The Field Trip from Hell, or Close to it Anyway
What is worse than going on an all day field trip with a bunch of people you sort of know from school but don't really like? Going on an overnight field trip with those same people.
What could be worse than that? Coming home from said field trip with a bunch of hung over people you don't really like.
That pretty much sums up the past 2 days. Our class went to Vancouver and stayed overnight. We went to Granville Island, which is way cool, but somehow I got separated and spent most of the time there wandering around by myself. At the time I was a bit bummed but after so much "togetherness" this past few days, I'm glad I had the alone time. After Granville Island we went to Chinatown, where we had to stick together for some reason. I got some fun stuff for the kids and some cool green ink for Niko. I think it would be fun for Niko and I to take Selena there some time, there was so much neat stuff.
We also went to this big supermarket called "Urban Fare", some sort of yuppie farmers market. Very expensive! I bought some mangosteens at $6/lb (only 4, 1 for each of us to try at home). The coolest thing about that was meeting someone outside the store with a borzoi x husky. Beautiful dog. Later on we went to a nearby Milestone's for dinner. It was very disappointing, the service sucked, my steak was nice but to grisly for a New York strip and the roast potatoes tasted like they were roasted last week (the peas were nice though).
After that half the group went out to some club, the rest of us hung out for a bit, then I went to read my book. We didn't manage to get out of the hotel until 0830, which means we hit the ferry terminal at 0910 and had to wait for the 1230 ferry (being Easter weekend the lines were nuts!). I wanted to walk on but the terminal was about 2 mi from our first place in line and none of the hangover group wanted to walk that far. . . So I got home about 1500 this afternoon. All in all it wasn't a bad 2 days but I would have rather been elsewhere, especially near the end when everyone was bitchy, guys included.
What could be worse than that? Coming home from said field trip with a bunch of hung over people you don't really like.
That pretty much sums up the past 2 days. Our class went to Vancouver and stayed overnight. We went to Granville Island, which is way cool, but somehow I got separated and spent most of the time there wandering around by myself. At the time I was a bit bummed but after so much "togetherness" this past few days, I'm glad I had the alone time. After Granville Island we went to Chinatown, where we had to stick together for some reason. I got some fun stuff for the kids and some cool green ink for Niko. I think it would be fun for Niko and I to take Selena there some time, there was so much neat stuff.
We also went to this big supermarket called "Urban Fare", some sort of yuppie farmers market. Very expensive! I bought some mangosteens at $6/lb (only 4, 1 for each of us to try at home). The coolest thing about that was meeting someone outside the store with a borzoi x husky. Beautiful dog. Later on we went to a nearby Milestone's for dinner. It was very disappointing, the service sucked, my steak was nice but to grisly for a New York strip and the roast potatoes tasted like they were roasted last week (the peas were nice though).
After that half the group went out to some club, the rest of us hung out for a bit, then I went to read my book. We didn't manage to get out of the hotel until 0830, which means we hit the ferry terminal at 0910 and had to wait for the 1230 ferry (being Easter weekend the lines were nuts!). I wanted to walk on but the terminal was about 2 mi from our first place in line and none of the hangover group wanted to walk that far. . . So I got home about 1500 this afternoon. All in all it wasn't a bad 2 days but I would have rather been elsewhere, especially near the end when everyone was bitchy, guys included.
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