Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Today (or yesterday, I should say) was quite an adventurous day and I'm in the mood to narrate it with some photos. I began the day by waking up at seven so I could be to Rui's house by 8. This is the earliest I've woken up all summer, and it makes me wonder how I ever got out of bed every morning when I went to Mass Academy. Anyways, I arrived on time thanks to Babs the GPS and met her and Stephanie. We took Rui's car because she wanted to go surfing and had already tied two surfboards to the roof. We all got into the car and discussed the cold weather and dark clouds above, even though the forecast predicted otherwise. On our way to the beach, we stopped at Starbucks.

Here is a picture of the first Starbucks I have ever had. It was a double chocolately chip frappe or something along those lines, and it was scrumptious. And about 10,000 calories.

We arrived at the beach an hour later and it was empty and there were no waves.

Stephanie and I were very cold and were not enjoying ourselves.

Rui, on the other hand, was a totally different story.

When she finally decided to get out of the water, it had started raining. We got back into the car and tried to find something to do.

The Natick Mall was our next destination! Rui and I decided to take a picture in the bathroom. Note the chandeliers.

We shopped in Sephora for about an hour taking free samples of things. Stephanie decided to give me a great spray tan on my legs. The spottiness looks great!

Since we all had places to be, we decided to leave early so we could get back on time. Then, we saw this black looming cloud that looked like it was about to give birth to a tornado, lightning included. It was scary. The sky pretty much opened up next and it began to torrentially downpour. Then, flash flooding occured. The roads were blocked, trees were falling, cars were getting stuck in puddles/lakes, and it was all around terrible. Like we haven't gotten enough rain here.

This is where a street used to be.

I got out of the car and the water was up to my ankles. In the middle of the road.

We decided it would be best to go inside. Aka to go shopping at Marshall's. We got drenched just going from the car to the store. We shopped around for a while and tried a lot of stuff on. While in the dressing room, Stephanie decided she wanted to do push ups against the wall. As she was doing them, a door flung open to reveal the lady changing behind it in her underwear. I died laughing. We got out of their pretty quickly, and the rain stopped so we drove back to Rui's house.

When we got back, the sun came out! It had taken us over 2 hours to get from Natick to Westborough. I missed my Zumba class with Lea! I then drove home to shower and relax.

Luke then called me, and since he was in Worcester and lonely I decided we should go to the Wonderbar. I met up with him and Rob (after walking 20 blocks because I parked so far away). Alex also met us there. We ordered one cheese pizza and one pitcher of soda. I was mad because I was more hungry and they were mad because I didn't bring money, even though Luke said he would pay to compensate for gas money! I basically just got tooled on the whole time. After calling me Levis the whole meal to the waitress, the total came to sixteen dollars.

I then drove Luke back to his house in Westminster. We arrived at about ten and decided I couldn't drive back home at the time because it was dark, rainy, and foggy. So, Luke, Alex, and I had a sleepover. Not really though because I talked to Aashish, then we watched one and a half episodes of Family Guy and they fell asleep. So, I snuck upstairs to Rachel's room and fell asleep on the comfortable bed. That was the end of my exciting day!