I don’t normally write too much about band related stuff here, but today I was going through the old Pashya blogs, because I needed a cute photo of Reiya to use for Shattered Tranquility’s Suvivor. Oh yes, we’re putting him on a deserted island because he is made of win. And that’s not sarcasm, Reiya is definitely totally awesome and despite the fact I don’t like chariots whatsoever, I’ll always support him (and Akito and Yuuri).

So yes, I was looking through both Hijiri and Tomo’s old blogs. Reiya didn’t have one when he was in Pashya, so I’m honestly kind of surprised that he’s posting in the chariots one. But then I felt all nostalgic — I miss those guys. Well, I miss Ruephy Alive more than Pashya.

I’ve always kept wondering what’s going on now with Hijiri and Tomo. Then of course with Hinata, Akira, Yamaji, Kei, Daichan (even though he was in a band up until a few months ago) and Yuzuki. I’m glad the four Jaguar boys have joined new bands, but I hope that Kou is doing well. I’m also really happy that Sora’s in meth. now, but I wonder about Io and Yuina too. Not so much Ren because I read his blog and I’ve talked to him a few times since the band broke up and I know if I wanted to I could message him again. He’s super nice.

Hinata and Akira I probably think about the most. Out of all the bands I’ve loved, Barby was definitely the first (and hopefully when I get the chance to see R指定 live I’ll feel the same way about them that I did about Barby). Then when I got that comment on my Livedoor from someone who’s ‘friends’ with Barby, thanking me for the continuous support and saying that they still remembered me I nearly died. I kept wondering if it was actually one of them, but who knows.

The weird thing is, they were saying it to me and Nels, but they used ネルスケ, which I had NEVER EVER used in my blog or anywhere online. The only time that appeared was in our letters to them (we wrote them two, one when we gave them the chocolate and the second when we were leaving to say thanks for everything). So… it has to be someone who’s either really close to them, or one of them.

OMG UNLESS IT WAS SAMI-SAN WHO I ADORE. Only because he makes me laugh.

But Hinata… I always wonder what if I had said something more or something different. Well, nothing I’m sure, haha. But I regret not saying anything more than I did. Especially after he went to all the work to draw me that bunny with the house and the sun (even though the bunny looks a bit high in the photo). That boy had the cutest smile I’ve ever seen and I was totally in love with his voice. Speaking voice, too. He was easy to listen to.

Anyways, enough about that. It would be funny if I ran into him one day again. I think I’d recognize him still.

Even if he shaved one side of his head again for no apparent reason. (And that’s enough of that, because as you know that’s the look we don’t talk about, right Nels? Haha). A look we can talk about is him in his suit (jacket, no shirt under). Yes… that was a good night.

In my searching for photos of Reiya, I came across this photo that I love of Tomo and Reiya. Plus a few totally adorable photos of Tomo… the one I’m putting below is with him and Kairi (from Siva).

I love how he called himself “Magical Prince”. According to vkdb, he’s changed his name back to Sai now and is doing session work and what not. I haven’t seen any session bands with him in them, but I also hope to see him again someday wearing those tight, white, leather pants. He was always really fun and always made Nels and I feel like we were noticed and included.

But in all fairness, our four bands always did. I miss those times. Going with Nels to lives and seeing our favourite bands play. I have a lot of really awesome memories from them, which I was going to write about, but I can’t really bring myself to because I feel they’re too special. I hope when I go back I’ll be able to have some more great band related memories with Mamo. And I hope some of my favourite boys return to the scene. Even if I could only see a few of them once more, it would make me elated.

Especially Hinata.

I downloaded a new plugin (because plugins are sexy, not as sexy as FANTASTICO, but still pretty hot) so that  could have Twitter right there on my sidebar.

So yesterday Kat and I went to Toronto to do some shopping. We met up with Melinda for breakfast first and then because we had time to kill headed over to Toys’R'Us. We were there READY AND WAITING as they opened the doors.

