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My sister Teresa visited me over the weekend, and it was fun-filled enough to where I think I need to chronicle it (both as just a pleasant memory and also as a reference for ideas on where to take out-of-town guests while they're here).

Warning: image-heavy post ahead.

( Saturday and the Death Cab Concert... )

( Sunday and San Francisco... )

( Monday and the English tea shop... )

It was such a great weekend. I'm glad to have this time now to catch up on things I need to do this week, including making this update. :) More photos on Facebook if you happen to have me friended there.

Christmas has been very pleasant so far. Photos to come. Here's a preview photo:



More photos are already uploaded if you check out my Facebook account.

Just so I don't forget.

Last weekend, we went to an Indian place to eat a late lunch. I ordered a lamb wrap, and while it was pretty good, it had onions. I forgot to ask them to leave that out.

MF took the half of the wrap that I wasn't eating and started picking out the onions for me.

That was probably the single, most unintentionally romantic thing he's ever done for me. I was really touched by this for some reason, and I actually teared up a little. It was so sweet.

Thanks to my brother's camera, I was able to get a few photos of our tree-decorating efforts after Thanksgiving.

The first and last photo aren't really part of that, but I love our dog. And cookies.



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Our weekend in NYC was great! Again, no (digital) camera to show you photos, so I'll try to link to other pictures like my Philly entry. This will be a long post filled with images.

We stayed in Jersey City, which saved us a lot of money and wasn't too inconvenient (thanks to ertai's tip-off about PATH, which brought us from Jersey to NYC cheaply and conveniently). Our first ride on PATH was a little different from the rest. Imagine me sitting down with MF napping on my right shoulder and a drunk guy napping on my left shoulder. At first, I didn't mind the drunk guy that much because I didn't know he was drunk, only sleepy. And I, being tired myself, had lots of sympathy for sleepy people who had nothing to rest their heads on. Two young guys sitting across from us watched me for a few minutes, then suggested I gently push the guy off or tell him not to do that. Our stop was coming up, so I did tap the guy on the arm to wake him up.

He stared back at me with bloodshot eyes and asked me with a beer-laced breath, "Are you Cantonese?"
"No, I'm not."
"Do you speak Spanish?"
"No, sorry."
"I speak two languages."
"That's very cool."
Then he asked me something, but I couldn't understand him because his speech was slurred. MF pulled me away as we left the subway car.

Our first stop was to Times Square to hang out and do lots of walking around to build up our appetite for the all-you-can-eat sushi at Coco's Japanese Restaurant (which I'll get to soon). ( Images are beyond this cut. )

All in all, it was a great weekend. Really expensive, but I'd be willing to pay more money if we could spare the time. But I doubt it'll be my last trip to NYC. :)

I briefly mentioned in my last non-poll post that I was going to Philadelphia. What I didn't mention was that it was a date weekend, and it was easily the best date I've ever had with MF (perhaps the best date I've had with anybody). So I'm gonna post about it. And since I don't have a camera to chronicle my experiences there, I'm borrowing images courtesy of Google Images and pretend I took these photos. :)

We set out Friday afternoon driving from Syracuse to Philly. We kept missing exits the closer we got there, so what should've taken 5 hours took something like 8 hours to drive.



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Yeah, now that I've gone and finished reviewing the weekend, it was probably the best date I've ever had. There were lots of things that could've gone better or more smoothly, but even in those brief, rough patches, we got through it together and had so many good memories that outweighed the bad. :) In many ways, it was a much-needed restorative for our relationship and our selves (with me and my stolen purse and him and his law studies). I wish I could elaborate a little more, but I think my "fake" photos added enough details to my little account.

Gotta get back to work now! :)

Just in case you guys are curious, I've uploaded photos from last week's Disneyland trip.  Here are a couple of my favorites.



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Just FYI, guys, the fireworks show at Disneyland this year is nothing short of AMAZING.  There was even a person dressed up in a super-bright Tinkerbell costume hooked up to a harness in the sky, "flying" around and waving her wand.  When the show ended with magic "snowing" on Main Street, I was so happy and just wanted to hug the nearest person to me, whom, at the time, was Christine.  The magic faded as people began to snap pictures.  (Guilty as charged, teeheehee!)

For the friends who were with me, pictures to come soon.  And I want links to photos, too!

Just a couple of images I want to share with my family.

This was our first snowman.  My mom started it to appease Jenny's demands for a snowman, and all the girls helped make him.  The photo was taken shortly before Peter kicked it clear off the parking lot, making Jenny cry again.



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