Bloated Birthday Meal

This afternoon our family went to our favourite (cheap) buffet restaurant in the city, Imperial Garden. It's all-you-can-eat dim sum in the weekends! My dad and Aonghas will be working on Monday night (my birthday..shhhhh) so we decided to have an early birthday lunch. All that really means is I don't have to pay my mum back. Woohoo!

When we got to the pay machine to pay for our car park, there was already a ticket sitting there, and it hadn't expired! We were originally just going to use that and save $8, but my dad was worried since there were security cameras around, so we did the honest thing. There happened to be two Australian 5c coins lying around too. What a test!

We had one-and-a-half hours to eat, so it was time to get started! I tried to restrain from eating the deep-fried food, as that fills me up fast. My strategy: dim sum, dim sum, DIM SUM. Oh, and then dessert.

Half way through, and I was pretty full! It was time for dessert! I could only manage a bowl of fruit salad and a few snacks. I had to smuggle the rest of the biscuits in a tissue and sneaked them to my mum under the table to look after for later!

We were pretty bloated after that lunch! Now we just had to make sure we didn't fall asleep during the Experiencing God programme we had to attend at church!

Late for Yum Cha

After having a huge meal at Valentine's the day before with the Huang family, my mum thought it'd be a good idea for our family to go have yum cha today, especially since we were all home! Originally I was going to hang out with Zippo, my old neighbour since it was a long time since I had caught up with her, but I had to bail on her at the last minute!

As usual it took a long time for our family to get prepared, so we ended up leaving for yum cha just after midday, and when we got there (the usual yum cha place we go to is out in South Auckland), there were people on three other tables, and there wasn't much food left! That was OK, as I still didn't feel too hungry after the massive feast at Valentine's yesterday!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqWJiF0aww)

After we ate, we had a stroll down the main street, checking out some of the shops, but most of them sold over-sized clothes.

We still had half a day free, so we decided to go over to Howick to check out that Buddhist temple since we haven't been there in a while. We just checked out the outside of it before we went over to the Howick shops so our mum could do some shopping.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhLjItWECps)

Time was passing by and we had youth group at night, so we had to leave for home or else we'd never make it to youth group in time!

Fortunately we weren't too late, and we made it to youth group for Bible study!