After everyone finally decided to vacate my house almost 24 hours after my party last night and I finally got to do some cleaning and have a little time to myself, the weekend had a much more positive energy. Because of work, my friend Dani couldn't make it to my birthday party, so to make up for it she arranged to catch a ride up to my neck of the woods to spend the weekend with me. I didn't want Dani's boyfriend to have driven all this way just to drop her off and leave again, so I invited them out to have dinner with my partner, sister and I. It wasn't anything fancy, we just went to Nandos, but I thought it would be a nice little thing to do. And it was, turns out that night I took their Nandos virginity, so I'm pretty proud of that.
After dinner, Dani's boyfriend left to drive back to Bunbury and the rest of us went back to our place. Holy crap me and Dani talk a lot. When we got home we both felt like watching a movie and started idly talking during the beginning, but by the end of the conversation, we realised that the movie had already freaking finished. I don't even remember what we talked about but for some reason we just bounce off each other like rubber. Not a bad thing, but I feel like I have to go back and re-watch Mean Girls now. Time went by quickly and before I knew it, it was 1am. Seeing as we had plans for the next day, we decided we should at least get into bed. The rest of the night (or early morning) was spent talking about our theories on aliens and deep sea creatures, I think that was my favourite part, nobody has ever shared my interest in this kind of stuff before.
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The next day we headed up to the city for a day of shopping. First stop of course was Cheep, I've finally found someone who's equally as obsessed with this place as I am! I haven't been there in a while, so there were a lot of new things which made me super happy. Although, one thing stood out among the rest. There was only one left, and I snatched it up the second I laid eyes on it. It was a super adorable egg shirt! I don't know what my obsession is with food themed clothing but I don't even care, this shirt is my life. I also bought another mesh crop top because I clearly don't have enough already.
The next stop was Lush. Dani is unhealthily obsessed with their stuff and never spends less than $50 in one visit. I, on the other hand, am a complete Lush virgin; but I've had a look at their stuff online and I was looking forward to seeing and smelling everything in real life. I guess my shopping addiction can't really be denied any further because although the Lush store was maybe a 3 minute walk away, it took us almost an hour to get there. There were too many stores on the way that we needed to look in! Even as we were about to walk into Lush, we noticed a new sushi place right across the hall that looked so adorable, we had to go check it out. Everything in there was super cheap and yummy looking, they even had a whole shelf of pocky and those ramune drinks. After deciding we would come back to this magical place for lunch, we finally got around to actually going into Lush.
There's so much stuff to look at in there, holy shit and everything smelled so good. I didn't want to leave without buying something, I needed at least one of those amazing scents to take home with me. I don't really take baths, so their famous bath bombs weren't really an option, but I found this adorable shower jelly. It's called Sweetie Pie and it smells like cherries and coconut and it's also really fun to play with in the shower. Turns out that one of Dani's friends works there, so we left with not only the stuff we bought, but a buttload of free samples. I got some shaving cream, a bar of soap, some facial scrub and something called 'rub rub rub'. I also got a honey shampoo which I used that night and oh my god, I need to go back and get me some more of that, it made my hair feel like actual silk.
After spending way too long in Lush, we went to a few of the mainstream clothing stores. As expected, I didn't really find any clothes that I liked among all the floral prints and lacy shorts, but I did find an adorable pastel backpack. I didn't buy it because I wanted to save my money for something better (food), but now that I'm home and reflecting, I think I might go back for it.
On our way to a more alternative clothing store, we happened to walk past a small Korean convenience store. I used to go to these all the time, but they never really had anything besides chocolate/strawberry pocky, the coffee you can get in a can and a bunch of obscure meats with Korean and Japanese writing that my uncultured white ass can't translate yet (although my Korean is getting a lot better). But we had a look in there anyway and I am so glad that we did. They have so much more stuff now! All the asian snacks I order online, they're all here! It was amazing. Unfortunately, they only accepted cash there, and I didn't have any on me. I wanted to go to get some and come back, but Dani said she couldn't wait and sixty dollars later, we left feeling very satisfied with ourselves.
We celebrated our little victory by going back to that cute little sushi place we found to have lunch. Usually a sushi sampler is enough for me, but their stuff looked so good, I got a squid salad as well as my tuna rolls. Despite being in the middle of the shops with people constantly walking past, it was a really good atmosphere in there. It was tucked away just enough that people didn't linger there and we could sit at the window and watch the world go by.
After lunch, I went and got some cash out. Yes, Dani was willing to share her stash, but I wanted to buy some things for myself as well. I have a much more modest budget than her, but I still managed to get some of my favourites.
By this point, we had a lot to carry and evening was starting to show, so we thought we better wrap it up soon. Dani needed to be back in Bunbury at a decent hour and my arms were starting to hurt. The last stop was for bubble tea, where I fuelled my green tea obsession with some matcha milk tea and Dani paid extra for basically a cup of pearls with a splash of milk. I never thought to ask for extra, definitely doing that next time.
After a long train ride back to Warnbro, my partner picked us up and drove us home. We dumped our bags all on the floor to show him everything we had bought.. he didn't look impressed with me, but I have green tea candy, so who's the real winner here?
A bit later on, Dani's boyfriend came to pick her up and take her home back to space and I reluctantly had to wind down from my big day out so I could cook everyone dinner.
This weekend turned out to be really nice and I feel really satisfied with everything. I have a new favourite lunch place in the city, I get to try all these cool Lush products, I have what I think might be my favourite shirt in the history of ever and best of all, I have candy! I'm really glad that I got to have this day to cheer me up and save my birthday weekend.
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