I wish I had brought my camera with me today; Train and I had so much fun :)
We caught the bus into town at 2pm- well, we had to leave at 2 because the bus comes at like 2:09 or something. We ended up leaving late and hurrying to the bus stop which is just under half a mile away, maybe like, 0.4miles or something. We got there in the nick of time, seriously. We saw the bus just about to pull up to our stop as we were running across the road. It was wonderful.
Bussed into town, got there around 3pm-ish. Wandered around for awhile, found a cafe where I went and got a coffee. Then we paced around on the pavement outside while Train lit his cigarette and I sipped at my coffee, before sitting down on some plastic chairs outside the store next to the cafe.
This guy came out of the store we were sitting in front of, and at first I thought he was a customer, then I thought he was going to tell us off for sitting on the chairs because we're not customers of whatever shop it was, then he stood in front of us and put his palms together and Train thought he was going to say something preachy to us, but really he just asked Train (really rather nicely) for a cigarette.
He sat down on the plastic chairs next to us, and talked to us for a bit. His name was Malik (ma-leek? I don't know how to spell it) he was a black guy with loooong, really cool thickish dreads. He worked at the shop we were sitting in front of; it turned out to be a beauty salon. He was telling us about how he's an artist and likes doing creative things, and we talked about ourselves a little, and we all talked about travelling, and about how much you can learn from strangers and about other cultures and how you meet really cool people when you travel and things. He said we should come and get our hair cut there sometime, which we are definitely going to do because he's super nice and we both need hair cuts :P
after he'd finished his cigarette, we talked for a little bit more, then he had to go back inside and Train and I got up and walked around for a bit more, looked in a bunch of vintage clothing stores, a book publishing place- like subterranean books, or something, and eventually ended up at Fitz's where we had planned to have dinner. It was quarter to five at this stage and it was really empty, which was nice. The meals were reaaaallly big but we managed to finish them nonetheless. After that we wandered around some more, went to starbucks (-shudder-cringe-) and got a coffee, just so we had an excuse to sit inside in the warm and wait for the bus for a bit.
Ended up missing our bus, by about 20 seconds, so we went into rag-o-rama, which is sort of like a thrift store I guess. Waited outside again for our bus, ended up seeing our friend Joshua walking along and talked to him for a minute- he thought we hated him because we hadn't talked to him in like a week- when really it was him who hadn't talked to us :/
blah blah blah, got on the bus, got off, waited around, caught our second bus, and walked home and here I am. :)
The forecast for the next few days is bitterly cold. It'll be getting as low as -17C on Thursday DDDD:
Time to return our dvds tomorrow and get a bunch more out in preparation for a long day at home rugged up on the couch with dvds and hot cocoa and thick woolen socks.
We caught the bus into town at 2pm- well, we had to leave at 2 because the bus comes at like 2:09 or something. We ended up leaving late and hurrying to the bus stop which is just under half a mile away, maybe like, 0.4miles or something. We got there in the nick of time, seriously. We saw the bus just about to pull up to our stop as we were running across the road. It was wonderful.
Bussed into town, got there around 3pm-ish. Wandered around for awhile, found a cafe where I went and got a coffee. Then we paced around on the pavement outside while Train lit his cigarette and I sipped at my coffee, before sitting down on some plastic chairs outside the store next to the cafe.
This guy came out of the store we were sitting in front of, and at first I thought he was a customer, then I thought he was going to tell us off for sitting on the chairs because we're not customers of whatever shop it was, then he stood in front of us and put his palms together and Train thought he was going to say something preachy to us, but really he just asked Train (really rather nicely) for a cigarette.
He sat down on the plastic chairs next to us, and talked to us for a bit. His name was Malik (ma-leek? I don't know how to spell it) he was a black guy with loooong, really cool thickish dreads. He worked at the shop we were sitting in front of; it turned out to be a beauty salon. He was telling us about how he's an artist and likes doing creative things, and we talked about ourselves a little, and we all talked about travelling, and about how much you can learn from strangers and about other cultures and how you meet really cool people when you travel and things. He said we should come and get our hair cut there sometime, which we are definitely going to do because he's super nice and we both need hair cuts :P
after he'd finished his cigarette, we talked for a little bit more, then he had to go back inside and Train and I got up and walked around for a bit more, looked in a bunch of vintage clothing stores, a book publishing place- like subterranean books, or something, and eventually ended up at Fitz's where we had planned to have dinner. It was quarter to five at this stage and it was really empty, which was nice. The meals were reaaaallly big but we managed to finish them nonetheless. After that we wandered around some more, went to starbucks (-shudder-cringe-) and got a coffee, just so we had an excuse to sit inside in the warm and wait for the bus for a bit.
Ended up missing our bus, by about 20 seconds, so we went into rag-o-rama, which is sort of like a thrift store I guess. Waited outside again for our bus, ended up seeing our friend Joshua walking along and talked to him for a minute- he thought we hated him because we hadn't talked to him in like a week- when really it was him who hadn't talked to us :/
blah blah blah, got on the bus, got off, waited around, caught our second bus, and walked home and here I am. :)
The forecast for the next few days is bitterly cold. It'll be getting as low as -17C on Thursday DDDD:
Time to return our dvds tomorrow and get a bunch more out in preparation for a long day at home rugged up on the couch with dvds and hot cocoa and thick woolen socks.
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