La-Tea-Da, Buffalo, Senior Nights

I've been putting off my updates all week but before I forget all of it, I think I should start writing now. Despite the fact that it's 4AM and I need my beauty sleep (haha!) for Senior Ball tomorrow, I need to do this!! Nobody should have to suffer reading this extremely long and detailed post so skip this!

Friday: I *tried* to wake up early to go to work around 9AM but I failed miserably and didn't get there until 11AM. I rushed to get my last minute things done since today was my last day of my student employment. There is a two-week gap between today and the day I start full-time so I wanted to make sure everything was in order. Around 12PM I ran back to campus to catch the Red-line bus to La-Tea-Da to celebrate Camille & Frances's birthday.

La-Tea-Da is this cute cafe for "tea parties". There are many differently themed rooms and they are all tea party-themed. It's super adorable because people of all ages go and they have fancy hats and other costume accessories to help their customers feel like they are in a childhood tea-party. They have scrumptious tea and sandwiches too! There was this one moment when I was waiting for the bathroom and I looked inside this small tea party room and I see an old woman on a wheelchair and on an oxygen tank. She was adorned with a fancy hat and a pretty boa and she was clutching a stuffed animal with one arm. Across from her was a little girl who also had on a too-big hat and fake pearls. The little girl pretended to serve tea to the old woman and they were just having such a picture-perfect time. It made me smile at the innocence and sincerity of it all.

our monsters!

Afterwards a few of us walked around Park Ave. It was drizzling the whole time but it was okay. We went into some shops but there wasn't much to buy. Christy & I tried to sneakily buy a present for Camille but it failed when the cashier blatantly handed the newly wrapped present box over to us while Camille came around lol. Still, we pretended nothing happened and we snuck in the signing of her birthday card through. All of us bought matching monster dolls too!! We walked to a cafe near Eastman called Spot and chilled there sipping coffee for a long time before we took a bus downtown to the bars. Met up with Porchea and we chilled at a bar all night and then back to Annabelle's house. When I got back home, Frances was having her birthday party in our suite still so hung around for a bit before sleeping.

Saturday: Had a good sleep over at Christy's because Frances's party dragged on a lot longer than I thought and I really needed sleep so I slept over at Christy's. We were going to walk over to campus quickly because we were already kind of late to catch the bus to Darien Lake. But when we were waiting for elevator, guess who we saw when the doors opened? Nina! She drove us to campus (THANKS!!) and we caught our bus with extra time to spare. So I made a mad dash to Connections to get some breakfast for us. Got to Darien Lake around noon and it was super cold and mildy drizzling. Most roller coaster rides were closed unfortunately so we rode on whatever was open (Mind Eraser, and some wooden one). Some other rides opened up later so we went on those too. We went on the Viper twice and they took the funny rollercoaster photos and Christy & I posed both times haha.

We stopped to get some fried dough but that was such an adventure. Since it was incredibly windy and rainy, the wind blew our plate over while we were trying to pay so the lady had to re-frost it. Then we snuck into random gift shops for shelter and pretended to look at their merchandise while eating our fried dough haha. But we ran out of places to take shelter and finished the rest of it under the awning of some arcade place. Bad idea, the wind blew whatever powdered sugar was left all over us haha. It was hilarious nevertheless.

We won a stuffed animal each...although we were the only two who were versing each other LOL. We were getting extremely cold and wet midway through the day and decided we could not continue. So we figured we could try to get the bus to leave early if we gathered enough people. We stopped to get a bucket of popcorn to pass time in case the bus wouldn't leave. The popcorn stand was having issues with their cash register so we ended up getting a free giant vat of popcorn, yay! Sadly, we downed the entire bucket within the first half hour or so. Good news was that one of the bus drivers offered to drive back early. We hopped on that bus and got back to ITS with the GLC bus waiting (THANK YOU!!) Went back to Christy's room, took a shower and we both snuggled under our respective covers trying to get warm after today's awful weather. Watched some movies/TV all night and ordered chinese food.

group pic in front of hummer limo

Then I randomly got picked up by Andy Poon to go to Buffalo tonight. He drove down and picked me up and went up to Buffalo. Got ready quickly and went to someone's house to pregame. They actually got a limo for the night to go to Club Pure! Felt like prom all over again :) It was a cool place, it was more awesome seeing old friends from Tech & meeting new friends. However, because it was Buffalo there was tons of drama happening by the end of the night haha.

