Amoeba

Not just a single cell organism my friends. Nope, the amoeba I'm talking about is Amoeba Music, in their words "The World's Largest Independent Record Store!"  In another installment of Adventures in Grouponing... The Boyfriend bought one for this record store, record store - feels weird saying that, and of course he waited till the last minute to redeem, literally the last minute. We checked out as they were closing the store.

Having not been in a record store since my denim overall wearing days of 1998 (oy!) I was ad a lot of fun. This record store is pretty cool, they have everything you could think of. Vinyl's, Cd's, Poster's, Book's, DVD's...

The Boyfriend was like a kid in a candy store...

While he searched I played... What did I play? Well how about what doesn't belong? (You may think I mean the Caucasian girl.. but really what I mean is the girl to the far left, she doesn't look as happy as the other girls, she looks scared.)

I played find as many records as you can that you used to own in high school...apparently my collection was very limited. No shame in my music choices...

I also discovered that I'm the 4th member of Salt-N-Pepa

So my friends this definitely was quite the adventure, not sure what we ended up going home with but I'm going back for a CD, or 2 or all three... guess of what?



♥always,
Marisol

If You Like Green Piña Colada...Tea

I bought a Groupon for the Chado Tea House in Downtown a few months ago. Now, if you are like me, you buy these things and forget about them. Good thing I have this week off from work to take advantage of the oddly sunny and warm weather to enjoy some afternoon tea with my bff. Another tea lover like myself.

We shared 4 different sandwiches, scones, cakes and tea. It was enough for both of us to feel really stuffed at the end of our meal. We also got to take home some loose leaf teas. Including my new favorite Green Piña Colada Tea. We conversed through lunch while peeking between the sandwiches and scones. Literally, between them, since the table was so small.

After our lunch we took a little stroll around Little Tokyo and came across a wishing tree...

 so i made a wish...

There were many different types of wishes, for world peace, for love, for prosperity, well wishes for others, for babies, for friendships, and to meet Justin Bieber...seriously, to meet him? Oh well. Wonder what this person wished for...

We kept walking around trying to forget we had already stuffed ourselves so we could eat some sushi or Japanese curry...the smell was so numbingly decadent...but we remembered...

We rounded out our afternoon with a quick visit to a bookstore where Claudia got her Anime fix and I discovered a Korean series called "Boys Over Flowers." It looks riveting. By the way, only in Downtown LA will you drive through China and Mexico to get to Japan. All thanks to adventures in Groupon-ing. Tune in next time for the Jamba Juice Swirly Hunt, true story.

♥always,
Marisol