there was hot pot night. steamboat ohhhh it was wonderful. nothing like steamboat when you miss soup and you're in cold cold weather. check out the garden of veggies. it was really.. a garden.
veteran's week sporeans came down from santa barbara and we showed them around. went to sea world. saw shamu (one of the what.. 5 shamus). he's freeeaking huge. sat journey to atlantis twice, got wet to the max and shivered the night away.
the next day we went to the zoo (again). then to balboa park. it was pretty with the lights and all. the to gaslamp quarter where the pubs, clubs and resturants are. had a drink at jimmy love's. i like.. the band was awesome. we left just when ppl started getting up to dance. hot chocolate at ghirardelli. sitting outside in the cold with a cup of hot chocolate. ahhhh..
aunty lai and uncle mervyn came down for the weekend after. went shopping and visited mexico. waited for 2hours just to cross back into the US. the policeman saw our passports and went 'singapore! is it still there?'. like seriously..... whaaat -_-
spontaneous trip to coronado island (because there was a car+driver). explored the famous hotel del coronado (that i've never heard of before this). walked down it's private beach. had super good ice cream and got semi lost (which meant we saw more of the island anyway). uptown area. very nice..
went exploring on sunday. encinatas, carlsbad village and oceanside (marine district).. less touristy areas. it was a wonderful relaxing day. quaint towns and good company. lovely day.
thanksgiving week was spent in san diego instead of going down to LA. had lunch at the club with the doshiers (my host family) and spent the day at their house. after which.. we went black friday shopping. 12am at carlsbad outlets. it was MADNESS. the first queue i saw.. was outside starbucks. first time in my life.. pple queueing for starbucks. incredible. it took us 20mins just to GET INTO gap (there was a queue) and another 20mins to pay (there was a queue). by 4am it was deserted.. we figured everyone had moved on to macys target all that opened at 4.
it really is troublesome to blog update.. but i upload photos to picasa quite often so just check there la!! it's more informative heh.
classes are ending soon.. 3 more weeks! i can't believe its all ending soon. anyway i'm going to new york on the 16th and then to san francisco on the 24th. christmas's probably gonna be spent eating fish tacos on the pier (if anything's open at all) and wandering the streets. nice. it should be an interesting holiday...
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