So after complaining about how freaking bored I was, and howmy life has consisted of the same routine every day for the past month and a half, I feel theneed to tell you about my fantastic day in Seattle that ended the boredom streak! In DETAIL from start to finish. Try not to get too exited there.
It just so happened that last Friday, Mylinh, John and I were all free! Since I always talk about how funny sensei is, Mylinh decided to join me for class before we left. Class was unfortunately uneventful. Then after a quick pit-stop at home, and a trip to Target to meet John, we were off to my favorite city! (well the only "city" city I've been to...)
What do we do when we're stuck in the car together for an hour? TEK PEEKSHA!
We arrived in the downtown area, and looked for parking, but everything seemed too expensive. I saw places priced as high as 18 dollars! So John suggested we park near the Seattle Center, and take the monorail. As we found a parallel parking space for $4, I thought "ha! we're so smart parking here!" little did I know what was to come... And so we made the walk to the monorail.
When we arrived at Westlake Center, the first thing we did was eat! What more could you expect from a preggo and a fattie? We decided on our old standby, McDonalds! What else is new...
Our next destination was Daiso, but along the way we noticed a gigantic line of tweens was formed along the whole bottom 2 floors of the building. Apparently there was some band or famous person in Hot Topic. I have no idea who. The tweens were wearing band shirts, but I couldn't read the font unless I went up close to one of them. And honestly they kind of scared me.
In Daiso (Or as Mylinh calls it, daisyo) much fun was had with fake boobs and cookie cutters! I was used as a translating device for food items. I'm not sure why we didn't take any photos here considering all the fun possibilities to be had in the store. As we left Westlake center, we overheard some of the tweens shrieking things like "Omg he touched my hand!! I think I'm in love...I'M IN LOOOVE!!!"
Eating and looking in the one store took longer than we anticipated, and our parking time was already close to running out, since we needed to factor in travel time. John was advising that we return to the car now, pay for more time, come back, and take our purikura. But damn it I waited for over a YEAR to take purikura, and I was going to risk it and take them right THEN. So off we went to gameworks.
As soon as we got to gameworks, we found the purikura machine to make sure it was working, and to claim it for ourselves. Originally I had planned to pay for the gameworks card since purikura are my thing, but it turned out Johnny boy already had a card from about a year ago. YEAH! :D Buuut his card wasn't working in the machine, and he wasn't sure how many points were left on it, so we spent about 15 or 20 minutes trying to find a card reader, seeing that the normal front desk was under construction, and finally finding the current front desk. We found out that his card was demagnetized, so the balance of 113 points (woo!) was transferred to a new card.
I was finally able to take my beloved purikura, but I had forgotten exactly how chaotic it can be. Between the millions of kanji, and the limited time counting down so you don't take too long, we messed up 2 of our 3 purikura. One of the times we forgot you have to select which ones you want to keep, so it automatically selected the first one of the set. D:
SO MANY GOOD ONES LOST FOREVER! Anyways, here's the final products of my fulfilled wish.
Yeah, pretty awesome huh?
Since it had taken even longer than I expected, we rushed back to WLC to catch the monorail back to my car. You can see on the monorail I was still in euphoric state due to the purikura...
And even though we were about an hour late for our parking at this point, we got distracted by the pretty fountain and decided to take even more pictures....
*Action shot* Hurry!!! we got a parked car to attend to!!
Ooh a fountain....what were we supposed to be doing again? Ah lets just take pictures.
When we arrived at Betsie, we had a lovely present waiting on her windshield! Suddenly the 18 dollar parking didn't sound so expensive, seeing as how now I'll be paying a 39 dollar ticket... Oh the irony.
I was already feeling tired, and I'm pretty sure my buddies at least halfway felt the same, but we sucked it up, hopped in, and headed for Bellevue! Dancing like idiots all along the way.
Once we arrived at Bellevue Square and parked in the multi-level parking lot which confused me and made me feel stupid, eeeeeveryone had to go potty! After sharing unnecessary bathroom facts about one-another, we successfully found a restroom.
Next we made a bee line for the sanrio store! Which was on the opposite side than we originally thought. Along the way the couple was distracted by Gamestop and a boardgames/toy store.
After I literally pushed Mylinh out of that store, we went into the sanrio store and were overwhelmed by a wall of pink. After a few minutes in there, barely enough time for some random creeper lady to give me ring shopping advice, John decided he needed to leave to find something to drink. WHY DOESN'T HE DRINK WHEN I TELL HIM TO, BUT CHOOSES NOW TO FIND A DRINK?
Johnnie boy found his Jamba juice, even though he should've just drank water. And by that time the two fatties of the group were starving and needed nourishment "NOW!"
I wanted Cheesecake Factory like no other, but Mylinh decided to stick up for the Italian place John liked. We rock-paper-scissored it out and guess who won?? not me... :<
As we walked to their restaurant, we walked right past my factory of delishousness. But after seeing how extremely packed they were, I was kind of glad I lost...
When we got there we were informed that we would have a 30 minute wait. Wether or not it was actually that long, I do not know. But I do know it felt way longer. Since the chairs were taken, and we didn't want to stand, we sat on the floor of this fancy restaurant.
want food nooooow :[
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angles!
Oh hey floor...You're interesting enough to take pictures of apparently...
Finally some chairs opened up, but only two, so we left John alone in the corner like a loser.
When we were seated at our table, Mylinh noticed our glasses weren't so clean. So after some argument over wether she should or not, she asked for replacement glasses. The waitress brought us bread, but there was a devastating problem with this restaurant. NO BUTTER! They expected us to dip the bread into a combination of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, which John assured us was "good". But when Mylinh and I tried it, we both made faces, and compensated by pouring parmesan cheese on the bread. *sigh* Butter is the only way!
For our main dishes, I ordered parmesan chicken, and Mylinh ordered fettechini alfredo. They were both pretty good, but definitely not the best I've ever had. John didn't order anything because he's super lame. Except he then paid for dinner so he's not so lame... :D
(Looks good don't it...well just wait till you hear this....)
The chefs must have been trying to add extra flavor to Mylinh's pasta, because as she was eating it, she found one of the little fibers from a brillo-pad. As much as John and I objected, she wrote a note to the restaurant. I don't think we'll go there again anytime soon.
It was getting late at this point, well for my standards, and I was exhausted. We tried to make a trip into a container store, but as we walked in the announcer told us they would be closing. I also wanted to try red mango, but the mall was closed at this point. So we started our long journey home. Along the way there was more stupid dancing/singing, the emptying of my gas tank, an extremely stinky trip to Walmart at 10 pm, a drop-off at Target, and then I was home. I'm not sure if it's because I exhausted my body, or because I was sharing drinks with sick people, but the next day I didn't feel so well. Either way it was worth it! This day will keep me content for a while with my boring everyday life.
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