A trip to Huntington Library

My summer vacation has been filled with wonderful adventures with my family, friends and bf. To be honest, before I started my summer vacation I expected it to be boring but, relaxing. To my surprise, it was really fun yet relaxing at the same time. Although I had bad luck with job hunting, it was replaced with trips to different places which I really enjoyed. One of them was a trip to Huntington Library. I've been hearing from people that this place has wonderful gardens and I've been wanting to go but, due to hectic school schedule (or probably my poor time mangement hahaha!) I barely went until now. I've taken plenty of photos but, I can't put all them here so I've selected several photos for this post ( and I must say, it's difficult since I love most of the photos I've taken)

One of the things I enjoyed in Huntington Library is there are plenty of butterflies. Since I came here in California, I rarely saw butterflies (back in the Philippines, I always see several butterflies in our front yard). Although, I always see hummingbirds in our small garden in our apartment's balcony. Good enough right? haha!

These are variety of flowers from different parts of the Huntington Library.

The Water Lily Garden//

These are my friends I went with and I just have to take this picture because they look so cute!

The mother duck is waiting for all her ducklings to dive but,...

. . . there was one that was left behind. My friends and I was waiting for it to go down but, it was scared. Few minutes later, it did went and it was so adorable!

Looking for food. . .

Japanese Garden//

Now, it's time for our pictures of my friends and I. I wish we have many pictures of us three but, we were too shy to ask people to take it for us. Most of the pictures were my friends because I was the photographer at that time haha! ^_^

I think this was taken at the entrance of the Japanese Garden, I'm not really sure if this is the main entrance since there was another entrance. We kindly asked the guard if he can take it for us.

In this photo, I set up the camera on top of something and voila! Group picture =P

These photos are by the parking lot.

I think tripod is not allowed in Huntington Library and also, it'll be such a burden to carry it around since we walked so much in there. I really had so much fun yet it was tiring. I would like to come back again and check out their collections. My other friend and I were thinking of getting a membership. She told me also it's a great idea especially for me because I could go there to draw or sketch since it's pretty close from my place; plus the parking is free!

My Outfit//

Tunic(feathers): My sister got it for me from the Philippines

Black Leggings: Ross - $5.99

Colorful Sandals: Madden girl from Ross - $19.99

Yellow Purse: I borrowed from my sister

Purple two fingers ring: Metropark - $19.99

Hope you enjoy this post, have a nice day!
<3 Lizzie