Wedding of cousin Jonathan and Melody in San Jose

First stop: Turo car rental of a smart car! It was definitely small and good on the gas mileage - we ended up adding a little less than 2 gallons after our entire trip. However, our lack of driving experience in California coupled with a small car wasn't the best combination for cali freeways. It was cute, though. Driving my Mini Cooper home after the trip felt like a huge luxury ride! hahaha

We had a couple of hours before meeting my mom at Aunt May's house so we scoured the Westfield Shopping Mall (Valley shopping mall?) and bought 10 face masks each at the Face Shop as well as some See's Candies. Then we hit In 'N Out. Our tray was chalk full of lettuce.

Front and center is the new Miir mug Ev has been enjoying and she gifted me with one too! Cute little 8-ouncer.

Ev's mom jeans at the price point of $100-$200 (Mal said she looks like puops in them), Citizens of Humanity. Mom's mom jeans at the price point of $29.99, Uniqlo.

Wedding! Cousin Jonathan was the groom. This photo is about half cousins and half significant others. Family are underlined: Hubert, Jason, Thorin, Ben, Hamilton, James, Marina, Melody, Jonathan, Mimi, Trish, Mel, Ev, Jocelyn, Lisa, Laura

PhotoBooth. "Prom"

I don't think my mom can not smile, ever.

Recreating Dancing with the Stars photo we took with Maks and Val

Laura and Lisa took us to 3 food places in quick succession: 1) a pandan waffle place (the waffles are kind of chewy like mochi. very good. There was a green one and a black sesame one and the green one was better) 2) Bonchon Korean fried chicken place. The chicken is good. It's wings and tenders with different sauces on them 3) Happy Lemon (again) where we got a mango matcha smoothie (yum), a matcha milk tea with tiramisu salted cream (good but the salted cream was a little too heavy 3) the original lemon drink (good) and a milk tea with puffed cream in the middle (good). I like how Happy Lemon lets you customize the % Sweetness and ice you want.

Nightly sleeping arrangement.I didn't think to put up my head covering until after our stay was over. Would have helped with the low temperatures we encountered during those evenings! Ev packed both sleeping mats and her sleeping bag in to her carry on. I just had one sleeping bag. But we made it work!

Borrowing Aunt May's asian visor.

Princeton and Asian visor. Laura said we "fit right in in Saratoga"

Ignore un-cropped portion.

Most fun wedding I can remember in a long time. Probably 250 guests, open bar, excellent DJ. I really couldn't ask for anything else, purely from a guest's/selfish perspective that is. haha. People were really dancing, and by people it was all ages, like Uncle Chi's 60+ year old friend who was getting down and was more nimble than we are. Ben (fromt right, glasses and suit) is actually in some dance group and he's really good.

Chinese dinner the day after the wedding. These are all cousins + bride Melody in the front jean jacket. The one cousin not in the photo is Jocelyn who had to fly back to DC. We were really in to serious face this weekend.