Sunday: Woke up mid-afternoon and went to go eat Pho with Andy, Jia, and Sabrina. Their pho's are mad tiny! Haha, still good though. Went back and watched The Office before going back out later that night to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings with some buffalo people. Played this trivia game that I completely sucked in lol. We rock-paper-scissored the blazing hot wings but for the first time I did not lose and did not have to eat any of it! :D Went back to watch more Office (haha!) and had the cravings for chocolate milk so made Andy take me to Wegmans to get some. Got some random stuff but they did not have the Nesquick chocolate milk :( But it was okay because the next gas station had it and my cravings were very satisfied.

Monday:  Woke up late and went to eat some Korean at this ghetto place modeled after a Chinese take-out restaurant. Haha. Then Andy drove me back to Rochester (thanks!!) Right afterward I took a shower since it felt like forever since I had one. Left to go to Boulder Cafe to meet Ling, Christy, and Camille. We all chilled there til we got kicked out around 9PM. Their chocolate+coffee drink is always so delicious!! Went over to Camille's and had some girl's night-out sort of thing. We had a bunch of asian magazines to help us decide what sort of hairstyle & make-up to do for Senior Ball on Thursday. We experimented on some make-up styles and then did some facials. I walked back home afterwards.

Tuesday:  Went to pick up some packages ( I've been ordering a bunch of books and some of them finally came in!) and went to Ling's room to drop off my stuff and the alcohol I brought for tonight's senior night. Then went to hang out with Tommy's at Starbucks but it was closed early for this week so we were trying to decide what to do when I had that chocolate milk craving again. We walked to CVS (super super far!) but they didn't have any so I got some Starbucks Frappucino bottled drinks.

 tommy holding my bag haha

Then went to get Susana's ID so Camille & I could get dinner cause we were both poor haha. Susana was packing and told me she had to pay for storage since she will be studying abroad next semester. So I offered her to store some stuff at my new place so she didn't have to pay so much. After dinner with Camille & Christy, I helped Susana take her stuff to my place and went to Camille's room where we got ready for the Senior Night Pub Crawl. It was starting to rain so I caught a ride back to Riverview, grabbed my boots and went to Ling's and finish getting ready. We all head out to the bars.

Luxe

The first one we went to was called Luxe. It was nice and we had a really good seating arrangement. I couldn't find my credit card and suspected I left it on the bus to the bars so I checked every bus that looped back to the bars and finally found it on my 2nd try! Phew :) We left Luxe to check out Colony but it was too full to get in and it was raining so we went back to Luxe where we stayed at the rest of the night. Ling &I played the board game Sorry for a while (No idea why there were board games but believe it) Went home later on.

i look awful in his gear

Wednesday: Did nothing for most of the day. Made some kimchi fried rice in the morning and ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner haha. Hung out with John Foote later that night. We were watching HIMYM and Family Guy and played some drinking games with the Family Guy flashbacks haha. But then we got distracted when we started talking about stupid stuff lol. First we had to settle a long time debate about how we first started talking. He said that I messaged him about biology and I said I would never do such a thing to a stranger. So I checked my AIM logs and turns out HE WAS THE SKETCHBAG! He messaged me first for most of our conversations haha. Then I laughed at his murses and his love life and etc. Too bad our college years is coming to an end because we just realized that all those times we spoke we wanted to chill but both of us didn't want to get rejected so we never asked. Haha.