Originally we had planned to take the GO train from Burlington, but when we got there the trains were all held up because of ‘police investigations’. The lady at the ticket booth suggested we try taking it from Oakville, but she really didn’t know about the delays or when the trains would be back up.

We figured we might as well just drive to Toronto then, because Oakville isn’t that far off so what’s the point of stopping again just to find out they’re not going or having it be super busy, you know?

So we made it to the city, parked and started our shopping adventure. When Kat and I go shopping we never seem to buy loads of stuff but I think this was our most accomplished shopping experience! Haha.

I got a dress that’s purple (purple makes it sound like WOW PURPLE but it’s not), a black one (that’s actually really tight… I almost didn’t get it because it’s that tight, but Kat said it was good and that I should get it and the girl at the store said that it was great, so I figured why not. It’s not that I don’t like it, because I do… I just don’t want to look fat in it, hahaha… but on the plus side I can always wear it as a long shirt with jeans), a t-shirt from Jacob that’s cute… it has a crown on it, a brown sweater, earrings, perfume (Anna Sui’s Flight of Fancy), tights, vanilla body wash… and I think that’s it.

The purple dress, Kat got the same one but in a different colour. Because we’re just that cool. What will make us even more cool is when we wear it together at our high school reunion on Saturday, hahaha. We also got tank tops that were the same, but in different colours… it was two for $25 or $18 each so why not both get one and split the cost, eh?

After shopping (and my feet feeling like they wanted to die… totally wore the wrong shoes, but they matched my outfit) we went to the Pickle Barrel for dinner. We’re kind of sick when it comes to BBQ stuff… so we had BBQ ribs and chicken wings. Plus mozzarella sticks which were made of win and some really nice onion rings.

So that was our good day. It started off a bit rough for various reasons, but ended up being a nice day of shopping.

So this morning (the 27th, so it was really yesterday morning) my Grammy calls me around eleven. Last weekend when I was there helping them with their TV, I had completely forgotten that we had agreed that I would go over today so she could cut my hair (my Grammy is a hair dresser and has had her business in her basement for years, so all the stuff is down there).

I felt really bad forgetting and she said if I was busy we didn’t have to do it today. But I had no plans and I like going over there, plus I needed to get my hair cut, so I went.

First off, getting off my street was ridiculous because of the damn parade. But on a weird note, I saw Mrs. Seto and her son Jonathan walking down the sidewalk as I got into my car. She waved; she’s one of the nicest ladies ever. Jonathan takes lessons at the conservatory, so that’s how I know them.

Anyways, I got to my Grammy’s. We talked for a bit (with my Grampy too) and then she did my hair. It’s quite a bit shorter now and a lot more blonde. She did some at the back this time (she didn’t really before because my hair was too long and it would have hurt to pull through the cap).

Yes. My Grammy uses the old school cap to do the bleaching, haha. But it works well so why not right?

I ended up staying for dinner (hot turkey sandwhiches with homemade gravy), playing some cards (we play crib) and showing my Grammy pictures from the African Lion Safari. We also watched baseball which I’m not too keen on, but my grandparents love it. But all in all, it was a nice afternoon.

That’s about it.

Tomorrow Kat and I are going to Toronto. We’re leaving super early so that we can grab breakfast beforehand. Last time we tried to go for breakfast on a Sunday, the lineups were ridiculous. So hopefully tomorrow won’t have long lines. We just plan to do some shopping… and I’m not looking for anything in particular, but we’ll see what happens.

After a little urging from Kim, I have decided to start up twittering again.

⇒ http://twitter.com/eidorien

I also convinced Ernie to sign up for twitter. I don’t know if he’ll actually use it a lot (because I mean, look how much he updates his LJ :/) but who knows. I figured that Ernie’s life is full of random, so maybe he’d have some funny things to twitter away.

Check his out at ⇒ http://twitter.com/theerninator

This may be extremely long and filled with far too many photos and videos. So if you don’t want to browse through it all, I understand. The short version is we had a great time on Sunday at the African Lion Safari.

