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November28,2005

"tofu-rkey" music: inoj - all i want
mood: calm

new york rocked with yvonne! went to visit her at nyu, and just had a sock-rockin time with her cruising chinatown and the streets of new york. when i got there, the christmas lights were already lit up!



and we were both like "nooO!!! we havent even carved the turkey yet, wtf?" next day, TURKEY day, we went with her suitemate, claire, and claire's friend lanie from wellesley, and met up with padraic and roman to go see the macy's thanksgiving day parade. crazy crowd near timesquare! people were just RUDE. and fat. ;P anyhow, some memorable pictures:



barney!




barney DISEMBOWELED. gawd what a traumatizing sight that mustve been for young children.




the best one of them all! HUMPTY DUMPTY...dumped upside down! ;D




spongebob! except he looks like he's about to eat whatever that is below him...


afterwards, claire and lanie went off somewhere else (we actually lost them earlier in the shuffling crowd), but roman, padraic, yvonne, and i went off into chinatown for lunch. roman took us to this really good chinese restaurant and there i got my pan fried noodles with bokchoy! SO HAPPY. then yvonne and i stayed there for a long while looking for my hats, which took forever because of my big head. while there, i found something quite interesting:



omg, how hilarious is that?! XD

anyhow, i found a couple of cute hats! we never got our dim sum from the bakeries, but we did get yummy hot tapioca! for dinner, we went out with claire and lanie again, and kent and kevin. went to this really nice little vegetarian restaurant, red bamboo, and had fake turkey, ham, and chicken. tofu-rkey at its best! went out for coffee later that evening at this cute cafe which kind of reminded me of crepevine at home, except instead of the crepes, PIE. gawd i miss going out late at night for coffee and baked goods.

next day, friday. SHOPPING IMPERATIVE. went off to like, the west thirties i believe, and went crazy with the mall and stores. had some good new york pizza for lunch, and seriously went from 10am to 5pm just shopping hardcore. that definitely rocked! we got a lot done too because i got my down jacket and yvonne got her timbAlands so we got geared up for winter!



yvonne protecting herself from the bitter cold with vitamin C while waiting for me at old navy.

then i received a wonderful surprising phonecall from daniel, who was actually in the SoHo when yvonne and i were in greenwich. unfortunately, we couldnt meet up, but dang, so close! anyhow, on our way back to haydn hall, we took a snapshot at washington square cuz the lighting was quite spectacular.



yvonne took me out to doJo for some cheap tofu dinner, then hit starbuck's (peppermint mocha! wee!) before heading back and gearing up for our night out. didnt go to a club....but instead, ended up wandering around brooklyn looking for this all-nite party that ended up being at someone's house and was really more like an acid-rave than a club. but it was a fun night out with the girls!





anyhow, long busride back from new york to maine, but i made it back in one piece! jeff was kind enough to make me a really yummy dinner that awaited me when i got back on campus, so that made a good end to a fantastic weekend. came back to a beautiful white campus, and this is what i woke up to this morning:







.

mmm...3 more weeks until i go home.

things are wrapping up nicely this year. ;D