sunny days ahead (hopefully)!

It's finally getting a little warmer here! Hopefully this weather trend is here to stay.

In the mean time, I'm off to get some ice cream! I've got to enjoy the official start of my summer break, and gotta make the best out of what's left of this break before school starts. Cheers!

Bright Summer Nails

I'm loving bright-colored nail polishes for the summer. My favorites from left to right:

China Glaze: For Audrey

Essie: Braziliant

China Glaze: Re-fresh Mint

In the Warm California Sun!

Roomies and I took a trip down to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and had a fun time under the sun!

Exploratorium Trip!

We took a nice trip out to San Francisco to visit the Exploratorium last Thursday. The weather was quite cooperative--skies were clear, the sun was out...although it was slightly breezy. Oh well, that's the Marina District!

I hadn't been to the Exploratorium since I was a kid, so I was super excited when we decided to go. Although I didn't have as much fun this time around compared to the times I've been when I was much younger, I still enjoyed myself nonetheless!

We took the route along the Embarcadero to get back to the East Bay. It turned out to be a nightmare because of construction work. We drove ourselves to a burger place immediately after getting off the freeway because we were super hungry. We probably scarfed down those burgers in less than ten minutes (: Fun day!

Impulsive Folks at the Park

After our developmental psychology final about two weeks ago, Liana and I darted out of the classroom and as impulsive children do, we rewarded ourselves by buying tickets to a bunch of Giants games. Thursday's game was our first of three!

I was much too busy munching on my garlic fries and cheering and singing songs to take a bunch of photos. Here are a few photos from just a handful I took that night.

Highlights:

• "Tejada, why you no run fast!?!?"
• Whiteside's homerun; Timmy fist-pumping
• Drunk people dancing
• Drunk person offering us a sketchy drink in a flask
• Couple eating each others' faces on "Kiss Cam"
• WIN!

Finally feels a bit more like summer!

Dear blog,

I'm sorry I've neglected you for the past month or so. I promise it will never happen again!

Yours truly,

Crystal

There hasn't been much going on lately. The first summer school session started about a month ago and ended just last week. The class subject (childhood development) was way more interesting than I had predicted, my professor was super awesome, and I was lucky enough to take the class with one of my middle-childhood friends, Liana! I'm a tad bit disappointed that this first session of classes ended so quickly! Has it been six weeks already?

My next session starts today! I will be taking a nutritional sciences course. It looks like fascinating stuff! Let's hope I come to enjoy this class as much as my last!

On another note, I'm super stoked that it's beginning to feel a lot more like summer here in the Bay! It has definitely been sunnier and warmer out. I don't usually like to eat cooked hot food when it's warm out, so I decided to make a nice little summer salad with oranges and shrimps for dinner (: It was super yum!

Hooray for summer! Time to shave those legs and bust out those shorts!

One Week Summer Break

It's been such a long time since I've updated. I will blame this on finals and the mild viral infection/disease I contracted during finals week. Finals week was tough as always, but what made it worse was the annoying viral infection. I had a huge headache that lingered around for a few days, a nasty fever accompanied by the chills, and to top it off, a body full of red bumps and rashes that made it look as if I had the chickenpox. I felt lethargic and worn-out. It took so much willpower just to get myself to study.

Thankfully finals are now over! I headed back home to "recover" in my comfy bed and to my mom's yummy food. Mom forbid me to leave the house at the beginning of the week because I was still feeling sick and my red bumps/rashes hadn't completely cleared up. Thank goodness it was a speedy recovery and I was able to accompany my high friends to a Giants game on Friday! It was such an exciting extra innings game! The Giants won, of course! It was such a fun time hanging out with some old friends and catching up. Oh, and I got a freebie "snuggie" sweater blanket! I was thinking about posting a photo of myself modeling it, but the thing looks ridiculously hideous on me so...nevermind.

This has been my one week summer vacation before I head back to school next Monday to start summer sessions. Booo...summer school!