I love meeting people from online! The last week or so I met a lot of friends from
Fan Forum.
On Sunday 3rd of August I picked up
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likethesun from a service station because she'd been on a Doctor Who trip around the UK with
nad2912,
coffeeaddicted and
fairyfloss_love it was great to meet them all. It was a brief meeting, but they all seemed really nice!
Then
likethesun came back to my house and we hung out, watched High School Musical, played online and made a banner (an inside joke on the Graphics Team on Fan Forum) to hold up at the airport when we went to pick up
fojbe &
lostemilie the next day. We had to both had to wake up really early to go and meet
fojbe at the airport - she landed at 7:35. Unfortunately we must have missed the bus (or it didn't show up) and we were quite late.
fojbe laughed so hard when she saw our banner, we had coffee/hot chocolate before heading back to my house on the bus. After having lunch (English cooked breakfast), we went into town to buy Breaking Dawn (as it was released that day). However, when we got there, they had only held one copy of it. I said that I had reserved 4 and the guy checked on the computer which said I had. There were 4 copies there, but when I insisted that he give me those copies, he told us that they had already been pre-paid for. I said that I would have gladly pre-paid for them if I had been told that would have ensured that I receive the 4 copies that I ordered. I argued for a while before requesting that they give me the one copy they put by for me with a discount because THEY had admitted making a mistake and asked to see the manager. The guy went to ask the manager and came back and told me that he wouldn't give me a discount, so I bought the book they had. We checked the other book stores in town, but it had sold out everywhere veh! Then in the evening my Mum took us to go collect
lostemilie.
The next day I took them sight seeing in my home town and we finally managed to get 3 more copies of Breaking Dawn. Then in the evening we had a movie night - we watched The Princess Bride, ate ice cream and drank Vodka & Orange juice.
On the Wednesday we went up to London to meet
jj_jule &
scatteredintime who came over from Germany for a few days. All of us (
likethesun,
lostemilie,
fojbe,
jj_jule and
scatteredintime) are on the Graphics Team at Fan Forum so we all knew each other. It was great - we did a little sight seeing and a little shopping had lunch and dinner before we parted ways. We were all really tired I think from walking around.
On Thursday we went to
Chessington World of Adventures.
likethesun and I were the only ones who wanted to go on the "big" rides 'The Vampire' and 'Dragon's Fury' so
fojbe and
lostemilie looked around the zoo while we went on them. Though they did go on a few of the baby rides with us. ;)
On Friday
likethesun,
fojbe and
lostemilie moved to a travel lodge in the next town over because my Dad & Brother were supposed to come back (though they decided to stay in Europe until Monday evening) we went shopping and then to see The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It was an ok movie, but not brilliant and it really missed Rachel Weisz
Saturday we went up to London again and did more sight seeing/shopping. I bought a new purple jacket for only £19.99, I love it and a bunch of dvds (as usual - I updated
the list).
Sunday we hung out, watched tv and read Breaking Dawn at my house - we didn't do much, but my Mum cooked us roast dinner. On Monday, I met the girls at the station and went off to the airport. I waited while they checked in on their respective flights and sadly said goodbye. :( I'm really going to miss them! I wish that they didn't live so far away and I hope that I see them all again.
( Pictures! )
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