10th July - MOA III

Crazy roller coaster land! 

Finally the shopping novelty is starting to wear off! Thank goodness, says Will. We just did the rounds of the last few shops on the third and fourth floor, including Best Buy – where we found out we’d missed out on some cool deal in Vegas. Oh well. We don’t really need a huge zoom lens for $300, however tempting it is! Will also got his hair cut and after a few last minute clothes purchases, we hung out in the food court and called it a day. Well a three-day binge-shopping day. 

That afternoon we met up with my old housemate, Meaghan, who is from Minneapolis but studied in Launceston for a few years. We used to live together in that cute apartment on Balfour Street. It was a trip down memory lane as we reminisced about Tassie and people we knew then. Also had a good catch up on recent events, such as us travelling and her studying and working. So good to see her, though apparently it was disappointing that we had to leave the next day as we hadn’t seen any of the 10,000 lakes that Minnesota boasts! 

 

After that we went and had dinner with a girl Will met in London, Nicole. We went for dinner at a cool place on a lake that had a huge outdoor area. Luckily our waitress suggested we move as it looked like rain. Huge salads, but absolutely delicious. I think Will was the only one to finish his! IT was good to be eating some veg! It did start to rain – and then it was full-on wind and thunder and lightning. The rain was really heavy! We stayed in Nicole’s driveway in Betsey J. It was fun to catch up with her too, but like with Meaghan, it was a shame that we had to keep moving. Darn visa chaos.