Driving that's about it ~ Traveling

Since I hadn’t slept at all, I was a bit tired. I really didn’t have much energy to do much, but since I was starting to get tired when the sun came out, I took a shower and was refreshed to continue with the days plan. I had breakfast with my Aunt and my cousin, on my mother’s side. We had gone to get breakfast at Lucky Star for Dim Sum. It is conveniently near my house so it wasn’t that bad since I had to drive. I missed Dim Sum because I haven’t had it in Japan. They have versions of it here, but it just isn’t the same. They don’t have the whole deal with the rolling carts and the mean people who don’t listen to you when you order something. I mean it’s an experience that everyone should have. We had gotten the usual, but once again, I couldn’t stuff any more in my face. I found out that my cousin went to the football game that I wanted to go to. She had scored tickets from a friend.

After that, my family spent the day driving. There were many things that I wanted to do on a Sunday because it’s the perfect day to go as a family to do things. It was then that I realized that nothing was open. We went to Fashion Valley, but it was closed because it was Easter Sunday. How come no one told me that Easter was in March this year? I was surprised and shocked to come to that realization that nothing was available for me and my family to do on our day off. After the trip to the deserted mall, my mom had the idea of going to see Linda Trang Dai in concert. There was going to be a Vietnamese concert and she wanted to see it. So she dragged us to go check it out. So we drove to Pechenga Indian Reservation, where my cousin had told me that’s where her mom went to go to the concert. But since I wasn’t having any good luck, we found the wrong place. It was at another casino, and we were joking that it might be near our house. It was quite a bit of a drive and my benz is a gas guzzler so we were eating up all the gas just to drive there. At this point we were all getting hungry, so we wanted to catch dinner, but where do you think we wanted to go?

We wanted to go to Red Lobster, which was like an hour away. That wasn’t even the bad part. There was about an hour and a half wait, just to go in. So we ended up driving all the way back to La Mesa and going to Grossmont Center Mall. After getting in, it wasn’t too bad. We were watching a NCAA basketball game and Kentucky had just lost, I was shocked since they are a superior team, but just couldn’t get a win. We were put in the back room, where there was only minorities. I found that to be very suspicious and wondered why there were so many minorities there in the first place. It was a shock to see that many in one room. The dinner was fun and it was a delicious dinner. I’m surprised that I actually ate the whole thing. I never get a chance to eat such high quality food and I’ve been only filling my body with junk that I thought I needed to fill it with something better. Who would have thought that I would be able to do that? I guess that I’m finally getting used to American food again. I mean it wasn’t too big to begin with. I had a Steak and Lobster dinner, but the French fries were nasty. DON’T ORDER THE FRENCH FRIES!! I think that was the only thing I couldn’t eat this week.