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I went to my parents house for the first time in quite a while yesterday. I had a really good time, and it was nice to see them again. Honestly, I know I should visit them more often, but I just hate driving over 520. It’s such a long trip, and there’s ALWAYS traffic!

Anyway, while I was there my dad took me out to my favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch, Louie’s Cuisine of China. It’s right off 15th by the Ballard Bridge. If you haven’t been there, I highly recommend. As with most Chinese restaurants the luncheon specials are very affordable. As always, the food was excellent, however, I do have on complaint. For the first time ever, I had a Hispanic waiter serve us at our table (that wasn’t the problem!); when he came up to the table he started talking to us in SPANISH. Anyway, I suppose it’s not a big deal, I just found out very awkward.

Here are some pictures of the food:

A few nights ago, Gary and Jonathan Shen came to my house to play some Mario Strikers for the Wii. I thought it would be a good idea to unlock some new characters, so we decided to play domination mode. Since we had 3 people, we all played co-op on the same team.

What a learning experience that was…So, we had 3 people all going for the ball each time, and leaving the computer players open. This means that anytime a special ability was used against us, it would hit all three of us at the same time! The worst being Diddy Kong’s Red Card ability which took all 3 of us off the field at the same time!

Long story short, we dominated the “regular season” schedule, then got owned in the playoffs…several times. Each time we lost, we’d come back with a new resolve, and play better than ever–then continue to lose in the playoffs, especially to Diddy who absolutely dominated us. After 3 hrs and 55 mins of playing, we had Diddy tied at 1-1 in a best of 3 series. With less than 30 seconds left in game rubber match of the series we had a 2 goal lead. One megastrike goal from Diddy and the game was tied (Thanks for playing left handed Shen!). We went into sudden death, and were assaulting their goal non-stop, and took about 5 consecutive shots, the ball rolls slightly over the half-way line, a Hammer Bro. from the other team runs and hits the ball and it goes in–we lost.

That’s right, 4 straight hours of Mario Strikers and we couldn’t even unlock Diddy. However, all was not lost for the night, we had some pizza from Jet City, and had a blast playing. Thanks for coming over guys.