Tim Burton makes me sick!

Friday was wonderful, we had lunch at this wonderful Vietnamese market place restaurant, decor by Crustacean - Tiato Market Garden Cafe, what an awesome find for a sunny day!



For more details on the meaning and the space, here's an article from LA weekly: Link

My unscripted question was to find out about the space that Tiato now occupies, it used to be an MTV cafe in their parking lot and it wasnt doing too well so the An family who also own crustacean decided to make it an open cafe with a wine bar. Quite and outstanding venue, however the service leaves something to be desired for. Here we get a glimpse of LA attitude, which is sad because the food it quite good.

Next stop: LACMA and Tim Burton Exhibit

After an hour on the 10, for 12 miles... yes that's why I hate LA, we finally got some free parking (always available for people with patience because people in LA dont walk ;-) right behind Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. We went straight to the Tim Burton Exhibit which for the steep price of 20 bucks per person is still a pretty awesome deal. We all know Tim Burton from movies like Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow but this gives you his art work, his cartoons, his poetry, his short films.. gives us a glimpse into how this many got the imagination and technique that are so unique in today's world.

Gift shop is completely unaffordable but it was fun to watch all the memorabilia, specially the Tragic Toys!



Once we were done with the exhibits, we sat outside for some free jazz concert in the LACMA outside space, drank of cantaloupe juice which looked like honeydew green... and suddenly I felt sick to the stomach, next thing I know I am back in bed popping pills and sleeping for the next few hours.

A peril of travelling is not knowing who is next to you and what bugs they have.. apparently I caught something and needed to wait it out.. did manage to walk to the next door Swingers diner to do some people watching, santa monica is such an interesting place.



Cancelled my next day's plan to hike or get to the Getty..