Aquarium!!!
Today, Ellenya and I went to the Aquarium! Ellenya pushed me in my wheelchair for the whole day - I am so grateful, because I never would have been able to go with my ME/CFS otherwise! We caught the train to the city, and only had to walk a couple of blocks to get there.
Elle and I loved all of the animals (espcially the turtles, axolotls, serverums, silversharks, angelfish and penguins!!!) and bought lots of souveniers to remember our journey by (the plush turtle on the left is Ellenya's. I got the penguin necklace (pictured below), a pink penguin-themed beanie, and the jellyfish that is pictured, as well as a glass penguin. We got Kecapmanis a glass penguin and a creepy as photo of me looking evil and Elle looking nice!)
After the Aquarium, we wandered over the bridge to the Casino to look for somewhere to have lunch. Everywhere was way too posh and expensive for us, and then we got stuck in this nightmare elevator that was possibly supposed to be marked "staff only". Elle pressed a button marked "M" which apparently stands for "meant to not be here" - it took us to a busy kitchen.... Quickly, Elle pounded the close doors button, and then pressed "1"... The doors opened onto a catacombish tunnel with a mop in an old rusty bucket! Just when we thought we were trapped, we got back to where we had started! lol =D We then decided to go back across the bridge and look for somewhere to eat over there.
Eventually, we ended up at Krispy Kreme doughnuts =D (after a slight uphill detour through what turned out to be the gentleman's district :S). After sitting in the doughnut shop for a while to recouperate from the long uphill walk (for poor Elle - lol!) we went back to the train station and got Hungry Jacks - for the third time this week! Since our Hungry Jack's at home burned down, we thought we may as well have it here because we could - and also - we knew where it was! Elle fed the pigeons...
After lunch, we decided to explore what was upstairs at the station, since we had never been up there before. While doing so, we bought some ice-cream, and missed our train. So then there was time to go to the lolly shop! We figured we would just get the next train... only we ended up getting on the wrong train - because the sign that said which train was pulling into the platform was wrong. We smsed and told Kecap that we would be late coz we had gotten on the wrong train, and of course she panicked. We switched trains at the next station, though, so it all worked out for the best =D. Now we are back here, totally dead tired. There are doughnuts in the kitchen that I am too tired to eat - but I will eventually enjoy them! =D Today was a pretty great day!
~Adrielle =)
