thought that I might as well try it. I got the strawberry and banana ice-cream – it was pretty good but not as good as Marble Slab or frozen yogurt places. After we had some yogurt, we went back to Tammi’s store and helped her steam her clothes, organize and put tags on new earring stock (labour for food? Nah, we just wanted to help out and give the favour back). While heading down to K-town, Vee really wanted to go to Target and see what that was all about so we stopped there. There were so many E.L.F products that I just had to grab myself some new make-up brushes. We ended up in K-town at the 24 hour BCD restaurant. I got the Bulgogi combo (BEST bulgogi I have ever had in my life – no lie) and organic seafood soon tofu soup. During dinner, it was such a coincidence because the people that were sitting at the table beside us were talking about …Canada. So I couldn’t help but interrupt their conversation but ask if they were from Toronto as well. They were friendly people (thank god) and told us that they are actually from Los Angeles but go to Sheridan Tech for Computer Animation which I thought was pretty cool.  They talked about our amount of snow in the winter… and I kindof blushed and looked away loll. Yes I hate the cold weather too. But anyway, after dinner we went back to the hotel and Tammi said that she was going to come pick us up at 9 in the morning so we could visit Santa Monica/Venice Beach area before the Electric Daisy Carnival on Friday.

Love like a Sunset

Lol @ the awkward man in the back.

Your typical tourist picture.

Ummm, yeah.

Breath taking.

Mango Sorbet <3

The process of me getting roasted.

Sand in between my toes (dried nasty sandy - toes).

Oh, sunshineee

Mochi balls stuffed with green tea, yummy.

Damn, we look so tired and out of it from doing absolutely nothing all day but touring and tanning.

I miss this so much.

Silly.

<3

Bolt <3

I look SO tired.

Um, yeah. *rolls eyes :)

Alcohol in CVS? Damnnnnnn.

Urban Outfitters T-shirt, Talula fedora, A&F jean shorts, sandals from downtown LA, H&M bag

Day Four

Destination – The City of Manhattan Beach, Beach, Manhattan Shopping Village, City of El Segundo

          Score. Luckily our hotel had a pretty cheap deal considering we had already spent a vast amount of money on taxis. It was a five dollar round trip on a trolley to the City of Manhattan beach. Who knew it could be so sketchy just to wait for this trolley that was located right outside the hotel? A random African-American man came up to me and said some disturbing things to me. Nasty. It was quite the experience getting on this trolley. I thought it was really cute because it gave us a different cultural feel of getting around. When we got to the city, we were quite amazed because there were so many boutiques and beautiful palm trees! When we got off, we grabbed a sushi lunch at a Japanese cuisine called Sun and Moon. To my surprise, they actually had some pho (Vietnamese rice noodle) in a Japanese restaurant. Afterwards we walked around the boutiques. I love doing this because every store you go into there was something different and unique about it. The store owners all have a different taste in style and there’s always something new. 

       In our case, after tanning for a couple hours on the beautiful fine sand and dipping our toes in azure water, we visited more boutiques and one of them made us so grateful for the rest of our trip. Ally-Woo was the name of the boutique. Tammi was her name. We conversated with this Korean woman who owned her boutique filled with modern-vintage clothing and accessories along with her puppy named Bolt. She is such a genuinely sweet and nice person. I don’t even know how to exaggerate that because she was just naturally a happy sweet lady from what we could tell. She knew about the round trip ticket we got but she told us to go to Manhattan Shopping Village to do some shopping and that she would pick us up from there and drive us back to our hotel. Seems risky doesn’t it? But she was just that sincere and sweet that we took that offer and trusted her to pick us up from the village. Manhtatten Shopping Village was a little shopping mall with not too many stores. They had your Sephora, Coach, Apple, California Pizza, CVS, banks, and other shops. Tammi said she would call us when she was there to pick us up and she really did!