To LA/Seattle and Back

Last weekend, we flew down to LA to pick up Edwin's old bed, dresser, and BBQ from his mom's house. At least that was the plan. We were going to pick them up from his mom's garage and then drive them back. The dresser and BBQ made it back, but the mattress is another story. The mattress has been in the garage for the last 5 years and while it was wrapped in plastic, a rat decided to make it his home. You'd be surprised how hard it is to get rid of an old mattress. The dump charges $70. I mean, shouldn't the dump accept everything for free? I mean, isn't that the definition of a dump? They receive all the junk that no one wants?

Well, I should start from the beginning of the weekend. We were flying on Southwest on Friday flight at 5:30PM. We're on the plane, but then for some reason we were sitting at the gate for an extended time. They finally made an announcement saying that someone on the plane was feeling ill and that they were waiting for a paramedic to determine if the passenger would be able to fly. Now, it's not that I didn't care about this passenger, but why didn't they just put this passenger on a later flight so that the rest of the passengers wouldn't be delayed? The person behind gave me one plausible answer, but I'm not sure that I liked their theory- maybe this person is contagious and they didn't want to risk exposing others beyond the people on the plane. So an hour and a half later, we are on our way to LA.

After we arrived, we had dinner with George and then went to see a movie called Cloverfield. It's a post-apocalyptic thriller that was directed by JJ Abrams. He's the same guy that created Alias and Heroes, so I thought it would be entertaining. Unfortunately, the cinematography was so shaky that I couldn't watch 90% of the film. I get motion sickness pretty easily. I just thought that it might be one of those films where it was shaky for part of the film, but it was literally the entire film. Don't they make videocameras with stabilizers nowadays? I managed to actually be in the theatre for most of the movie, but I did have to fight the nausea at the end. Note to self- no more movies that have crappy cinematography.

On Saturday, we had lunch with my grandparents, George, and Edwin's mom. We picked up the truck from Budget (since we hate U-Haul) and then packed the truck. We had dinner with Binh and then she took us to a new Indian ice cream place called Saffron Spot. Now, most of you know that I'm not a fan of Indian food, but she was also the one that introduced me to Pinkberry, so who am I to argue? It was in an Indian Plaza near Cerritos- Sujay's hometown. I still am not a fan of Indian food, but ice cream is hard to turn down.

On Sunday, we drove back in the rain. It was pretty uneventful, but we were happy that it only took about 6.5 hours given that the truck had a governor that basically capped our speed at 70mph. Monday morning, I flew up to Seattle for work. After my meetings, I stopped by Edwin's cousins' house in Issaquah. This house was huge. They just moved from San Bruno and they moved into a newly constructed house. It was about 5000 sq ft. 5000! That's like a mansion! Especially since our house is only 1237 sq ft. Their house is 4x the size of ours. I'm not saying that I want that much space, because my second thought is "how do you keep a house that big clean?" We have enough trouble cleaning our small house.

We had a maid service in the apartment right before we bought the house and I do miss it. The funny this is that I think it kept our apartment more clean because we would clean the apartment before the maid service would come because we didn't want them to think that we were slobs and because while they would clean, they wouldn't organize our things or put them back where they belonged. I used to think it was strange to hear about people cleaning before the maid service came, but I totally get it now.

Anyway, it was great to catch up with those guys. This weekend, we are attending a wedding and attending to house stuff.