Expensive Sushi

Anything over $20 is expensive for me, so when a friend treated me to some delicious sushi (Taiko) yesterday, I almost died from happiness. As you all can tell, it really doesn't take much for me to die from happiness or squeal from delight. What can I say? I am easily impressed.

Because sushi is so expensive, I would never go to a sushi bar of a restaurant and order the whole left menu. Well actually... I have never even sat at a sushi bar unless it was to eat all you can eat sushi (which sadly is just not the same).

Can I declare love to salmon, yellowtail, tuna, unagi nigiri?! It just melted in my mouth, and I was seriously giggling from delight. (I may be a bit embarrassing to be around as I talk loud.) I think this is what my dreams are made of.

Oh, how blissful it was. :)

P.S. Thank you, friend.

Camping Trips

Oh there are just so many places I want to travel to, and it makes me a bit sad that I have never been too all these near by National Parks.

We live by Yosemite, Sequoia, King's Canyon, Rainbow Basin, etc. What have I been doing most of my life? Why did I assume that I love the city?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the city life, and how convenient everything is. I love how you can go out in the middle of the night if you are hungry or that there is a Target 5 minutes from my house. I like that everything is near by, and that there is always something to do, but there is just something about being in nature.

I love my shower and comfy bed, but if it wasn't for those things... I would love to live in the outdoor. I would love to live in a forest, and be able to go hiking every morning.

I remember that I was convinced that I wanted to be a forest ranger when I was in high school. I thought it would be the coolest job ever, and I think a part of me still long to be just that. Maybe I've always known that I wanted to do something with the outdoors.

This summer will be a camping summer. I think I'm going to try to go to a few National Parks that I have never been to. I think that will take the edge off my need to travel. :)

P.S. Happy birthday, Daddy. I love you to pieces.

Party for the Planet

I just spent the weekend at the Santa Ana zoo volunteering my time. I had signed up to teach little children about conservation by making crafts.

I had a lot of fun teach kids to make these cootie catchers (that they called conservation catcher), and teaching them how fun it is to save the world. It's amazing how much you learn when you are teach other people about things.

Did you know that if you use your lawn mower on a regular basis for a year, it creates as waste as if you were to drive your car for 86,000 miles. THAT IS RIDICULOUS! I never knew how much waste dry cleaning produced. I generally avoid buying clothing that requires dry cleaning because I think it's inconvenient and expensive, and now I will have another reason.

I had so much at the zoo, and I just find monkeys so adorable. The Santa Ana zoo is known as the zoo with at least 50 monkeys at all time, and it shows. The zoo is very small, and most of the habitats are filled with adorable monkeys. :)

Born to be Wild

I just watched this documentary that was just so adorable, I wanted to melt into a big puddle. I was in love the whole time I was watching the documentary.

The documentary was about orphanages that helped orangutans and African elephants back into the wild. There were these amazing women that dedicated their whole lives into saving these amazing animals, and eventually putting them back into the wild.

I recently fell in love with apes because I am currently taking an anthropology class. I love seeing those cute little orangutan climb all over their keeper's back. They would copy what their keepers did. The orangutans would lather themselves with soap, (While eating it. Haha.) and bathe themselves. It was so adorable that I want to run straight to Borneo and hug them all.

Elephants make extremely happy, so seeing a bunch of baby ones made me extremely jealous of their keepers. I want to be those keepers that nurture them, and send them back into the wild. The keepers would sleep with the elephants until they were older because elephants in the wild would spend all their time with their mother.

Watching this documentary made me want to cuddle animals all day. I'm just so in love that I feel the urge to travel to Africa and Borneo right this second.

Little Sleep

I have been sleeping about 5 hours a day for the past week, and it is driving me insane. I just want to nap all the time (but I don't get to), and it makes me extremely cranky that I have to do so many things when all I want to do is get some sleep.

I don't know how people do it. How do doctors only run on a few hours of sleep? I just want to crash all the time, but I have so much to do. Why do school and work take up all of my time?

Waking up everyday before 9am is hard for me. I can see all of you shaking your head and rolling your eyes. It's hard for me because I can never get everything I have to do to sleep early. I always end up sleeping at odd hours during the night.

I just want my bed, and I just want some sleep! ZZZzzzZzZzZZZzzzZZZZZZzzzzzZzZzZz

Venice Beach

I haven't really explored all the great places that are around me, so I recently made it a mission to actively try to explore more places. I love adventures, and I love trying new things. I think that's why it's so important for me to travel, and it even explains why I love yelp so much.

Venice Beach was a random activity today, and I thought it would be a grand adventure since I have never been, and have heard so much from television and other people. If you were to go on google images right now and type in Venice beach; a lot of beautiful pictures will show up.

It's true that the beach is beautiful and that there are a lot of nice houses, but what everyone failed to tell me was how ghetto it actually was. In every corner someone was trying to sell me legalized (at least that's what they told me) marijuana, many homeless people (or young runaways) begging for money, and shady shops lined the street.

I just didn't feel safe, and the streets were completely dirty. That made me sad inside as I was imagining how fantastic it would be. It's the kind of place where you felt you would be pick-pocketed if you weren't careful.

Even though it was a bit scary, I actually had a lot of fun exploring Venice beach. At least it made for a great topic to talk about.