NOVA

I headed up to northern Virginia yesterday with the fam. Our main intent was to go to the temple and pray and such. So we left around 10 something I believe. Got up there and ate lunch at Fortune. Mmmm dim sum. It was pretty good. After that we headed to the temple. There was a huge tour group there so it was pretty packed, but they were leaving when we got there. We did our thing there and then headed to Eden Center. We bought some bakery goods and sandwiches and soy bean drinks. Afterward, my brother wanted to go to this Korean bakery and he got a few things and so did my mom. Post bakery times, we went to Ikea. We wanted to look for a tv stand for the new tv going in the kitchen, but we left with chair cushions, plates, a lamp, a tie holder, a napkin holder, and other miscellaneous items. Damn you impulse buying haha. I saw a few things that I wanted, but wouldn't get especially since the stuff in my room is fairly new still. Well after that I got home and relaxed for a bit.

After relaxing, I headed over to Matt's house. It was awkward because I was the only one in his living room at the moment. Davor and Kev eventually came over and we watched Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. They really liked it. Scott joined in like mid movie and Matt came downstairs like 30 minutes after we finished the movie. I left around 1:30 and passed out when I got home.

Well here are a few pics from yesterday:

Burned incenses.


Buddha looks like he is flicking you off.


Banana sticks :P.


I think its a swan made of bakery goods.


Ok so this is at Ikea on the back of the stall door. I was wondering what the inventor of this was thinking. "Man I have to poop, but I have my child. AHHH!"

Lake Anna

Went to Lake Anna again with Stephanie. It was.......quite and adventure. Well I got to her house around 9:20 perhaps and we drove to her dad's lake house. Got there and talked to her grandma and aunts for a bit. Then her dad took us and Rylan on the boat to do some water sports. Rylan did knee boarding. He did his new trick. He learned to do a 360. Well after him, I went and tried wake boarding. The first time I fell off completely. Second time, I almost got up. Third time, still a no go. Well after the third time, the boat started drifting to the rocks. Steph's dad tried to drive away, but the rope got caught. So now engineless and vulnerable to crashing, I swim like 20 feet to the boat before it started drifting and help push it away from the rocks. Her dad jumped in and also helped. This went on for like a good 15-20 minutes before Rylan and Stephanie flagged down help, who at first thought they were just waving. We got towed to a small sandy island and then from there, anchored and Stephanie and her dad went to work on untangling the rope. It was funny that the boat that towed us had to leave behind one of their crew(?) I guess you would say because they started towing us while he was still in the water. Anyways, they got one engine free by unwrapping and got a knife from a boat that also anchored at the island. Eventually, we got back to the dock and put the boat on the trailer and went back to the house. Her dad got the rest of the rope out and then Stephanie tended to my wounds. She got hurt a bit, but she's a tough cookies. She can handle it :P.

Ooph. It was tiring. My forearms are shot now. I can't even open a safety pin with my middle finger and thumb. Blahhhhhh. Well, it was fun though. I want to try to wake board again and see if I get up and keep balanced. Until then, I will sit in my office chair and design websites and try to take photos sometimes.

Update: Though of a good analogy for my hands! My hands are like when you are super tired or laughing so hard that when you try and squeeze something, but you can't.

Here are three pictures:

I am in the water.....


Poor legs :(. It doesn't look too bad in this pic, but they are all around on the sides of my legs and feet too.


Awesome band-aid though!