Day 7

Sorry about the super late update.
Today has been hectic.

Train and I ended up staying up really late last night and just mucking around and things, got to bed at about 6am this morning, slept until 10, got up and got ready then caught the bus to Walmart over in Maplewood.


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Of course, the bus didn't go that way directly. We had to catch the #70 bus NORTH to the Metrolink (tram) station at Grand, then get on the Metrolink going WEST to Brentwood. We got off there and walked to where we THOUGHT Walmart was- we could see a huge big plaza thing, and assumed it was there. After about 5 minutes of walking around aimlessly, we realised it wasn't there at all, so we asked someone for help. Turns out it was about a couple of blocks away and we could catch the #2 bus directly there from where we were standing. Did that, found our way inside eventually and got to shopping.

We ended up buying a dishrack, cellphone ($21.69 US), rolling pin, some spices, new batteries for Train's camera, another baking tray, a lint roller, some more coconut, a dishbrush, a cake decorating/icing set and some candy. In total, minus the cost of my cellphone, it came to $51.48 :S Everything is expensive here, well, compared to NZD at least.

There was a subway inside Walmart- so we got lunch there and then headed out to catch the bus back home stopping via the post office.
God, if only it was that simple.
We ended up getting lost AGAIN, for a few hours, going to bus stop after bus stop, after bus stop. We were lead around in circles. We asked all the different bus drivers how to get to the street we were trying to find, and they all told us different things. We ended up SORT OF finding the street which the right street with the post office was meant to run off of, but we never found the post office. By this time it was about 3:30pm and we were super tired so just decided to give up and catch the #11 home.

Got home and practically fell into bed. Slept until 12am and then got up and did the dishes. No photos today, I forgot to bring my camera. Wasn't really an awful lot to take pictures of anyway, except us getting lost. No idea what we're doing tomorrow just yet- we're going to watch that Rocky Horror movie sometime tonight I think. Our wifi is still broken, so I'm going to call the guy up tomorrow to see how we can fix it. It still works when we use the network plug things, but the wifi bit is broken, which is a real pain.