Meli's Birthday

I had mentioned before that June 13th was Meli's birthday, and as tradition (since last year) we decided to go to the United States for lunch. Why? Because we can have lunch in Canada any time, thus to make it more interesting, we go to USA. We started the day with Damien picking me up at 10:00 a.m. and then proceeded to get Os and Meli. Then as usual, we ordered Starbucks drinks (Grande Soy no foam no whip White Mocha~ yum). As we were at the gas station to fill the tank to make our way to the border, the day started with a good laugh. An elderly man was driving a car with the license plate NVRBL8 (never be late for those who don't get it), yet he took his sweet time walking. Very cute in my opinion.

License plate @ Petro Canada

Normally it would take us an hour and a half to two hours to get to our destination, however, we got to Chili's (which is where we decided to have lunch) at around 3:00 p.m.! We got caught up for a bit at the border since Meli had to go into the office to get a permit to cross the border and as Os, Damien and I were waiting in the reception area, turns out she was having a conversation of a lifetime with the immigration officer! (she will give ALL the details later). Yes, after many detours and our VERY reliable GPS "Higa" taking us to unknown places, we finally made it.

Chili's @ New York State

Excited about lunch, we got the menus and as usual, Damien wanted to order about everything there was. Os and Damien had "mango ice tea" (oh United States, you always come up with these things). Meli had a root beer and I ordered a Sprite. While having our drinks, we finally came to the conclusion as to what we would order. The food was quite enjoyable and the conversation as well. We always talk about the most random things and get lost in it. Lunch was going great until the manager approached us and said a customer had complained that we were "loud", and so very politely he asked us to lower our voices. This made us a bit upset considering we were actually using a very moderate volume of voice (even if Os is a loud mouth at times) and that the waitresses were yelling and making a lot more noise. Not to be disrespectful to any one out there, but if you want quiet, go to a library - we were at a bar grill house, and in Toronto, that equals loud.

Top left - Shrimp Tacos
Top right and bottom left - Three style fajita platter
Bottom right - Triple thick bacon smokehouse burger

Damien having a double special -
back ribs and a 6oz. steak with mashed potatoes and broccoli

The upsetting part wasn't being told to lower our voices, but the fact that the "customer" who complained had to ask the manager to tell us. We would gladly lower our voice if that person came to us and asked us to do so; putting the manager in such a position even made him uncomfortable. So we ended our lunch in an almost sour note... not as sour as the cream that splashed all over Damien!

Cheesecake Factory

We headed to our usual last stop before coming back to Canada, Cheesecake Factory! We went to Forever 21 and did some shopping before going into Cheesecake Factory. We usually get three pieces of cake each, but this time we were good children and only ordered an average of two per person.

Os happily carrying his three pieces of cake

Damien and more cake!

Happy at the end of our little trip~ We head back to Canada with enough cake for... maybe a few hours. We wanted to go for sushi originally fr dinner, however, lunch was still sitting there... so we decided to go for bubbletea! We got back to Toronto at around 8:30 p.m. and went to Green Grove to end our day with three honey green teas and a passion fruit green tea while playing Monopoly Deal! Meli and Os will give you more details... maybe~ I am out now, I've been running on three hours of sleep in the last few days - So... thanks for reading! Have a good day!

- Rin
June 14th, 2012

Well, Rin, not sure I can add much onto that since you were pretty thorough about everything.  


I guess the only thing she didn't really explain is the sour cream fiasco haha.  At the end of our meal at Chili's, a waitress walking by dropped a small bowl of sour cream.  It exploded, leaving Damien covered, me with a few spots, and sour cream more than 6 feet up the wall behind us.  Damien went off to the restroom to clean up and the poor waitress was half-traumatized, her co-worker apologizing to us at LEAST 10 times, worrying that Damien might not be alright.  We told them it was all ok, in between gasps from laughing so hard.  Personally, I'd recommend the Chili's we went to, if I actually knew where Higa ended up taking us...


That's another thing.  Higa is our GPS, like Rin said.  Always creating... interesting routes for us to take when going places.  To me, Higa is like family, always there to give us some laughs.  Whether she's telling us to turn into a fenced off area of grass, or to travel in 4 directions at once, we know we can depend on her to be undependable, and I love it haha  Meli however insists on replacing her for Christmas this year :(
That's about all I can add, other than it was a great day with my best friends.


Happy Birthday Meli!

- Os

June 14th, 2012