Spring Break

WHOOT. WHOOT WHOOT indeed.

Soooo. totally awesome spring break :)

Monday went to Napa with my aunt and my sister. Did some major eating :D First went to this place called Copia, it's a small food museum type of place. They have a gallery upstairs and an exhibit about food, pretty fun and interactive :) And they also had a food demo based on their theme this month, which is Australia. So the food demo was for ginger and macadamia nuts (which originated from Australia, not Hawaii as most people think). There were also a sample of this flavored salmon made into a panini sandwich. GOOD! :D

Then we went to Dean and Delucas :D awesome! bought some cookies there and went to the vineyard across the street to get some lunch. They have a deli there and so my sister and I shared an Italian sandwich and we ate outside in a picnic type area.

We had dinner at this restaurant called "Ad Hoc" which was opened by Thomas Keller (of French Laundry fame) and was suppose to be temporary, but turned out to be such a hit that he kept it open. It's a great laid back place not stuffy at all, but some really awesome food. They have a set menu every night, and they only serve that set menu (you can ask what it is before you make reservations though). Monday night was fried chicken. :D There was a salad of baby green (i'm not much of a salad person :( ), then buttermilk fried chicken, collard greens and pancheta, roasted baby potatos :D awesome! Then there was a cheese course, sooo creamy served with a kumquat marmalade and an upside down banana cake with vanilla coconut ice cream for dessert. It's safe to say I left feeling quite satisfied :D
They also served the best ginger ale I have ever had there. Vernors, apparently it's more a localized thing in detroit, but it's sooooo goooooddd!

Tuesday: WHEE FUN DAY! The fabuloso Janice and Chrissy came to surprise me. Sorta, they were here in my driveway for like 10 minutes before I actally knew they were there. They called, but it showed up as out of area (even though it was a 510 number) :( so I didn't pick up, then I checked my cell phone and saw the missed calls...oops. LoL So I got ready to go and we went out to eat lunch at sushi avenue :) Sushi is good. Then Chrissy drove us to Stoneridge mall WHOOT I haven't been to the mall in such a long time before that. Chrissy and Janice both bought new shoes...I however lose. :( No new shoes for me. Although It would have been awesome if that song "New Shoes" by Paulo Nutini would have started playing LoL

Then back to Chrissy's house for Chicken and Rice. I hadn't had that in such a long time *sniff* brought back so many good memories :) so many tasty memories :) And jonesing for something sweet, we went to bakers square for pie. taaaaasty pie. (All this after telling myself I'd eat light cause of all the eating major I did the day before...oops)

Wednesday and Thursday...school work days. Got some stuff done, but probably not as much as I should have oops. hey it's spring break.

Friday, I had to go to the museum for an art history paper I have to write. My mom said she'd go with me..cause I didn't really wanna go there by myself. We went to the Legion of Honor in SF, beautiful works there :) There were quite a few artists in the gallery working on replicating works of art. So cool to see them in action, I wish I had talent...any talent LoL. Found a few paintings I could do, I just have to choose one later. Shady business though, on the wall at the admissions desk they list all of the prices, adult, child, people who take public transit even get discounted, but they don't list that they have a student discount rate, unless you ask. So if you don't ask then you get ripped off $4! lame. Those tickets are also good for their sister museum the De Young in Golden Gate park, so we went to lunch. Pretty good chinese place noodles and dumplings my favorite :) And then headed to the other museum. The De Young is more modern, like from the 1700's and on...The really modern stuff, I don't get....but seeing the stuff from 1800's-1900's were really cool. and then back home :)

Saturday. Oddly enough Friday the 13th went really well...Saturday the 14th, however I just can't say the same. So I was sorta excited, going out on my first trip where I'd actually have to identify fish and such. I got up at 6:15am and left the house at 7:00am to get there by 7:40am, which I did so :D I even straightened my hair the night before so it wouldn't be a very angry mess after all the wind on the boat...:(

Got there, got on the boat at 7:45...stood around...looking awkward cause no one else was there yet and I had no idea what I was doing, it's my first day (actually working, it was my second day on the boat)! Then it's 7:55 and more people start coming around and a face I recognize :) the other intern James shows up. But no one else shows up...as in the group that they're supposed to take out on the boat and teach. They're supposed to board at 7:45am...but nobody. They wait around for a while, and we chat a bit. I mostly stand there looking awkward and lonerish. And so they're not going to go out if there's no group to take out. I waited around a while to see if there was anything else I could do, but it didn't seem like it and I was only planning on going for the AM voyage and not the afternoon, so since they weren't going out, I just said adios, and left. Arugh. so freaking frusterating.

Second days are always the worst. First day at the zoo, went fiiiine, nice keeper I worked with everything went well, left with all my appendages and fingers and toes. Second time I go in, suddenly there's a different keeper on that string, but no one tells me so I have no idea who I'm looking for, again looking awkward and lost. Then I meet her, she's nice, morning goes fine, after break, she leaves me to clean one of the night houses, fine. But I'm still new! so it took me a lot longer than I thought and I didn't have a key, so she left the fence locked and I was just going to jump over. Jumped over..half way, then fell the other half. ugh not graceful. Then I couldn't find her! ran literally all over the freaking zoo, like a chicken with its head cut off. Finally found someone with a radio and talked to her, she said "meet me at the main zoo" I thought that meant the main entrance, not the bottom of the zoo, so I wait there for 10 minutes, until I radio her again only to find she meant the bottom of the zoo. O.M.G. I was so wigging out that day and so stressed. I thought my head was literally going to explode.

Second days are never good. At least this saturday wasn't ...that that bad I guess...
Although on my way home today, after getting up at 6:15am on a saturday of spring break, and wasting $4 crossing a bridge only to come back home. A rock. hit my windshield...and left a big honkin' chip in it. ARUGH. I was so pissed, I wasn't even driving behind a big truck let alone anyone, the only car in front of me was a van in the next lane over. ARUGH. Now my nice windshield has a BIG effin' chip. and so do, on my shoulder.

I really wanted to go out on the boat today damnit.