Friday, March 15, 2013

Tempe, not Homebush this time


Thursday has been designated our adventure day so we made it a point to be out the door at a reasonable time and on our way to make another big purchase: a scooter. We wanted to have a bike and a scooter along with our skateboards so that we have multiple ways of traveling if we get tired of one way.


When we got to Target to purchase the scooter we were excited to see that they were having a buy one get one half off all toys meaning that we could get the scooter we wanted and save half off of a helmet that we needed! We were off to the library to get quick directions before we headed to the IKEA that we had intended to go to the first time around. This time we had a bike and a scooter to get us there though! The trip went by fairly fast, it was probably 3 mile ride, but with the narrow sidewalks and people that I swear are purposely blocking the way we had to slow our pace down quite a few times. We stepped into the biggest IKEA I have been in so far and headed straight to the restaurant. Guess what Breindel family I, Lauren Breindel, tried something new. Shocker I know, or maybe I was just getting tired of hearing you guys rag on me. But yes, I tried the cheese baked saithe and it was delicious!
 


Riley went with the chicken parmigana which was equally as delicious. We didn’t really explore this IKEA as much since we were on a mission to get more bins for organization of our clothes. We also knew that we had to get back in time for our free trial short class of hip-hop dancing and music choreography. I was supposed to be at the uni sports centre at 5:10 for my hip-hop class but we didn’t get back until 5:00 and I still had to change. Running behind as usual I took advantage of the newly bought scooter and zoomed down Broadway St. getting to the centre only 10 minutes late only to find out the class was in another building. By the time I finally found the class I was probably 15 minutes late, but I wasn’t the only one. I took a place in the back on the dance studio and tried to follow along with what the instructor was demonstrating. However, it was a little hard to see with all the other people in the way so I and the girl next to me, Katie (who I had met in my Outdoor Education class) kinda just pretended we knew what we were doing. The instructor was of course Australian but I did not expect that accent to come out of her mouth since she was dressed to fit in at Brooklyn which the baggy sweatpants, long oversized shirt and Air Jordans. I learned that it really is a talent to move like the hip-hop dancers do, a talent that I do not have! I waited after class to meet up with Riley so that he could join me for the music choreography class. This class was actually led by the same instructor and was a build off the other class since it was basically all the same moves I had just learned but put to a song. I think we learned a total of twenty moves, but putting those moves together to a fast paced song was quite the challenge and we barely succeeded. We had a great time trying though, although Riley wasn’t too keen on being the only guy in the class. Halfway through the class we realized that a soccer team in jerseys had gathered on the soccer field. We kept checking to see if another team was going to join them and sure enough they did. So our adventure day continued with an impromptu soccer game! Well us watching one anyways.



We left at halftime only because we hadn’t eaten dinner yet and it was already past 7:00! He rushed to Coles to get pasta sauce since that was the only thing needed for chicken parmesan sandwiches which we had envisioned. Probably one of the best meals that we have eaten so far!

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