Day 150........a busy day out and about.
3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.
The two hours I spent in Tim Hortons yesterday morning just flew by and before I knew it, I had to go meet Ali from her class. The building that the drama school is in, is beautiful. It is relatively small but has 4 floors with a glass roof that you can look up to from the plant filled foyer. The inside of the building is brick and looks like it should be the outside of the building-it's a really great effect with big double glass doors making the fairly small foyer feel larger. Ali's school is just one of the businesses in there and some of the other units look pretty cool, like the recording studio opposite.
We nipped home for some lunch and then headed to the Sherway Mall which is a bit different from the one that we've been going to on a Sunday. It doesn't have a grocery store and so I shopped with the girls for a while and then headed for the food-court to read my book.......without my glasses. The food court is like a big circus tent except that it's not canvas but you get the idea of the design. It's always busy up there but I found myself a little table and plonked myself down. If I had thought about it, I could have just sat in one of the many comfy seats that are dispersed around the mall but I was there and so just stayed there. I was joined by the girls, the best part of an hour later. We were all hungry as it was after five and so we decided to eat from a place that had decent burgers. Except, yesterday they were awful. I'm sure that Macdonalds would have been nicer and I almost took them back....but I didn't. Jens hot dog was okay and we all felt at least semi-fed but I will NEVER risk a burger from there again. YUK and probably Karma for eating out when we could have headed home.
One of the reasons we did eat out was that we were having to go grocery-shopping on the way home and so it was going to be seven-ish before we made it home. Those of you who know me well know that I do not do well when I am hungry so next week, I will try to remember to put three granola bars in my bag.
Next weekend I am going to suggest we head to a new place. That was always my plan, to do a new area each weekend but we have become a bit complacent. There are so many areas we have yet to explore. Oh, and in case you think that the girls must be spending a fortune, most of the time they only come home with a couple of items between them. Yesterday Ali managed to get a beautiful wee skirt which she is going to team up with a fancy top, to wear to her semi-formal at the end of next month. None of her friend wanted to go but Ali managed to persuade one of them and now there's five of them going. It's down at Ontario Place and will be a great experience for them. Maybe she'll find a date and make it an even six. They are allowed to take a boy who is not at ESA but where would she meet one of them. Mmm? Oh yes, maybe on the subway. She had a moment, with a young man, going both directions to Drama class. Going there, we had a 'crazy' lady screaming and yelling and swearing at everyone near her in the subway car. A handsome young man got on and sat down very close to her, not knowing that she was terrorising the passengers. He soon found out and looked hugely awkward. Alison indicated to him to move to a seat that was empty nearer ours (also out of view of crazy lady) and he picked up his bag and moved, giving her a grateful nod. I told her she should have asked for his number and told him he owed her a date to the semi-formal-tee hee. Her trip home found her laughing with another young man (also handsome but blonde about the fact that nobody understands what the announcements are, on the TTC. All communication was done through expression and action in a 'what are they saying?' fashion and she got a goodbye nod from him. She perhaps needs to begin carrying around pieces of paper with her phone number on-lol.
The grocery store was en-route home and so Ali came with us which meant that we had three pairs of hands for shopping. The heaviest things are the juices and sodas we buy and so having a third pair of hands is very useful for dividing the weight up. The only casualty was a kiwi which came out of the shopper with a huge leaking dent. Not bad for a first ever casualty and I simply peeled and ate it and enjoyed it a hundred times more than the burger.
Laundry time again and I happily emptied the airer to make space for another dark load. A lovely big pile of clean dry clothes went to Jen, a medium pile to me and hardly anything to Alison. I think the bulk of last nights wash may be hers.
I hate to talk about our weather yet again but the mercury has done a nose dive to minus double figures again and the breeze is a much bigger verion of 'Fresh' The house felt cold last evening and I had to use fluffy (my dressing gown) for additional warmth overnight.
Brrrr.
I hope that your week is off to a great start, Folks.
Mine is,
Much Love,
Lxxxx
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