It's Monday? & Experience Challenge #12

I had a few attempts to write this blog during the past three days but I just couldn’t find enough time to sit down and actually get it done. I somehow got to work 20 minutes early so I don’t think there’s any better time than now.

It was one of those weekends that end way too quickly but are jam packed. Friday I worked late and then had to skip back over to our local movie theater and met up with some friends for a double feature. Strangely enough the theater was empty for a Friday. We got awesome seats in the middle but soon enough these three huge, nerdy guys come and sit right in front of us. At first my group and I exchanged some “oh boy, this is going to suck” glances but it turns out that we laughed at the commentary from these guys more than we enjoyed the movie. We watched City of Bones and boy it was filled with bad acting and horrible lines. While that was enough to get the four of us giggling, the comments from the peanut gallery in front of us made us lose it.

Saturday Corey and I got up early and picked up Nicole for some breakfast before us ladies headed down to the states for some cross border shopping. Now in this massive line up there were firefighters holding boots out for change to support the Burn Fund. Luck was on my side and I had a super cute fire fighter on the driver’s side. We scraped together all the dog hairy change from my center console and each handed it to the firefighters on either side in exchange for giant stickers and tattoos.

Nicole’s creep firefighter didn’t want to take his eyes off her as we slowly crawled ahead in the lineup. We were joking around and I stuck the sticker on her leg and she made a big ordeal of taking it off and putting it back on straight while the creepy guy stared at her intensely. Weeeiiiird!

We finally made it through and took the I-5 down to Bellis Fair mall and then continued to purchase waaaay too many boots and witnessed some strange guy in a trench coat make crazy keyboard space sounds with his mouth to a very confused sales rep in a store we were in.

We then had to rush back to the motherland so I could head out to class. Holy torrential rain batman! Even with my windshield wipers on full blast I struggled to see the highway.

After class I went to pick up some Vietnamese food to bring to my dad who’s been in the hospital with a ruptured appendix for the past week. He’s finally been given the go ahead to eat certain foods and he was desperate for some Pho.

I have never tried Vietnamese food before so I decided grab some for myself too before I headed up to the hospital. I haven’t seen him look this excited for food before. After being allowed nothing for two days and only water and juice for another two, food was a very welcome sight.

I wasn’t sure what the hell I was supposed to do with the large number of containers we were given at first. The broth was delicious and we got rare steak sliced paper thin and you put it in the broth to cook with these long flat noodles and veggies. Yum! We knocked back our dinner and then brought out these cup of green custard looking stuff my dad had requested from the Pho place. I love custards and this was no exception. I don’t know what it was called but it was bright green and tasted like coconut. So good!

So my need food experience has been had and I think I’m going to try to convince Corey to go get some Pho sometime next week.

Sunday was the day of errand running but luckily we had a great night with friends who came over for dinner and to watch the show finale of Breaking Bad. To be honest it wasn’t as on the edge of your seat as some of the other episodes but it wrapped it up decently. It’s kind of sad that something we enjoyed so thoroughly is now over.