OMG We’re Seniors!

It’s officially summer! … but it’s not hot at all. ><
In fact, it's even raining. Lolz.

I went to the Class of 2009 Graduation yesterday! Jessica's mom came to pick me up at around 4-ish and then went to pick Shirley up too. Then we drove to the place but had to get out of the car early and walk the last block because there were so many cars (crazy traffic jam).

We all stood outside for a while taking pictures and running around to look for people we knew. When it was nearing 6 o'clock, the seniors had to line up so Joanna and I went to find a good seat so we can see people we knew. There was a line to get in because there were guards checking bags and scanning tickets. One of them pulled out my gum pack and went, "What is this? Is this some kind of candy?" Clearly he's never chewed–or seen–brand 5 gum.

I only had my digital camera, so I couldn't snap close-up pictures since we sat in the seats way up there. Joanna had those crazy long lense camera so she could zoom in more. We ended up running to the side where the seniors sat to snap pictures. The security lady there kept shooing people away because it wouldn't be organized if there was a mob of parents and friends snapping pictures on the sidelines in front of people's views. To avoid her wrath, we kept on walking up and down the stairs, pretending we were going back to our seats and running back down when we saw someone we knew. Haha.

After the senior graduation, we went outside and took some more pictures with bouquets of flowers (I ended up carrying one the entire time xD). Then we wanted to celebrate by going out to a nice restaurant, so we drove around for a long time: missing turns, driving onto a Bus Only lane, running red lights. Our first pick was to eat sushis at Japantown, but we couldn't find it, so we ended up trying to look for Original Joe's. We found it, but there were no parking spaces, so we decided to go to the Cheesecake Factory. Upon arriving, we saw the whole restaurant was crowded with people (apparently it's graduation for everyone!), so then we drove to Banana Leaf. There was a line too, and Jessica's mom wanted to see if another Thai restuarant might be emptier, but I was tired by then (it was 8:30 pm!) so I just insisted on staying and wait. There were empty tables outside, so we decided to dine in the outdoors.

We had this pulled bread/asian tortilla thing, satay chicken and beef (the peanut suace was good so we ended up eating the sauce by itself…), two different kinds of fried rice, pad-thai, fried oatmeal prawns, and REALLY spicy green curry. I tried making Jessica drink the whole bowl. xD By then we were full, but there was dessert: ice cream with fried bananas. LOLS. We were stuffed when we were done! (Jillian commented by saying: "If you guys didn't join Track, you'd be hecka fat now!") So true.

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