13th May 07 - Walmart/Short Pump

3rd road trip was made to this really huge supermarket, and this supposedly hyped up shopping mall.

before we left on the road trip...




i'll miss this place.
it's cheap (we pay only USD30 per week) and has free breakfast every morning.
you'll have ur own private toilet, and a huge king-sized bed all to urself.
not to mention the decor of the room is actually really nice. =)

headed to Wendy's for a simple lunch, coz we vowed to try all the cheap restaurants near our hotel before we move to the hostel.




it's basically juz like Burger King, but i got to say their burgers do have a certain standard to them, it's definitely nicer than any of the burgers sold at any Singapore fast-food (mebbe except for the MOS burger seafood burger! nothing can beat that hee...)

i like the steak burger, and it's really cheap. when u've been in USA for this long, and looked at the price on every possible food item available here, u'll realise that any food that you can get for USD3 is considered cheap.


and on to COLDSTONE, which as Erin (our international coordinator) puts, it's the best best BEST ice-cream you can ever get.

it's supa good k!!!! tho secretly i still prefer venezuiz (damn! how do u spell that word!), becoz i love the yoghurty kinda texture in ice-cream. but in COLDSTONE, they put so much delicious junk in that cones, u can't resist.

and they've got cheese delight!!!!! wah lao, i see the name high already, it's superb lar, i love cheese and anything to do with cheese! haha...



needless to say, we stopped there for PRETTY long.
they've got the diff kinds of creations and it's really interesting, nothing i've seen before.
we bought all the diff kinds of creations and juz sampled this and that, it's supa fun except that i suspect the stomachache i've later in the nite has something to do with this. haha...




the bad thing abt having a car is u seriously would stop at every single shop you see along the way, becoz u noe u'll be able to travel quickly after so to wherever u wanna go. we saw this really huge BORDERS.



oh by the way, the books here are really expensive.
before i came to USA, i bought 2 Jodi Picoult books for like S$14 each. when i saw borders here i was really excited coz i assumed spore import books fr USA and europe and so they'll sell them cheaper here rite?!?!

Wrong.

it was like USD20 each which is totally absurd.

and then we passed by this comic shop, which drove all the guys crazy. seriously. give them a toy shop or comic shop, and they can spend more time in it den any ger can in a clothes shop.




and Walmart!!!!!
it's juz this really famous supermarket (and huge) in Richmond which everyone keeps tokin abt, but it was no big deal.
it's juz like GIANT, in fact i think it's a tad smaller than GIANT. it looks bigger coz GIANT goes vertically up, but this is like horizontally constructed. but to give them credit, they seriously sell every single shit u can think of inside.




inside Walmart...




mainly, we did more fooling ard inside den grocery shopping haha...
and les was damn high when he saw the ben&jerrys haha... we each bought a tub, yes it was really cheap, and we had discounts.

and the peanuts shirt is so cute! it's onli USD5! and the reason why i bought it was becoz it's under the kids section. yes, in USA u can seriously where their "KIDS" clothes.



the guys forced me to do that. i felt really stoopid lar, but they were deriving helluva joy fr pointing their cameras at me and snapping away.



half a day was gone, and we finally reached Short Pump haha...
i love road trips! have i said that alr!?!? =)




we finally managed to get some group photos, with EVERYONE inside.




basically Short Pump sells those branded goods and is really huge. one thing i love abt shopping in USA is the way their shops are constructed. everything's horizontal and even if it goes vertical, it will go to at most 2 storeys high. it's really nice.

sometimes u wonder wat the architects (no offence, any architecture students who're reading this!) in spore are doing, becoz u go to other ctys and u see really magnificent buildings that make u go wow in amazement or speechless in awe.

and even the shopping malls here look really nice.
i love Short Pump, mainly for the Victoria's Secrets here and the Abercrombie and Fitch.

wahlao Victoria's Secrets here is damn damn FREAKING cheap. if u think buying online is really cheap, u'll go wild here. i've been to Victoria's secrets 3 times alr, and every single time i go there i buy something. -_-'''



and the guys took really stoopid photos, u wonder if they juz walked ard or if they really did shop.






we were waiting for jiet ling, qiyan and joanna to meet us for dinner, so we kinda photowhored a little bit, with yew lee pretending to be some professional photographer ahah....