As for the long version… here we go!
So, Sunday. Kat and I decided that she’d pick me up at 10:00am and we’d go somewhere for breakfast and then head off to the African Lion Safari. Our first idea for breakfast was Cafe Gratzi, but when we got there it was ridiculously busy. We were there for about five minutes and no one spoke to us, so we decided to try Perkins instead. Sadly, no luck there either as the line was nearly out the door.

We ended up going throguh the drive-thru at Timmies, and hitting the highway. Despite the fact is was pouring rain, it was relatively easy to get to. As long as you remember that you are pretty much in the middle of no where. We got to the Safari, got our tickets and headed in.

We wanted to get these ponchos that everyone seemed to had — especially after our winning poncho experience in New York City. They were cute though, they had little animals all over them but we couldn’t find where they were selling them so we kind of gave up on that notion. We also decided to take Kat’s car through instead of taking the tour bus. That way we could go at our own speed and stop when we wanted to. Going into the park made me feel like I was going into Jurassic Park or something. For some reason, I remember them having this part in the movie that looked exactly like these gates. So you drive in one, then they shut the gate behind you and open the one in front of you so that you can go and none of the animals can escape. First up was the Narobi Sanctuary which held a few different species of birds, llamas and cattle.

We were surprised that so many of the animals were out in the rain, but I guess fort he birds it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference. I know you’re not supposed to roll down your windows, but we did briefly to snap a photo of the ducks which were ridiculously loud! The llamas were really cute, but as you can see they looked drenched! There was a little shelter for them, so I don’t know why they didn’t use it. I guess they don’t really mind the rain. You gotta love the cattle all huddled together in the shelter though!

Next through the reserve was the Cheetah Breeding Compound, which I kept reading as the ‘Cheetah Breeding Campground’. You know you’ve worked at a campground too long when. . . That part didn’t last long and there were only two cheetahs that we could see. So we kept en route and landed in SIMBA COUNTRY. They had the same signs over and over and over, because as I can imagine, people are probably ridiculous and stupid. I mean really, who in their right mind would want to try to feed a lion? O_O If they attempt it, they have whatever is coming to them. That’s what I think.

The lions were definitely awesome, but they only had one male and the others were females (at least, we only saw one male). They were just lounging on their rocks, looking somewhat unimpressed at the weather. The jeep you’ll see in the first photo is the safari jeep and they’re stationed in pretty much every area. I guess it’s to make sure people aren’t idiotic and do something to harm the animals because realistically, that’s far more plausible than the animal randomly doing something to hurt the people without any prompting. But yes, the lions were super awesome.

Even though the cheetah breeding compound was back a little bit, the hang out for the cheetahs was just after the lions. There were three of them and they couldn’t have been any cuter. Kat shot a video of them because at one point, they all started cleaning the one guy.

Following the cheetahs was one of the places we were most looking forward to — the monkeys. Okay in actual fact they’re baboons but that doesn’t change their extreme awesomeness. You always hear about them climbing on people’s cars, and when we were driving up there we saw five all on one vehicle! So we got up there and parked because they’re really interesting to watch. Then we had a few visitors on the car as well. One licked the hood and windshield. In the video I jokingly say he’s cleaning it, but he’s obviously drinking the water. There was another who pulled the windsheild wiper from the back out… you know, like you would if you were going to clean the blade. We were a bit nervous they’d break something, but as they said at the front gates, that’s the risk you take driving your own car in. A couple of them ended up on the top and we could hear them walking around on the roof. Then our buddy (the one who licked the car, and who was sitting there for quite some time) had a friend join him. Kat turned on the windshield wipers just to clear the rain off and the poor baboon jumped like a mile high! Okay, so it was kind of mean but it was pretty hysterical. We took a couple of videos so I put them altogether into one.

