Saturday morning, Denise and I met up with our Japanese professor from CCCC for brunch at Tony's Cafe in Plano.  I got the Vegetarian Benedict.  I'd never had Eggs Benedict before, which surprised Scott-sensei, and it was pretty good.  Tomato and avocado instead of ham. 

I had almost forgotten how easy it is for vegetarians in the US.  That is, compared to Japan.  It's nice to see the word vegetarian on a menu.  Like last night, Davey and I went to PF Chang's and they had an entire page of vegetarian food even though it's a chain.  And there's this Thai restaurant near Eric that has a vegan buffet one Sunday a month.  We were supposed to go but something got in the way.  But we got dinner there right before he left for Japan--split vegan ham fried rice with pineapple.  Awesome. 

Speaking of restaurants, my dad and I took his friend to an Indian restaurant we found out about at The Taste of Garland.  It's called Indian Garden--really nice inside.  I want to try all of their desserts!  I got Orange Kulfi -- Authentic Indian Ice Cream with cashew nuts, pistachio, almonds and flavored with saffron and
cardamom served in frozen orange peel boats.  I want to try Gulab Jamun next time.

Sunday, Alicia and I went to the Thai New Year Festival in Dallas.  I didn't bring my camera to it because I was worried about it getting wet.  Alicia had a raincoat so she was able to take pictures. 

Alicia and me before entering.

Alex and Donna’s wedding on Leap Day was beautiful--the weather was perfect. I’m so happy for them! Donna looked like a model.

Pictures are here: http://hal.exposuremanager.com/g/donna_and_alex
EDIT: The first gallery, Donna's Bridal is private but all the other galleries are public.

This one makes me laugh:

Looks like Denise is taking drugs, I'm wary of everyone, and the guy next to Merrit just had an epiphany. 
Denise thinks the guy looks like something else--can't remember what she said though.

Reception was at the Lakewood Theater.  They had photographers take pictures of the guests and print out some of the shots, which was crazy fun.

Here are the ones that they gave us:

I swear I didn’t do anything naughty!

Eric, Denise, and Eli.  I hate how scanned pictures turn out.



I had no idea he was going to take a picture of just me and right up in my face.  I like the print he gave me better than the one on his website.  And I’m not wearing colored contacts.

More shots are here, here, and here.   

It was great to see a lot of friends I hadn’t seen since the summer. 

I managed to do a fashion show even though I was getting over the flu! I don't have any real pictures yet but here are a few shots from my or Chanaw's cell phone.

What the collar looked for the runway.

Before I changed into the dress:

Wouldn't it be scary if that were my everyday makeup?!

The designers and models for our line:

I was really surprised at how big the event was--it was at Zepp Osaka and supposedly, 2,000 people came! When we were waiting back backstage, Warai Meshi walked past us! Japanese celebrities! hehe

I was too exhausted for the after party so Chanaw and I went out for Mexican at Hermanos--but you know we did purikura. Don't worry, I didn't walk around Namba w/ that crazy makeup on display--I hid behind sunglasses.

  
Our makeup had already started to rub off at this point.

I'll post more pictures when I get them--hopefully there will be one of my entire dress. I'll be getting the DVD soon too.

Chanaw is back from Europe!  She brought me a bad tabloid [but what tabloid isn't bad?!] and a HUGE bar of white chocolate.  Lindnt "Swiss Premium Chocolate"

It's bigger than my face!

It kind of looks like a keyboard, which reminds me of this:

The Keyboard Waffle Iron!! [Chris Dimino]

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/my_type_of_appl.php