Double, or 1.5x posting.

"Because I forgot something..."

Now, because those other two before me haven't been so verbose and such about the great day out, which is better than Big Day Out, on account for the fact that it's smaller, and nicer, and well, just more relaxed and interesting. It's like a teddy bear picnic, but better. And we're NOT going into the woods (yesterday). =D

Okay, so I wake up at 9:45, realise that I'm probably going to be late, because I sorta slept in, get up, eat breakfast and such, and then travel there by car.

I get there, and am the last one to arrive (No surprise), but it's ok. They were waiting for the ice to be frozen/glazed over again anyway. Anyway, some talking in a nice bar-ish corner, overlooking the ice rink, and a few things are noticed.

1. The guy doing the rounds with his ice thing, (Y'now, Zombonis? Yea.) wasn't actually doing rounds. In the middle of it, he just cut through the ice and made a big line.
2. He's wearing something that looks like a suit.
3. He can drift with that thing. Seriously, he made almost 90 degree corners at some stages.

Anyway, after he finishes, we go down to the ice rink, debating about whether to use the lift or not, but then we just go via the carpark ramp. Not sure why, but it works, I guess. We end up losing Kram, but Kael calls him on Harvard's (?) phone only to have Kram arrive in a blaze of...glory, in the lift, and with an ice cream in one hand, phone in other.

Kram: What? I went to get an ice cream, come back, and you're all gone, as expected. (Yea, I'm not the best quoter. But you get the gist of it.)

Then, we go in, after me having a look at the nice crane machine right outside with loads of stuffed toys.

Me: $18 for under 16s? Alright!

Harvard: I'm 16 and I'm not doing anything with it. (Something like that.)

So we go to get our skates and then put them on.

(HA stubs her toe on the chair while trying to get her skates on, causing me to laugh.)

HA: It's not funny =.=
Me: Yes, it is (Haha.), you stubbed your toe on a chair. (Haha.)
HA: I did not stub my toe =.= (Cracks a small smile)

After that, it's just your average game of tip, with lots of people at the boundary, Renee sorta learning how to skate, Nara who I suspect will be reading this... Q.E.D. She's Dandelion~ (I think.), teaching Kael and Renee how to skate in...well, one of the more intuitive ways, but not quite the way I'd go about it. Still, I'm glad I didn't have to teach =/ As for stopping, you seriously just go around in circles, until you learn how to twist your hips or something weird. I don't get it either, dw.

HA: We've talked about Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Eco, Biology, History, Geography...Er, Oh look, there's a variable woodland (Points outside to the foliage.)
Me: (Mishearing because of the loud music, louder than I normally play on my mp3 player, when I have it.) Variable wiblam? Wha...?
HA: Variable woodland!
Me: Wiblam? Huh?
HA: WOODLAND!
Me: Oh. That doesn't look anything like a woodland! For starters, there's palm trees!
HA: That's why I said Variable.
Me: But it's still not a woodland, even if there is a "variable".

Playing tip, IcedTrees tips me, and I try chasing after Mark, who, in his attempt to do something really funky, ends up slipping. Twice. I'm laughing too hard to try chasing him, so I go after someone else. Really funky being spinning round a lot, and then flapping his arms. =D

(Announcement for limbo plays, El Macarena, or however you spell it starts playing.)
Me to HA: I'll bet someone's going to fall over trying to dance to it.
(Few moments later, JM slips and lands on his behind for going onto the third time that day.)
Me: Ha! See? There you go.

(Lining up for limbo. Well, sort of.)
Nara: Why would they wear short shorts? (Points to several girls.) Doesn't it get cold?
HA: Yea, what if they slip?
Me: Well, obviously they want boys to see their sexy, sexy legs. (Rolls eyes.)
(Met with questioning stares.)
Me: What? Besides I only wear long pants.
Nara: That's ok, you're a guy. What would you know about wearing shorts?
Me: I should be asking you that question! What do you know about wearing short shorts?
Nara: HA doesn't wear short shorts.
Me: You don't? Huh. But you wore heels to the formal!
HA: That's different, it's a social convention.
Me: What I don't get is why they wear knee-high socks, and short shorts at the same time.

Oh, and Kael. It doesn't really matter how much you lift up your feet, it just gets tiring if you lift it up too much, I suppose.

Me: (Laughing yet again from another poor suc- I mean, poor person who fell over. Yet again.)
HA: It's not that funny!
Me: Well, considering there's a show dedicated to people falling over, I think it IS pretty funny.
HA: I don't watch it. And I'm sure the audience there is forced to laugh.
*A little later*
Me: (Laughing yet again.)
HA: What's so funny? =.= Oh hey look, a pothole. I'm going to laugh now.
*Some time later*
HA: (Laughs.)
Me: Huh? (Looks down.) Oh, it's a pothole. (Haha.) (I didn't think you were serious when you said that.)

I think that's about it for on the ice rink... Oh...

