Big smiles in Little Tokyo

Man, I love my friends.  They’re always a blast to spend time with.  They’re so great that we all hung out for 12 hours yesterday. 12 hours!

At noon we went to Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles for Christmas shopping and managed to find a lot of stuff to buy for other people and for each other. I bought myself a, um, I don’t know, I call it a “karate kid bandana thing” because it reminds me of the bandana (which isn’t really a bandana hence “thing”) worn by the karate kid in the film “Karate Kid”…only not. I don’t think I’m really going to wear it, but everyone’s gotta have a karate kid bandana gotdamnit!  I also bought myself a samurai sword letter opener.  It’s so badass. It looks like a samurai sword, but in miniature barbie size.

Before leaving Little Tokyo, we walked over to the restrooms at their indoor mall.  The ladies room was locked, but I heard a lot of shuffling noises in there.  There was an old beat up paper, with bent corners and a brown-yellowish coloring around the borders, posted up on the ladies room door that read:

THIS RESTROOM IS CLOSED FOR CLEANING

PLEASE USE THE RESTROOM ON THE 3RD FLOOR

YOUR MOM’S NOT HERE TO HELP PICK YOU UP. PLEASE HELP

Which was uh, kinda weird.  There was also a small writing in red that was written at the top corner and it said, “Wat?!” Looks like somebody didn’t get it either.

What I think he wanted to say, originally, was, “YOUR MOM’S NOT HERE TO PICK UP AFTER YOU. SO HELP A BROTHER OUT.” Right?

Afterwards, we drove to Cerritos and ate at a Vietnamese pho restaurant.  It was Tyler’s first time eating pho, but he didn’t eat very much of it, so I helped him finish his bowl.  For desert, we had cha (kind of like jello soup), Tyler didn’t want to taste it.  I guess he doesn’t like Vietnamese food very much haha, but everyone else enjoyed their dishes. I ordered spring rolls, they were deliciousouosus!

We went to Borders and we stayed there for a while, mainly in the graphic novels section.  I think they were checking out Anime/Manga stuff, and I was catching up on my Marvels (of course).

After Borders, we got coffee and chilled and chatted.  We all took out our driver’s license just to see the hilarity of our pictures.  We played hangman and it was, surprisingly, fun.  Because of hangman, I did learn a new geographical location, Botsuana. Yup.

We ended the night around midnight, and I left with a satisfied (and more) feeling…and stomach.