Darkschunt

On Monday SweetRhapsody and I got up way early in the cold freezing morning to rent a car. We got an auto so I could drive as well but I chickened out and decided to let SweetRhapsody handle the driving instead. The two of us and the Colored Fringe and Curly Pumpkin and LO headed down to the city where we had lunch in Northbridge and then went off in search of a tatto parlor for the Curly Pumpkin. We found one quickly enough but they weren't able to fit the Curly Pumpkin in until the next morning. We then made a quick detour to buy apple strudel before heading back to EUH to drop LO off. She also gave us directions to the tattoo parlor where she had gotten her own tattoo done. We tried to find it but ended up making a wrong turn right from the start and driving for ages trying to find the place! LO said it was near a Nando's restaurant and cheesecake shop and when we finally found a Nando's restaurant and cheesecake shop we got excited - but there was no tattoo parlor to be found and anyway it wasn't the right road. We called LO back and discovered the mistake of the wrong turn - we were suppose to turn right in the beginning, not left! We drove all the way back to EUH and started out again. This time we found the right place. It was, as LO had said, a dodgy little place where old men smoked weed outside. We parked in a not-so-reassuring parking lot and tried to head down a not-so-reassuring back alley which was blocked, and eventually circled round a Thai restaurant and a tanning salon and a beauty shop which promised 50% off for eternal beauty and entered the tattoo parlor. It's tiny and cramped; no one was around. Suddenly this little old man bursts in through the back door in a puff of stale licqour air. He's covered with tattoos and has a little grey ponytail on his otherwise bald and tattoo-covered head and, according to SweetRhapsody, has bad teeth (I didn't look close enough at his mouth to see that) and was totally creepy and kind of scary and not reassuring at all. You could practically see the wheels turning in the Curly Pumpkin's head as she started to develop doubts about the hygiene and quality and general wisdom of getting a tattoo done in that place, by that guy. He says he can give her a tattoo right away but his general creepiness was starting to freak all of us out, and besides, the scorpion designs in that place (the Curly Pumpkin wanted a scorpion tattoo) weren't as nice as the first place we had gone to so the Curly Pumpkin made some excuse about having to rush off somewhere and promised to come in the next morning instead. He just stared at her with those cold blue beady eyes in a really intense sort of way and asked her questions like what her name was and where she was from. When we finally made it out of the shop, we made jokes about how he was probably going to hunt her down and either tattoo her or kill her for not coming back the next morning.
It was dark by then but it wasn't time for dinner yet so we decided to head up to King's Park so that the Curly Pumpkin and SweetRhapsody could take one last look at the city. When we got there SweetRhapsody and the Colored Fringe kind of faded into the dark like all couples do up there. The Curly Pumpkin and I took a long slow walk and watched city lights. We played around with a telescope by the railing but didn't bother using it as you had to pay two bucks for that. We walked down to some memorial for the tsunami victims or Bali victims or something at the other end, then headed back. The walk back was kind of interesting, first we discovered some wishing well which we hadn't even noticed passing by earlier, then we discovered that in the past five minutes since we were gone, someone had actually ripped the telescope off its post and made off with it!
We got back to EUH where the Dervish had made dinner for everyone. Surprisingly (especially considering that stint with the barbecue on SweetRhapsody's birthday) it turned out quite well. SweetRhapsody and I then took the Little Bat, the Silent Walker and Noisy Kev down to the city to buy licquor. They might have gone on and on wandering up and down the streets in search of open licquor stores if I hadn't pointed them in the direction of the Brass Monkey Bar. We then headed back to EUH. Later on, we all headed out to Orioles for coffee. Everyone wanted to come along so we made two trips in the car. The Curly Pumpkin drove to Orioles on the first trip. Inspired by her, I drove the car back to EUH and then back to Orioles on the second trip! It was kind of jerky and scary at first because I wasn't used to the lightness of the car but I eventually got used to it and it got fun. It was kind of tough keeping to the speed limit, though, since I never bothered keeping to the limit back at home. I kept watching the needle at the corner of my eye to make sure it stayed perfectly at 70 or 80 or 100, depending on what the speed limit was. The Little Bat, Silent Walker, Matsumoto and Noisy Kev were in the car during the second trip and they were semi-drunk and howling at the top of their voices (all except for the Silent Walker, whom as you all can tell, is pretty much silent most of the time) as I was driving so yay for my powers of concentration!
We had our drinks at Orioles and when we girls ducked into the bathroom we discovered poetry written on the walls by some guy whose name I forgot. I took a couple of pictures of the poetry because I had my camera with me.
We then drove home. SweetRhapsody drove during both trips because I was pretty much exhausted; it was pretty late by then and I have had barely any sleep during the past few nights.
Okay, I'm getting pretty tired myself so that's it for the posts tonight. Will update the rest tomorrow! Goodnight, everyone!