There was also an incident of stupidity while we were at the baboons. There were these ladies in like an SUV kind of vechicle, and at first they were behind us. Apparently, we were too slow so they tried to pass us (which is fine) but I think she tried to on the wrong side and somehow she got kind of stuck somewhere and was having a hard time getting out. Eventually they made it and were pretty much right beside us, and the one lady rolls down the window to take a photo. Then a baboon looks at her and she SCREAMS. Like, screams bloody murder! We both turned and glared at her because it was just stupid. I mean it’s not like they were on their car or coming to attack them. The baboon that was sitting on our car just kind of looked over, as if to say, ‘wtf are you doing lady’ and looked back, haha.

After the amazing baboons we continued on to find an ostrich or two, rhinos, zebras, eland, sheep and giraffes. The ostriches were pretty far off in the distance and we were half worried they’d come poke the car, haha. But they didn’t… there was one that was pecking at the safari jeep though.

I don’t know much about the sheep, they’re Barbary Sheep and I had to look it up online to make sure I had the right animal… so yes, haha. Honestly, we didn’t pay too much attention to them. I think it’s hard to be really excited when you don’t know anything about the animal at all. Like I wouldn’t have been able to tell you it’s name.

Rhinos are huge. And I honestly had absolutely no idea that they were really that big. Seeing them next to the cars really showed the size. I mean, I guess I always knew they were big in a sense… but I never knew they were that HUGE! Of course there was one of them who was being a party pooper and staying out of the rain, but I can’t really blame him. If I was a rhino, I’d be that one. Haha. Kat felt inclined to take a picture of the rhino’s bum.

After the rhinos we were extremely excited to be moving on to the giraffes! Unfortunately we couldn’t tell if these were evil giraffes, because there were no trees around for them to eat all the leaves off of (SO OTHER GIRAFFES MAY DIE) but they’re pretty awesome animals. I apparently saw a giraffe when I was a kid, but I have no recollection of that whatsoever. So this is the first time (that I remember) seeing them in real life. I absolutely love the way they chew. The shelter (as you can see) was too short for them, so only their backs were shielded from the rain. They didn’t seem to mind too much though… granted, they didn’t have much choice. Right beside the giraffes were the Elands. I never knew what these guys were either, before I looked them up.

There were a lot of zebras! Which surprised me somewhat because I’ve never seen so many at once, haha. I love the patterns on them and they can apparently tell each other apart due to the different patterns in their stripes. I heard before that their stripes are like fingerprints — no two are the same.

So as you can see, animals like yaks (which is the coolest name ever because it’s really fun to say and sounds ridiculous… yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak, do it like that), Japanese deer and then a bunch of other ones that I didn’t know. I also didn’t know the difference between Japanese and North American deer because frankly I never thought about it before. I love the picture of the black animals that are standing in the rain… I won’t lie, I have no idea what they are, haha. The ones that are behind a fence were an endangered species and they someone crammed themselves into the rocks there to avoid the rain. You can’t see it well in the photos, but the males have amazingly cool antlers. They’re kind of twisty.

Reserve number seven was the last of the reserve and held animals from North America (and I guess one from Europe). For the most part, it wasn’t really like OOH AHH for these ones because they were animals that are pretty common. Like bison and deer. I’m not saying it wasn’t nice to see them, because honestly how often do you get a chance to get that close to them? The deer were hilarious though. There’s this one male, who was practically blocking all traffic from getting through. But these stupid people kept inching closer and closer to him. I wished he’d kick them or something, but he didn’t. :/ Instead the tour bus came around and beeped so he moved off the path, but he was so cute!! And stubborn, haha. Two of the deer started to fight, which was neat to see. I’ve always seen videos of it, but obviously it’s not the same in real life. I also never knew that the sound they make is so much like a goose. O_O It really shocked me (as you can tell from the video). The bison looked DRENCHED and we figured they’d smell like a wet dog, but ten times worse. I wonder if that’s true… but it would make sense.

And that was the end of the reserves. My favourite one I think was with the baboons, and seeing the giraffes and the zebras. So from there we parked and took a look around the gift shops. Some of the stuffed animals were ridiculously adorable and I kind of wanted to buy one, haha.

They have shows there, with the animals so we wanted to catch at least one or two of those. We decided in the long run to go to the petting zoo area (which only had a few animals anyways) and then at 2:00 head over to the parrot show.

