the details

yesterday i didn't even have to use my AK
i gotta say it was a good day

aside from not using my AK, here are the things that we did:

- sprung my first gifts on W: a nonstick egg pan and a heat-resistant spatula, + a card that said, in a custom-crafted poem by yours truly, "don't hate me, there will possibly be better gifts later on"
- had a swell brekky of scrambled eggs and chicken apple sausage and oatmeal + coffee for me, of course
- decided on where to go for dinner, looked up directions for all our stops
- finally got around to leaving
- had lunch at Jersy Joe's in RWC (represent beeeyotch!). yum, philly cheesesteaks
- busted out with more gifts: a little hand-carved pillbox with a heart on the front and an "i love you!" inside. awwwwww. plus some little metal stones that said "joy" and "tears" in both english and japanese. why "joy" and "tears"? that's between me and W, yo ;)
- vroomed on down to san jose Fry's, which i thought i'd never visited, though it turned out to be my second time. W returned some stuff, then we walked around and failed to find star wars on dvd and she pointed at the ipods and said she'd like one and i said something like how they're too expensive and out of stock or something. heh.
- not willing to leave the store empty handed, we left with 2 eggs of silly putty, one astronaut ice-cream bar, and 2 packs of astronaut ice-cream neapolitan style. yum!
- ate some ice cream. she was a little creeped out because it wasn't cold. i dug it, brought back memories of space camp. ahhhh, space camp.
- headed on down to the rosicrucian egyptian museum. it were my second visit, but that place rules, so i didn't mind. W reads way faster than me. since the last time i'd been to the REM, i have studied up on ancient egypt and recognized some of the names. tragically, most of what i'd studied has evaporated from disuse, so recognition was as far as it went. so it goes.
- finally got done with that, looked at some cheesy rosicrucian art, and went outside to eat the astronaut ice-cream-sangwich. too much ice cream in one day. ugh.
- drove on up to lick observatory. oops. bad idea. drive was longer than i remembered. hilltop was colder than i rememebered. view was lamer than i rememebered. then i rememebered : last time i was here i decided not to return. oooooooooops. i told W to look at the bright side: i was going to take her there eventually, now that's no longer on the todo list.
- then it was off to dinner at On The Border, where i mixed my exit to the 237 but made it on later. once we got there, W realized that she could order a margarita all by herself. i thought that's why she had picked the place ;) imho, it's no fun unless they card you, which they didn't. the final gift bag came out at this point, and she was genuinely surprised to find that it contained an ipod mini + a mushy card that said how i really felt.
- after dessert (holy the crap that was a rich brownie) we went looking for ipod mini cases, and failed to find any good ones. then it was back home to try the dingus out (it's neat! unless you don't like itunes...) and at last, off to bed for some closing remarks.

ho hum.