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everlastingsoul) wrote2004-07-23 07:21 pm
everlastingsoul) wrote2004-07-23 07:21 pm
Candy apples and heatstrooooke... @.@
Just got back from a long shopping outting with some friends of mine. Zach was in town for the past week and we hung out today, going all the way to Bellevue Square with Jennifer, Jenn, and Jenn's new boyfriend, Ryan. (That's basically a two hour drive.) We left at 9:30 AM and ... just came back at about 7:02 PM.
So, anyway, Jennifer and I were in one car (with no air conditioning on a day where the temp went up to 94 degrees F x_X) and the other three were in the other car. In addition to 'superb' communication skills and evil cellphones, we had the misfortune of one thing that should not ever be underestimated: Jennifer's lack of a sense of direction. I swear, we nearly missed the exit off to Bellevue twice before we got into the city, and then we still had to drive an extra 20 minutes to find the mall. x__X
We met Zach's old girlfriend, Kaarin, and her boyfriend, Kyle, up in Bellevue Square (after Jennifer and I had several (read: five) mishaps finding the mall and the others). We wandered around the mall for about three hours, not buying anything and acting as a weird little caravan, and basically chatting the time away when we weren't eating pizza.
Heh... I just remembered when we stopped in this chocolate shop there. We were looking at candy apples that were sitting out on display, and wondering why in the world they bothered to put an apple in the middle of the mess of candy that was made. There was one candy apple, called Apple Explosion, that was seriously surrounded by two inches of chocolate, marshmallow, and caramel. x_x
Soooo... After that interesting mall trip, Zach, Jennifer, and I piled into Jennifer's car and started home.
Or so we had planned.
It turned out that Jennifer's bad luck had us going southbound (instead of northbound) on the freeway towards Seattle. This was approximately at 4:30 PM, when traffic is horrible in the Everett area and we were sitting in the middle of it. I was asleep during most of this, so I didn't realize we were heading south until I noticed we had passed Northgate Mall (in the Seattle area) and, in a daze, I wondered if Northgate had been closer to home than Bellevue. -_-
Zach finally took notice when we were all of five miles away from the Space Needle, and we had to turn away and head back northbound ... in the same damn traffic jam. Mind you, the temperature was now 94 degrees F and we were in a car without air conditioning...
Yeah, it was pretty damn hellish. We didn't even stop for drinks. *weeps*
So, anyway, Jennifer and I were in one car (with no air conditioning on a day where the temp went up to 94 degrees F x_X) and the other three were in the other car. In addition to 'superb' communication skills and evil cellphones, we had the misfortune of one thing that should not ever be underestimated: Jennifer's lack of a sense of direction. I swear, we nearly missed the exit off to Bellevue twice before we got into the city, and then we still had to drive an extra 20 minutes to find the mall. x__X
We met Zach's old girlfriend, Kaarin, and her boyfriend, Kyle, up in Bellevue Square (after Jennifer and I had several (read: five) mishaps finding the mall and the others). We wandered around the mall for about three hours, not buying anything and acting as a weird little caravan, and basically chatting the time away when we weren't eating pizza.
Heh... I just remembered when we stopped in this chocolate shop there. We were looking at candy apples that were sitting out on display, and wondering why in the world they bothered to put an apple in the middle of the mess of candy that was made. There was one candy apple, called Apple Explosion, that was seriously surrounded by two inches of chocolate, marshmallow, and caramel. x_x
Soooo... After that interesting mall trip, Zach, Jennifer, and I piled into Jennifer's car and started home.
Or so we had planned.
It turned out that Jennifer's bad luck had us going southbound (instead of northbound) on the freeway towards Seattle. This was approximately at 4:30 PM, when traffic is horrible in the Everett area and we were sitting in the middle of it. I was asleep during most of this, so I didn't realize we were heading south until I noticed we had passed Northgate Mall (in the Seattle area) and, in a daze, I wondered if Northgate had been closer to home than Bellevue. -_-
Zach finally took notice when we were all of five miles away from the Space Needle, and we had to turn away and head back northbound ... in the same damn traffic jam. Mind you, the temperature was now 94 degrees F and we were in a car without air conditioning...
Yeah, it was pretty damn hellish. We didn't even stop for drinks. *weeps*
Aziel
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