My traveling adventures!

Hey everyone! After some hard work in summer school, I am finally on my wonderful vacation of traveling. Yesterday, I went to Banff (with my family)-- A wonderful place with a bit of city-like feeling and a bit of nature/ wilderness feeling mixed with it. A great combination in which I would love to live in. Anyways, despite the fact that I have been to Banff many many times-- I thought that this time was a rather great trip. First of all, even though we grabbed lunch at the food court in the Town Square mall, the fried rice and beef was actually good. ( NOTE: I ordered the fried sweet and sour chicken balls but they were not that great.-- so if you ever get a chance to travel to Banff and eat at the Town Square food court one of the Chinese fast food franchise sells that type of food-- I wouldn't exactly recommend it.

But here comes the best part.. after lunch we went and shopped around--- I went to the Roots store they had there and bought this amazing hat for $10.00. I really like the style! It's nice and it's cehap-- what more could I ask for!

Next, we went to the rather new candy shop in Banff I think its called "Banff Sweet Shoppe" you better check my photo slide shows to see the name, but the store was rather nice looking! A bit of old fashion looking. I bought a $0.35 candy stick called "Island punch" haven't really tried it yet, but I will today as I hit the road for my next destination. After a bit more of shopping and look arounds at the various souvenir shops, we went to the closest water fall and took a few pics. Nothing too too special about the water fall.. pretty much the same like every year-- but it was rather cold after a couple of the mini rainfalls that occured yesterday.

Personally, I think the climax of my trip is the dinner I had. For the past couple of years, when my family and I traveled to Banff, we don't really go to try their Japanese resturaunts for dinner because we often just spend a couple of hours there and then leave. However, this year, stayed and spent the whole day there and I was actually able to try out one of the Japanese noodle shops there. The noodle shop I tried there is called "Chaya" not too sure what it really means in Japanese but there was a kanji in the title with the word "茶" in it. So I guess the shop's name has something to do with "tea". Anyways, the shop its self is not very bit.. it is an L shaped shop. To order we had to go up the the counter and tell the wonderful waitress. I ordered a beef udon and it to be honest was one of the best udons I have ever eaten!Usually the udons I eat in the Japanese restaurant in the city are prepared by chinese people who opened the Japanese eatery-- so I think it didn't taste as original or traditonal. Anywho, the udon I had was really good-- I even sprinkled this spicy powder they had at the mini self serve rack and it really enhanced the natural sweet and salty flavor in the miso based soup! In summary, I really recommend this Japanese noodle shop for you guys because not only does the shop have a very special Japanese feeling to it the noodles/ food, and service that was provided was AWESOME! Anyways, if any of you want more info about my Banff in trip please feel free to email me at littlestarsdiary@gmail.com. I will send you more info about my trip yesterday!

Today's destination of my traveling trip 2009 is: DRUMHELLER please come visit my blog again for more exciting info soon!

Little Stars

tons of homework.captured by onew's voice recently...

Wow, I can't believe this year's summer school is soo busy with all the yucky homework! *hehe* but, I guess its better than staying at home for 24 hours everyday wondering what to do to keep me occupied and not die of boredom. Anyways, I had a test yesterday for summer school and got a really good mark on it so I am extremely happy ^_____^.
Hmmm as seen in the title of this post, I found myself really liking Onew's singing.... it's really really amazing! One of my favorite songs is "Vanilla Love" by Lee Ji Hyun in which Onew is featured in it. It's a really sweet song and Onew sounds really good in it (well I think anyways). The song is currently featured on my blog so ENJOY!

Better get going with my homework!
Little Stars