IM BACK IN SPORE! but i shall update on the last 5 days of the trip..

Day 6: we went to play miniature golf! the ones here are much bigger than those in spore.. i scored a 61 for an 18-hole course! beating my mom n sis HAHA. it was between a children's par and an adult's par. then we went to Solqualmie Falls Park. it was basically a big big waterfall, for ppl to exercise i guess. haha. we walked all the way down to the bottom, which was quite easy. my sis n i climbed down a 2 storey tall rock wall. it was really rocks, and it was not 'legal'. but nobody cared anw. it was really pretty, i'll post pictures when i hv the time. the walk back up was much more tiring, its like 2.4 run or sth! cuz it was quite steep. after that we went to Shanghai Gardens restaurant, n i finally got to eat my long-awaited niangao! somehow this restaurant cooks it differently and i like this one better.

Day 7: we went to this Experience Music Project thing! its this music exhibition in seattle. there's this really cool thing called the Roots and Branches structure by Trimpin. basically its a really big structure of instruments! and these instruments, they are controlled by a computer program such that they can play a piece of music together. it sounds like gamelan music.. then there's this sound lab, where you get to learn how to play a new instrument. and there's many other cool stuff like learning about walt disney animations, definitely not the classical history kind!

Day 8: first we went to eat vietnamese food! 1st time eating vietnamese. its really nice, this rice noodle and beef soup was great! after that, we went to the zoo! their zoo was really big! i love the monkeys! and we even got to touch a goat! we saw animals like giraffes, lions, deers, gorillas, birds, tigers etc. it was really fun! but grandpa was almost sleeping the whole way. at night, we went to nathan's house! we played this really fun game called Set. Nicole was really good for a 5-year-old. :D

Day 9: Last day at Seattle. We went to Costco, this giant place which has almost everything! we bought vitamins, coloured socks, this organizer cart thing, and ate sample food along the way! i love this place, its one of the few places i rmb, cuz i love the hotdog buns there! didn get to eat this time though. In the afternoon, we went to Crossroad, a foodplace cum shopping centre. i ate japanese food there, and starbucks again! after that, we went back n played Crochets in Uncle's 43000 square feet garden! Crochets is something like putting in golf. then we also played kickball and baseball! megan was really good at baseball. at night, we watched Eragon and Nathan and Nicole came over. We played Clue, Set and Risk! we din even get to finish our game before we had to leave. Megan gave us this 2 cute fluffy balls.

Day 10: On the plane home.. :( i finished Beyonce's CD and watched I Think I Love My Wife. It was a 13 hr flight. i almost vomitted at the sight of the airplane food, cuz it was BREAD again, and noodles. waited 3 hrs at Taipei before boarding the next plane. Watched Curse of the Golden Flower, but din manage to finish it. finally, 4 hrs later, home sweet home! and spore airport is really the nicest airport!

i really miss them now, but still email daily to michael. well, hopefully they'll come over next yr!