Lonely, lonely night

(This was first written on Sunday night, June 22, 2008)

After the high of having both my sis and hubby around, I am back to being alone. Ah mei left a few hours ago for Tucson, Arizona while Tim is on his way to Dallas, Texas now.

It was really fun to have my sis around. It was as if I were back in Spore. We ate, shopped, played, talked together. I am really grateful for the opportunity to host her for a few days. If she were to come to the US next year instead, I would prob have been back in Spore and would not have had the chance to bring her around in my beetle bug.

We went on a shopping spree yesterday but not before we went for blackberry picking. The Houstonians had loads of fun when we went strawberry picking two years ago and so had been wanting to do a similar activity ever since. Well, I would say blackberry picking is not as fun as strawberry esp since I am not a fan of blackberry. It didn't help that the weather was scorching hot that we couldn't stay under the sun for too long. We spent most of of our time chit chating rather than doing the picking. In the end, we plucked less than one pound of blackberries between the seven of us.

The owner actually thought we picked and ate the blackberries at the same time. Nah...we are just not that interested in blackberries. If only the other fruit in the orchard were in the season for picking, we would definitely have enjoyed ourselves even more.

Since the hot weather was wearing us down, we left after just an hour in the orchard. Up next was shopping at the Premium Outlet mall. No prize for guessing correctly the first store we went to. Almost two hours on, we were still in the Coach store! We bought almost five hundred dollars worth of bags; most of them were gifts though. heh.

This outlet mall is much smaller than the one in San Marcos and yet, we spent seven solid hours there shopping. Imagine even my sis who is not much of a shopaholic as compared to some of my other friends like Zina and Shermaine, thought everything was a good buy, best buy, must buy. Of course, the exchange rates help too. Even I was so "inspired" by her that I bought quite a few things. Tim was also influenced by us that he actually bought some stuff too. Here's some of my great finds:

Guess?

Jeans (US$37.49), blouse (US$35 but technically free coz I just checked the receipt and realized the cashier did not key in this item. Woohoo! Now, this is the best find ever!) , earrings (US$9.74) and tank top (US$6.37)

Random

Express Top (US$), Nike watch (US$65), Coach wristlet (US$59), Gap belt (US$9.50), Bath & Body Work lip balm (US$5)

Aldo

Bag (US$35)

p/s: Tim just got a speeding tix. All his effort of trying to profit by driving instead of flying has gone to waste.