A Beautiful Day in Our Neighborhood

We realized that with our leaving soon, no one was going to be able to experience our little neighborhood in Little Tokyo. So, we decided to take a Sunday stroll, and take you along...by camera.

This is a view of the shopping center that is just around the corner from our apartment. It houses one of our favorite places to stop: Yogurtland. It's a self-serve yogurt place with 16 flavors and twice as many toppings to mix and match to your pleasure. You pay by the ounce, so you can get as little or as much (in our case) as you want. And since it's yogurt, it's good for you. :)

This is view of a street around the corner from our apartment. A good place for a stroll.

This is a strange tree that we have lining the sidewalk to our apartment. It's pine-ish in the leaves, but the leaves are soft. Very strange, but neat looking and neat feeling.

We have a metro train station a few blocks away from our apartment. It would be perfect if it was running, but it's not quite done yet.

Here's just a view of the diversity in this little community.

And here's Union Station. You can kinda see the words printed on that white tower in the center.

Here's a better view of the entire building. We meant to go inside to get pictures, but we got distracted.
This was one giant tree. It's across the street from Union Station, and homeless people are usually sleeping around it, for an afternoon nap.

Also across from the station, there is a concert of sorts on almost every weekend. They have booths for food, live music, and shops to buy authentic Mexican trinkets.
Just a building we saw while walking. Not exactly sure what the building is.

A gate to a Buddist courtyard, we believe. Interesting, huh?

This is a neat sign they have randomly on the corner of a block. It shows the sister cities of Los Angeles, the direction to them, and the distance as well. So if I wanted to go to Taipei, I only need to head 6789 miles in --> that direction.

Here's another giant tree. Jacob's showing it's relative size.

These are the numbers for the Caltrans building. The numbers are huge and nearly unreadable when you are on the same block.

And here's the whole Caltrans building. Jacob sometimes has to walk here for meetings.

The LA Time building. We've never been in, but we've walked by it. Does that count?

This is the Friendship Knot. It's a sculpture that stands in a marketplace full of Asian food places. We can't quite figure how it's labeled friendship knot instead of square knot.

Here's a view of the skyline. The second tall building from the right is where Jacob works.

These are some strange little flowers that grow across the street from our apartment. They're furry, and yes, they are growing among barbed wire.

And we made it back to our apartment. There it is. You can't actually see our apartment from this angle, since we're on the opposite side, but that's our building just the same.

Hope you enjoyed this little walk around our neighborhood. We did.