In the petting zoo, there were deer, goats a camel and two alpacas. Camels make possibly the weirdest sound I’ve ever hear come out of an animal and I was totally not expecting it. This camel was really loud and kept screaming (or whatever it is he’s doing). He kind of intimidated me, haha.

Then we got to the goats. When you’re a kid it’s always amazingly fun to pet the goats and honestly, I had probably too much fun this time around too. They’re cuter than I always think of them, haha. We didn’t feed them, but for a while we were the only ones in their pen. There was this one goat that stood on top of a tree stump and didn’t budge from there. It was like he was surveying his pen, haha. He reminded me of Watson, because Watson likes to sit on the chair in my mum’s room and people watch out the window. Once we were there for a little bit the goats got used to us, and then kept coming up and trying to bit our shirt, pants, scarf… whatever they could. At one point I was petting tree stump goat and another little guy was standing right on my foot.

I LOVE the one who had his head in the log! I didn’t see him pull his head out, but Kat said that when he did he started sneezing, haha. I think he was also the one who was standing on my foot. A couple of them jumped up as well, you know like dogs do? On their back legs… and another one rubbing his face on Kat’s leg, haha. They were pretty cute. I wouldn’t mind a pet goat.

Right near the goats were the deer and I finally understood the difference between the North American and Japanese species! They were only two Japanese deer and they were darker in colour. We got the little pellets to feet the deer and the Japanese deer kept getting butted out by the other ones who were far more aggressive.

Just before the parrot show started we took a look around at the birds that was in the cages. Oh my god they were noisy. Aki and Hiro can be noisy, but I think I’d go insane if I lived around those birds all the time! The parrot show was really cute and they had one bird who could kind of sing O! Canada, haha. We also learned that peacocks are one of the least intelligent birds. They had a ‘trained’ peacock there and she said they say that lightly because all they can train him to do is run out there, stand on a green board and eat some bird seed, haha. They had another bird who could pick up cans and put them in the recycling, which was pretty cute. Oh and a bird THAT COULD RIDE A BICYCLE. No joke. Watch the video. There were flamingos there as well and it’s the first time I’ve ever really heard the sound they make. At one point it seemed like they were singing together like a choir. Along with the parrots there was a bat. Her name was Abbey.

We also went to the birds of prey demonstration, which was good as well. The funniest part is that they had a bird named Muriel, which is my mum’s name. Well, she was one unattractive bird and looked like she had this tuft of hair… kind of witch like. There was also a Bald Eagle which overshot his landing, and he landed outside of the fenced in area. Luckily they got him back in time and no kids managed to get to him… because he really could tear you apart.

The guy who was doing the show was great, but kept stumbling on his words. Then he asked for a few young volunteers to help him with the next part of the show to demonstrate how this one bird was just as comfortable running on the ground as he was flying. They were going to have a race. Well a bunch of kids came up to the gate and he counted about five and said okay, you guys can all come in… which lead to A MASSIVE STAMPEDE OF CHILDREN. At least twenty kids went inside the gate, because I guess they misunderstood and parents kept sending their kids up when he was CLEARLY having a hard time. He explained that he made a mistake with word choice, but he felt bad and couldn’t really say no to the kids.

But the poor bird was totally crowded during the race! I think under normal circumstances he would have given the participants a run for their money in the race, but because there were so many kids there he came somewhere in the middle. A lot of the kids weren’t really listening as well, so I felt bad for the guy who was doing the MC. But overall it was a great show and very educational. We learned that the Bald part in Bald Eagle used to mean ‘White’… as the Bald Eagle isn’t actually bald.

