Last weekend I took a road trip down to LA to see my parents who recently returned from Korea for the July 4th holiday, and take Lubs back home, and also to hang out with Aaron & friends. I was expecting the worst since Luby doesn’t really like to stay in one place for too long, but was surprised to find that she basically didn’t move the entire trip. I only had to stop once, and she pee’ed and poo’ed outside, not making a sound or finding trouble while I was driving. She was also super good at work, and didn’t embarrass me too much. My parents were ecstatic to see Luby, and only greeted me after saying hi to Luby about 20 times. Tis true what my sister says, “…we’re always so much more excited to greet whatever you’re holding more than you. example #1: wine. example #2: luby. hehe.” sigh.
07/01/2011: Road trip to LA with Luby in 25 frames.
07/01/2011: Dad made me a margarita as a welcoming present- it was delish.
I kept Saturday super chill (although ‘chill’ is probably not be the best word to use considering LA was ridic HOT) and hung out with my parents. My dad went off for an hour on how terrible and wrong everything I’m doing with my golf swing… and he’s probably right. Golf swing correction/modification/metamorphosis- in progress.
07/02/2011: A cold one with Pops after a long, LONG day at the range. Ride back from range: dad "I want a beer, I want a beer, I want a beer" me: "Me too, me too, me too!"
07/02/2011: Parents: "You can pick any wine you want! Except for the expensive ones."
07/02/2011: Today, I am thankful for America. And their beef.
07/02/2011: Mum enjoying Luby's company. She's happy Luby is back ^.^
By the time we got to Brian’s party, I was exhausted and basically passed out like a little girl (no offense to little girls). I can’t remember the last time I passed out at a party… I must have been really tired and must be really old. Thanks for hosting B!
Chris, Andrew, Paul and I formed a 4-player scramble team for the KACC Golf Tourny and played a fun round today. I played in a 2-player scramble in college with Aaron for the IM tourny, but this was my first one in a long time. Tournaments like these are always a lot of fun for a variety of reasons.
This weekend is the second week of a string of very busy (albeit fun filled) 8 weekends in a row. It’s going to be a challenge to keep up with these blog posts, but at least I’ll have something to write about every week. James Chung is making a week long visit to SF before we head together to LA for some socal fun. We started the weekend with a trip to Toyose, then on to some other bars in the mission area. I was incredibly tired as I usually am on Friday nights and it was a relatively calm night for all of us.
The next morning, we headed up northeast to the city of San Rafael for golf at Peacock Gap GC. It’s always fun to play at a new course, and this time was no exception. The last time the four of us played together was in San Diego, and playing at a new course under warm weather made me feel like I was back in SD. The course was well maintained and fun, but the putting greens were a bit ridiculous in terms of difficulty.
The next morning started with brunch at Stacks and we ordered way too much food as usual (I blame one particular person, whom I shall not name). It was also the day of Bay to Breakers and since Stacks is near the route, we got to see a lot of people in funky costumes or a lack of clothes in general. I think I saw at least 5 butts, all dudes. I love SF -_____-…
After the picture session, we headed to church, then for some ice cream at bi-rite, then a tour of Twin Peaks and Fisherman’s Warf, then finally picked up dinner at Little Star and ate at home to cap off the day. Phew~ I didn’t realize so much was possible in one day. Now I do.
I felt a lot better after some food, so Chris and I decided to play a quick 9 holes at Fleming. This is a par 30 9-hole course that I realized today to be rather challenging. Most of the par 3′s are long, and one of the two par 4 is also very long. I hit my irons really well today and played a +10. I started out +2 over the first 4 holes, but kind of lost it in the last 5 holes with a +8. I’ll take +10 any day though, which seems to be my average the last few outings.
The title is a bit misleading, because I didn’t do anything this weekend related to Mother’s Day… but nevertheless, it was still Mother’s Day. The weekend started off with a visit from my old friend Chan. He had a corporate party in SF so I got to catch dinner and some drinks with him. Steve hosted a BBQ on Saturday, and it turned out to be a little more beer happy than I had anticipated. The food btw, was amazingly good.
Before dinner could be enjoyed, we first had to golf. We headed east to San Leandro to play at Monarch Bay GC. I usually hate this course, because its long, and windy… and flat with lots of traps to lose balls. However, today was a beautiful day and no complaints were rendered!
I continued my birthday celebration over the weekend with golf at Stonetree GC in Novato, CA Saturday morning. I was a little nervous due to the way I was hitting balls at the range on Thursday, but was secretly hoping I had taken the rust off a bit and would hit better on Saturday. Nope. I played the entire course like I was hitting at the range… note to self, go to the range more. It was a beautiful course on a beautiful day nevertheless (with the exception of the cold front that crept up on us in the final two holes), and a day spent golfing is a day spent well. Thanks Chris for golf! And beer! And the hot dogs!
Back at home we prepared for the birthday house party. Guests quickly trickled in and I went from sober to… not so sober a little too fast. Let’s not drink so fast from now on, yah? Thanks to all who made it to the party, hopefully I gave you some alcohol and didn’t drink everything by myself!
After defeating death Sunday morning and afternoon, it was birthday dinner time at Local Kitchen! It was the perfect venue, primarily because some of us were starving to death and it was all-you-can-eat pizza night! Thanks everybody for a delicious dinner!
It all started with a short email from Aaron in December saying he wanted to set up a reunion in LA. That reunion has come and gone. Since alcohol killed most or our brain cells this weekend (the little we had left… and I’m sure it killed a lot more than just our brain cells), the blog will need to be pieced together by pictures.
Will and I drove down to LA on Wednesday night after work through the Pacheco Pass. I usually prefer the Bay Bridge way because I don’t want to deal with going through the local streets at Gilroy, but it wasn’t as bad as I remembered. The ride was 100x better when not done solo. We got in close to midnight on Wednesday so we kept it fairly chill and stayed in. (Picture: Aaron decided to jump in the shower just about the time we would arrive… so I cleaned my car while we waited)
I went home on Thursday for a quick lunch with the parents + aunt, and then they ditched me so I went back up to Aaron’s for dinner. On my way I picked up PB from the airport who got in earlier to avoid the massive snow storm in the east coast. We were supposed to eat dinner together, but freaking Aaron and Will were full from a power shake (or whatever it’s called) a couple hours earlier; at least now we know it works. We tried a few places, but it was relatively late and everything was closed, so headed to 
Soon Isaac called from LAX and Aaron left to pick him up after dropping us off at 
The great thing about LA, which is the biggest reason I moved to the west coast as opposed to NY, is all the open grass and the abundant choice of sports! We woke up and first headed out to 
We were a bit afraid that golf would be rained out, but it turned out to be a great day with the exception of about 5 minutes of rain. This is usually a very crowded and time consuming course, but the rain kept most people away and we were able to get through almost all 18 holes. We even got a good look at a perfect rainbow (TWO actually, one on top of another). All my practice lately after work really paid off because I played the best 15 holes of my life. Team Aaron + ME beat team Chris + PB, so they bought us dinner at the Korean/Chinese restaurant 
After dinner, we spent the last night at 
