Weekend Summary

Congratulation to the defending champ, Hong Kong, for winning 2006 firework competition. They did awesome compared to Canada (aww, maybe next year for Canada :)= Saturday- Two of my friends and I went to checked out the finale firework at 9:00pm. It was pretty nice watching it from the inside of Ellison Park rather than from the outside. Last year, I had to work in the evening so I was unable to attended. The firework was cool, I especially like the horizontal waterfall firework..that was awesome. The waterfall seems to last forever, but technically it was more like 2 minutes. We sat on a grassy slope with everyone else overlooking the lake, listening to the music as one after another firework went up into the sky. The firework last about 45minutes. Traffic wasn't bad compared to the last three years. I think it helped that there was more police regulating the traffic flow, and that there was two additional lanes needed going both way, so that traffic doesn't get backup. The first two years traffic was horrific, I didn't get home until two hours after the firework was done... Sunday I went to celebrated my friend's 25th birthday. At 1pm, everyone meet up, and drove to Pebble Beach for some fun in the sun, playing miniature golf. There was quite abit of people there. Half of the people were practicing their golf swing on one side of the course, and the another half were playing miniature golf. The miniature golf had 18 golf courses section. We had to followed the order of the sequence. We were behind this slow group. Half the time, we ended up sitting on the bench, talking, and waiting for 5-7minutes for them to finished so we can go. We were there for about at an hour. It was 3:05pm when we finished. After, we went to DQ for some blizzard, and dipped ice cream cone...I like the dipped chocolate on the ice cream, especially when it's hard and crunchy... Around 6pm, we went for dinner at Montana. There seem to be lots of people there having their birthday. One of the embarassing birthday ritual there is that, the waitresses or waiters hit bring a big elk horn shaped hat for you to wear on the head. They would bring a slice of cake with candle, and then ring a bell to get everyone attention, and tell everyone that someone (name) has a birthday, and became to serenade you with a birthday song while putting a big, elk horn on your head. We were planning on letting the waitress that it was Helda's birthday...hehe, but she threatened us, so we didn't. Once dinner was done, we sat around restaurant benches just to let our food digest, and talk. Around 7:05, we went to Sunridge Spectrum to catch Snakes on the Plane. Eh, I didnt realize that every part of a person's anatomy were bitten by the snakes. It was funny. Before going, I thought the movie was pretty lame, but it was pretty amusing to watch, even though the plot was kinda lacking.