as it turns out, only 14 ppl went, just barely making that more than half the class.
instead, i stayed in, watched Project Runway, and met Mel and Gerald to do more IOC work.
after Gerald left, Mel and i had ice cream at Island Creamery, and took a jaunt around the Botanic Gardens chatting, though we weren't able to enter the Jacob Ballas Children's Garden (i remember it was under construction when i passed by it many times during the SMU Hammers in '05 at the old SMU) since we were above the age of 12.