Welcome to sunny LA where you can experience all 4 seasons in a day

Actually ... this is in the bay area before LA

Jacqueline and I went to visit Scharffen Berger in Berkeley.

Output of chocolate bars.

Visit to LA

First time to the Rose Bowl. Quite cool!

This is Nikko - the scaredy cat

Welcome to Huntington Library

This must be the "victorian" section

Can't remember which part this is

Our first stop: Chinese garden

Views of the Chinese garden

Cool windows throughout the garden

What do we have here? Miniature garden? Ada, Bo and I looking curiously at it.

Onwards to the Japanese gardens - Gayan, Bo and Ada .

Japanese garden is really pretty and green. Not sure which I like better - SF's japanese tea garden or this one. I think SF's.

Bo and Ada doing some yoga

Giant cacti in the dessert garden. Decided to pay a visit before heading to the afternoon tea.

I wonder who took that picture. Gee...

Took a wrong exit and ended up in downtown LA. Since we're here, why not explore?

This is the disney theatre - peek-a-boo!

Went to some gigantic church in the middle of downtown. Part of it overlooks highway 101.

Gayan and Bo managed to squeeze somehow into that fish's mouth

Yee-ha!

Circus act?

After that, we headed to the observatory. (Journey was playing a concert that night by the way.) This is the pendulum they put on the main floor to show how the earth rotates. Every so-many-minutes, one cylinder will be knocked down.

Night view of downtown LA. What you cannot see in the picture is the layer of pollution hovering above the city - yuck

Dinner at a Korean restaurant - BBQ - yummy

Welcome to sunny LA where you can experience all 4 seasons in a day

Just before I left...

Managed to meet up with Thao - Thao, me, Gayan, Bo

Just the girls