Fiesta Asia 2012

It's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
On May 19th, there was a street festival in DC. Fiesta Asia 2012 was back.

Now, I didn't go to the Sakura Matsuri Festival last month or so but last year I did go. The Sakura Matsuri festival had many things Japan like food, performances, and products. I loved the festival last year because it was probably like a mini Japanese convention. I bought a bunch of things that can be found on my old blog. Click here if you'd like to see. :)

Anyways, Fiesta Asia was simply a food festival. There were some items to buy but the main thing to buy was food. They had food from cool Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Korea and others. I had the pamphlet but my sister gave it to my uncle.

I didn't stay long because I wasn't really interested in the festivities. I was kind of hoping it would be livelier like the Sakura Matsuri festival.

Here are some pictures though.

I wish I had taken more pictures of performances or of the stands that weren't selling food but like I said, I wasn't all too interested in the festival so I guess that's why I didn't take out of camera too much.

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!! :)

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.