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New York - Woodbury and Boston

Day 6, was a day on the move. We left Manhattan and headed to our first premium outlet without even knowing how popular this place was. We just searched for the nearest one and this was where it brought us.

There were really many cheap stuff around and even I ended up getting stuff. I bought a COACH wallet for my brother for his birthday for only USD$46 if I remembered correctly. Then, I bought a Kate Spade wallet for about USD$50 because it was on a huge discount. Like it was on 40% off, and then an additional 20% off plus a coupon of 10% off and then taxed after. I didn't expect this wallet to spark off so much arguments after that. I mean, it is just $50.

So the thing went like this. I just changed my wallet because RuiMing gave me one after seeing that I did not have one back in Singapore. It was quite a good wallet from Espirit and I even liked the color quite a lot. I didn't want to be disrespectful in that sense that I wanted to wallet but then now I just change it in less than like a month. Plus, when I purchased this wallet, I was thinking of another friend of mine, Cherie, who once told me she wanted to get a kate spade wallet in the future. I bought it thinking that I could give it to her. So after much contemplation, I decided that I would give it to her. I told my mum to send it to her place, and even gave her an address but dear mum for the love of god never listens to me. I pretty much gave up talking to her because she just never listens. It is to the point that I don't know if what she is saying is true because not only does she not listen, she exaggerates a lot. It took me more than 10 times of repeating that I am not keeping the wallet before she accepted it.

They arranged themselves to meet but Cherie couldn't make it and forgot to inform my mum and my mum was all ''she did not apologize'', but I found a hole in her story and caught her on that. I mean I understand that it was Cherie's fault for not informing, but I don't need twisted facts and lies to make it seem like I chose my friends wrongly or stuff like that. I have been clashing a lot with my mum this year. We have many different opinions and I'm not scared to voice them out any more. My mum tends to stereotype a lot (like all gays are annoying and self-centered and stuff like that) and I just end up arguing with her. Most of the time, we end up just sitting silent in the car because we don't have the same ideas anymore. I'm probably the only one she has a silent car trip with considering how much she does talk.

Anyway, I also bought a pair of waterproof Ecco shoes for the coming winter and it came in really handy because I can use it for trekking and hiking too.

And Andrew got me a bag because my parents did not want to take money from him for the trip.

And that was about it. Nearly everything I bought was not for me though.
We ended up leaving the area at 4+pm and headed towards Boston.

We arrived quite late, so we just grabbed some dinner and took the night off.

This was the place we stayed from the outside.

We were driving around the universities there, mainly Harvard, and we spotted something:

After hearing from us how nice Shake Shack was, Liyen wanted to give it a try as well, and we wanted to more of it too. So we parked and waited for a while because it only opened at 11am, before we ordered the same as we did the last time.

It looks like the literal burgers in advertisements.

We only bought 2 for all 6 of us because this was meant to be only a snack (breakfast, maybe?) and we were planning to go to eat lobsters after that. Afterall, Boston lobsters are like a must try here, right?

We ate at this place only because we found a parking there, but it turned out not too good. It wasn't really fresh and the seafood chowder was really fishy.

We then took our leftovers to feed seagulls. Or rather, the small kid, Mike, did.

This one reminds me of Madagascar's 3 penguins.

Staring competition for the food in between.

After lunch, we headed to the Quincy market. It's basically this place where food stalls are put up on both sides and you walk through the building looking at them all. We did not get any though, the price wasn't attractive for us.

Little kid Mike again.

We ended up going to Abercrombie and Fitch again for the guys but I got a fluffy jacket from there as well.

They bought tons of body mist, lotion and deo, because they were only $5 each but in the midst of grabbing them, they did not realize that some of them were female items and smelled like vanilla. Not even I can stand the sweet smell.

We went to Chinatown after that, went to Macy's, and the guys bought a lot of stuff because there was a discount.
We went to a chinese restaurant as per recommended by the internet, and ate more lobsters. This time, the chinese food was really good and the lobsters were nice too. It wasn't even expensive compared to other food in US. Like we had 2 lobsters, 2 veg, 2 meat dishes and we paid about $90 enough to feed all 6 of us.