Day 2 - Shopping and Wedding Preps

Date:  January 16, 2012 (Monday)
Time:  7:28 AM

Good Morning! Up early to start the day.  Heading to Leonard's for malasada's and then to the mall.  Gonna do some window shopping.  Maybe find a crossbody bag finally.  Time to get ready.  See you later!

Time: 11:09 PM
Such a good day.  Picked up a dozen mansalas (a/n: wtf, why did I write it like that?!!! MALASADAS!) at Leonard's (mango, original, & custard).  met up with the soon-to-be-weds and went to Ala Moana center.  Spent a good chunk of money on souvenirs there.  Got cookies from the Honolulu Cookie Co, and souvenirs from the ABC store.  Spent the next 2-3hrs at a hair trial for the wedding, plus the sis got eyelash extensions haha!  met up later at Ko Olina resorts and saw the area where the wedding will be.  The area is super beautiful, wish we were able to see it in the day, but got plenty of time for that.  Ate dinner at Genki Sushi which is a conveyer sushi place.  The food wasn't too bad, a it pricey for such a small amount of food.  Ended the night at Target and back home. I ran out of cash.  I'm in serious need of my finaid, like NOW.  I don't even know when my next paycheck is, but I seriously need money... anyways, that's all for tonight.  Getting sleepy.  Good night.

[side note: highlights at the "salon" - hairdresser and beautician both from Japan, talked to me a bit and stupid bopper chicks thinking they the shit for being models]
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 (Left: The Leonard's sign, Right: MALASADA'S)

 (Left: Hello Kitty items from the ABC store, Right: View from the resort)

 

(Left: Genki Sushi sign, Right: Conveyer belt)

East Coast Trip Extra Notes

One thing I want to add to the East Coast trip is from the Philly trip.  I did mention something creepy happened, but I never explained it.  So here's what happened:

Me and Chokee were heading back to our car from Reading Terminal market.  We had to head through a tunnel to head back, but it wasn't like a scary tunnel.  The tunnel actually connected to a convention center.  What creeped us out was when we were walking some guy approached us holding a large garbage bag and asked "Hey, do you guys know where I can dump a dead body"  We just kept walking, a little bit faster at this point, and the guy goes "I gotta dump this body, it's my girlfriend" or something like that.  So at that point we just walked faster without looing back and tried to get to the car as fast as possible.  We drove back through the tunnel to head back to the freeway and I saw the guy talking to whoever was working in the garage/loading area in the tunnel. 

What a freaking creep man!!!!!!!

*Side Notes from Travel Log*

Thought I'd share the random side notes I wrote in my travel log.  It has all the places we hit up, or were going to hit up on the trip including addresses and how far all the places were from our hotel.

Seattle:

(3.5) Space Needle

400 Broad St.

(4) Pike Place Market

85 Pike St. 

1531 Western Ave.

(4) Olympic Sculpture Park

2901 Western Ave.

1st Ave. & Union St.

Red Mill Burgers (LAST)

Phinney Ridge 312 north 67th St. 4.7 miles from parking

Interbay 1613 W. Dravus St. 2.7 miles from Parking

(4) Pier 55

Shirt Co.

1101 Alaskan Way

10.5 miles from parking

Bellevue Square

2077 Bellevue Square

Bellevue, WA

(1) Safeco Field

1250 1st Ave. South

(4) Seattle Waterfront Park 

1301 Alaskan Way

(3) University of Washington

lot 1 0 4535 12th Ave. NE

4710 University Way NE #110

(2.5) Sweet iron Waffles

1200 3rd Ave. Suite 110

(2) Chinatown

719 S. King St.

(4) Simply Seattle

1600 First Ave.

(4) Pike Place Chowder

1530 Post Alley

600 Pine St.

University of Washington Central Plaza Parking 

NE 41st St.

(R 15th ave. NE, 15th Ave NE until 41st Street) Parking entrance on L

*Side Notes from Travel Log*

Thought I'd share the random side notes I wrote in my travel log.  It has all the places we hit up, or were going to hit up on the trip including addresses and how far all the places were from our hotel.

Federal Way:

(6) Powellswood Garden

430 South Dashpoint Rd. 

8.6 miles

(2) Dash Point State Park

5700 SW Dash Point Rd.

13.7 miles

(7) Redondo Beach/Saltys

28201 Redondo Beach Dr. S.

Des Moines 7.2 miles

(2) Steel Lake Park

2410 S. 312th St.

12.1 miles

(4) Pattison's West

34222 Pacific Highway South

11.8 milse

(1) Tacoma Rainiers Cheney Stadium

2502 S. Tyler

24 miles

(5) The Commons (mall)

1928 S. Commons

11.7 miles