So. Yesterday was an adventure.
The good kind, mostly. It was absolutely POURING when I was on my way to pick up Erin...
Once we got into Boston (using the directions that have been stashed in the passenger side door of my car formonths... ) we scored on-street parkng right at the corner of Boylston and we skipped our way over to Paper Source... dropped a few dollars then dumped the loot in the car. This is the point in the journey that I said I was going to ditch my ginormous puffy vest.... but then forgot. We hoofed it down Newbury Street and I literally sweat my you-know-whats off. The minute we stepped into Lush I know I was gonna be toast. Really, I have no idea how they can keep the temperature so high in that piece without melting all the soap. We were pretty quick about making our selections and ditching the place - between the extreme heat and the soapy smell I was about to get a my-brain headache (as Griff called headaches, once upon a time ;)
We sloshed through the rain to stop in at Anthro... God, I am in total LUST with that place. I want everything inside the walls of the store. EVERYTHING. This is NOT an exaggeration. If I hadn'e left my camera in the car I would have taken pics of the dress form covered in shingles and the corrugated cardboard wall scape they had going on behind the register. And the purse I was dying over. And the bedding that I have to own. And the everything else. *sigh*
We splashed a few more blocks down to Vinny T's for ultra delicious lunch, where I housed three enormous glasses of water to rehydrate myself from all the sweating I had been doing. Erin thought I was being all dramatic about my state of hot-ness, until I started peeling away the layers. First, let me remind you that although it was raining, it was still 55 degrees in the city. I was wearing my enormous vest, a fleece lined sweatshirt, a long sleeve thermal shirt, and a tank top. And a bra, obviously, but that doesn't really account for much in the over-heating deaprtment. Anyway.... I was hot. Point taken.
After eating SO MUCH GOOD FOOD we headed back to the car... six blocks, at least. After about two blocks, the paper bag containing the SOAP we purchased at Lush had soaked through and our purchases went all over the sidewalk. In the rain. I stood there for a moment, just staring at the mess on the sidewalk. Then up at erin. Then back to the soap. What the crap??? Some nice guy helped erin pick up the soap, which was tossed into the Anthro bag. I held the umbrellas. VERY important job, obvs. We thanked random nice dude and kept on walking. Now it is POURING again. My umbrella flipped itself inside out at least four times, our jeans were drenched, and we just kept laughing. And pouting (but just for the sake of documenting the event... ;)
What happened next??? THE FRIGGIN' ANTHRO BAG BUSTS A GUT ALL OVER THE SIDEWALK. Now we are the proud owners of wet soap and wet anthro crap, too. By the time we got back to the car, there was 8 minutes left on the meter and I was SO ready to get warm and dry. The drenched crap we spent too much money on was slpayed across the back seat and we were on our way home. Still laughing, still in good spirits. Still so ready to do the whole thing over again at the drop of a hat.
Next time, we need to invest in the following things:
Galoshes: EVERYONE in the city was wearing galoshes. Paired with tights and fancy raincoats.
Burberry Umbrella: Because the lady who walked by us while my umbrella was flipped inside out for the seventeenth time said thats what I needed.
A FRIGGIN" TRASH BAG: To stash our purchases in so they don't hit the pavement. Maybe someone will mistake us for homeless people and throw some spare change our way, too.
Peep Erin's blog for more pics of the adventure....
So now it's Wednesday. I think Erin gave me her cold, and no, we didn't make out or anything. At least not that I'm aware of. And I hope I would be aware of something like that.
Anyway, I have major crafting plans for today... so the crafty post will have to wait for another day. Gotta call my mom and see if there is anything I need to do to be helpful for the big day tomorrow. KP and Natasha are heading home for Thanksgiving, and for THAT I am truly thankful. Have a lovely, dry, soap-on-the-sidewalk-free-day!!!!!