Rest day in LA!

Today was an errands day in LA! Got up late and first up drove our rental car to LAX airport to pick up our Budget rental car to take to San Fran. Then we drove both cars back to Lomita and returned the Enterprise rental car. This all took around 2hrs! Sp now we’re driving a black 2 door Chevrolet Cobalt. It’s got basic features but looks sporty!

We returned to Boon Piou’s place and Di did a load of washing/drying. In the meantime I went out again to get my hair cut and find some lunch to bring back. I looked up hair dressers in the GPS and finally got my hair cut at the 4th one I visited! The first one was non-existent, the second closed, and third fully booked when I visited. I ended up at a Korean place funnily enough but she was really good! Finally I have nice short spiky hair again!!!

Next I plugged Mexican food into the GPS and found a place called Enquitos Mos or something like that! Got two burritos and the guy even threw in a scoop of corn chips for free! Went back to Di’s cousin’s place and we thoroughly enjoyed our Mexican lunch!

After lunch we decided to check out the shopping scene in LA and found the South Bay Galleria in our GPS. This was about 8 miles away. We checked the directory but were kinda disappointed at the range of stores. They did have some major department stores like Macy’s and Mervyns but they didn’t have the general American brands like Levis, Fossil, or Timberland etc. We did some window shopping and picked up some baby clothes from Gap for some of Di’s friends expecting. Then we grabbed a HUGE old fashioned lemonade in the food court. It was seriously like a 1 litre cup!!!

We left around 5:30pm and stopped by Albertsons supermarket on the way home to pick up some groceries for our roadtrip starting tomorrow! We got back around 7:15pm and Boon Piou, Dilys, and the kids were all home. Dilys was feeling slightly ill with a headache so she was asleep and stayed home whilst we went out for dinner.

Boon Piou took us to that Malaysian place he had wanted to take us to on Monday night called Belacan Grill. It wasn’t bad! We had great satay for starters, then mains of hainanese chicken, curry beef, belacan kangkong and chow kway teow. The kids really loved the chicken! Natalie loved the curry beef! The chow kway teow wasn’t bad, but the other dishes weren’t quite up to par. It was quite reasonably priced though at around USD10 per dish and it was nice to have Malaysian food again!