Right after the birds of prey show was the elephant show called the “Elephant Round-up”. But before I talk about that, I’m just going to finish with the birds. There were a lot of peacocks wandering around and we managed to find a female peacock with a baby, as well as one that was completely white. Why are the male peacocks so much more beautiful!? I know it’s to impress the females, but why can’t human men be like that? Haha. No, I’m totally joking but don’t you ever notice in the animal world the male of the species is so much cooler looking? Like the male lions have those awesome manes, bettas, the females are just ugly. They’re all brown and boring. Anyways, we also saw some hawks and a Snowy Owl. The owls were really beautiful, and the one in the photo looks like it’s making a ^^ face, as Kat pointed out, haha.

There were more flamingos in their own little section and they had young ones! I never knew that baby flamingos didn’t get their true pink colour until after they were a year old. Personally, I think they look almost cooler all black, pink and white… seeing as those are three of my favourite colours.

Last but not least for the animals, were the elephants! Like I mentioned before, we saw the elephant show which consisted of four of them. I can only remember the names of three - Daisy (she was the oldest, 30 something), Piccolo and George (who was the youngest, he was 8). They did a few tricks like showing off how strong they are, and how they can use their trunks to pick up even a small coin (they did a demonstration on a loonie). When they came out originally they were all holding the tail of the elephant in front of them which was super cute.

There was a little girl sitting next to Kat who was super excited about all the elephants and kept yelling out ther names, haha. It was refreshing to see that. After the show the trainer lead Daisy around so the kids could ask questions and pet her if they wanted to. I think that’s a cool idea.

After the show we headed to the Elephant Lookout where we saw baby Chuck and his parents. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a real baby elephant and they are one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen in my life. He was honestly just like a little child and you just wanted to hug him or something. Chuck had a hard time eating his hay unlike his parents and frequently got side tracked by a stump or rock, haha. He was way too cute. The video I took is of a little part of the elephant show (where the one elephant played the drums and the others danced) and then the rest is of Chuck and his parents.

Just as a really random side note, if you listen to the voices of the people talking in the background of the video they have a really distinct Eastern Canadian accent. Like from out east as in Nova Scotia, P.E.I or in that direction. I could tell as soon as I heard them talking and then when my mum saw the video she commented on it too. I think that accent is one of the most easy for me to recognize, haha.

By then we were pretty tired and had seen what there was to see, so we headed home. We have no idea how we ended up in Burlington without taking the highway, but we did and went to this pub to have dinner. We ended up back at my house and watched Test the Nation for a little while, had some tea and Kat went home. It was a really fun day and I’m so glad we got to go!! I’ve wanted to go to the African Lion Safari since I was a kid and I would definitely go again.

For the most part, the animals look like they’re happy to be there. A lot of them were born in captivity anyways, so they don’t know anything different. But there weren’t any animals I looked at and felt bad for, except for the elephant that was doing the elephant rides. They were $5 a ride and we considered going, but decided not to. He looked so sad, and just walked around the same circle over and over and over. Wouldn’t that make you go insane?

But yes, like I said it was a lot of fun and yes, we took a disgusting amount of photos. The sad part is these aren’t even all the photos we took. O_O

I think I’ve covered mostly everything that happened… and it’s definitely time to wrap this up! If you made it to the end, congratulations and thank you. <3

P.S. Melinda, the animals wanted us to tell you they’re very happy there. AND NO THEY’RE NOT BEATEN IF THEY SAY OTHERWISE. ^^

Kat and I are going to the African Lion Safari today!

Neither of us have been we’ve both always wanted to go, so we decided that we’ve got nothing to lose, so we might as well!

I’m excited.

Yesterday Melinda came over so that we could attempt to fix her computer which had decided to hate life. However, before that happened we headed out to Canadian Tire to look at air mattresses.

So, we were browsing around the store in search for some rubbing alcohol when we came across this:

Okay, so maybe it doesn’t seem so weird right off the bat, but look around it. For further clarification, this was the aisle it was in:

While I understand you can use Q-Tips to clean the ears of your beloved pet, would you really expect to find them stocked in the pet section? It wasn’t just one random box. It was like they apparently belonged there and had their own little tag and everything. O_O I just thought it was really… weird.

