Disney Date with Diane

Omg, I can't believe I haven't been to Disneyland in the past 3 months.  As a passholder, I vowed I'd make the most out of it and try to go once every month but it's been difficult trying to coordinate everyone's schedule ("everyone" being Diane and Tatiana lol...).  But since I was off work today, Diane and I ventured off into our land of happiness! x)

Here's some pics I managed to take:

Mr. Toad! A bit too bright...evil backlight!

Loved this window display!

And this one too!

 These DJ tees were so cute~  I love the Mickey one.

 Decided to buy this because I fell in love with it.  Mickey and black lace?  What more could I ask for?

Diane and I only stayed for 2 and a half hours because we parked at Downtown Disney.  The first three hours are free and we didn't want to pay for parking haha.  When we were about to head home, we saw this adorable bride and groom:

I can't believe we witnessed an actual wedding taking place!  The Japanese couple were saying their vows in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle and they looked so radiant.  It was very romantic and...kind of magical.  (Excuse me if I made you gag with my cheesiness.)  I would've taken a better picture but I felt embarrassed and a bit weird taking a photo of a random couple and disturbing their special day.  The bride's dress was GORGEOUS.  Very princess-y =) If I had a Disney wedding and wore a beautiful dress like that, I would've made a grand entrance in a pumpkin carriage or something.  Tee hee.  Yeah yeah, I'm such a girl.

Afterwards, we decided to get lunch at Marie Callendar's.  It was both of our first time eating there and we decided to order their trio deal.  You get either a chicken pot pie or shepard's pot pie, ceasar salad, and your dessert pie of choice.

Mmm...looks so good.

Ready to dig in! 

Now I've been a fan of chicken pot pies, but I've only eaten the frozen ones (I know, so unhealthy).  So I was eager to try a restaurant-quality version!  And let me tell you, it was SO delicious.  Omg.  The crust was super light and flaky, and the soup was so creamy.  Everything just melts in your mouth.  I felt extremely full afterwards because I'm still not used to the bigger American-sized portions.  Will definitely come back and devour some more though!

I decided to end the day by getting my hair trimmed.  It's amazing how cutting only 3 inches of hair can make your head feel so light!  At first, I didn't know where I wanted to go to get my haircut.  I didn't want to drive all the way to the My Ngoc Beauty Salon in Westminster, and I didn't want to spend $60 at my previous stylist's salon (especially for just a trim!).  So I took a risk and gave SuperCuts a try.

Never.  Again.

Yeah, it's cheap (only $16 with no shampoo wash), but you get what you pay for.  The hair stylist was super nice but she does not know how to layer hair.  Sigh.  Now I'm stuck with choppy-layered hair.  At least she understood what a trim was and didn't snip off 5 inches of my hair.  Oh well, it's not that bad I guess.  I'll live.

Alright, it's been a long day and I'm pooped.  Off to bed I go~

<3,
Juju

Spring Break

I probably should have blogged about spring break during spring break because I've forgotten about  most of the things that happened haha.  I did get the chance to hang out with a lot of friends who I never get to see during the school year so that was fun. 

Jackie and I went to Disney's California Adventures on Tuesday.  I finally got her to go on Toy Story Mania since she's never been on it!

This was us waiting in line.  We kept wondering if Mr. Potato Head could actually see people b/c we overheard him calling out to a girl in front of him saying, "Hey you!  Yeah you in the yellow jacket" and she was actually wearing a yellow jacket too!  Scary...

We both later went on the Ferris Wheel at night.  It was sooo freaky for both of us b/c we're slightly afraid of heights.  I kept thinking we'd plunge to our watery graves in the lake below.  We both literally grasped the cage for dear life...I could feel my hands losing blood and turning white haha!  And we were in the stationary gondola too! I've only been on the swinging gondola once--NEVER AGAIN.  That thing is just plain terrifying. >.<

On Wednesday, Nhakhanh came over and we drove to Mitsuwa to buy some ingredients to make vegan sushi.  While I was hunting for parking, I saw ハラグチ先生 putting her groceries in her car and getting ready to leave!  I wanted to jump out and say hi but couldn't... =(

The market was featuring strawberry delicacies at the time so I decided to buy these strawberry Kit Kat bars:

They turned out okay...a bit too sweet for me.

When we both returned to my house, we attempted to make sushi with white rice, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, and avocado.  It was our first time trying to assemble everything together and things didn't turn out as successfully as we hoped...when we tried slicing the sushi roll into pieces, the whole roll just became unstable and loose.  We concluded it was because we didn't use the right kind of rice and also because we didn't use enough rice to keep the sushi sticky.  Sorry guys, I didn't take any pictures of our rejected sushi haha!  Although it wasn't visually appealing, it was still delicious. おいしい!

The next day, Nhakhanh and I were off to Disneyland!  Yay more Disney fun ^_^ 

It was pretty hot that day so we decided to head off to munch on some ice cream over at Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor. 

We shared a strawberry sundae.  That thing was huge!  I don't know how one person can finish it all...

Since taking silly pictures is what we do best, we decided to take one in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle.

In the end, we both felt embarassed and silly asking someone to take a picture of us when we're doing silly poses.  The poor Asian fellow who took our picture seemed confused at first but later realized we were trying to mimick the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey behind us haha.  *sigh* We are strange crazy heads.   Also, everytime I see that woman sitting there eating on the right, I burst out laughing.  She must've thought we were strange too.  ^^;;

To end my spring break, I hung out with Tati and we took purikura at Sticki Picki.  These two are my favorites:

Don't you love Tati the Pharaoh?

Later that night, we skyped with Nhakhanh till midnight.  I've never used Skype before so it was very entertaining!  The only down-side is it lagged.  A lot.  What's the other popular video chat people use nowadays?  ooVoo or something? I'm so out of the loop with technology nowadays.

So yes, this was an incredibly long post...hope you all didn't fall asleep reading! I need to catch up on some sleep myself but I have a feeling it's going to be another long troubling night for me.  All the drama that happened yesterday in my neighborhood still lingers in my head and I no longer feel comfortable wandering outside without someone ridiculing or judging me.  My head keeps aching everytime I think about it and my heart feels like it's going to fail soon from all the stress.  *sigh*  But I'm trying to remain strong.  私がんばります!

<3,
Juju