Day 10: Saturday

We had the dinner party last night (on saturday- it's sunday morning now). It went pretty well. Ben (Peach) was the first person to arrive and that was at like 4:30pm B and her friend Daniel arrived sometime just after 5pmish and Allen (we call him Hagrid because he has a big hagrid beard) arrived around then too. We had to go and meet Eric (Flip) at the bus stop because he was bussing up from south county- his bus was supposed to arrive at 5:25pm but we got out there and it didn't come for ages. It was freeeeezing cold and Train wasn't wearing proper shoes, only his Japanese sandal things. We ended up having to walk for a good few blocks more to meet him because he got off at the wrong stop. Nevertheless, we got back to the apartment in one piece and had japanese curry and macaroni cheese for tea. Oh, we baked peanut butter and oatmeal cookies when B arrived, that was fun; still have a ton of mixture left so we'll make some more of them later. The ones we made got a little burnt on the bottom, but still tasted fine.

We finished another puzzle, too. Hagrid is really good at them :)

I'll upload some pictures and finish this blog later.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Everyone hung around at our place for awhile, and we just talked and things. I tried this weird RTD drink called Sparks- it's pretty similar to Pulse and comes in a cool can. It tastes kind of odd, but it's drinkable. Here's a picture of the cans:


They have a plus on the top and a minus on the bottom, so they look sort of like a battery- I guess it's a play on the energy drink part of it? Hmm.

I also had a smirnoff mojito thing, it was alright too; not my favourite, but drinkable anyway. Here's a small picture of what they look like- we didn't bother with cups though.

Hagrid went home after a while, and so did B's friend Daniel. B and Peach took Train, Flip and I to walmart in SoCo (south county) for a wander around; this was at like, midnight. We drove there in Peach's car, it was the first time I'd been in a car the whole time I've been in the states. I still find it really strange how they drive on the other side of the road, but I'm getting better at looking left first before I cross, which is good :)

There were a surprising number of people at walmart that late- it's open 24 hours I think, and a lot of people were there doing xmas shopping. We played with some of the toys and things there, and looked around for things, but didn't end up buying anything.

Peach dropped the three of us (Train, Flip and I) back to the apartment, and then he took B home. We watched The Brothers Grimm
and then just talked for awhile before going to sleep.