Travel update: last week A and I popped back to see the lovely people at STA travel to book some more stuff for our Priceless Round-the-world Adventure Trip (PRAT). To compliment our flights we purchased a bus tour of New Zealand, called the funky chicken tour, and our first night hotel in Bangkok. This seemed like we had made quite a sizable dent in the overall travel purchase, no to mention my bank balance and I was feeling pretty smug til J (our helpful travel girl) pointed out that we have 89 more days to find accommodation for. Way to piss on our bonfire, J.
On Friday evening I attended a surprise 50th party for L's mum, the surprise being she's 63! I jest, she's 50, but that really would be a surprise wouldn't it!? I haven't been to an organised party since my 21st so this was a bit of a treat! In any other situation I would have hated the DJ, he started out well, played a few choooons to start with, but alas it seemed he peaked too soon! My friends and I were powering our way through the buffet so we could get up and dance to some of brilliant music he was playing. The second those forks hit the table he started playing cheese. Cheese is my worst nightmare. Agadoo!? It's not even a word! Anyway I thought I've got to pull this together there's nothing I can do, just suck it up, and you know what!? I had a right laugh! Turns out I know all the moves to the Casper Slide and I even got on the floor in my dress to do oops upside your head like a pro! Kids went flying when my friends and I took to the mic to do a (stunning) rendition of the Grease Megamix! The birthday girl got a bit battered and ended up flailing about wildly to some of that Greek music that gets faster and faster, she was surprisingly energetic considering the rest of us gave up halfway through, sweating like pigs (do pigs sweat?). Overall a smashing party! On the way out had the brilliant idea of nicking a few helium balloons and lets just just say some people had some weird voicemail messages the next morning!
Sadly four years ago on the 31st October a good friend died, so my friends and I who knew him like to meet up each year on this date to do something to remember him. This year we decided to go to T's new house in Faversham for a pool party. This is the second weekend in a row where I've found myself in the countryside, and this time I drove. Obviously my sat nav decided it was all too much and packed in before we even set off. So we relied on my iPhone which freaked out the second we jumped onto a road without streetlights, a little message flashed up, "don't go down there it's countryside, there's no wifi and it's DAAAARK". In a few years when Apple have developed a tears app for iPhone, my phone will cry when it thinks of this terrifying time. Once we finally found our way to T's massive new house we had a quick look around then whipped off our kit. This is not how we would usually greet our host but he was in the pool so we decided to join him. Wrong move. It was freezing and due to an embarrassing case of "smuggling peas" we got out pretty swiftly. The rest of the evening was nice and chilled, we stuffed our faces with Chinese (takeaway) and slobbed in front of X Factor and played a bit of rock band. We don't get together in a big group very often, so it was really nice to see everyone.
Sunday I did nothing in the day except go for a run, I am an athlete after all, and in the evening I went on an impromptu trip to the theater! My mum had some spare tickets to a show she was going to so A and I went along for laughs. The show was called Fascinating Ieda and it was very funny. It was just 3 women singing funny songs about the general goings on in the world. I appreciate a good laugh, so it was right up my street. A revelation they shared with us was "Jesus saves, but Tesco saves you more" and I think we can all agree that that is correct, especially when it's set to an uptempo piano tune! A fine end to the weekend.
Still at the same temp job this week, I'm getting quite used to it here and I pretty much know how things are run round here. The DHL men are adequately terrified of me to not bother me while I'm "working". All I have done for the last few days is read Twilight books, I'm now halfway through the 3rd book. Don't know if you know the books/film, but the main girl is so annoying its unreal. The two main characters are meant to be so madly in love with each other, that they're willing to spend eternity together as vampires, as you do. Given that they are besotted with each other they don't half spend time farting about being insecure that the other one is going to leave. Gods sake. Man up, Edward and turn Bella into a vampire quick so she stops bothering me with her non stop whining. If I was her, I'd take the werewolf, so up yours vampire!
This weekend, not doing much apart from going to Oceanas to celebrate G's birthday which should be fun. Might even go for another run to tone my 'svelte physique'.
Peace out,
Luce
P.s. you can find me on Twitter @lucychristopher
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