Atlanta Trip

I haven't forgotten to update the blog, lately work has been crazy and I've never gotten any chance to spare my time to do fun things.

Tonight (May 14th, 2009), we just got back from the St.Paul's Hmong dinner banquet sponsored by my company. My hubby decided to go to play poker with his friends (he had promised them since couple weeks ago), but I am waaaaaaay too lazy, and decided to stay at home and update blogs (so geeky).

So let me give you quick updates:

Atlanta Trip (April 24 - April 30th)
Day 1 (Friday Night): Arrived around 10 PM and went to Ernita's home (my new hotel in Atlanta) then went to eat at Waffle House with Han2, Doan, Jon, Ernita, Merry who just came from Singapore a week prior

Day 2 (Saturday): Visited Russian's family and celebrated little Vasya's 2-month Bday after dropping Merry and Dianna to shop in North Point Mall. Around 6.30 PM went to meet Merry, William and his wife @ Starbuck's. Went back to Ernita's home to have dinner (KFC) with Chris and his girlfriend who both came really late. A really awkward dinner ... the chicken was good though ;)

Day 3 (Sunday): Picked up Dianna then went to Helen for a day trip. We stopped by GA400 Outlet Mall and spent Russian's money to buy Bday gifts for me ;) Thanks Russian!!!!

Day 4 (Monday): Merry and I went to GPC to get Miss Cecile's address before going to pick up Matt and Dianna from the Cheesecake factory. We went to the GA Aquarium and the new Coke Museum. On the way, we dropped by Tin Drum for lunch and ate it near by the Aquarium. Also dropped by GT Barnes&Noble, Merry bought some GT t-shirts. After the Coke museum, we went back to Ernita's home and her mom cooked us some delicious Indonesian food. They also had a Bday surprise for me : )

Day 5 (Tuesday): Dropped Merry @ Perimeter Mall so she could hang out with her friends from Chinese class. I went to have a lunch with Elena. We also dropped by couple places to do errands. I got a chance to hang out with little Vasya alone for 2 hours since Elena had to go somewhere. Vasya was a really good baby, he slept and didn't cry at all - we hanged out on the deck all afternoon enjoying afternoon breeze. I got to blow out a 2nd cake from Vasily's family : )

Went to pick up Merry by DSW perimeter area and we went to Chix wings with Han2, Doan, Jennifer and Fay. I got to pay the dinner finally (really hard to beat Han2). Then we went to Han's apartment and got to chat with Lani.

Day 6 (Wednesday): Merry, Matt and I drove to Nashville, TN, to meet Miss Cecile who used to work as our math lab supervisor when we were TAs in GPC Dunwoody. I drove there and Matt drove back.

Day 7 (Thursday): Chill out time, just went to lunch (Dimsum) with Merry, Dianna, Erni and her mom @ Canton restaurant in Buford Hwy. Then hanged out @ Erni's home and had a dinner in Houston with Dianna, Erni's mom, Jon, Erni, Doan, Han, Merry and Matt.

Day 8 (Friday): Left Erni's home around 9.15 AM to airport (Jon drove us there) and flew to SF with a delayed transit in Phoenix, AZ.

SF Trip (April 30 - May 2)
Day 8 (Friday Night): Got there around 8 PM, checked in to our hotel then went to Japan town to get some dinner.

Day 9 (Saturday): Took a cable car to get to Fisherman's Wharf and walked around there for a while. Ate crab for lunch (my ritual in SF) and took buses to Golden Gate Park and Golden Gate Bridge.

Day 10(Sunday): Made a call to SuperShuttle to pick me up at night and realizing that I booked a wrong ticket - my flight was gone already. The midnight was on the wrong day, I thought it was Sunday's midnight, turned out Saturday's midnight : (

Went to the airport ASAP, and talked to different airlines to get a better price to MN. I called Russian and asked him to book me a ticket online. Got one but was not cheap at all : (

Lesson learned from last month trip: NO MORE BOOKING MIDNIGHT FLIGHTS. Airlines are *NOT* in the business of forgiving people for missing their flights and giving them discounts on other flights that same day. Not at all! : ( Shame on you, Northwest Airlines, shame.