Saturday was kind of a shit show.
Excuse my French there.
But honestly, I worked from 8:30 to almost 6:00, multiple emergencies and everyone was waiting, though in fairness it was good that we could see everyone with one doctor and still made it out of the building by 5:30. Anyway, by the time I made it home and got all packed up to leave it was just after 7:00 and we were really starting to panic. Nanaimo is 2 hours away, our ferry was for 9:30 and we still had to stop for gas in Courtney (half an hour away from Campbell River). Thankfully, because my roommate likes to push her little Acura Vigor ("Toby"), we made it with some time to spare and got on the ferry with no problem. It was dark by then so we stayed in the car and relaxed, reading and listening to music. By the time we made if off the ferry, we were so tired but still had to get to the hotel. I read off the map we bought at the ferry terminal and she got us there safely, almost falling into a speed trap at the exit (it was under construction so the speed was 30!). We crashed and slept till 8 (her till 9:30) and then set off for Starbucks and Metrotown for shopping.
We did meet up with an old friend of ours, though, and trooped around Chinatown (disgusting, piss-smelling street markets unfortunately included) for a while before heading back to the car via skytrain. Apparently there is some kind of convention going on in November that my roommate wants us to go to, so we'll be seeing our friend again then. I don't know how I feel about being stuck in a large building full of anime geeks but we;ll see how it pans out. She says I'll enjoy myself, so I guess I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
We spent the evening in Surrey with her family so we had dinner and her cousin took us for a ride in his gorgeous yellow Camero. My goodness, it still smelled like new car. Fancy little thing that hit 200 without feeling like it'd passed 60. You don't feel speed in that car the same way you feel it in Toby. Maybe it's because Toby's 20 years old and the Camero is this year's model. Haha, I don't know, but it was exhilerating. Dinner was lovely and I was much more brave that I thought I'd be, chatting with her aunt about dogs and her cousin about movies and classic cartoons. It was a nice time, even though it wasn't my family.
We went shopping in Surrey on Monday before heading back towards the ferry to go home. Once we hit Nanaimo we went to visit my sister to see her new "apartment" style dorm, which was very nice. Then we took her out to dinner and headed on home, making it back by 10. It was a tiring trip, but lots of fun.
Right now I am watching netflix and painting my nails with Essie's Bikini So Teeny. It's a lazy kind of day. I gotta catch up on my relaxing!
