Busy busy busy

On August 18, 2011 my sister had to move into her dorm at the University of Northern Colorado. I woke up early because my sister wanted to the be the first one there so she can claim her spot, so my mom said we should leave the house by 7am. However, my sister was still asleep and so we didn't leave until around 8:40am. I was pressed for time, because I was expecting some packages with live items and didn't want them to roast in the summer heat inside a mailbox.

When we finally got there we lugged everything up and claimed her space. Boy are my arms, shoulder, and neck sore! I helped my sister set everything up and then we went to pay her tuition and get her textbooks. I left at 1pm and on my way home had a Goodtimes Deluxe Burger with Wild Fries and a Strawberry Lemonade. I was starved, didn't eat breakfast cuz I tend to get sick.

Grrrr, me boogie monster.

Anyways, when I got home my packages we here. To my disappointment, the box of moss I was expecting from msnikkistar wasn't here and I began to panic and think that it got lost yet again. However, it was because she hadn't sent the replacement yet. I PMed her and she said she sent it out today (8/18) so I guess I'll expect them to show up on Saturday. I then proceed to open a box from Caton which supposedly had some live fish food; Microworms and Vinegar Eels. I was worried they might have been cooked, but I took a flashlight to both containers and saw nice wriggly movements. So I separated the cultures into my own medias so they can get going. My other package contained the textbooks needed for the classes I'm taking this Fall.

Microworms.

So today, my mom and I went back to UNC to deliver the rest of the stuff my sister needed. Then we left and had lunch at Chick Fil A. I had the Spicy Chicken Deluxe sandwich meal and my mom had Grilled Chicken sandwich. We then went shopping at Target and Sam's Club. At Sam's Club we bought a bag of Spicy Asian Chicken Wings. They taste good, they kinda remind me of something but I can't put my finger on what.

Spicy Asian Chicken Wings

Dragon Boat Festival, IKEA, and Crayfish dinner, oh my!

Today we went to Sloan's Lake in Denver to look at the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. They sold all sorts of Asian foods, it smelled really good and almost very tempting to buy. Also saw some souvenirs, and very overpriced soda. We stayed for a bit and then decided to head to the new one and only IKEA (Centennial) in Colorado.

We arrived at IKEA, but it took forever because they were redirecting traffic and stuff, because it is so congested. IKEA had their grand opening on July 27. When we got inside and waas about to take the escalator upstairs, they told us to wait and we had to follow a lady to form a waiting line. Good thing we were at the front of the line, because when we came back out of the store, the line was extremely long and wrapped around the garage several times. If I saw a line that long, I'd turn around and leave!

I tried their Swedish Meatball combo with my sister. It came with 15 swedish meatballs with gravy, a scoop of mash potato, and lingonberry sauce; and salad, and a drink. I drank some lingonberry juice, which kinda reminded me of a much sweeter version of Cranberry juice. It tasted pretty good, I enjoyed it. Then we browsed their showrooms and I felt like I was taking a tour of a store. We then went downstairs and looked at some smaller individual items. Boy was it hot in that store, I guess with all those people inside the A/C had no power over the body heat.

After that, we decided to try some food in their cafe area. I had a pizza slice with drink and my sister had a vanilla frozen yogurt. The pizza was pretty good, and of course we had lingonberry juice for the drink. My sister really enjoyed the frozen yogurt. We hung out to rest on some couches for a while before leaving the store.

After IKEA we made our way to South Platte Park, which was fairly close by. We tried fishing the river, but my sister didn't really want to try it. So we drove a little bit further to access to the ponds. When we got there we tried to go fishing for fish but got no bites. We saw a father with his two young sons fishing for crayfish with some hot dogs. So I added a Gulp! Salmon egg on my hook and started fishing for them as well. I caught some on the artificial salmon eggs. The father offered us some hotdogs since he wouldn't be able to use them all and they would just spoil anyways, so we used them and caught a lot more. We took ours home and ate them. They were delicious.

Once upon a busy day

On July 23, my sister and I went to eat at Q-Table BBQ Buffet in Northglenn. It costs $19.95 per person, which is pretty much the average cost when eating 'unlimited' Korean BBQ. We tried a little bit of everything, but the main course was the Korean BBQ. They had beef intestines, spicy chicken, spicy pork, bulgogi, short ribs, chadol, and pork belly.I also tried their spicy chicken wing, sour bbq chicken, sweet potato, etc.

The beef intestines tasted like a piece of pure fat. Gross. Well it is better than the pork intestines we tried at the Dim Sum place. The intestines we had at the Dim Sum restaurant smelled like poop and tasted like poop. The beef intestines here at Q-Table didn't have such a vulgar scent or taste. The rest of meats were great, but the short ribs are always the best.

After lunch we proceeded to the Denver Botanic Gardens. We each paid the $8 admission, and first started to look around the gift shop. We headed on out to the extreme heat and began our tour of the gardens. I was really psyched to see their orchids, cactus and succulents, and carnivorous plants. One of the coolest plants we saw was the Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica), it was cool because when you touch them, their leaves close up. Today I ordered some of the seed from eBay, so I can hopefully grown my own.

To much of my dismay, the building in which the orchids were housed in was closed due to a private event. Bummed out we continued along the rest of the gardens. We saw some goldfish at the Japanese Garden; and the tea house was also closed because they were doing a tea ceremony which cost $30 to participate in. We also rescued a dragonfly that was drowning in the pond, it stood on my hand for awhile until I placed him on a nearby plant so he could dry off his wings and recover.

It was very very hot, at least 95*F, I was sweating like no tomorrow hehe. After that we went indoors and chugged down a lot of the water from the water fountain until the fountain started spouting warm water. We left the Denver Botanic Gardens and then proceeded to GameStop. Along the way, we stopped at a McDonalds because we were really hot still and quite thirsty, and I had a horrible headache due to the heat (due to the beginning of heat exhaustion?). I ordered a large frozen Strawberry Lemonade and Megan ordered a small Mango Pineapple Smoothie. We chugged down our drinks and felt much relieved. We continued to GameStop and when we got there we found out the game I was looking for was sold out. We had to head to a different GameStop to find it.

After GameStop, we headed back to H-Mart which we passed by when we were going to the second GameStop. Bought some groceries for mom and some ingredients Megan needed for her dishes. I bought some lychees that were pretty good, and two custard buns. I was kinda debating in my head if I wanted to bring home a delicious Monkfish for my mom to us, but in the end decided not to.

It was quite a day, we didn't get home until 9pm.