Wow, Sunday was a very eventful day. Over the last 8 weeks or so I had been rallying monetary support that would go towards Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times. Sunday morning I packed my car with a Joyousenne and a Ray and we went down to Victoria Gardens to join other supporters in a 5K walk for this cause. We met up with my mom, brothers, cousins Sarah, Cynthia and Elissa (crap, I hope I didn't spell that wrong), an aunt and uncle as well as two friends who came down from Hesperia (and were there at 6am, crazy mo-fos) which I was very thankful for.
After the walk we ended up sticking around for 2 hours so we could wait for Vince's Spaghetti (in Rancho Cucamonga - if you haven't been, please do, it's Dee-lish) to open for lunch and everyone (excluding Sarah who went home to do homework) was in attendance. Vince's has been a family tradition forever.
Also went to Best Buy and picked up Journey Essentials, a 2-disc set of Journey hits (a Journey song played on the radio and I was on a shopping high so I decided I needed to ride it) and MGMT's Oracular Spectacular. Good times.
Here are some highlights of the day!
Surprise #1: By raising $100 I received an event T-shirt (I knew about that prize) and by raising $250 I earned a hat. In all I raised $330 which made me the top earner on our team! In all, we were able to raise over $1,000.
Surprise #2: Ray went into the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store and 'placed an order for chocolate covered strawberries' on the 3rd lap. We found out on the 4th lap that he wasn't joking and proceeded to coax us with them until we finished the final lap. You could say it was a sweet finish?
Surprise #3 (pt1): I never go to Victoria Gardens so I didn't know there was a Borders bookstore. I've had some Borders/Waldenbooks gift cards for a few years and they were still in my wallet, so I was able to use the $31.06 I had on those ( I LOVE gift card surprises). With that money I bought 2 mangas (Gantz 1 and 2), a manga for my brother who was begging, manga for Joy because it was under $10 and I came across a sushi starter kit for $20. Comes with a book, DVD, chopsticks, plates, dipping bowls and the roller thingy. Whee!
Surprise #3 (pt2): Not only did I use my gift cards, I was also informed that because we participated in the walk, we got 10% off the purchase and even MORE - because I bought more than $40 worth, I received 2 tickets to the Ren fair. :P
Back tracking to Friday; I went to the Brandin' Iron. Yup, it's true. Co-workers Joy and Chantal have been wanting me to go with them and I had nothing to do and was sad so I ended up going. It was pretty fun but Joy and I were upset because Chantal was refusing to dance with us. :(
Joy rode the bull - I filmed it but it's so damn dark in that corner that I didn't get a good video. That makes me sad.
Ray came down around 10 or so and I gotta start letting him know when I'm down for the count on drinks because he kept buying them for me and I was pretty trashed. I've got a gruesome bruise on my hand from falling while dancing. :(
Back tracking again, now to Friday morning, I went to Gazzolos European Restaurant in San Bernardino with Vidya and Stuart. Vidya is moving in a few days to Austin, TX. This makes me sad but we will be in contact. Vidya is the only roommate I'm still fully in contact with. Will miss you.
Vidya had a Jalapeno spiced sausage. Interesting.
Vince's ROCKS! But sushi is raw fish. That is all.
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