Fourth of July Recap (Part 2): New Toy (Sorta), A Slightly Hyper Cashier, And FOOD!!!
I have so much to blog about!
(I hate the fact that I’m a lazy bastard :P)
I could blog about the horrible time I’m currently having with my latest computer build (and the worst part is, this build’s for my sister!). I could go into a mega-rant about one of my biggest pet peeves in the world. I could blog about my Dodgers being in first place in the National League Pee-Wee division (aka the West).
Basically, I could go in many directions with tonight’s blog entry. Instead, I think I’ll continue with my Fourth of July weekend adventures.
And sorry, no quick-hitters:
- So on Saturday, we decided that we were going to go to the beach.
(Can you believe it? Early July, and I haven’t yet stepped foot on a beach???)
As we were determining what beach we wanted to go to, I got an IM from cousin David. You see, I had been helping him pick out a digital camera for weeks now, and he was trying to decide between one of the following (warning: shameless link-spamming ahead):
- A Nikon D40 DSLR (my personal choice!)
- A Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5k
- A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18k
- A Canon S5 IS (his eventual choice)
Apparently he wanted to go to Camarillo outlet to go clothes shopping, and he bribed us to go with the promise that we could play around with his new camera. Moi, passing up the chance to play with a new toy? Are you kidding me? Not to mention, Camarillo was about 10-15 degrees cooler than it was here!
We didn’t get to the outlet until about 3PM, and because we hadn’t eaten yet, we stopped by the Food Court and grabbed some grilled steak sandwiches. Pretty greasy, I might say, but what did I expect? Very non-filling too, I might add, as I grabbed a Wetzel Pretzel about two hours later. The pretzel was awful! I ordered a Jalapeno Cheese pretzel, and for some reason, the Jalapenos were sweeter rather than hot. And don’t even get me started on the substance on the pretzel that resembled cheese.
- Later on in the day, my sister wanted to go to the Coach Factory Store, and apparently they were having a huge sale…which I figured out when we were about ten stores away from Coach. We went to the NIke store first while my sister went to Coach, and after a few minutes, we attempted to locate her in the Coach store.
That was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Eventually, she finished shopping, and got in the quite empty line. Seemingly out of nowhere, a cute little saleswoman came up to my sister, grabbed her purchases (she accidentally grabbed my sister’s wallet, which was pretty funny), and scurried over to the register.
I believe this is a good summarization of what the cashier said to us:
“Hi!Isthatallyouwanttoday?CanIinterestyouinawalletforthirtyorfortydollars?Yourtotalcomesoutto[some-odd dollars]oh!Isthatagiftcard?Cool!I’msohappytoday!”
Seriously. Someone might want to check the coffeemaker in the Coach Factory Store break room.
David had an excellent response to the girl: he asked her if she wanted my sister’s phone number.
I nearly cried from laughter the second we stepped out of the store. To this day, I’m still trying to figure out how the girl could have been so hyper. It was nearing 7PM, and the only reasonable explanation I could come up with was that the girl works a four-hour shift, which started at 6PM. David, being inappropriate as usual, mentioned that perhaps she was hiding something…
- After a bit of deliberation, we decided to have dinner at My Brother’s BBQ, on Ventura Blvd. between DeSoto and Canoga Blvd. I had the Tri-Tip, sliced ham, and sliced pork dinner, and boy was the Tri-Tip excellent! The ham was average, and the slice of pork I had was a bit too fatty. The cole slaw and baked potato were about as good as you could expect it to be (namely, just OK), but the garlic bread was incredible! Super garlic-y, and super buttery. Yum!
My sister and cousin David split two dishes: broasted and BBQ chicken, and chicken and ribs. I tasted a bit of the ribs, which were really really dry. The BBQ chicken was ok, and I forgot to ask how the broasted chicken was.
After dinner, we headed to Gelson’s to get some bakery grub. We decided on a chocolate truffle (quite good), a canolli (very good!), and a Napoleon (awesome, especially because it wasn’t nearly as sweet as some places make it). The day ended with us chowing down on dessert, followed by cousin David going crazy on SingStar 90s. Too bad he deleted the video we made of him singing New Kids on the Block’s “Step By Step;” it was quite awesome.
(And by quite awesome…you know…)
Until next time!