I knew I forgot something, addition:
Nara: (Skates up to us.) People keep falling. I'm not going to teach anymore, it makes me feel bad.(I don't quite think that's what she said, but it's sorta ok.)
Me: Yes, my life is complete!
Nara: No, it's bad!
Me: Yes, my life is complete!

Harvard: How do you stop?
Me: You kinda...just wait. Sorta.
Nara: You spin around for a bit.
Harvard: I know! (Starts flapping his arms backwards.) If you flap your arms backwards like this, you slow down!
Me: (Rolls eyes.) Yea, I'm sure.
Harvard: No really! Try it.
HA: He's right y'now.
Me: Air isn't liquid =.=
HA: Yea, but it's like swimming, when you do tumbleturns and you flap your arms, like this (Demonstrates a little.)
*Later*
Me: Do you think she could drill to the centre of the Earth if she kept spinning? (Motions towards a girl practicing.)
HA: Gravity would slow her before she got there. And she'd need to get through the crust.
Me: Gravity doesn't stop centrifugal force. Much. But seriously, look, there's a drill like impression.
HA: Well, when you go swimming, if you spin your arms around, you can feel the centrifugal force in your fingers. Just don't try it here.
Me: (Tries it anyway, almost slips over.) (Laughing.)
HA: (Laughing.) I see reverse psychology works well on you.

Anyway, I'm proud to have not fallen over once. Tripped, slipped, sure. But not fallen. =)

The session calls for a close, we take a group photo, then file out.
Me: (Reads) Please do not sit or loiter here. (The board for measuring your feet.) Yea, they really want to measure the foot size of their butt.
HA: Butts have feet now?

Outside, there's the game, which I try, but surprise (ok, not really.), it slips. $2 for one try was ok, though, despite not getting anything. Oh well.
Andy: (Tries the coin return, and is met with a few questioning glances.) What? I've gotten $5 that way before.

Goes to eat, Kael looking a tad unhappy at our indecisiveness..We're now upstairs where the cinemas are and where there are "restaurants"
Kael: What are we looking for?
Me: Uh...food?
Kael: Food was downstairs! (Stomps off with exasperated mumbling to the escalator.)

So, yea we eventually find a spot for all 11 of us, and sit down. I go off to find some nice food, come back with some Thai, and sit down to eat. Kram gets bento from the aptly named "Ken's Bento"
Kram: It's pickled ginger. No, that's plastic.
There's not really much of note for lunch, but my meal was pretty good. A tad expensive at $8.90 but you can't have it all.
(JM is wandering around deciding what to eat.)
HA: See! It's is a woodland! You just can't see anything else but the palm trees.
Me: What? Oh, come on. Look, there's...ok, there's ferns. Fine. But it's not a woodland.
Nara: What.
Me: Oh, something we were talking about during ice skating.
Nara: Like short shorts and knee high socks?
Renee (I think): There's green thigh high socks with stripes...
HA: Weren't we talking about short shorts, knee high socks and high heels?
Nara: (Says something I forgot.)
Me: You wear knee high socks and heels? Huh?
Nara: No! What I mean is...
Kram: Alright, when JM gets here, we leave. (Impish grin.)
Me: Well...
Kram: C'mon, I bet that by the time he finishes choosing, we'll all be finished eating.
(JM comes into view)
Me: Nah, he's here already.
Kram: Drats.

And yea, thanks for the cupcake I didn't eat, and the pen. I tried the pen when I got home, and it didn't work, but I figured it was sorta dry or something. Now it works. So, uh, thanks.

Off we go to Borders, for some inexplicable reason, other than me suggesting it, because there was nothing better. It ends with us in Borders, having a look around at really funny things, Twilight calendars, and pocket bacon calendars. Not to mention lots of manga, and a book about sex. In the bargain bin. Somehow.

Me: (Picks it up.) Huh? Oh. (Puts it down.)
Kram: I'm sure you'll need that soon.
Me: What? No.
Kram: Oh, come on. You do.

Oh, and there was a really cool pop-up book about the history of imperial China. No jokes, go ask Kram, he showed it to me.

HA: No, I don't want these books (Pocket Shakespeare).
Me: How come? You might need them...
HA: I don't want to spend money on myself!
Me: =.=

For the record, you're the only person I've heard say that. So, yes. =.=

Pretty much, that was the outing, in a very verbose, and from my point of view. Of course, a lot of it was funnier at the time, but still, it's pretty funny. Knee high socks and heels =D

Oh, and shock-absorbing. Which I won't elaborate on, but it's still pretty funny. =P

I don't think I've missed anything but..

Hoping I didn't. It would be sorta embarrassing to have to type up little bits I did miss. Oh, and did you win that chocolate bar Renee, or pull it out of...wherever? Oh, and for the second or third time, Happy Late Birthday Renee.

As an aside, I'm aiming to reel in $0.50 every month from Triond.com. As it is, I'm getting maybe, $0.50 every two months. So, time to crank out the articles and stories, I suppose. All for money! Goals: (Per month)
1. $0.50
2. $1.00
3. $1.50

That is all for now.