Back again after a fruitful absence from the internet as Lucinda was over for 10 days. In these 10 days, we scaled mountains in a runaway mine cart, tripped over snakes, got hung up on by service operators, and made cocktails in my room watching studio ghibli films.
Rundown:
(1) Lucinda arrives exhausted. I drag her up to the top of the mountain and we get starbucks and walk down and I show her the city lights. Weather decides to be a dick and it's horribly polluted and doesn't look near as pretty as it usually does.
(2) I go for my last day of work whilst Lucinda sleeps off her traveling. I get back just as she wakes up. We wander town - looking in toy shops because we are so mature - and go for korean bbq. We use the excuse of having to eat lots to absorb all the alcohol we'd no-doubtedly be chugging later (jaeger night,) before heading out and indeed, consume a fairly impressive amount (for the two of us lightweights.) I end up dragging her home at three, exhausted cus of work.
(3) Visit to Lamma island with my parents. Walk around the island with proper chinese seafood. Lucinda's hangover fucks off at about 3 so it's all good. We watch cute films. Memory can't even remember what now.
(4) Disneyland! We start the day off with frozen yogurt because with a day that STARTS with froyo, there's no way it can be bad and it can only get better. Highlights include space mountain, the new grizzly mountain in all its shocking backwards glory, the philharmagic orchestra as usual because it's cute, everything about toy story land, and of course, FIREWORKS!!!
We got bows as well, cos we're cute.
NEVER FAIL TO GIVE ME GOOSEBUMPS.
Okay, I think y'all get my eternal undying love for fireworks at this point.
(5) Went to cheung chau late afternoon for more seafood - don't know why - and cycling. Rented bikes and cycled along the seafront until Megan got lost. After dinner, went to Sav's gig and ended up accidentally out at $10 vodka night for a bit. I finally have a witness as to how strong the drinks are here.
(6) Ladies' Night - went to Esme's to chill for a bit before going out for a letdown of a ladies' night to be honest. Too busy and we waited for like 15 minutes to get a drink. My guy friends had even more trouble, so we gave up and came home and watched films tipsy instead.
(7) I think we went shopping today? Everything has sort of merged into one big memory again. Wandered Mongkok and the little malls and picked up some things. Came home (again) and marathoned studio ghibli. (Lucinda is now a big fan. Can't describe how pleased I am.)
(8) Ocean park!!! Despite it being a friday, it was literally the best day we could've gone... there weren't that many mainlanders as China's holiday was just about over. The longest line we had to wait in was about 15 mins and there were loads of new rides to go on! We cleverly went straight on the hair-raiser (new rollercoaster,) without actually looking at it which was lucky as once we were on it we freaked out as it looked far more horrifying than it actually was. Yay, reckless moment of bravery - 1.
From the collection of photos titled 'Laura & Lucinda wait in line.'
Lucinda had never seen pandas before !!!
Was disgustingly hot. Really, really bad. But it looks pretty.
babyyyy
Several long stays at the south pole encounter / north pole encounter / aquarium / ANYWHERE REMOTELY COOL AND AIR CONDITIONED for prolonged periods of time.
Also: they have a walrus now!!! For something so ugly, it really was majestically beautiful! Doing all its graceful backflips and just swimming around. We spent quite a lot of time just watching it.
We both actually didn't go on the turbo drop because she hates anticipation and this time there weren't any 11 year olds around to make me feel bad for not going on hah.
(9) Did more shopping today after a long recovery. Lingered in the cat shop for ages buying presents for Lucinda's boyfriend and I just looked since I hadn't been paid yet. Such a big list of things to buy now! Went out for the last time this night - jaeger again, and I also took Lucinda to see LKF which she liked. Since we're both apparently old now, we left earlyish.
(11) Lucinda left late at night so we just went up to the peak again and had new york fries (of course) and just stared at the skyline before dropping her off and then I came home and skyped boyfriend for like 3 hours to catch up.
Since then, I've gone shopping (and blown half my paycheck already oops not really,) and have just been playing guitar / piano and composing and drawing and running and counting down the days. As of now, 9 sleeps til i'm back in england with boyfriend :) Finally into single digits. Me & Lucinda both kept reiterating how this was the first time we'd complained about the length of a holiday. Sucks being so far away from half the people I care loads about for so long. Not long now. I've got a 12 hour (upgraded, yay!) plane flight and an extensive to do list once I land. So excited. ♡
