Thanks for visiting Ann Arbor...(Saturday)

To TeckHua and Tze Chang:

Thanks for visiting Ann Arbor. Really appreciate it. Too bad I have to work, too short notice, couldn't get anybody to cover my shifts, couldn't really bring u guys around. Hopefully those dinners are good... Well, that's about the best around...

so... for the first afternoon, both of them reached my apartment at about 2.45pm... They reached my place when I was walking back from work, about five minutes away from my apartment. So, i ran back when they called me on my cell.

It was a really hot & sunny day, and i forgot to turn on the AC. The apartment was really hot. After turning on the AC, at least, it was bearable. After resting for a while, until about 3.30pm, I brought them to hunt for pennants(triangular flag) & souvenirs. First, we walked to Steve & Barry's, and they got some Michigan t-shirts, but the pennants are too big, and not really that nice. Then, we went to another Michigan fans store, we saw one that's OK sized, as there are many more such stores, and the store will be opened on the 4th of July, so, I told them to hold on to their horses. Then, we went to the next stop, Michigan book & supply. But the pennants there are not as pretty. Another then, we walked to the Moe Sport's shop to look for pennants again, and couldn't find it. Then, we walked to the Michigan Union underground, and search for the stuffs in Union bookstore. Mission failed. Again, the pennants were quite ugly, or oversized. But at least, Teck Hua got a beautiful postcard to send home. Something funny happened, nearly happened. Teck Hua paid for his postcard ($0.99) with a five bucks, not knowingly, (he thought that it was a 1 buck bill), and almost asked the cashier to keep the change. Luckily, he saw that guy started counting bills and handed him $1 X 4 and a penny. Luckily for Teck Hua, if not, it would be really awkward and all.

Next stop, we walked really far (and I got lost...dang) to Main St. to search for pennants at another Michigan fans' store, the M-Den. And you guessed it right, to no avail again... And walked into another store again,(forgot what's the name of the shop)... and still... so, Teck Hua decided to get the one from the 2nd store that we went. By that time, it's about 4.30pm. And we were thirsty and decided to go to Starbucks to get a fruppa or some other cold drinks and settle down. We walked to the Starbucks on East Liberty St. I think that's the nicest Starbucks in Ann Arbor(we have many Starbucks here...). We ordered drinks(I had a Strawberries & Creme) and we went to the underground of the cafe. It's nice and quiet there. Three of us started to talk crap and we managed to chat til 6.40pm.

We walked to a nearby Chinese Restaurant, TK Wu for dinner. It was not really crowded, but we were make to wait for a good 10 minutes before we were seated... lousy server. We ordered long beans with pork, and steamed fish(both are my favorite dishes here). Experience tells me that the steamed fish takes forever to be served, so I told them not to eat too fast... And yeah, luckily we did eat slowly... and just slowed enough to be served with the steamed fish when we were almost done with the long beans.

After dinner, I walked them around the campus, show & tell kinda thing. After all those touring, we went back to the apartment... watched baseball, and watched TC played Civ III:Conquests... and called it a night.