F for food!

Did everyone like my post yesterday?? E for empty!! hahahahahaha

Okay, anyways.. today is going to be F for Food. I went to Tysons Corner Mall today (located in Mclean, Virginia) and I ate at this cute/cool little place called Wasabi. It is a conveyor belt sushi bar restaurant located right in the middle of the mall between two escalators so if you don't mind being stared at then I would recommend eating here!

View from the second floor. Picture taken from Yelp.

However, my sister says that Wasabi is okay some days and better other days. She tells me that at night, the chefs will make the same dishes and put out less new types of sushi. She knows more about this place as she goes there often and I've eaten there about five times but I also don't go to Tysons Corner regularly so five times is more than enough for me for now.

My sister and I went there to eat today. We only had about two plates each and then shared one together. Each of our plates had about 6 pieces on it so we were really full from that.

Our meal cost $22! So basically $11 each. Not bad at all.

Tower of Sushi

Our chef in front of us.

After sushi, we walked around the mall. Then as we were leaving we grabbed some cupcakes from Cakelove. We got 4 cupcakes for $13 altogether.

My tummy is satisfied.

D.C.

9:30 PM.
I can't believe I start my blogs so late. I'm really tired so I don't know how enthused I will be right now.

Throughout the day, I had no idea what I would write about. I wasn't so planned with this ABC thing as I thought I would be. Thank the heavens though, my uncle decided to take me and my cousins on an impromptu trip to DC. We go there often for no reason but to walk around the museums.

People probably recognize DC with museums and the government but there's actually a little bit more to that. There's a little area called Georgetown which is like a fashion district. It has Betsey Johnson, Anthropologie, H&M, United Colors of Bennetton, Pinkberry and a bunch of other pretty expensive shops. There is not many cheap places there... I do know there is a 'Vintage Boutique' but I've never been in yet so not totally sure of the prices in there. Anyways, Georgetown is by the Potomac River, there's a really nice walking area/park by it so it can be a very good place to have a cutesy date. The roads in Georgetown are almost always soooo busy and it can be very hard to find parking so if you can, it'll probably be best to take the metro.

Wednesday afternoon, around 5 PM. A lot busier than this pic implies.

I absolutely love Georgetown, I just wish I had more money to shop there comfortably. They had a very cute asian store, 'Lil Thingamajigs' but I guess they didn't get a lot of business because now it's shut down. I missed out on the closing sale too. :(
We also walked around the museum area in DC. Only going to post the nicest pictures.

Not a great post but at least I got something for today! Okay, now going to get ready for bed!! :)

C my Crafts!

Haha I so silly :X
Anyways, another late post but I've been cleaning all day and packing. I'm moving into a new place in two weeks & I decided to pack up some things today.
After packing, I decided to think about how I was going to decorate everything... I have so many anime prints from conventions that I want to hang up but my bf isn't as into all of the anime pics I have. I have about 9 different pieces of art work I want to hang up, more than half of them anime-ish. I also want to get frames for each of them to make our place look more organized & grown-up-ish instead of the old 'I'll-just-tape-my-pics-up' job.
I also have some hello kitty pics I got from an old calendar. I cut up the parts that had the month on it and I'm planning on framing it to add to our wall. I'm starting to get worried about how much these frames will cost. :0 I hope I can find some in goodwill or thrift stores!
I've also decided to make one of those 'keep calm and...' pieces. I cut up a cereal box & painted that. Then I'm going to make a stencil out of the words & paint it on top of the box. I'm very excited to see how it will turn out but I've put so much layers on the box and it's still not great. u_u I have a lo more painting to do.
Oh! And last project is painting the edges of a mirror. My dad keeps telling me I should've bought spray paint but I already had a lot of paint at home that I didn't realize. :X i have to buy a red though to finish it.
So many projects!!!! I really hope I find cheap frames because I don't want to spend too much! I'll also be putting up pictures tomorrow... My laptop is downstairs and there are people downstairs that I don't want to see. Hopefully I get it down as soon as I can in the morning!! :)

B for Book Sales!

It is currently 8:50 PM as I'm typing this! Now I know I should've done this sooner but I kept flip-flopping my thoughts as to whether this is what I wanted to blog about but HERE I GO!

As you can see, B IS FOR BOOK SALES!!!!!!!!!!
In Arlington County, northern VA county 10 - 15 min away from DC, they hold two book sales a year at the Central Library which is their big main library. I never knew that they held book sales until last year ( which was around October 20 - 23) when I just happened to go to the library to return a book. Thank God I brought my wallet with me to the library or else I would have missed out on such awesome deals!!

The book sale last year was huge! It was def hard to find stuff because so many people were around and looking too but the things I did grab definitely made my day.

Now that's Yu Yu Hakusho volume 1 & 2, Harry Potter 1 - 2 & 6 - 7.

Those were the prices of the books. The green one has a $2 price sticker and the red one has a $3 price sticker. Now, I don't know if you noticed but those were the hard copies of the Harry Potter books!!!! $5 for the last two books! Greatest steal of my life!

They had a lot of things at the book sale. Lots of kids books, reference books, travel books, cookbooks, old DVD's and games. Not too much manga but okay enough. The next book sale is happening April 12 - 15th. Maybe I'll do a double post for that day; one about my letter of the day and the next about my book haul. :)

Have you gone used book hunting lately?? What have you grabbed?

First Day! All About Art

Good afternoon!
Today starts the A to Z blogging challenge!! I'm very excited and nervous to start this blogging journey. Excited because I'll have done so many blog entries by the end of the month and nervous because what if I can't find anything to write about on a certain letter? Like X or Q?!?!?!

Andrew and I on the metro

Anyways, I'm going to start the letter A with my adventure at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Now this adventure started on March 17th so I'm like two weeks late about writing it but I wanted to save this post for this date. Now on March 16th, the video game exhibit officially opened up to the public and it's open until September 30th. The first three days of the exhibit had video games you could play with in the courtyard, an 'interactive video game', some arts and crafts where you make pixel works of either Mario or the Pixel Mario flower and then they also had a photoshoot area.

One of the arts and crafts tables.

The interactive real life video game. Can't tell but the guys in green are throwing balls at a little girl and she has to dodge them.

In this part the little girl has to jump over these stick things.

 Then we head up to the 3rd floor where the actual exhibit was being held.

Telling the player about the controls.

Now, I kind of expected more out of the exhibit. I thought there was going to be an actual display with 80 of the greatest video games but I did not see any mention of that. The exhibit is also pretty small so I wouldn't fly in from California just to see it. If you live in the area, it's worth checking out because it's free but if you don't then don't bother making trip because it's not too interactive and not too much information/art on video games.