I just got back from California where my cousin Steve sort of got married (he was married a couple months back but this was the official celebration). Anyway, it was a lot of fun seeing family again. We actually have another wedding planned for next year as well because Vivian, another cousin, is getting married to this other guy, Dave, this time next year.
We’ll see if that actually happens though because she’ll have to fight off my dad for his attentions — Dave’s an electrical engineers like my dad so I guess my dad seems to think its kismet. ANYWAY.
I’d like to be able to say I went surfing, but more correctly, my sister and her friends went surfing whereas I was hugging a surfboard for an extended amount of time and drinking copious amounts of water. Very salty, that oceanwater. But it was fun and I enjoyed looking all goofy and hardcore in my wetsuit, haha. We also went to her friend’s uncle’s house to eat and had these banana fritter things – I think it’s a Filipino dish – that were so (so, so) good. Oh man.
After my sister left, I went to visit some temples with my parents which was somewhat less exciting, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. (I’ll upload pictures later.) It was about as fun as hanging out with aunts and uncles over the age of 55 or so ever gets. We also saw a lot of pictures of my parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents when they were younger so that was cool.
Anyway, that pretty much sums up the bulk of my trip. I spent a lot of time playing on my sister’s new Dell MX1210, which made me want a new laptop. Mmm. Oh, and speaking of nerdy things, I played a PS2 game with my cousin Dennis and I can’t seem to figure out what game it was. He said it was called Time-somethingorother and it was an arcade-styled first-person shooter and you used a plastic gun to shoot at the screen. The plotline was something about some villain planting missiles on an island so you have to go stop him. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Tags: California, Travel
you were willing to try a sport where you can be torn to bits by sharks, stung by jellyfish (then urinated on), and poked by sea urchins but not a sport that involves a plastic disc? i am deeply saddened. haha hope it was awesome, when are escaping the craziness of manhattan, july, august?
Comment by Jane — May 25, 2007 @ 9:38 pm
Tomorrow! And FYI – I absolutely did try playing ultimate during orientation and realized very quickly that continuing to do so would be miserable. So there.
Comment by Jennifer — June 1, 2007 @ 1:25 am
What?? I got the math question wrong? Shit. Here I go again:
I loved the way you explained it to me before– “It’s like duck hunt except you shoot people!” Hahah…awesome. Actually, let me know if you find the name of the game cuz I’d like to play!
How I wish I could have taken a video of you furiously paddling away! LOL. For future reference, you can stop paddling once your arms are scraping the ground. =)
Comment by Jessica — June 4, 2007 @ 12:13 am