bliumchik | the crickets that would convince me to call it a night

Yeah, so my initial assessment of the shorts was pretty much spot on. Did I mention they are pinstriped? Myes. Buuut the shorts/tights/sandals combo appears to work in general, so now I guess I just have to get some less bizarre shorts and I have a new summer outfit! That's the nice thing about the "oh look it's a thing" method of choosing clothing.

So Stan IMs me at about 7pm going BBQ on Maroubra beach! ...in about an hour? as he does. Liza picked me up shortly after eight and we went to Sasha's, where we met the others... and headed off to the supermarket to buy meat. And bread. "Oh, and do we have a knife?" ...spontaneity ftw!

Of course then at the supermarket somebody said "um guys it is nine pm... why are we going to the beach?" so we decided to relocate to Gathy's. At this point Liza's car blew a tire. "Do you have a spanner?" says I. "Do you have a spare TIRE?" says Stan. "What!?" says Liza, and opens the boot, looking somewhat bewildered. "Whoah, I have a spare tire! ...but it says do not exceed 80km. You know what I think I will just ring my dad and swap cars with him and he can deal with this bullshit." so me and Stan relocated to Val's car while Gleb stayed to keep Liza company. Obviously none of that was so smooth and decisive, there was dithering and dallying and the throwing of hands into the air.

Stan's navigational ~skillz led to a scenic detour in which we were totally lost in what turned out to be 100 metres distance of Bondi Road, which was sort of embarrassing. We asked for directions and everything. From randoms in the street, because Stan's "look, just keep going till it's turn left or drive into the ocean, and then turn left" was not as useful as it sounded. Anyway, we finally arrived at Gathy's and Val and Stan were promptly dispatched to go back to Bondi Junction and pick someone else up. But THEN there was MEEEEAT. Om nom nom. I ate a steak and one and a half hot dogs :D teach my grandad to tell me I'm undernourished.

I failed massively at pool and we played a game called Dirty Minds, in which all the clues sound incredibly dirty but the answers are actually regular things. It was amusing and left me giggling at everything vaguely innuendo-ish that was said for the rest of the night. Liza drove me home and at one point Take On Me came on the radio and I was briefly confused because the words were not the ones from this (which still never ceases to be hilarious) (piiiipe wrench fiiiight)

Tomorrow: visit other grandma, buy books, get haircut, overhaul my room so my parents don't freak out when they come home, and finally PANCAAAAKES.