The trip to the Big City (by which I mean Moncton. You know you live in Sackville WHEN... :p) was great fun today. The weather was gorgeous, which was really exciting, since we were expecting it to pour rain. :p We wound up in two groups. I went with Ryan, Vicki, Cherie and Nico because we wanted to hit Mad City Comics and Gamezilla.
First stop was the Asian market, because it's right by the bus station. I bought the requisite chocolate Pocky, and some jasmine tea. I couldn't help but laugh at the "How to make delicious tea" instructions. It was a series of pictures demonstrating take teabag out of package, put in cup, add water.
Mad City didn't have Fables, which made me sad. They're in a used book store though, so I picked up Neverwhere and The Last of the Renshai. Then Nico pointed out the SHINY! Desire action figure! I was just going to ogle it, but then I spotted the five dollar price tag. Naturally, I had to buy it.
Gamezilla had volumes three, four and six of Fables, which didn't exactly help me. :p I want volume one! :p I picked up the first two volumes of Slayers and Angelic Layer, because everything else that I had been considering buying was lacking in the volume one department. Very irritating, really. ANd of course, I engaged in SUPER SEKRIT NINJA BUYING! to get Vicki her birthday present. Her birthday is on MOnday, but we're celebrating it tomorrow because it fits our schedules better.
We were making fantastic time, so we decided to head over to Champlain Place to meet up with the other group. We had random singalongs all the way there. We were looking for Comic Hunter, but didn't find it. Oh well, next time. We discovered that Moncton now has an HMV! That was definitely NOT there at Christmas. :p
Naturally, we couldn't go there without hitting Chapters. I was distraught to discover that they once again only had Moving Pictures in the trade paperback, not the mass market edition. I love Discworld, but not enough to spend $20 on a bloody PAPERBACK. (Plus, all my other paperbacks are mass market, so it wouldn't match! The cover would be all wrong!) They also didn't have Fables, but I did pick up V is for Vendetta. the cashier randomly complimented my coat, which is always fun.
After that, we headed down to Groundzero for some LAN gaming. I was on the defective computer, so I spent a lot of time waiting around. What I did get to play of Unreal Tournament was fun. I managed to kill people a couple times! Of course, being me, I was the most frequently killed player. :p I'm not really big of FPS games unless I'm playing with a bunch of friends. :p
Finally, we went down to the sushi restaurant. That poor waitress, having to deal with the invading hoarde. I had a kind of sushi I'd never tried before called dynamite rolls. It had shrimp, cucumber, sweet potato, sesame seeds and something called mandago (something like that), which I think was the sauce. There might have been a couple other things in it, but the point is that it was REALLY yummy. I also tried a bite of eel, which was interesting. I'm not sure what I thought of the eel.
We made it back to the bus station more or less exactly on time. I started reading V is for Vendetta on the way back. It's quite interesting, and more than a little creepy.
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