some happenings...

eesh, lotsa stuff has happened in the last few weeks, but it'd be waaay too long to go into, so i'll just jot down some highlights:

- esther's birthday dinner - kept it small, so on the 17th, elaine, esther and i went to rambutan thai after mosaic and gorged ourselves. our usual fun afterwards...

- last saturday, went on mosaic's l.a. tour. visited "hope central" (aka, skid row) downtown, saw the watts towers, then went to artesia (indiatown) for lunch and visited a hindu temple. ended the day in hacienda heights at hsi lai buddhist temple, the largest one in the u.s. beautiful facilities, and it was so interesting to learn about buddhism from our tour guide monk. overall, the tour was great - saw a lot of things i'd never seen before (eesh, and i grew up in los angeles), and it was definitely an eye-opening experience.

- on the l.a. tour, i made friends with a girl named karen, and we ended up being tour buddies the whole day. turns out, she had extra tickets to see sarah mclachlan at the greek - did i want to come? um, i think i thought about it for half a second...so after the tour, i joined karen and her friends at the greek. dude, she is amazing! part of me wanted to sing along, but i couldn't 'cuz i had to just listen to her. she sang her entire new album, and almost all the songs on her mirrorball cd. we were in the nosebleed section, but it was totally worth it!

- went out to el coyote with some mosaic people after service on sunday...had the waiter bring out ice cream for esther's birthday. trying to get esther to hurry back from the bathroom was...fun. actually, they intercepted her while she was on her way to the bathroom, and she tried to get out of their way 'cuz she had no idea it was for her...that was pretty funny.

- been playing tuesday night league with beektory again. yesterday, everyone was playing well...our guys had some really beautiful kills. went to jan's afterwards - this diner across from beverly center that's been there for as long as i can remember, but never went there until yesterday.