Saturday 9th April

So I am sitting here in my room about to go to sleep. [I thought it would be a cool idea to have a picture of where I am when I'm writing my blogs!]

Today was a really fun day. 

It started off with a super good sleep in :D Then I drove and met a friend [who I shall now name 'L'... or 'El'... cos that sounds cooler. :)

We then drive down to the Virginia beach Ocean Front! In the summer it's a really big Tourist attraction. Today was a pretty cold day - and walking along the beach [after having a parking meter eat all our money...], we had a laugh trying to find a bare set of footprints in the sand, because everyone was wearing shoes it was so cold!

We then walked up an El introduced me to "Salt Water Taffy"! It's really good! :D Then we just walked along the shop fronts window shopping and talking. In the Summer there would be whole amusement parks and stuff open, but they were all closed for the Winter and stuff, but maybe my host family will go some time?

We then went and got some frozen Custard. SO. GOOD. MAN. ALIVE! :D

We had some Chick-fil-A for lunch - a fast-food restaurant which I think Australia should adopt.

There were some pretty good statues around:

Including one which was of a young girl, where there [apparently] was a matching one of the other side of the ocean in another country facing it:

... I don't know if you can read this or not, but it says:

I AM THE NORWEGIAN LADY

I STAND HERE 

AS MY SISTER BEFORE ME

TO WISH ALL MEN OF THE SEA

SAFE RETURN HOME

So that was nice. :)

Then we drove home and I took out my Aussie Au-Pair friend [whom shall now be "J" or 'Jay' :)] which lives just around the corner [seriously what are the chances??] to meet up with some of the Crew from my small group to go to the movies. They said it was at the "Greenbrair Cinema"... little did I know there were two...

So we were about 25 minutes late. Apparently we only missed like 5 minutes of the show though - so thank goodness for the ads [thought sometimes they are the best bit...]

So we ended up seeing "Sucker Punch." 

Interesting movie... Full on and Intense!!!

It reminded me a lot of "Scott Pilgrim vs The World." But that was mainly from the amazing quality of the video and the surreal-ness of the content. But lot less... happy fun. And not funny. I kept thinking "Wow... this is so anime... this has to have been some sort of Manga or something"

I mean my whole idea of the film may have been a WHOLE lot different if I had have seen those first 5 minutes... because the first half an hour I was really trying to work out what was going on... But I got there. Pretty much it's not the kind of film I will be recommending to people. But it wasn't too bad.

Then me and Jay went and had some dinner at Applebee's. Wasn't bad at all!! I really wasn't hungry though, so I asked Jay to order a soup side with hers [because you can only order it with a meal] and then I would pay her the $2 for it. :) So that was good. Then I came home and cleaned my bag out... haha long time needed. :P

Anyway, so I shall be going to sleep now so I can get up in time for small group tomorrow!

Seeyas!