Time flies when you are having fun. HAHA purposely put cliche + corny sentence to start the entry. Well, it's already the last day of our trip. vincent and neisha's flight at 11+, weijie, elvin, mark's flight at 1+, danny, philip at 5+, liling and me at around 12midnight and 'miah's the day after. So vincent and neisha went off to microsoft while the rest of us went to Boeing Museum of Flight in the morning.
Started the day with fresh waffles.. thanks to econo lodge.. I love nice friendly people like that who dont care how many pple crash in their room haha. weijie even made friends with some family whose son was learning chinese in sch.. and not bad, he said 'bu4 ming2 bai2' to weijie even with the intonations. impressed.
There was tonnes of snow. I'd googled 'Does it snow in Seattle' prior to the trip and some bloke said not since er, a long time ago.. But this is the most snow I've ever seen in a city! my..
Can you imagine? So thick!
invasion of a snow paw! heehee.
Boeing Museum of flight
We spent so much time out there playing with the snow [or rather watching weijie, li ling and danny play in the snow] that we almost didn't wanna go in haha. We had much more fun out there than in the museum really. looking forward to mark's photos, which i'll download tonight. whee.
We finally got our butts in there. It was really irritating cos we got on a tour around the Boeing facilities.. but we weren't allowed electronics in there.. no phone, no camera.. where's the fun when you can't take photos man. seriously i think i've lost the ability to have fun without taking photos.. slowly i'll lose my photographic memory and my ability to describe pictures or something.. quite bad huh.
Anyway it was really boring lah. We first watched a video on how they assemble the plane [ok that was pretty cool cos they fast forwarded the whole process]. Then we took a bus in to the factory [which is supposed to be the world largest building in terms of volume but it didn't feel that big anyway]. We were only allowed to view from the 2nd floor so we could hardly see anything and the tour guide was q boring keep piling facts on us that i'm not interested in. i'm really bad at numbers.. all i can rem is.. 737 costs what, 120million usd? and 738 costs 200+million i think. anyone interested? heehee.
i also wanted to see if they used our company products in their assembly line.. im quite sure they have ties. too bad i couldn't see what controllers they used cos we were too far away =(
next we went to the exhibition hall where luckily we could take photos.. we hurriedly snapped lots of random photos before rushing off to the airport to send weijie, elvin n mark off.
The engine, most expensive part of the plane.
i love buttons but this is a bit too much eh
i want one of these!!! cute plane softtoys!
We dingdonged so much that weijie elvin n mark missed their flight. Haha.. they damn yaya.. so late le still not worried.. and elvin still wanted to go return the car himself. I happily forced danny to return the car instead.. he looked pretty reluctant to. bleah. well at least they managed to be reasonably early-ish late to still get another flight to san francisco.. and the lucky pigs managed to spend a few hours there.. so resourceful i cannot take it.
Kerry Park
So danny philip jeremiah liling and me squeezed into a super cute yellow chevy.. and off we went to Kerry Park. We were lucky to catch clear skies.. and the pretty setting sun.
'miah says seattle is the last state to see sunset. haha.. he's the only person i know who would actually care abt such things. nature and extreme sport-siow one.
Mount rainier is supposed to be right behind me.. dont see it though maybe wrong angle.
Somehow seattle looks prettier from far.
dying snowman! i was wondering where his hands came from when i saw..
haha.. the snow man creator(s) were pretty resourceful!
the cute cosy chevy.
next we tried to go to outback steak house for lunch/dinner, but they were only open at 4.30.. the seafood restaurant beside it was pretty expensive so we decided to go for a walk instead at a lake opposite the restaurants. 2nd example of prettiness in the middle of unexpected nowhere.
there was way too much gooseshit on the floor though. damn gross.
didn't get to eat this! as it was getting late we decided to go to a denny's diner near the airport instead.
the last sunset seen in the US.
