So we finally all drove down to visit Vina (not my first time, like others) to spend the day at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and watch a Lenka concert at the UCSD campus.
We started at Sushi Ki where Vina treated us to a very yummy lunch. She had always mentioned how the restaurant she worked at was Korean owned and ran so we weren't expecting much in the taste department -- I've had my share of pretty bad Korean-ized sushi with pickled stuff inside the rolls. But I have to say -- this was pretty yummy! I had some yellowtail collar (my favorite!) and the chef made us a salmon skin salad which was so good. I've never had salmon skin before!
The sushi chef got a kick out of the fact that we were all sisters ("ALL sisters?") and her friend/other waiter kept trying to get us to drink sake with our lunch. Hello! A little early?
After a long day outdoors at the Wild Animal Park (more on that later), we grabbed some hot dogs and headed to UCSD for the concert. Vina made a stink about not realizing that she could have gotten in for free because she was a student (duh!) but was able to secure tickets for the rest of us at $10 a head.
We spent the 20 minutes standing in line taking pictures of the venue and each other on our iPhones.
And then in the Loft we went, waiting for the first band to take the stage. I was kind of excited but the buzz was instantly killed when Army Navy took the stage and started playing way too loudly and whining into the microphone. Max, Yona and I couldn't take the noise and opted to stand near the back for their set. It was a good call too, otherwise we would have been deaf like Vina and Aai who stayed in their spots about 10 ft from the stage.
After about 25 minutes of noise, Lenka finally took the stage with her celeb look-a-like band. She played some new and old songs in addition to the favorites from her album. It was a lot of fun and she's such a great performer! It was nice to see her fully in her element, something she didn't get to do when performing with the other girls at Hotel Cafe.
It was cool to be in such a small and intimate venue although I have to say I was completely irked by the audience in front of me at times. There were a handful of girls that kept taking repeated pictures with their digital cameras (flash on) that were very distracting. They literally snapped a pic every 10 seconds, reviewed it in failure, and kept trying again. If you keep the camera on the same setting, no matter how many times you take the picture you'll get the same result! Augh. So annoying.
We started at Sushi Ki where Vina treated us to a very yummy lunch. She had always mentioned how the restaurant she worked at was Korean owned and ran so we weren't expecting much in the taste department -- I've had my share of pretty bad Korean-ized sushi with pickled stuff inside the rolls. But I have to say -- this was pretty yummy! I had some yellowtail collar (my favorite!) and the chef made us a salmon skin salad which was so good. I've never had salmon skin before!
The sushi chef got a kick out of the fact that we were all sisters ("ALL sisters?") and her friend/other waiter kept trying to get us to drink sake with our lunch. Hello! A little early?
After a long day outdoors at the Wild Animal Park (more on that later), we grabbed some hot dogs and headed to UCSD for the concert. Vina made a stink about not realizing that she could have gotten in for free because she was a student (duh!) but was able to secure tickets for the rest of us at $10 a head.
We spent the 20 minutes standing in line taking pictures of the venue and each other on our iPhones.
And then in the Loft we went, waiting for the first band to take the stage. I was kind of excited but the buzz was instantly killed when Army Navy took the stage and started playing way too loudly and whining into the microphone. Max, Yona and I couldn't take the noise and opted to stand near the back for their set. It was a good call too, otherwise we would have been deaf like Vina and Aai who stayed in their spots about 10 ft from the stage.
After about 25 minutes of noise, Lenka finally took the stage with her celeb look-a-like band. She played some new and old songs in addition to the favorites from her album. It was a lot of fun and she's such a great performer! It was nice to see her fully in her element, something she didn't get to do when performing with the other girls at Hotel Cafe.
It was cool to be in such a small and intimate venue although I have to say I was completely irked by the audience in front of me at times. There were a handful of girls that kept taking repeated pictures with their digital cameras (flash on) that were very distracting. They literally snapped a pic every 10 seconds, reviewed it in failure, and kept trying again. If you keep the camera on the same setting, no matter how many times you take the picture you'll get the same result! Augh. So annoying.
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