janii: Birthday (family edition)

This year when my family asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday, I had two requests.... to take a studio family picture and eat sashimi. Little did I know how pricey these studios can charge, I decided to do it the old-fashion way and take it ourselves. And when any special occasion comes along, our family will try to find any excuse to eat at this sashimi restaurant located on the pier of Redondo Beach because it is just that good. This place is known for their fresh crab, but my family comes here for the sashimi. So the day was set! Eat sashimi at Redondo Beach and take family pictures on the pier!

So there are two Korean sashimi places located on the pier. But this place IS the place to go. There's always a wait on the weekends, but it is definitely worth it. Kind of hard to spot at first, but this is what it looks like from the outside...

Snapshots to kill time while we wait for our food...

Sashimi and Oysters!!! Need I say more? By the way, the oysters here are HUGEEE!!!

Oyster shots 1-2-3!!!

Do you think this animal is real or fake?

REAL!!! I don't even know what animal to call this, but it definitely stole the show on the pier. Everybody wanted to get in on the action and take a picture with it.

Mommy and me!

The men in my life!!!

Thankful for my parents! <3

So my fear of animals were reinforced when I was too scared to get any closer to this bird. Oh well.

On the way back to the parking structure, the funniest thing happened! Being the lazy person I am, I did not want to walk all the way around the parking structure to enter (if you've been to Redondo, you know that there are poles around the whole structure). Anyways, I slithered my way through these poles, and my dad being the silly person that he is thought he could do the same! It was the funniest thing, because he had the toughest time getting through!! Our whole family shared the biggest laugh.... Do you think he made it through?