It's all about food again

Took Fiona and James to the Chinese restaurant at the Asian Mall for some Dim Sum. On weekends, they have carts of Dim Sum going around the tables and you can just pick your choice. We all stuffed ourselves. Yumm!!

Then we took a drive to North Davidson (NODA) and walked around and checked out some of the artsy stores. Stopped at Smelly Cat cafe for some frappes, coffee and smoothies.

For dinner, we rode the LYNX to uptown Charlotte and had some Irish food at Ri Ra's. Jason and I shared the Boxty Shepherd's pie which was some crepe + Shepherd's pie and long beans. The chips and curry was also pretty good. We cleaned our plates and proceeded upstairs for some live music but we left shortly after. I think we were all tired out.

Freebies

Jason and I took the Light Rail into uptown today to the Charlotte Convention Center. There was a Rite Aid Health and Beauty Expo. They had free coupons and samples of popular products found in Rite Aid stores, and the opportunity to see on stage and get autographs from celebrities like the Carolina Panthers’ DeAngelo Williams, Alison Sweeney from “The Biggest Loser” and “Days of Our Lives,” Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks, and Cameron Mathison from Dancing with the Stars fame and "All My Children" amongst others.
Dora and Curious George was walking around and kids were just rushing up to get pictures taken with them.

I was impressed with all the stuff that they were giving away for nothing. I felt like I was trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Here's some of the loot we brought home.


And ofcourse, Cameron Mathison was hot!


But I was really impressed that the husband was so willing and patient and game for this ordeal that I had put him through.

Doug says...

The Trumps are investigating Charlotte.

So perhaps more towers will grace the skylines here.
Not sure how I feel about that.

A whole new world

Jason and I went for a ice hockey game with his colleagues at the Bobcats Arena downtown tonight. It was actually fun watching the game live and the atmosphere of cheering crowds and people dancing in their seats made all the difference. We stopped at Cosmos for dinner before heading inside the Stadium. Very eclectic dining experience. They had tapas, a sushi bar, dim sum, Italian, Greek and even Satay on their menu. It was a bar so we all had to talk loud.

Since we live in the suburbs (or "kampung" as they call it in Malaysia), we hardly ever go into the city eventhough it's less than an hours drive. And I don't think I have ever walked the streets in uptown before. So I told Jason, "Hey, this is like New York" The people dress different. The buildings look different. The restaurants look different.

After the game, all of us went to Brixx for some food and drinks. Again, we had to talk loud because the place was noisy. We looked around us and the diners were mostly the same crazy group from the hockey game.
As we were walking to our car, many young people were just only coming in and all ready to party the night away.

We came home at midnight. I must admit I feel old.