Busy week of visitors!

The past week has been busy.  Two of our friends (also in our wedding party) were in town at the same time.  On Wednesday night, we stayed out in the west side to meet up with a few of Emmanuell's grad school friends for dinner at C&O's Cucina followed by boba.  Then on Thursday, we went out to Father's Office where I was reunited with my favorite beer.  On Friday night, I stayed up til about 2am (I couldn't sleep for some reason) and ended up just cleaning the apartment since M was staying w/ us the following night.

On Saturday morning, we drove out to SGV to pick up L and headed to dim sum with other grade school friends.  M came to meet up w/ us and got to meet a few of my friends.  E went with M to help him pack while my friends and I hung out and went for some boba at Tea Station.  A few hours later, we headed down to Gardena for kbbq and boba (again for me) with E's grad school friends.  We also got to meet an adorable newborn!  By that time it was sometime after 10pm.  The three of us then headed to J-town for karaoke w/ M's sister.  That lasted til around 2:30am.  After we got home, we played a boardgame til about 6am.  We were up for almost 24 hrs!  E and I woke up around three hours later and browsed online til M woke up for a late breakfast before he left.

This past weekend was very much needed!  I really enjoyed the weekend, thanks to L & M being in town.  It felt like Wednesday night started the weekend!  Looking forward to the next reunion!

When the man is away...

I go shopping!

Emmanuell was out of town (Thurs night thru Mon morn) visiting a friend.  Since he booked his trip, I've been contemplating on whether to go to SD.  What pushed me to make it a day trip and do the driving solo on Saturday?  It became an advanced retail therapy before I went to see my family the next day.  Yes, I felt like it was a needed trip down.  Also, my friend, O, who lives in SD tempted me w/ turon and my favorite dessert place.  Yes, she knows how to through to me!

I woke up at 6:45am Saturday morning (after going to bed past 1am) to get ready.  I left at about 7:40 and arrive at O's house in SD at 9:35.  We headed out to brunch at Goldilocks (same place we've been to a few times before).  Afterwards, O and I headed to an outlet to start some shopping.  I bought some heels for work, mascara, and stocked up on hand soaps and shower gels.

After doing some damage (our shopping bags from Bath & Body Works were a bit heavy hence it was double bagged), we decided to head out to get some dessert.  Yup, whenever I go down to SD, dessert is a must.  Once we devoured our delicious treats, we headed back to O's house to drop off the to-go desserts we ordered before going out to another mall.  We did some more shopping at VS.  I also bought a couple tops at a store I've never heard of (until now).  We decided to leave before doing more damage.  (Thanks O for dragging my butt out of there!!)  We went to Lolita's for dinner.  They've got some massive burritos!  We headed to O's house after dinner to chill and chat for a couple hours.  It started to get late (sadness!) and so I left at around 9:30 to drive back and got home at about midnight.

What a FUN day trip!  Thank you soo much O for spending the day with me eating and shopping!  No shopping for a while, haha.  Good times, good times. =)