attack of the pink jacket~!

"i saw you last night, my my...how indiscreet~!"

nice weekend with the friends *le smile*...time for a picture post. but i have to admit, i'm cheating on this one because all the pictures i'm posting were taken by nasreen because my camera was taken by my mother while she was packing to go on holiday to the philippines. for pictures of the ZOO, please refer to the pages of raquel and vina.

to recap: friday night was dinner at the tapas bar "jaleo" with the avt girls, saturday was national zoo day, sunday was family day, and monday was go to work then dinner at sunflower with the friends day.



margi chatsing about how she is unimpressed with the tapas, but the sangria is mighty tasty~! ok, a bit disappointed with jaleo that night because they kept screwing up our order, but the walls were pretty and i enjoyed looking at the moroccan tiles. dinner crew: me, yathrib, mariam, nasreen, and margarita.



later that night after stopping by cold stone creamery, mariam asked us to walk her to her car in some remote garage in crystal city. we agreed and wouldn't you know it, we got lost trying to get out of the garage. we tried exiting at one gate, but it was a "members only" gate. mariam accidentally pressed the intercom button and some dude with an island accent answered:

"hallohhh. hallohhhh??"
"yeah i can't get out of the garage!"
"do you have your key cahd?"
"no..."
"hallohhhhh. hallohhhhhh? do you have your key cahd??"

this went on for a good five minutes when mariam suddenly just started u-turning out of the cement box leaving the talking "hallohhhh" box behind. we finally navigated our way to the visitor's exit...which turned out to be facing opposite of where we before AND right next to the guard station where the "halloh" guard had been watching us the whole time. *le sigh*

saturday--->missing pictures--->you'll have to check raquel's and vina's pages for upcoming pictures of the zoo visit. but i'll tell you this: it was my first time to the zoo and i enjoyed it~! i saw the famous pandas and watched them romp around a little bit. then, i saw the elephants, some birds, hippos, fish, snakes, chickens, goats, mexican wolves, seals, sea lions, otters, and coolest of all...a giraffe~! i walked into the house and i was like, holy shit is that giraffe real?? ahh...beautiful, that giraffe was, and i think i must have spent a whole 20 minutes just watching him watch us. all in all, a nice day spent with my sister, her gentleman-friend dave, and vina.

on monday i had to go to work, but the lack of traffic made it bearable. i was pretty tired having pulled a 9 to 7, and girl was looking ROUGH--but i managed to make it out there to see them~! this whole sunflower excursion happened after several weeks of IMing amie about how much we were craving the food at sunflower. unlike most vegetarian places, the food at sunflower doesn't suck and nothing tastes like cardboard...which is always a plus for me. at first it was just going to be me, amie and our friend muse...but then it grew into a list of me, amie, muse, mary, jessica, raquel, josh, vina, donnie, yathrib, mariam, and nasreen. who knew that much fun could be had at a vegetarian restaurant? anyhoo...here are some pics:




left clockwise: donnie, vina, yathrib, josh, amie, mary, jessica, raquel, muse, mariam, yours truly.





funniest random exclamation: (by josh)
"oh my god are they playing josh GROBAN?"
*silence*
"they ARE! i love him. one time i went to his concert and there were a bunch of REPUBLICANS there all with "W '04" stickers on their cars and there i was, in the middle of the crowd yelling out 'WILL YOU MARRY ME!!'"
...at which point people were gasping for air and muse was choking on his food.

*awkarddddd* moment:
josh: aren't you going to wrap up your leftovers?
muse: no i don't eat leftovers.
josh: don't you know how many children are starving in africa who'd like to have that?
muse: yeah well i'm from africa.
josh: then you should know...!

different responses to this: nervous laughter, incredulous laughter, run and hide, drink lots of water, go to the bathroom...rumble in sunflower!!

other highlights: donnie doing his cheecake impression w/ the f.o.b accent, class pictures outside the restaurant, food food food diddly food food food, amie's super cute present to me (an edition of "anne of green gables" in italian and some cute stationery), stories amie's, mary's, jessica's, and josh's students picking their noses...?

andddddd until the next time we hit up sunflower or some kind of gallavanting of the like...