Sunday, October 3, 2004

Teh More Pics.

Yeps, I have ones from Day 4 here, heh. There aren't very many pictures after this- during Day 5 we didn't really do anything except go up to London (and Mimmi didn't come back with me >.>), but we took a few final pictures anyway, heh. And my favourite will go up tomorrow, I hope. Stop that ticket! This was on the train to Portsmouth- I tried to get my camera out without Mimmi noticing but I wasn't very good at being subtle, heh. But in protest at the ticket 'accedintally jumping in the way', I took another picture of her. Mimmi! And there isn't much more that can be said about this one, heh. Portsmouth Harbour. This is what you see when you turn around on the way to the Historic Dockyard. It's not the most beautiful of places by any standards, but it'll hopefully look a bit nicer when the Spinnaker Tower's finished (so called because it was designed by a bloke called Spinnaker, I think). It was supposed have been done for the Millennium, but it's not looking to be finished until 2006/7, which is a shame. It's taken up more money than they expected, too. Still, it'll be quite nice when it's done ^_^ I think I can see it from my house if I look carefully enough. It's certainly very prominent. Victory! We went straight to this ship first, as we'd been booked onto a tour of the ship that started not too long after we got there. We weren't allowed to take photos inside, which was a shame. I'm sure they're available somewhere though >.> Teh Sleepy Swans. Mimmi noticed these, hee. They're very cool ^_^ Although her two pics look great when seen together. The world's first iron-clad battleship... and it didn't even fire a shot ^_^; A lovely piece of work and much roomier than the Victory. We didn't get an audio tour of this ship though, which I half-think we should have done because I suddenly wondered what a lot of some bits were, but we had fun anyway ^_^ Run Away! She didn't get out of the photo in time, heh ^_~ The Propellor Well. Below this bit is where the ship's 25-tonne propellor resides. I liked the design of the metal rings on the floor, although I'm not entirely sure what they were there for. It would have taken about 600 crew members to raise the prop. 600! Unbelieveable... And the ship's cannons had a range of one mile. I'm sure later battleships have a much more impressive range, but this is still pretty wholesome. Then we went to Frankie and Banny's to eat, heh. And I embarrassed Mimmi by constantly creating play-scenes with her bottle of mineral water: shoving a napkin in its neck, giving it a French accent and making it interact with other glass items on the table ^_^; It was fun, heh. But in the meantime, these guys burst in, all demanding to use a mirror. can you believe it? All of them at once. Really. *coughs* okay, it was from the Frankie and Benny's Christmas advert thingy, but we thought it was cool. After some stone-kicking antics we waited at Waitrose for a short while, waiting for Mum to pick us up. It was quite cold out, actually I kept worrying that Mimmi was going to freeze, but thankfully she seemed alright. Whe we got back we watched Big Fish, heh. Just before we were about to sit down and start, my sister came in asking if she could get her school stuff. I asked if there was anything else people would need to get (as I really don't like being disturbed during a movie), and Mum said that she might need something from the mantlepiece, but it could wait till later. "It's alright, we haven't started yet." Then Mum looked. She didn't look at me, but it was one of those comedic suspicious looks that oozed innuendo. "Mum!" My sister exclaimed. I retreated into the sitting-room, and spied Mimmi giggling away on the seat opposite me. Ah, the innocence of it all ^_~ Big Fish was simply amazing. I loved it to pieces. If you've not seen it yet, do so NOW. Right now. We stayed up really late that night. Which in retrospect might not have been a great idea considering we had such an early start and busy day to go through on Wednesday ^_^;. But it was worth it, heh. After all, we had to make the most of the time we had left. You can catch up on sleep any time, but things like this don't happen very often. That's it for the Tuesday. The final lot will be tommorrow ^_^ By Grabthar's Hammer... Most of today I've spent sleeping, eating and replying to RPGs. Oh, and I watched the RahXephon movie, heh. It was good- it gave a better perspective and explanation to some of the hidden questions of the series, but I think I prefer the series ending myself. It was all very good, but since they don't necessarily directly correte to one another it's quite difficult to relate bits and pieces of it to each other. Worth seeing, though ^_^ Mishima's cute when she's happy. The new Simpsons episodes aren't as good as the previous ones. They're not as funny and the stories are rather obscure, sometimes only amounting tovariations of things that have already happened. Erm... I can't think of anything else to say, heh. It's been pretty quiet, on the whole. I am getting a haircut tomorrow, though. I'm looking forward to being able to style my hair properly again. And this Friday is the day of my (first) driving test. I have driving lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, as well as an hour before the actual test on Friday. Egh, scary stuff... I hope I'll be alright. I should be, but nerves can overcome rational behaviour. Whatever happens happens, and it's not the end of the world either way. That goes for most other things, too.

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