Spent the day with a few familiar gnarly faces.

(picture courtesy of Hakson)

I was debating whether to go or not for today’s Seattle Tour… after all, I’ve been to 7 Seattle Tours already. After contemplating for an hour this morning, I decided to just go since I’ve been stuck at home for the past few days. I just basically followed the current IPMs do their thing. They’ve matured, work-wise since the last time I saw them. Hehehe.

The tour as a whole didn’t really work out as planned because it was raining, hailing and at some points, snowing. Yes, this is Seattle Spring! It was freezing and I regret not wearing more layers. My aunt told me to bring my waterproof vest but didn’t listen to her… so yeah.

First stop was Westlake Center (what else is new?!) for lunch. Then we walked to Pacific Place and stayed there for half an hour. Walked around with Elsha and went to three shops (J.Crew, Express and United Colors of Benetton). She bought an item from each of them!! She spent over $200 in a course of 30 minutes. My gosh, that girl! But it was really fun watching her though; I lived vicariously through her for that half hour 

Then we walked to Pike Place Market but half way there, we forgot that we left Hakson at Bose… Hahaha. Pike Place was like any other Seattle Tour. Pit-stop at “the-first-Starbucks shop-ever” then walked in the market for a bit then walked back to the bus stop to go to Seattle Center.

Seattle Center was rather empty. Took pictures and played a game by the fountain. Played the coin game and poor Yi-Chen got tackled by two boys (one of them being Jeremy) and fell down. Funny though. :p

Then took the students back on campus and got there about 5:45. Then we all went to Sushi Land for dinner. There were 11 of us: me, Elsha, Yi-Chen, Yasu, Paul, Frederick, Hakson, Melissa, Jeremy, Erika and Paul’s girlfriend (I forgot her name ) When we got there, I told the hostess, “party of 11” and her face was indescribable. Haha. Since there were a lot of us, there was no way we were able to sit all together so we got separated: 7 people at the booth and 4 people at the stools. It became a “Couples vs. Singles” theme. At the booth, there were: Yi-Chen and Jeremy, Frederick and Melissa, Paul and his girlfriend (I really feel bad for forgetting her name!) and Hakson (he was the only single at the Couples Booth, lol). Then at the stools were: me, Yasu, Erika and Elsha.

Then we all went our separate ways after dinner.

Today was a good day. I laughed soooo much! I missed the IPMs a lot so hanging out with them today was awesome. From the bus ride to Downtown to the way back home, the laugher was non-stop!

Some funny lines:

(in the bus)

Elsha: “My phone is a Smart phone”
Venus: “Oh, so you’re calling my phone dumb?!”
Paul: HAHAHA!!

Venus: (talking to Elsha, pointing at Paul) “Did she go?”
Elsha: “Hahaha, SHE?!”
Paul: “Uh, she without the S!”
Elsha: “HAHAHA, she without the “ASS”

Yi-Chen: (pointing at my bag) “That’s so cute, Ven..a”
Elsha: “HAHAHA, Venus without the “ASS!”

(in the car on the way home)

Erika: (proud) “Everybody, Elsha is sleeping over at my house!”
Everyone: “Oooohhh!”
Erika: “She will be a matured person tomorrow”
Yi-Chen: “Enjoy! You will get everything you asked for in life”
(voices and laughter overlapping)

(after everyone got dropped off)

Yasu: “You know Erika… is she really a lesbian?”
Venus: "HAHAHAHA"

Laughter is good.