Got to Kenmore a little later than expected; picked up Amber (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
flotastic) and Ray (nemesiscw); hit the road. Trip was largely uneventful, even hitting the border. We got lost after coming across (note to self: highway 1A != highway 1), but called Matt (fuj) and he helped us get to where he was, and then we followed him to I-Gene (zqfmbg)'s house. Amber and I were staying there, and Ray was staying at Fuj's place. I guess I stayed up talking to I-Gene until like 3am, which was dumb, because waking up at 9:30 was really tough the next day. But eh, it worked out, I was ready to go pretty much exactly when Fuj showed up with Cory (Zenjin) and Ray at 10:30.
We split into cars again; I drove Ray and I-Gene, and Fuj drove Amber and Cory, and we went to Metrotown... which is pretty much where we stayed all day. ( Playdium )
While at Playdium Ryan (bubbledragonnet?) showed up, and he came with us for lunch... ( Kaitensushi! Superstore! )
We met up with Mark (vivaldi_amuro) at CHQ, and some other assorted Bemani people whose names I never caught except Chris Estrella (aka "ChrisSaysScrewFlanders" or 321estrellas), who is as good at DDR as was foretold. And Beau or whoever was there for a bit but I didn't talk to him besides saying hi. And other random people but I have no idea who they were, like those two girls with the blue and purple hair who were in a big group and kept asking us for money and credits and whatnot.
Anyway, CHQ is the closest thing to a genuine Japanese arcade I have seen on this continent. ( CHQ ROCKED. )
After a few hours at CHQ on good DDR pads, we headed back to Playdium. ( Chapters, Lush, and other fun shopping )
So we went back, collected Amber, said goodbye to everyone, and left Metrotown at like 8:40pm... ( Timbits, and heading home )
Today I went to work. I missed the early meeting, but it's just as well; Eli drove me in so I wouldn't get there TOO late and I was still tired as all heck all day, which kinda sucked. The Timbits were REALLY appreciated though, a ton of people came in and ate them and were all thankful... and we had this ongoing conversation all day about donuts and Canada and whatnot going on. Colin's from the town Tim Horton's was founded in and he was like "Yeah! They have them on EVERY CORNER there!" We also talked about amusement parks for some reason and I'm kinda homesick for Kennywood or Cedar Point or something. Oh! And Mark and Jon came to visit me after the intern lunch thingy and that was cool, I think that was the first time I'd seen Jon since that first night he was in Seattle. Me and Hemant and Yan had lunch outside today because it was so nice out... and later in the day I actually snuck outside and napped on the lawn for 10 minutes when I was just TOTALLY shot. I stayed at work today from like 10:30am until like 8:30pm so I don't feel too bad about it... I had to take the last shuttle to US1 and finish working from there. Came home and pretty much tried to catch up on online stuff, and played some more PPL... and Eli and I had weird pesto ravioli for dinner... I don't know where the evening went. At least Gil Meche got his 10th win tonight against the Angels. Yay.
I still haven't finished my HP rant. Maybe I never will... I keep discussing it with people anyway. Whee.
flotastic) and Ray (nemesiscw); hit the road. Trip was largely uneventful, even hitting the border. We got lost after coming across (note to self: highway 1A != highway 1), but called Matt (fuj) and he helped us get to where he was, and then we followed him to I-Gene (zqfmbg)'s house. Amber and I were staying there, and Ray was staying at Fuj's place. I guess I stayed up talking to I-Gene until like 3am, which was dumb, because waking up at 9:30 was really tough the next day. But eh, it worked out, I was ready to go pretty much exactly when Fuj showed up with Cory (Zenjin) and Ray at 10:30.We split into cars again; I drove Ray and I-Gene, and Fuj drove Amber and Cory, and we went to Metrotown... which is pretty much where we stayed all day. ( Playdium )
While at Playdium Ryan (
bubbledragonnet?) showed up, and he came with us for lunch... ( Kaitensushi! Superstore! )We met up with Mark (
vivaldi_amuro) at CHQ, and some other assorted Bemani people whose names I never caught except Chris Estrella (aka "ChrisSaysScrewFlanders" or 321estrellas), who is as good at DDR as was foretold. And Beau or whoever was there for a bit but I didn't talk to him besides saying hi. And other random people but I have no idea who they were, like those two girls with the blue and purple hair who were in a big group and kept asking us for money and credits and whatnot.Anyway, CHQ is the closest thing to a genuine Japanese arcade I have seen on this continent. ( CHQ ROCKED. )
After a few hours at CHQ on good DDR pads, we headed back to Playdium. ( Chapters, Lush, and other fun shopping )
So we went back, collected Amber, said goodbye to everyone, and left Metrotown at like 8:40pm... ( Timbits, and heading home )
Today I went to work. I missed the early meeting, but it's just as well; Eli drove me in so I wouldn't get there TOO late and I was still tired as all heck all day, which kinda sucked. The Timbits were REALLY appreciated though, a ton of people came in and ate them and were all thankful... and we had this ongoing conversation all day about donuts and Canada and whatnot going on. Colin's from the town Tim Horton's was founded in and he was like "Yeah! They have them on EVERY CORNER there!" We also talked about amusement parks for some reason and I'm kinda homesick for Kennywood or Cedar Point or something. Oh! And Mark and Jon came to visit me after the intern lunch thingy and that was cool, I think that was the first time I'd seen Jon since that first night he was in Seattle. Me and Hemant and Yan had lunch outside today because it was so nice out... and later in the day I actually snuck outside and napped on the lawn for 10 minutes when I was just TOTALLY shot. I stayed at work today from like 10:30am until like 8:30pm so I don't feel too bad about it... I had to take the last shuttle to US1 and finish working from there. Came home and pretty much tried to catch up on online stuff, and played some more PPL... and Eli and I had weird pesto ravioli for dinner... I don't know where the evening went. At least Gil Meche got his 10th win tonight against the Angels. Yay.
I still haven't finished my HP rant. Maybe I never will... I keep discussing it with people anyway. Whee.
