Its a pie face kinda day

We had only one mission today since it was a Saturday after all and that was to finally play tennis. First we decided to sleep in and take it easy for the day. We know we started the day off right by not taking showers and heading straight for the tennis courts instead. Well first we had to pick up tennis balls, which Riley was amazed how high they bounced since we don’t usually buy brand new tennis balls but rather keep the ones that we find on the tennis courts. Then we had to make a quick stop at the library to see if we got a response from the applications that we put in for a new frozen yogurt place called Mooberry! No word yet. Now the real adventure began – finding an open tennis court. The ones by the library were already taken so we started our walk to the Square where there were supposedly lawn tennis courts. We were both excited because we had never played on lawn tennis courts before. That dream did not come true because all those courts were taken as well by intense older gentlemen who grunted like wild beasts (Riley’s choice of words). There was only one more spot on campus where we could possibly play tennis except it was all the way across campus – about half a mile hike. The walk didn’t take long since we are familiar with that area but had never seen the courts before since they were tucked away. The courts were next to the uni aquatic centre and all the gates at all the locations were locked. We decided to go into the aquatic centre to ask someone how to get access to the courts. We walked in to see a water polo game taking place which was pretty fascinating and reminded Lauren of watching Noelle play water polo with noodles at UNCC! We walked toward the information desk to ask if we had to be members in order to play tennis on the courts – and of course the answer was yes. A membership is only about 300 dollars a semester, I mean no biggie. Obviously they don’t want you to exercise here or they want you to pay an arm and a leg plus half a yearly salary for it. So we headed to the fisher library courts to see if people were done playing yet and we were determined to sit and wait until they were. However, when we got there a bunch of little kids were having lessons and one of the instructors told us that there would be no courts available until 6 pm and at the time it was only 2:30. Disappointed and depressed we started the ‘long’ walk home, it only felt long because we didn’t complete our one mission. To help our depression we turned to the only thing that could fix it – food! Plus it was lunchtime anyways. Lauren was able to finish her savored Domino’s pizza and Riley couldn’t help but create a pizza concoction of his own. Lauren was jealous and stole a couple of bites. Once our bellies were full we decided to head down to George Street to further explore what the shops had to offer as well as catch the Saturday Vigil mass at a different church. This time it was actually an Australian priest with an ear piercing which was something new to Lauren. After church we roamed some more shops, finally making it to Riley’s store which wasn’t exactly what he expected. There were a few good things that he liked just not in his price range, except for maybe a pair of shorts. We had decided earlier in the day that we were going to try the famous Australian meat pies at a restaurant called Pie Face. At the restaurant we could have our pick of ten different pies, some with steak, others with chicken and a couple vegetarian. We noticed that all of the pies had faces drawn on them with what might be chocolate or barbeque sauce, thus the name of the restaurant. We decided on the chicken and mushroom for Lauren and the steak and cheese for Riley, with an extra Australian minced beef with onions, peas and carrots. Needless to say they were all delicious, a place that we will probably come back to! After that we made our way down one block to World Square Shopping Centre where most the shops were closed except for Dollar King. That store was huge and had a lot to offer, but nothing that we really needed. We headed back before the Saturday night crowd came out! For the first time we decided to go for a swim but when we got downstairs we dipped our feet into below freezing water and had second thoughts. That was going to be the extent of our swim!

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