Grand Haven City Beach

Yesterday was one of the hottest day of the year (at least up to now lah) so we decided to go to the beach. Actually, Saturday was a better day for the beach since the sky was clear but the weather forecast had said it will be cloudy and scattered thunderstorm on Saturday so we planned for Sunday instead. But turned out that the rain only happened on Saturday night.

We went out for dinner on Saturday night to make plans for the next day. Hehe...they read my mind - Japanese food!! We went to Sushiya, a Japanese restaurant with mostly sushi dishes that is just across the road from the north side of campus. Pei and I went to try their lunch specials when they first opened sometime last year and we liked it. But there are so many other stuff to eat around campus that we never did go back there even though we did talk about going back for sushi.

I got a Black Dragon sushi while ahdik got chicken teriyaki. The chicken teriyaki was served with a variety of sides like sushi, seaweed salad (yummy!), popiah, and stir-fry vege. As for the sushi, instead of serving on individual plates, they served all of it on a 'boat'. While it looks interesting and pretty, it will be quite inconvenient if there is a large group of people. It was a good thing that we had planned to share all the different types of sushi in the first place. They also served 'pisang goreng' for dessert - slightly different from the regular pisang goreng in M'sia because they use the tempura breading instead of the don't-know-call-what breading. The pisang goreng was also served with chocolate drizzle, makes it taste even better!! Hehe...anything with chocolate will never go wrong!

The next morning, woke up early to make egg sandwich so that we can picnic by the beach.
...and off we go to the beach.
Grand Haven City beach is about 2 hours west of Lansing. It is by Lake Michigan, hence a fresh water '海邊'. Surprisingly, the beach was not as crowded as we expected because there was lots of places to set up our 'picnic area'. While the guys played some sort of volleyball, the girls lied down and chit-chat.

I also get to play the cow-kite that tai lou brought!! We made it go so high that all the string was used up! The only other time I played kite was when dad taught us how to make them back in primary school.
Hopefully there are more nice days like these to be having fun outdoors!!