Out Again

A new record for me: going into the city to hang out with friends TWICE in one week! OK it didn't start off too well at first.

I was invited to the city to catch up with the year 12 group of guy/girls...maybe change that to year 13 now! (I keep thinking I'm still in 2006!) a couple days before, but I didn't ask my parents for permission to go because I was a little scared (yeah as crazy as it sounds!) since it was so close to the last time I went out. As it happens, yesterday morning was when my dad had an optometrist appointment in the city, and my mum thought I needed to ask some questions at university, so I decided to go in.

My dad went into the city in the morning by bus, and an hour later my brother drove my mum and me into the city. They dropped me off at the campus before going to pick my dad up. I went into the information centre to ask my question before waiting outside the Clock Tower for my brother to come round and pick me up. I stood there waiting, and waiting and waiting. Eight free City Link buses, three students with kids, an American tourist group and heaps and heaps of white cars passed by, but none with my brother in the driver's seat! I sat on the edge of the footpath waiting, then walked up and down the road checking out the car park, before deciding to find a park bench in Albert Park where I could have a rest. By now, two hours had passed! And then they decided to come pick me up! During that time Gwen and the guys had been waiting for me by Britomart before I told them to go without me. Anyway the reason for the long wait was that my dad's appointment took much MUCH longer than expected!

I finally picked up the courage to ask my parents if I could go meet my friends in the city, and promised to be back home in time to deliver newspapers, but my parents did the whole guilt thing on me! They wanted to go have lunch at some Asian food court down K' Road! So I decided I'd go have lunch with them before meeting up with my friends!

Once again our family had a little disagreement over what we'd eat. My mum suggested this Malaysian restaurant, but as the weather was so hot we didn't think we'd be able to handle it! So we decided we'd just buy a $7.50 plate of food of our choice. We got a cup of tea with it too! :D

As soon as I finished that my family were about to go home before I asked them to drop me off at McDonald's down Queen St where Gwen and the others were. I got out at one end of Queen St and started powerwalking my way down that road. I then spotted Gwen, Aone, Esther and Rhea all standing outside McDonalds! I think they were about to leave. Jenna apparently got picked off the street by the Cut-Above Academy after being offered the chance to have her hair done for free (as a test I think), but it would take several hours! We decided we'd go up and visit her, but once we got to the right level, we asked the two women behind the counter if they saw the girl (Jenna) and...well I didn't really hear what they said. But according to the other girls they were snobby, especially when we couldn't find the button to the lift door! It was on the other side of the wall by the other lifts! That was a little silly! We walked down to Whitcoulls where we caught up with Alex, Zahir, Angie, Howdle (I know that's her surname but I'm not exactly too sure what her first name is...Natasha???) and Yeeping. We walked around checking out stuff on shelves like Barney educational DVD's and what-not. Well...we weren't really looking at stuff but just walking around talking to each other. Yeah sounds a little funny...socialising in Whitcoulls! :D Aone, Esther and Rhea disappeared somewhere, while Angie and Howdle went off somewhere else too. So it was just Gwen, Alex, Zahir and me again. We walked around a little longer, I talked to Gwen about the joys of uni, and then we decided we'd go down to Britomart. The others were originally going to watch a movie and have dinner in the city but decided to come back to Henderson early with me, sorry guys!!! We decided to catch the train back instead of the bus, since the others hadn't caught it before, and also since we'd get home earlier. The guy at the information booth must've thought us guys were crazy when I asked him how we could get tickets for the train. He (jokingly!) told us to go annoy the guy in the next booth, who happened to turn out to be the ticket salesperson!

We managed to jump onto the train. Gwen and Alex sat at one end of the train while I sat with Zahir a few rows down. It was cool going through the tunnel, but the ride was surprisingly slow with plenty of stops! Then again the last time I caught the train was the first time back in January last year! The train might've been the wrong option, as Gwen and Alex were starting to feel sick and there was this...different guy...on board! We finally got off in Henderson, and decided to check out the Japanese garden around the corner, where Zahir and Gwen jumped on fountains shooting up from the ground.

We then went to pick up Zahir's glasses which were ready, and then they all walked with me home. I got to show them my crusty house! :D It was a bit sad saying goodbye to them. It's been really fun hanging out with those guys lately! I wish I knew them all many years earlier! I'm going to try them visit regularly at school though, hopefully on a Friday when I finish uni by midday!