Yesterday Anna and I went over to Kate's house in the afternoon and spent some time wandering around Memorial park, which was strange with some of ponds drained and the activities center building closed for fumigation of termites. The weather was very nice and the pearl tea we decided to get as a compromise between tea and ice cream was very cold. There was also what might be called an arts & crafts session at Kate's afterward where I liberally sprinkled her living room carpet with paper scraps (despite of my attempts, I'm convinced that there is still a healthy population left) and Anna and I completely failed to remember how to make those simple origami hats (triangular, and at one part in the procedure you fold two triangular flaps on the front side down part-way to make it decorative looking). Kate and Anna also had an airplane contest that was not much of a contest, since Anna's couldn't fly and Kate's couldn't turn and there was a lot of crash landing involved (where I was occasionally in the way of, so future air traffic control might be needed, or just a simple improvement in paper airplane navigation). Lotus and iris are apparently very similar, except they are not, and a zombie hamster may or may not have been involved at some point in the afternoon.
We went to Bombay Oven for dinner. It was the first time I had Indian food. I discovered that I like samosas better than tandori chicken, even though the chicken was the less spicy of the two (the samosa wrappers are crunchy, Lucy!). The nan was very good and the mango juice made me crave the fruit rather badly. Also: spicy. Unlike some of the other places, spiciness does not appear to be optional here.
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Today my parents and I went to Monterey. It was originally a bit of "we're sorry we can't afford the cruise this year, where'd you want to go instead?" except it appeared that mom didn't want to go to Monterey very much (dad doesn't care, so long that I'm enthusiastic about it). However I managed to logic her into going too (I could've let her not go as she wished except then I'll be hearing about how I've neglected her for years to come), since her protests were the parking, the walking distance, and the cold and her alternatives (when arguing against my parents, always ask for alternatives) were San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and hiking at San Antonio.
But! Despite of this and her grumbling afterward (and the holiday crowd there, which was insane and very off-putting), I had a really good time today and am feeling uncommonly chipper at the moment! (I am reasonably sure it isn't because of something I ingested.) I've also taken loads of photos of living things in water, mostly of the cnidarian-type because they're so colorful and other-worldly-looking, but there are also several photos of things distinctly piscine. I've taken a moment to skim through the total amount of photos in my camera which have not yet been uploaded, either to my laptop or an online account. There are a lot. I think I might just organize them into zip files at some point in the future and post the links to lj or something and people can load them as they choose. (Don't worry, I'll label what's in each file very clearly. I am the master of over-labeling which, by the way, is not a veritable concept in a lab setting.)
The aquarium remains the best one I've ever been in, and the kelp forest exhibit will never not be awesome.
1 comment:
Monterey is SO much fun! :D
And cruises are kind of overrated...I went on one with my family that my dad's former company paid for, and the rest of my family kind of got motion sickness so they were asleep the whole time, so I just sat around by myself watching cartoons on their closed-circuit television. :P The food was kind of mediocre.
-V (Too lazy to log in)
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