Assalamu'alaikum....

Yesterday Angela took me to Detroit after letting me shop at 12 Oaks for about 2 hours. As I got out of the car, sh told "Don't you go buying anything now, get some nice lunch". My response... "Are you kidding?". I haven't had a shopping mall all to myself for quite a few months now. Since I only 2 hours, I basically had to do sme power shopping, the same technique I use whenever I'm in a new mall: just walk around and do a on-over, take mental notes of which shops you might want to come back to, put a fast upbeat song on your CD (or iPod), and start shopping. The one-over is extremely important, basically cuts your shopping time in half 'cause if you know you can't afford Ann Taylor and J Crew dresses, and they are at one end of the mall next to Lord and Taylor, then stay the heck away from that part of the mall. I ended up with quite a few bargain: a couple of tops from the buy-1-get-1-free rack in Weat Seal; discounted cami, t-shirt and cardigan from Express (further discounted 15% because I opened a new account which I immediately payed off); and some earring from Claires (buy-2-get-1-free). LoL. The one thing that I wish I could've bought was this wide armed ringed knit top from Bebe that is just so New York summer fabulous.... unfortunately it costs 59 bucks sans taxes and it was also not on sale. Damn . That top was cute, and it so goes with everything 'cause I can wear a cami under it when I wanna be more sexy, and I can wear a fitted long-tee under it if I wanna be more demure. I also gotten myself some TCBY ice-cream, which I promptly threw away after finishing less than a quarter of it. Just couldn't down it all.

Afterward, we headed to Detroit to do some sight-seeing. It was pretty awesome, considering that before this, my only views of Detroit came from either a plane window or a Greyhound bus window. It was really, really a city, where there are a lot of tall buildings and everyone drives like a maniac (truly a motor city). We went down Woodward, which separates the east and the west part of Detroit, and we went down Jefferson where all the kids were hanging out ( I told Angela, everyone seems to wear things that are either too baggy or too small). We saw the Comerica Stadium where they had a baseball game going on and we could see all of the people sitting on the bleachers. We saw a lot of the things that I only saw on TV before: Fox Theatre, Fischer Theatre, Detroit Opera House, Detroit Institute of Arts, Henry Ford Medical Center, Hart Plaza (where they hold a lot of events and concerts), the building where Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick holds office, the football stadium, Greektown Casino, MGM Grand, a church next to MGM Grand so that all the gamblers can pray for their sins after losing all their money at the MGM Grand (heheheh)..... my fingers are numb from typing too fast. Let's just say we say a lot of buildings. Hang on.

Okay.. moving on. There were also this big giant statue of a guy, who is now wearing a Pistons jersey. Go Pistons! In fact, there are quite a few artwork on display in the city (I myself can't really create art, but I just love looking at them). My favorite would be the itty-bitty cars that they have on display in random parts of the city. Angela grew up in Detroit, so I got a nice history lesson too along the way. It's pretty cool, I didn't realize that Detroit was quite that old. I was pretty impressed. They also had a lot of construction going on to get ready for next year's Superbowl. Every corner we turned, there was some sort of a building coming up. Ergo, traffic was pretty bad, especially down Jefferson. Kids were even coming out of their cars and dancing in the street 'cause of the traffic. It just tickles me silly looking at all of these young girls walking down in packs, looking like they think they "all that", heheh. I mean, I do it whenever I'm alone just because of self-preservation, people are more likely to bother you if you look scared and you're female, but I never feel a need for that when I'm with friends, and I certainly don't do it with my gut hanging out and half of my ass trying to burst out of a lycra skirt begging to be freed. Angela's not loving the young ones' outfit either.

Afterwards we went over to Angela's mom, Bernice's house to say hi and take in a pitt stop, before going over to Eric's place (he's Angela's fiancee) to also say hi. Then it was off to Angela's house to feed her 4 kids (they're really cute) and me going home afterwards... with a bucket of KFC and two bags filled with new clothes (harta2 rampasan, hehehe). All in all, it was a good, good day.

And now I hafta bust my ass writing this atrocious dance paper. That's what you get when you spend spring taking ballet and doing grand battements, tendues and plies in class 2 times a week for 1-1/2 hours. Ouchie. Well at least I now have ballet slippers... so cute.

Wassalam....