Yesterday morning, we met at the usual place. Again, it was a last-minute decision. In the first place, we were supposed to go to the Macross Convention in UCLA. But the night before I change my mind because I looked at the schedule and there wasn’t anything interesting going on. So when Andy called me up, he invited me to go to the auto show with them. I gave in and said okay. So anyway, the plan was to leave at eight o’clock in the morning so we can have an early start. But at least we were able to leave around nine. Since I plan to go to the auto show is so wishy-washy, I wound up driving.

Luckily, the trip to Anaheim was pretty smooth. There was no traffic at all the way there. Even on the way to the convention center, going through the convention center streets was pretty easy. Since I paid for the gas, Andy and Tim took care of the parking fee and my entrance fee. On the way to the entrance, it was how it was like two years ago when we last went to the auto show. So we got our tickets and we enter the convention center. As soon as we entered, we started looking at the Honda cars that were right after the entrance. While looking around, we decided to take a clockwise route around the convention center so could see everything in some kind of order. But that didn’t work out because we started going just about everywhere, zigzagging through the convention, and seeing everything that we could see.



I was thinking around 11 o’clock, we should go eat lunch because around one o’clock there was going to be a bikini show. But as we looked around some more at some of the cars, we lost track of time and before we know it, it was almost one. The bikini show was supposed to start. When we got to the stage, there were a lot of people around the stage so was hard to get a good view. Before the contest started, I was looking around to see what else was going on. And to the right of the stage, there were the lingerie league girls. After little bit, the bikini show started. When the girls were brought to the stage, they weren’t in bikinis after all. They were actually in dresses. We all felt like we were gypped. In the program, it was going to be a bikini contest.

As the girls were introduced on stage, Andy and I were trying to take pictures of the girls. There was one problem though. In front of us, near the stage, there was a douche that had a huge flash coming out of this camera and was blocking our view of the stage and the girls. Of course it was upsetting, but what can we do. We tried our best with what we could do with the cameras. This time around, Tim brought his his SLR camera with us. Since I was tall, I was one that used the SLR to try to take pictures of the girls coming out. It was supposed to be an automatic camera, but it didn’t respond as quickly as I thought it would. There were times when I couldn’t take the pictures I wanted because of the two second delay. But at least Andy was there as a backup photographer. By the way, this time around I actually forgot to bring my own camera. But that’s cool, at least we had two cameras with us and in the meantime I was taking pictures with my phone.

When the contest ended, Tim and Susan were trying to find a place it down because they were tired. Andy and I stuck around for little while to see what was going on. And while we were hanging around the stage area, I took a picture with the WWF wrestler, Chyna. By this time, the crowd was already dissipating so we decided to leave two. It was already around two o’clock and I actually forgot about lunch. So I told Andy and we should call Tim and Susan so that we could go eat together. When we got hold them on the phone, we told them to meet us at the entrance of the auto show.

From we were at from the convention center, it was a pretty short walk to Tiffy’s restaurant down the street on the corner of Katella and West. The last time I was at Tiffy’s was when Tiarra’s cousins from St. Louis came over on a visit. I believe this was the first time Tim, Andy and Susan actually went to this restaurant with me. In the past, I was either with Adrian or Lawrence, Vick and Jason. Since the Jolly Roger on the other street corner closed, this was only decent restaurant within walking distance. I guess this was first time they went to this restaurant, because everybody was amazed at how good the restaurant looked. After we ate lunch, we made it back to the convention center. At this time, we took the other way around. It was a usual way back to the convention center. The front side. By going this way, there was a lot of shade along the sidewalk, unlike on West Street which where he came from.



So when we went back to the convention floor, we entered through the “back side” of the convention center. We went straight into the Ford area. While we were looking around, we met up with Andy’s friend. If I remember correctly, her name was Crystal. She was actually a cute looking girl. But anyway, Andy and her caught up for a little bit. After that, we started walking around some more. By this time, we were going around counterclockwise. But still in a zigzagging motion. About this time, we realized that Mitsubishi wasn’t there at the auto show. And there were also some other car companies that were also missing. One things for sure, this auto show was a lot smaller than the one from a couple years ago. But away, at least we came to the auto show today and actually had a good time. It’s better than staying home and doing nothing but watching TV all day. It was late afternoon and we made it to the other side of the convention center again to where Tim and Susan bought sunglasses. Andy wanted to buy some sunglasses too, so he was looking around. But this time, we were there for a really, really, long time looking at sunglasses. I felt like I was in a department store waiting for someone to finish shopping. Oh well!



It was already late afternoon and we saw what all there was to see in the convention center, but there was actually one thing that we were going to do before we go. It was to test drive some of the cars. So on the way out, we went over to the Toyota place to test out the cars. I didn’t actually test the cars, but Andy, Tim and Susan went ahead and signed up to test the cars. So while they were testing the cars, for about an hour, I was waiting for them and wondering around looking at the Ford cars and walking in and out of the convention center. Thankfully, around this time of the day, it was actually cooling down so it became bearable to stay outside. When they were finished, he called the day and went home.