Shopping

Yesterday started as usual with Mr Messy and Farm Boy going for breakfast, unfortunately afterwards Farm Boy had to go back to work in a city a long way from here, so we won't see him again until we come over again :-( Little Prince was very miffed that he didn't get to say goodbye and that Farm Boy was the one with all the guns lol. Drama Teen had arranged to meet the local boys again today, for an afternoon of fishing and quad biking. She spent all morning getting ready and even asked her big sister for advice on what to wear, although she did wear something completely different than what she'd been advised lol. When she wasn't getting ready she was out on the drive shooting again!! The younger of the two local boys came over when he heard the shots and joined in, his dad arrived a while later to check that he was behaving himself and to offer some more ammunition for the shooting!! He's on a local TV station presenting a hunting type programme.

Once the older boy arrived after lunch Drama Teen and the boys went off to the creek fishing. The rest of us loaded into the car and set off for an hours drive to a big town and its mall. Mr Messy wanted to go to a Best Buy and get a new video camera and a new MP3 player for LMS, as hers has been playing up for ages. I tried to persuade her to have an iPod like the rest of us, but she wouldn't have any of that and went for a Sony Walkman thingie in pink. She would have prefered black but that was out of stock!! Mr Messy also wanted a small camera but the model he wanted was out of stock, so he couldn't have that. He'd also wanted to get some sort of whizzy dizzy memory card that isn't available in the UK yet, but we completely forgot that bit!! We're shopping again on Saturday so perhaps he'll be able to find it then. We then visited loads more shops in the mall and bought clothes and Americana stuff for Little Prince's bedroom. LMS was looking for Van's and Mr Messy for Converses but neither found the style they wanted. We bought some t-shirts for Drama Teen from Sears and they cost just over $2, what a bargain!!! We also visited quite a few farming or hunting shops on the way home to try and find Little Prince some cowboy boots and a cowboy hat for LMS - didn't find either!! But we did find Little Prince some gorgeous Harley Davidson biker boots, he looks so cool :-)

When we got home we got the goss' on Drama Teen's day (in her own words!): First me and the boys went fishing under the bridge by the creek, which is just down the drive. And erm I caught two snakes, and then I caught a lot of fish, but I refused to get them off the line and just held them dangling and wriggling going "Eugh eugh eugh" and mad ethe bhoys take them off the line for me. I also tangled the line quite a few times, but older boy didn't get mad at me so its all good. And then erm we went fishing further up the creek and there were loads of fish there, you just had to throw your line in and you caught something. I wouldn't touch the worms and put them on the line though. We found a skull and that was cool. That was when we'd put the fishing stuff back at older boy's house we went driving on the quad bikes to the bluff and found the skull. I threw leaves at him, but it was windy so he didn't notice but then he threw flowers at me "Yeah flowers." I got to have a go at driving and it is so much fun. After a bit younger boy went home, so me and older boy went round and round and then we went in a field and sat on a haystack. It was really hard to get on them as they were so big, once we got up on them we sat there and chatted for a bit. Then we went back on the quad bike and came on the path behind the guest house, I was driving, the path kind of stopped, and older boy had to help me do a three point turn. I had to be really careful cos there was a really big hill at the side of the path. I kept saying "older boy you do it" but he made me do it myself. On the way back down the path, I crashed into the weeds for no apparent reason, which scared older boy mwahahaha. Then we went back to the haystacks for a bit. Then he had to go and babysit his sisters for a bit. He was supposed to come back after he'd finished, but it was raining too much so he couldn't. So we chatted on a social networking site instead.

Once we'd dumped all the shopping in the guest house and heard all about the day from Drama Teen, we piled back into the car and went out to eat. Our waiter had just returned from England and had been about 30 miles from where we live, on an exchange from his US college!! What a coincidence!! LMS wasn't too chuffed to be craving a drink and be too young to have one!! So Cabbage Queen ordered a "Sex on the Beach" for them to 'share'!! Little Prince had his second corn dog of the day, a disgusting sounding concoction that he seems to really enjoy!! He did surprise me and opt for water instead of his new found favourite of Roo Beer!! LMS had a steak and was much more pleased with the size of this one than the one she had the other day!! She almost ate it too!! It was Cabbage Queen's birthday so we gave her her present - some tiny china cups & saucers and teapots, that she'd seen in the tea shop last week and said she really admired :-)

I checked my emails when we got back to the guest house, but still no word on how Dad's tests went. Hopefully I'll hear sometime today how it all went.