Saturday, October 2, 2004

Day 3 of England Adventures
We were actually supposed to go in to Portsmouth on the Monday, but due to a cancelled train we decided to jump into Chichester instead. Which was really nice, so I wasn't sad at all about the change of plans.

The main thing we had to do was to find postcards. This time around people had let me know that they expected something to get back to them from my journey, or there'd be consequences >> It wasn't too hard to find them. Deciding which one to send to whom - infinitely more so. I sort of pride myself in getting the 'right' postcard/present to the person I shop for, heh. My favourite one was a card that read 'I'm laughing because you're my sister and there's nothing you can do about it'. That got sent to my younger sister and she loved it ^___^

Her presents had already been bought while we were in London (Terry Pratchett books), so I only had mom and dad to sort out. Solo had informed me that there was a brilliant chocolate shop, which seemed to be the perfect place to look for moms present. Knowing that she liked raisins and pecan nuts, I tried to find a chocolate with either of the two and managed to come across one that had both ! They sold these huge blocks of chocolate (this one was dark) and it came in a pretty box. Perfect ^_^

And I also bought a little bag of 'Tiny Tasty Turtles', hehe. Milk chocolate shaped as turtles. Getting out of that store didn't come easy *drools*

We went into a couple other shops, one which had *drum roll* Lindor chocolate :O! Having spoken to their biggest fanboy, I knew I couldn't pass up on the chance to try them out. My budget couldn't stretch to the bigger pack, but the smaller one fit the bill. I'm now waiting for the perfect moment to enjoy them ~_^

After shopping was complete and yummy sammiches taken in, we headed for the bowling alley ! :D Solo must've practiced or something because his game was brilliant and I had trouble keeping up *cough* It was a lot nicer to bowl there than at Funland in London, that's for sure.

We had planned to catch 'Hellboy' next, but it was a while until it started so we walked to a local park (which was next to Chichester Cathedral). There I wrote my postcards and theorized with Solo about George, the Gardener. For someone completely unaware (we think) of our cameras, he sure was hard to capture. Mine came out blurry, even after trying ... far too many times ^_^;;;; It was quite amusing to pretend that we were taking pictures of anything but him, when it probably looked very obvious what we were doing XD

Solo and I also took each others picture, while taking each others picture O.o





Hellboy wasn't my cup of tea, though there were some fun stuff in it. And stuff that were equally.... eck >> I can stand watching people get diced up by swords, but not something being drooly and slobbery. Intriguing.

On our way back to the trainstation (with a quick de-tour to the supermarket), we hummed 'The Empiral March' (I think ...) and kicked chestnuts/stones back and forth. Little things like that made the trip so much more fun, hehe ^_^

We also squeezed in some Scrabble playing before the day was over, which made me even happier. Mimmi do lubs the game of wordyness :D We called it a night fairly early, since the following day would consist of an early rise and trip to Portsmouth.

Which you will see pictures of tomorrow !
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