Another busy week. Another busy, SHORT, week, and I'm currently waiting for my dad to arrive so I can go home so yes, I'm going home and it's going to be an extremely BUSY week.
I should stop abusing caplocks at this point, except I don't think that's likely to happen. You see, I'm typing under the "edit html" tap of blog posts, so it's either type in caplock or type the extra seven characters to get italics. Toggle keys are much simpler. It's Friday and, as mentioned above, it's been a busy week. I'm allowed to be lazy (except that doesn't seem like something that's likely to be allowed to happen for very long).
Let's see...first of all, I should recap what happened last weekend, which is, to say, that I went to Annie's place on Friday and stayed with her until Monday morning. Two and a half days of beach, plants, and no school work. It's probably the best thing that could've happened to me at this point in time. A slightly more detailed version of what's happened will take up the next three paragraphs, travel-journal style. Skip ahead for this week's stuff if you want.
Friday: waited for Annie's mom to arrive. Being warned about Annie's family, or at least various members thereof. While leaving Annie's mom warned me that this was my "last chance" to get out and I couldn't quite stop grinning - Annie's warnings are surprisingly accurate though not for the reasons she thought. We went to her grandma's place at San Rafael first, and Annie gave me a tour of the hill around the house, via deer trails. I discovered that I am, in all honesty, a city-girl bred anb born. Cannot keep track of how many times I've tripped and going downhill is seriously tricky business. We saw deer. Plural. So I hope I managed to get the plural form of deer right. We saw her grandma's cat for all of seven seconds before he realized that a stranger was here and bolted somewhere far, far away. We went out to dinner at a place called, I believe, Hannah's and I learned a different word for squid which might be calamari but then again, may be something else entirely. (Like caviar, I guess sea-food type stuff needs pseudonyms to make them sound more appetizing.) It was late when we arrived at Santa Rosa, and Annie's dad tried to teach me to play Rummy, which I'm afraid I also failed at though I do believe I still remember the rules (or at least a great deal of it). People watching was a lot more interesting though. I don't think I've actually seen Annie smug before.
Saturday: Bodega Bay! Bodega Bay! Where they filmed The Bird, which I don't care about, and where there are a lot of tidepools, which I do care a lot about. There's a UC research station somewhere there too, but I'm not sure where. We saw starfishes and sea anemones (the green kind) and after some trial and error I eventually managed to get around the very rocky regions without falling flat on my face (though I don't think I'll ever make it to hiking places that don't have well-established hiking trails). We saw sea lions also, and got salt-water taffy (and consequently a sugar rush). The day there was actually quite cold and gray and the fog followed us home that evening. Oh, and the backyard has LOADS of plants and is quite awesome.
Sunday: Annie took me to visit Luther Burbank's Home and Gardens and even paid for the tour. My interest, needless to say, remained in the gardens. The man developed spineless cactus (which I honestly didn't know existed) and Idaho potatos that are not used in fries everywehre and I think what might be spelled "shasta" daisies. I also saw wildstrawberries for the first time, and DARK GREEN flowers which is truly, truly spectacular. The guy apparently also bred white black berries (no ethnic puns, PLEASE), and plumcots. I wasted batteries on lots of plant pictures, of course. If I ever burn a CD with all the pictures I've taken this year, would anyone be interested in a copy? We went to Sebasterpol (hopefully spelled something like that) in the afternoon and wandered around the downtown area. All the new age shopes are amusing, and I found the idea of jasmine tea biscuits very inspirational. Annie gave me a (another) lecture on the difference between new world and old world monkey (something about a grasping tail) and I gave her a brief lecture on the mistranslation of Chinese characters the new-age shopes had on some pendantes. It was all very educational. Then we went to the icecream shop called Screaming Mimi's and...no, no screaming was involved. The chocolate mint creme was very good though.
Hippo forgave us for leaving within five minutes of our return on Monday, but has been particularly clingy this week as (I think) a result. The Wednesday was a Monday again which, of course, caused no end of confusion to the part of our brain that's actually rational and KNEW that the Wednesday was a Wednesday, darn it, but that also unfortunately was largely subconscious so people end up going to Wednesday's class subconsciously until they stop themselves and "remembered" that it's actually Monday.
Did that make sense? Yeah, it does work like it sounds.
Yesterday was our last Botany Club meeting of the year and we had pizza and played plant pictionary, which is the most botanically geeky yet enjoyable experience I've had all year (I'll take "physiology and development", please). And I should probably wrap up this supremely long entry at this point because my dad should be coming...
...any...minute...now....
1 comment:
That sounds like a very nice couple of days.
Also that is NOT capslock abuse. Not even close xD
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