woo hoo! (most funtastic holiday in a long time!)

went to portland and had a smashing time of jazz, shopping and hanging out with cherlyn, ian and darius... sweet.

on thursday after my dinner with ian which he cooked up, we enthusiastically got to union station and waited for mark... to no avail. it was horrible. the arctic blast had been going around and it got seattle for a while. it was darn cold that night and we wait for almost three hours circling the whole area nearly seven times on high heels. i almost died.

and then we went back to my dorm room and tried to find out why the train didn't arrive as planned... and mark called... so we got onto the very next bus that came by my place and got to union station to grab mark within ten minutes, get him to the bus and back to ian's place... stopped by my place to grab my stuff which i had packed, fortunately...

in the morning we all woke up late from talking late into the night and then ran to the station.. mark sent us off... :)

train was late, and so we had to wait for two whole hours, had time to buy our lunch from the supermarket nearby in the international district and went to this bass shop that was closed... boy were the guys disappointed.

got onto the train and sat for the longest time since the train had tons of delay...

finally got there, walked like miles to our hotel, checked in and found refuge in the warmth since the arctic blast has been here over the weekend to give us strong winds, snow on monday when we were leaving and freezing weather that was so chillin'...

lloyd's centre's way cool. it has an indorr skating rink and movie theatres and many eateries. much like those at home, but tons larger! 4 of us singaporeans just felt so at home... :)

when i am in a more sober mood i might write more...