Sunday Fun!

Kurtis
So aside from me being stupid and misspelling "watermelon", this picture is so cute! Kurtis is such a darling!!

Food adventures...ALONE
I found a random Chinese restaurant today in the same plaza as a Trader Joe's I was trying to go to and I decided (after a LONG time of consideration), to eat there ALONE. I don't like to dine by myself because I find it very awkward. I've done it once before in Hong Kong, which didn't make it any less awkward, but I gave it another shot today.

When I walked into the restaurant, I immediately thought I had made such a huge mistake because it looked so dimly lit, run down, shabby type feel. The large fish tank at then entrance looked like it was 3 months overdue for a cleaning. The goldfish inside the tank didn't look too happy to be swimming around in so much of their own filth. But the most glaringly obvious feature that made me want to turn around and walk out was that there was NO ONE in the ENTIRE restaurant. Not even a single waiter. I stood there for about 2mins trying to decide if I should leave or if someone was going to walk out of the kitchen soon to greet me.

Finally, the waitress came out of the kitchen and seated me. I sat all by myself on the right side of the restaurant in a dimly lit corner booth near the dirty fish tank. The menu was pretty big so I took a considerable amount of time to decide what I wanted to eat. After much deliberation and many questions about the menu to the waitress, I ordered FOUR dishes. YES, FOUR DISHES, ALL TO MYSELF. The waitress was very shocked as well. She was about to walk away from me after I finished ordering the second dish but then I continued on to order the third dish, and then the fourth. I really wanted to order FIVE dishes because FOUR is such an unlucky number to Chinese people, but after taking into account how shocked the waitress looked and how it seemed like such an overkill, I decided to just leave it at four.

I was very skeptical about this place from the moment I walked into the restaurant, but the food turned out to be very good! The waitress was super friendly and very nice! I left after the meal as a very happy customer! This is just one of those moments that remind me to "never judge a book by it's cover".