best weekend ever?

This all happened way back in March, but I swear it seemed like just a few weeks ago.

First of all my good friends Rebecca from Brooklyn and Jill from DC arrived on Friday afternoon while I was frantically baking a cake and making lemony custard. Rebecca and Jill, along with my friends Rosa and Kelly were my best friends in college, and they were in town to celebrate Camila’s birthday and baptism and most importantly to eat street fruit and banh mi. Yes! But first, we must eat sausage!

Had a lovely time at Wurstkurche downtown. We drank delicious beers, ate the sausages (I had bockwurst, reminds me of my childhood) and the fries with yummy dipping sauces and were very loud. However, I have no pictures of this delicious event, so just imagine 5 girls eating sausages and drinking beers. I like wurstkuche, it was a very lovely space inside and i like that there’s a second bar in the eating area. i really have to decide on whether to capitalize in this post. i’m going with no.

on to saturday! i woke up early to make the cake, but it was slip sliding all over the place since the custard was not setting up. so i had to start over with the assembly which would have to wait until after the baptism.

the first thing you have to do if you are going to baptize a baby is dress the baby in the cutest white clothes ever. we found this cute dress at a fancy kids dress shop in the fashion district downtown. it was pretty much the only one with out millions of ruffles, beads and lace and therefore camila was the best dressed kid at the church by far. also the most adorable!

 

then you must take a million pictures of camila with her ninos and her parents.

with padrino Miguel

with mama Rosa (ha ha, we used to call her Mama Rosa freshman year for some reason i forget!  i guess it was meant to be.)
 

then we headed to the La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles on olvera street for the mass baptism ceremony.

where we got in one line, then another line, then filed into the church, listened the the priest make jokes about christianity and then finally baptize the child. camila got tired after all of that!

ok, time for the fun stuff…the party!

rebecca’s new bangs are straight pimpin!! this picture came out so nicely!

miss camila and her first pinata

friends enjoying some beers

guess what we had for eating?

tacos were awesome

then camila opened some gifts like this adorable sheep hat.

the dress i made for camila. my first sewing project in ages. used the pillowcase dress pattern loosely, which means i totally made up my own shit which is how i roll, yo.

the adult party was later, says michael

and by adult, i mean shrimp salad!

i bounced in the bouncy castle. 

 

ok, the next day jill, rebecca and i headed over to our alma mater to walk around.  

starting at the greek theatre…

here are some funny things we happened upon

 

then we got some banh mi in the san gabriel valley on our way back to LA

back in echo park, we continued our street food binge with some fruta from the fruit man

and some perro caliente from the hot dog man

and obviously, elotes from the corn man

and we enjoyed it all at the park. got to love LA weather, man.

come back soon, mis amigas!