I had a great weekend.
Saturday morning was a lazy one (as it should be!), blue skies and cool air...got hot in the afternoon, but the morning was just right! Had coffee and croissants for breakfast. Michael's favorite breakfast! I always buy home croissants on friday night, so we can have coffee and croissants for saturday's breakfast!

We paid off our tickets to the Philippines! I'm so exicited about going there! Beaches, tropical fruit, snorkeling, lazy days... Bring on August!!

My cheap cute pink shoes were hurting my feet that day, so I bought some 'practical' leather sandals, that are very soft and comfortable, but they do look so practical. Then, coz I started looking at sandals, I bought another pair of cute ones, with jewels on it, but I wore it yesterday and they hurt my feet...

Sunday, I went shopping with Maggie and Kim. It was raining, so the traffic was really bad. Our bus took us one and a half hours to get to Kuzuha Mall, whereas it was only supposed to take 40 minutes.
We were so hungry when we got there! Kim got really grumpy and cantankerous! (apparently she always does when she's hungry...) And also, we wanted to eat at this really flash Italian restaurant called Sabatini, but there was a waiting list. So, we wrote our names on the list, and asked the lady how long she thought it would take till 'our turn', but she was really rude and didn't tell us, and so I crossed our names off the list (I hate bad service!) but then Kim wanted to eat there, so Maggie wrote our names back on the list. (It still looked crossed out though...) We thought it might take about half an hour till it was our turn, so we did a little shopping first. When we came back to the restaurant, not only had our turn gone past, but they had totally crossed us out, and 5 other people were now waiting ahead of us!! Talk about fustrating! Anyway, we wrote our names down (Again!!) and this time we waited at the door. It only took about 15 minutes for them to call us in. And it was worth the wait. The spagetti was Al Dente, the Parmesan cheese on top was fresh and smelled so good, the coffee was perfect, not burned or bitter, and the cake...it melted in my mouth. I tried Gelato for the first time. It was yummy, but tasted like icy icecream. According to Maggie, that's not what real Italian Gelato tastes like, the real stuff is creamier, but feels light going down your throat. Can't wait to try the real stuff next year!

Maggie was also pretty impressed with the toilets there, that opened the seat cover automatically when you walk in, and then sprays disinfectant automatically, and plays music to mask any 'noise' and flushes and closes itself automatically too. Haha. She came out and said, "Guys, you HAVE to try the toilets before we leave!!"

We didn't buy much...I bought Ruth's birthday present, and a Cosmo (yeah, it's trash, but it's fun reading), and a headband. Kim bought farewell Omiyage, and Maggie bought nothing!

Later that night, I met back up with Michael for dinner. I ate Italian for the second time that day! We tried a restaurant in our town that we'd never tried before. It was called Pinocchio's, with pretty average pasta and pretty absorbitant prices. Hey, I did try a shot of espresso there, which I'd never tried before! Usually a shot of espresso is too strong and too bitter, and people don't know how to do it perfectly, but this one was perfect. Michael's was burned though.

So, this weekend, I've tried 2 new Restaurants, and 2 new foods. Gelato and a shot of espresso coffee.