Before I start complaining, which, for the sake of everyone is going to be an optional read… here’s a recap of the weekend. :)
Thursday/Friday
I head off to Boston on a redeye flight and arrive at 5:40ish. Get my luggage and wait for Anita, who had previously offered to pick me up so Mimi could get some sleep. But lo and behold, Mimi and Max (M&M) came with Anita!! Needless to say, I am delighted. We go back to Mimi’s apartment, where I meet her chinchilla, The Chin/Snoopy, who is the most adorable rodent I’ve ever met. Mimi goes to work and Max goes to class, leaving me alone with the Mew. ^^;;
We head promptly to Harvard Sq. for a bit of preliminary shopping and then rush off to the movie theater, ignoring our grumbling stomachs, to watch The Departed. This is the Infernal Affairs remake. I was very impressed. It combined elements of #1 & #2 primarily, and a weee bit of #3. After the movie, we wander around Chinatown (which is featured in a scene in the departed!!) and finally get lunch (Pho!). Stomachs full, we walked to Downtown Crossing to do some seeeerious shopping. Filenes is still having their ginormous clearance sale, having been bought by Macy’s, and I discovered that Anita is in the beginning stages of Shopaholism. So we do our necessary rounds to the essential stores (I got me a fall/early winter coat from H&M!) and then we went to Barnes and Nobles for sitting and doing crossword puzzles. When it was time, we headed over to Penang to meet M&M for dinner. (mmmmmm)
Saturday
We (M&M, me, Nana, Mimi’s friend) went to Minado, sans the Mew, for sushiiiiiii. And stopped by a few stores in the mall. Then we headed to Max & Kohki’s apartment, along with Mew (who gave me a card with STITCH on it!! Stitch!!!). There, we (ok, it was everyone minus me & Anita) cooked curry & rice. Yum Yum. After dinner, we chatted with Gracie online for a while… when chatting ended, we played a game of Taboo at which, all modesty aside, I kicked ass. Then Anita and I amused ourselves with video games (katamari is sooo cute!!) while Kohki, M&M and Nana played Risk. (Max won.)
Sunday
We (the party of 6 from last night) meet up with Taline at Park Street to head over to China Pearl for some quality dimsum. Dimsum is awesome. Seriously. Then we went to downtown crossing and spent a few hours in So Good (jewelry store) where the guys were good sports about tolerating the shiny prettiness all about them. ^o^ We then headed to Cambridgeside Galleria for more shopping. I tried to find an Ipod Shuffle, but they haven’t been shipped yet!!!! Aaah!!! And then I nearly gave myself a heart attack, because I left a bag at the apple store (I know, i know) that contained some trifles and Taline’s card for me (which was a work of sheer genius). You should have seen me panicking, thinking, “What heartless bastard would steal my bday card???” I went around frantically trying to find it before we finally spotted it behind the apple desk. Phew.
For dinner, we all went to Super 88, where I kicked ass at Uno and had spicy noodles. And, as luck would have it, we ran into Liz (ekeoma) from my middle school/high school days. That, I tell you, was a very very very pleasant surprise. We then went to karaoke (a private room thing) which was So Much Fun. After two hours of silliness & belting out our favorite songs, we finally went our separate ways home. There was a game of Monopoly at Mimi’s which I lost, miserably. (No thanks to Max or Kohki and their Boardwalk + 4 houses or the green properties with 4 houses. Grr!!!)
Monday (nightmare begins)
Monday morning, at around 5am, I get a call saying that my flight’s been cancelled and they’ve rescheduled me for a 5pm flight. Ok, fine, I thought. This gives me time to hang out w/people. So I called up Anita and we walked around Downtown Crossing after watching some cute animals on Animal Planet. Then she helped me get to the airport, I checked in, yada yada… and waited.
( complaints ahead! )