Thursday, April 10, 2008
Through the blinds the morning light shone in, another new day arrived tricking us to believe it's a new beginning. :) But that day I gladly let myself be fooled as it was the day I'd been anticipating for weeks - the day we were to embark on our 4 days 3 nights short trip to Flagstaff, Arizona for the Western Regional Honors Conference. Finally! I had to suppress my excitement & control myself from grabbing everyone I see telling them I'll be off in a couple of hours to this place I have yet to explore. It'd be quite insensitive if I did that, rubbing it in others' face as if to say, "i get to go, and you dont, suckahs!!" Now that wouldn't be pleasant, would it?!
Now I told myself this time I'll be taking lots of pictures, making little notes about cute little details for the whole trip, which I did. But!!! Here's the unfortunate part: the 10-15 pictures I took with Chean's camera were deleted... due to some miscalculations. :((((( They were pretty pictures of many pretty things, too bad they were all gone.. you'll just have to use your imagination as I described them. (p.s. Chean do you secretly or subconsciously hate me that's why you deleted them huhhh... :(( heeee, nah jk. :P)
So here we go, briefly: met up at the airport at around 10.30am. Checked in. Raniel forgot to bring his current ID and had with him only an out-dated one, and for that he was frisked. It became a joke (that he secretly enjoyed being frisked) throughout the 4 days hah. XD and then we had lunch at Einstein Bros Bagels, which was really quite good. (and yeah okay I won't deny that the interior design of EBB's little corner played a big part of me judging their food) I was on a vegetarian diet so I didn't get to try the one with salmon slices, but it looked really good!! No matter, I'll get it in the future... because me plans to travel more often in the future heheheh *evil grin*! :)
Got there, and guess where we were staying for the 3 nights? The Inn! *duhhh* I thought it was very unimaginative for them to come up with that name, because it's already pretty obvious right. But then again I thought of The Chicken Rice Shop in Malaysia (no brownie points for you if you guessed right what they sell) and how I made a big fuss bout how stupid it is to name something so unauthentic; it irked me so much that I vowed I'll name my adopted fish I catch in the Artic (if I ever go there) "The Fish"! I know, I'm a wee bit crazy right. But then I thought, perhaps this is the effect they were looking for: to make it sound so dumb it inevitably catches people's attention. And boy did it do an excellent job! :P So now it doesn't irk me as much as it does amuse me. And yes - I'll definitely be naming my Artic fish "The Fish". Stop me if you can. :P
Anyways. The picture below is the only one I had of us at Einstein Bros Bagels. See me busy taking pictures of the coffee portraits? They captivated me so much I just couldn't help but clicking away at them, planning to use them as my wallpaper. But nooooo... fate had it that they'll all be deleted before they got to me. hmmph. :'( The big head right there is Raniel who got frisked. :)
That evening we had Thai food at this restaurant called Dara Thai. It was sooo spicy I couldn't feel my tongue after my pot (yes - pot! not bowl! go figure.. americans and their humungous portion) of vegetarian glass noodles. But that's the way I love it..!! hehehe. :) Righto. I'll continue Part 2 tomorrow. Will talk about our 2nd day there. :)
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