I love Denny's for their ALL DAY BREAKFAST. All restaurants should have that it's damn cool. and refillable coffee. superbly enjoyed my Breakfast. Luckily 'miah offered to send danny and philip to the airport cos i eat damn slowly. later on he came back to join us.. we decided to go to Microsoft cos being ahem software engineers we really shld go there and check out how bill is doing.
unfortch, everything went downhill from here.. Really sad lah. WE wanted to check out microsoft and THEN finally go to liling's factory outlets haha. However we met up with a HUGE jam.. damn stupid lah. it was really massive, the cannot move kind. So we first gave up microsoft cos it closed at 7.. but after a while, we realised that we shouldn't even try to go to the outlets cos we may not even make it in time for our flights. So after a while, we stopped and turned back.
i don't know why there was a jam.. i guess it was a combination of the bad snow.. maybe seattlites dun get snow so they don't know howta drive in it? lots of cars in ditches and many abandoned cars on the road. also heard that there was a football match orsomething. maybe coupled with evryone going home from their thanksgiving holiday? it really sucked.
i was sitting in the front passenger seat and i realised what a lousy navigator i was. oops. ive always thot i had a good sense of direction, but its like i was carrying all the maps and then after a while we just got lost.. oops. i have too short an attention span lah i think. 'miah was amazingly patient. fwah if i was to drive in that sort of traffic and weather i would definitely be in a very foul/panicky mood and bitch at the navigator for being so useless. and he just calmly stopped by at a gas station and took over the map reading without suaning me.. haha. well, at least i was able to lead us back to the airport using the little alleys instead of the highway ok! i just need to FOCUS a bit more.. tsk think my brain spoil.
we finally got back to the airport safe and sound and early.. lots of pple were in foul moods there.. cos of the terrible traffic.. they missed their flight and all. quite a mess at the airport. luckily we were super early and could take our time. but we also spent like, 3-4 hours driving north and then south back to the airport.. poor 'miah must be damn tired.
so we sat around, had a nice cuppa latte and cheese cake at starbucks. while waiting for our turn to check in..
before we left we made him promise not to sleep in the car that night. so garang but its so dangerous lah! don't know where he ended up though.
after going in i fell prey to the books in the airport shop. i bought 'The Devil wears Prada'.. haha im halfway thru it already, very readable and chick flicky with no much story line. i'd like to watch the show tho cos li ling says she wears damn nice clothes in it!
so it was time to fly.. kinda funny that both li ling and i were flying to texas, but she was to dallas and me to houston. both our flights were delayed.. hers by 2.5 hours in the end, and mine was just for less than an hour. As i was waiting for the flight, i was wondering why these people kept approaching the attendants.. i mean, if it's delayed it's delayed right.. why ask this ask that. and i calmly boarded the plane later..
in fact, when i reached houston, i still calmly went to the washroom to wash my face [damn gross and oily, never bathe since morning leh] and then took the following boliao photos. haha. houston airport quite pretty. i couldn't really check my watch cos of the time difference.. and as i went up to one of the monitors to check, i realised that my plane was leaving in 5 minutes!!!
i am how retarded. it didnt even occur to me to check if i would miss my connecting flight.. so that must have been what those pple were doing. haiya think i was too tired to think. So i started running towards the gate but it was freaking far still gotta take stupid train to the terminal and all.
by the time i reached there, they had separated the gate from the plane.. and i saw 'Departed'. haha.. so stupid i still run like mad.. really shld have known. The lady at the counter just took a look at me and said nonchalantly 'oh they knew that you weren't gonna make it so they put u on a later flight.' AHHH so cheated if i had checked beforehand i cld have just walked slowly. and the stupidest thing was that my gate was right where i came from, so i had to drag my feet all the way back. damn shag lah! felt so depressed at that moment.
now that i think of how weijie and the rest could actually tour san fran in that short span of a few hours, i really peifu them. i was so tired i just slid into a chair and slept like a mad woman. damn no xing xiang! to think that i could have toured houston. haha. it totally didn't cross my mind. maybe next time. anyway whenever i woke up i saw smartly dressed, nicely made up pretty girls next to me.. ahh damn paiseh.
pretty ceiling art at the terminal
bush!
take some more photos lah! miss flight then you know.
a while before my flight, i was sooo hungry that i bought this. i wasn't sure if the flight provided meals.. i ate it on the plane.. damn good.
and finally.. all my souvenirs! seattle and vancouver fridge magnets, canadian beaver and i dunno how on earth i ended up with the EMP ernie ball pick in my bag. i really didn't take it on purpose!!
so.. In Conclusion [dreaded words in GP essay, gp tcher said never ever write them cos the examiner is not stupid and he knows it is a conclusion], it was a new experience for me, got to know lots of fantastic pple.. had lots and lots of fun and everyone was cooperative and did their research well and all. only i slack and just go and leech off their plans. hehe. pple like 'miah were really inspiring! so amazing to see new things evryweek. activated my wanderlust! although i just burnt my previous weekend snoring in bed. but they are pretty inspiring lah, hopefully can get to travel together again!
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