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I’ve been watching the winter olympics…picking and choosing which events to tivo like the men’s short track and women’s figure skating. I must say, like all of the koreans, kim yuna is so amazingly graceful on the ice. She makes ice skating look like a piece of cake. While I was watching the finale for the women’s figure skating, I was so nervous her.  I would clench my teeth every time she did a jump. I was very proud she won the gold. I watched her performance 3x! I cried the first two and got teary eyed the third time. I’m such a wuss ><

My fellow food loving friend and I have been wanting to try dim sum for a while now.  However, we did not have the confidence to go sans a mandarin/cantonese speaking-dim sum experienced eating friend.  So, we asked our sweet friend J. Very glad we went together.  We went to New Capital Seafood in San Gabriel and upon arrival at a very early 10:30 a.m. on a Sunday, I walk into a very large crowd of people waiting in a fairly small waiting room with a loud microphone and a lady yelling out reservation numbers in multiple languages.  I felt like I was at an auction.  You can’t hear yourself talk, can’t really move.  All you can do is stand next to the lady with the microphone, if you’re not there to respond with your number she’s already moved on to the next number.  After our number was called, we walk out of the small waiting area into a huge dining hall filled with more people.  It was quite an experience….almost overwhelming.  The food was really tasty…so many different things to eat.  Some of it looked good and some looked interesting.  We had 1000 year old egg porridge, turnip cake, shu mai, rice rolls, chinese broccoli, many different type of dumplings just to name a few.  It was delicious!  Can’t wait to go back…with J of course.  Food was very inexpensive and service was good.  Sorry for the lack of pictures…too busy eating!

We celebrated S’s birthday with just us girls, on our well deserved president’s day holiday.  The birthday girl wanted breakfast so we headed over to Marston’s (happy to have found out they served breakfast til 2pm that day)  We had a delicious meal. The birthday girl couldn’t decide what to order…pancakes, french toast, eggs….or all? I think she would’ve if she could   I really like their french toast but I ordered an omelette.  They aren’t my favorite breakfast foods but I was drawn to the fact that it had avocados.  I love avocados.  So after breakfast we headed over to my favorite nail salon in Pasadena and called it a day.  Happy Birthday S!

Seems like every other day is somebody’s birthday this month.  Monday was Angela’s, Wednesday was Sarah’s (celebration to follow) and Today is Amy’s!! Happy Birthday my dear friend!!  Time flies way too fast!