I was planning to spend Christmas in SF as usual, but happened to stumble across an extra vacation day and used it to spend the weekend with family and friends at home in LA! It came to be an aggressive plan, considering I am planning to drive down to LA the very weekend for New Years. Nevertheless, it was great times, time well spent, and well worth the drive!

12/23/2011: Beautiful drive down I-5! The drive back up was infinitely painful, for reasons I cannot disclose.

12/23/2011: I found Santa! The 21st century Santa apparently drives a Subaru.

12/23/2011: First stop: Merry Christmas weekend from Vibe!

12/24/2011: Christmas Eve dinner @ Beach 활어! Love their uni rice mix.

12/24/2011: Celebrating Christmas @ home with cake & wine! Took a long time to convince my dad that good wine must be opened.

12/26/2011: Best part of Corona? Quiet Starbucks with plenty of seats!