Anyways after our little shopping adventure, we tried to fix the computer which actually had some sort of ridiculous virus on it. Sometimes it would turn on and sometimes it would freeze up and decide to just load to a black screen. After hours we got avast! on it and it deleted the virus but it still left stuff messed up.

For example, it made the cursors rather… large. I tried to take a photo, but it turned out kind of blurry. I don’t know if you can tell that it’s actually stupidly big.

We got it to turn on enough so that at least Melinda can get her stuff off. I feel bad that I couldn’t make it all better, but at least she can get her photos and whatever she wants off and then we’re just going to wipe it clean and start all over.

I remember back in June when I had to do that to my computer and while it was a pain in the ass (especially getting some of the stuff I had back), it was kind of nice. It’s like a spring cleaning and you get rid of crap you never even knew you had.

In the midst of all this we watched the series premier of 90210 and played Mario Party.

Today Kat and I finally got a perfect summer day at the beach! We were hoping Melinda could come with us, but it didn’t work out. Hopefully we’ll have another nice weekend so we can all go together! It seems like the real summer weather is kicking in now. A bit delayed.

I didn’t have to work and Kat doesn’t work on weekends, so at about 10:00am this morning we met up at Silks, which is a diner that serves very decently priced and good tasting breakfast. We both had french toast and now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve had anything else there.

I got there a bit early, so I was waiting for Kat and I had to wait in line anyways for a table because it was super busy. There was this lady who came in after me, and she was nice to me because she said “Make sure you stay in front of me so they don’t serve me first!”. Which was really nice, because she wasn’t trying to butt-in or anything. But then when she was talking to the waitress, she was so rude! I was kind of shocked.

The waitress asked her how many people were dining, and the lady is like, well, we need two tables. So the waitress is like okay. . . but, how many people will there be? And the lady goes, well only two of us are here now, but we need two tables. The girl asked one more time saying that she just needed to know a number and the lady says, WE COME HERE EVERY WEEK. WE NEED TWO TABLES.

Dude, is it really hard to say something like, oh there will be six of us. There will be eight. There will be seven. I mean come on, don’t be difficult.

Anyways, we ate and headed off to the beach! Perfect weather for it, seriously. We were there for about three hours but started feeling a bit burnt and decided to call it a day. We went for a swim, but the water was pretty cold so unfortunately we didn’t last long. Kind of makes me wish I was like, seven years old again when you never seemed to feel the coldness of the water.

There were crazy parents behind us, but I don’t want to get into that. I’ve seen so much poor parenting in the past month that I feel like I could write a book on it. I know I’m not exactly in the position to say because I’ve never had a kid of my own, but at the same time some things are just common sense.

So, after that we were having a craving for chips which we went and got and then trekked back to Kat’s house to clean up and change. From there we headed to my house, got some money out and met up with Jenn at Montana’s to celebrate her birthday which was August 13th.

It’s been so long since the three of us have been able to hang out! So we had a nice dinner (ate waayy too much) and went to Starbucks to talk some more. I started to feel kind of light headed and we were all pretty tired so we weren’t out very late, and I took Kat back home.

But here’s the story. See, you know the other day when I talked about how I got the gas out of my old car and put it into the red one? Well, a bit of gas spilt onto the gas can and into the plastic bag that the gas can was in. The can was in my trunk for about two days and my car REEKED like gas. I think spending all that time in the car today made the fumes get to me. I kid you not. I left my back windows down tonight in hopes that it might air out a little and since I have to work at eight, it’s not like they’ll be down all day or something.

I also learned that I got burnt. On my back and on the back of my legs. It’s… extremely uncomfortable. I put sun screen on my legs, so I have no idea why they’re burnt but I did miss my back. :/ It’s my own fault so I shouldn’t really complain and at least my face isn’t burnt.

But yes, it was a great day. I got home, updated S-T a bit and everything seems to be going smoothly.

Except for the person who decided to cheat in the contest. We called them out the first time and denyed it. We showed them proof and they admitted to it. Then they went right back to cheating. I mean seriously, the way Hideko and I watch the stats on our baby, do you really think we wouldn’t notice?