Snow in Chapel Hill, and My Roommate's Birthday Dinner at TOPO

January 28th, 2014

It was snowing at UNC Chapel Hill, and it actually managed to stick on the ground.

(It was actually surprising because I wasn't really expecting to see snow while I'm at UNC)

This day was also the birthday of my roommate.

So, my roommate, 2 of his friends, and I took the P2P Express bus to Franklin Street to have a birthday dinner...... at 9 PM!!

Well, here we are.

My roommate wanted to have his birthday dinner at 'Top of the Hill' of Franklin Street.

So, all 4 of us decided to go there.

Top of the Hill is at the top floor that building, where the green roof(?) is

The entrance is located at the side of the building.

As you can see, there is a small sign that indicates where the entrance to Top of the Hill is.

From there, you can take the elevator to go up.

The 4 of us made it to Top of the Hill (a.k.a. TOPO)

The interior of TOPO was decorated(?) with all of these machines, that I'm not sure if they're really using them or not (I'm guessing that they are).

There are also balcony seats at Top of the Hill

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Bars don't really have much to do with me because I live a sub-free life.

The 4 of us sat around this table
We were the only people there (probably because it was snowing, and it was past 9PM), so it felt as if we rented the whole restaurant! :D

After we looked through this menu, we started to order food.

Yeah, the food they sell here seems to be one of the most expensive ones in Franklin Street.

We got some Sweet Potato Cheese Fries, and uh... some sort of salad for appetizer.

It is really fun to take pictures of food.
It always has been, ever since I did so in my Korean blog :D


Then, we got our entrees

One of the friends ordered Slow Country Pork & Grits

Another friend ordered Edamame Burger

My roommate (the birthday boy) ordered the most expensive menu, New York Strip Steak.

It looked soooooo delicious.

Maybe I should have ordered this too.

Thai Grilled Salmon.
This was what I ordered that night

On the contrary to my expectations, it turned out really good.
I liked it very much!

I actually tried a little bit of everything, and I liked everything....except for the edamame burger.
I personally think TOPO is a really nice place to eat at Chapel Hill.

After we finished dining at TOPO, I took this picture before leaving, hoping for a picture with good composition...

Looks like it has snowed more while we were eating at Top of the Hill.
I took some pictures while we were waiting for the P2P that would take us back to our dorm.

This street seemed prettier than it normally did, thanks to the snow!

One of the friends asked me to try taking a picture with this composition while we were waiting for P2P, so I did.
It doesn't look bad, but I personally don't think it turned out that well either.

This time, without the tree.

Then, we took the P2P and came back to south campus.

Because there are less cars in south campus, the roads seemed whiter than they are at Franklin Street.

I always wanted to take a picture like this one.
I just really like how snow looks during the moment when it's piling up.
It looks so soft, at the same time, a little bit shiny (due to the reflections caused by the snow flakes)

Manning West has never looked more beautiful.

Possibly one of the best shot of that day.
While I was having so much fun taking pictures of South Campus, the 3 friends were all walking away without me.
However, I luckily got this awesome composition.

I really like this picture, and so did all 3 of them.
(All of us are now using this as our cover photo on Facebook :D)

Walking to Manning East, where our dorm is.

....and we reached Manning East, and it never seemed more beautiful.

We were just about to head back into Koury, but we noticed....

Huh, a police car?
What's going on at Skipper Bowles Drive?

Looks like many of the South Campus residents were enjoying the snow, and the police was there to close down the road, so that students can play there.

I would've loved to join them and play, but my hands were frozen because of too much photo shooting.

It was getting pretty cold for us, and I needed to get some sleep for my 8AM class on the next day (which got cancelled, so I got some extra sleep.)

Before we headed back into Koury, we spotted 2 snowmen.

I figured it would be nice to try playing around with depth of field with my T3i

Well, what do you know?

Both of these turned out better than I espected :D

(If you want to, you can use them for your background picture)

And after that, we headed back into our dorm, where warmth awaits.