Spring Break Continues

MOA trip

Date: 3rd April 2010
Venue: Mall Of America, Minnesota
Time: 8.30am – 4pm (including travel time which was about 3 hours in total for 2-ways)
MOA the largest shopping mall in the United States, here I came!




The mall was big as we couldn’t get to walk/shop for the whole building since we had time limit… (went there by joining ChooiWan’s and her host)
People said it’s a must to shop for clothes in MN since clothes are all free of taxes…

And the stops for us would be Forever 21 and H&M before going for other shops…
Yet, I actually didn’t get suitable clothes from these 2 shops at first, but then at the end I went back to them and got myself a few items! Haha… Felt so guilty of myself if I couldn’t get anything here since I had traveled so far… LOLX

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Spending Quality Time with Host

Venue: Host family’s house – the princess room, Around Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Date: 3rd – 5th of April

Friday night:
Supper of Broccoli rice, baked fish, cake with fresh strawberries and cream as dessert… yummy home-taste~! Haha
Rummy 2000 with Aunt Mary, Uncle Ray’s sisters: Jean and Kathy~!


Saturday:
Venue: Chippewa falls
Was about to visit the museum of technology or something, but it was closed…
Joined tour for Leinenkugel’s brewery! Interesting~!

Picnic at Irvine Park… Oh come on, I had never done picnic for a long time (and it’s so dangerous to do it in Malaysia, haha)… Jean and Kathy were supposed to join us but they refused as the weather was not that warm compared to the last few days…

The outdoor temperature was alright, yet the chill breeze that “swiped” intermittently made us felt really cold… Hmm, guessed I just brought the winds from windy city of Chicago back to Eau Claire?! Lolx… (I wondered how I withstood the cold weather by wearing just sweater and a thin spring jacket, haha, yay I’m getting stronger! LOL =D)

After the lunch, we visited the park… there’s even a small zoo inside the park!
Hmm… Visited “The Woodshed” at Augusta/Fall Creek which sell Amish’s wood furniture and other woodcraft items… Those stuffs were really nice and delicate… =)


Road trip around these areas… Went on to the Amish Museum but it isn’t open until May… Checked out others country stores too! (which really located around farms, haha)

Dinner of Chinese cuisines~! We ordered food from the Chinese restaurant and Uncle Ray went to the restaurant to get them… We painted/coloured eggs using food colouring after the meals! It was fun =)



Sunday - Easter

Attended Easter’s Church service with Aunt Mary… (Uncle Ray went there in separate cars since he had to “count money” after the service, haha)

Finally dropped by Jean and Kathy’s house, wow, they really have a neat and gorgeous house! Haha

Picked Pauline from KT to join my host’s Easter lunch (actually it was kind of hi-tea since we had our meal at 3pm, lolx)

Good food of hams (real big), salad and others ^^
We had an Easter little game session (looking for coloured eggs at the surrounding of the house) after the great meal! It was quite fun though! hahahha

~~Back to School Life~! Bye Princess Room! Hello, My Oak Ridge 239~!! ~~