Explorers' Spirits

So we went to buy money orders yesterday from the QFC on 90th. Probably safe now to conclude that both QFCs are good for settling rent, but since we only need to do this one more time it's not really that big a bother now, lol.

And, as though the explorer's spirits in us all have awakened, we (or rather, Ken urging, me echoing, and JW + Faiz dragged along) went around and discovered some landmarks we've previously not been aware of.

For example?

There's a board games store down the same stretch of shophouses adjacent to the bubble tea shop. While the guy was okay, I felt the service was a little flat. But he did stock a Munchkin Bites expansion, so I got it.

And I conclude that I suck at bargaining.

Orz

Next, we went straight on and banked left (instead of right, which would lead us all the way down to the 7-11 close to Shalimar) and we found ourselves, among other things:

1. A humongous cinema complex. One whole building by itself. This would definitely be inconceivable in Singapore, given our limited land space.

2. A medical center - wait, is this the same one Mr Lam mentioned? o_o;

3. A sushi place. It's open and conveyors are running, but... uhh... nah.

4. ULTIMATE MARTIAL ARTS! I KUNG FU YOUR ASS! Just kidding. But outside the shop there's a ninja event thing... lol?

(oops, forgot to take pictures here)

Then, we went down to Redmond Town Center, mainly because Ken wanted to go Gamestop to get a DS Dragon Quest RPG game and Jun Wei wanted Starcraft 2 (cue sweeeeeeeeeet graphics inbound). I stopped earlier at Hobbytown to see what they would stock for Nerf, but after looking at the shelf (of a grand total of three unique guns, what) I gave up (unconsciously it was probably instant, but I picked one gun up, pretended to look at its specs while knowing I won't buy a Nerf there -_-).

So after they're done with Gamestop we went downstairs, and explored the area a little. Then we found ourselves another board games store, and it has a much more awesome title to it.

Uncle's Games.

We played chess for a little while (from which I conclude in all harshness that Singaporean chess has failed to pick up yet another casual strong player - seriously?) and then we moved on to playing Munchkin Quest, which ended up taking 3 whole hours to play because it's so awesome.

And Faiz won because he beat the last boss on one single dice roll (by luck, LOL!) and, since we decided not to use my re-roll-all-dices card because it didn't really say "At anytime", then yea. We were running a little late for dinner, too =_=

I know I was probably dead tired by then (I am getting old...) because I fell asleep in a dungeon playing just two runs of Dragon Nest -.-;

[more misc pictures inbound here?]