Mel is so CUTE! (my Easter week-end)

Yep, the long Easter week-end is nearly over – it went quite fast, and I had no reason to be scared of it. I had a rather marvellous time. 😀

Ok maybe not on Friday with the Windows reinstall… but then Saturday I went up to London!!! And had lots of immature fun with my Lord Imelda. Here I shall tell you all about it, including pictures and videos. :]

I arrived around 12.30 and after a short bit of getting-ready-stuff we went out. Our mission was to annoy Alisdair at work if he was there, and to go to Hyde Park and find fat people under trees. We weren’t 100% successful, but we did quite well. For indeed Alisdair wasn’t at work – he’s probably off somewhere celebrating Tom’s birthday… or perhaps he’s in Canada? Can’t remember when that was gonna be.

Anyway. I convinced my Lord to walk from the Plaza (slightly east of Oxford Circus) to Marble Arch KFC. Along the very crowded Oxford Street. She agreed, but well ja, it was very very crowded. :)) But we were Zen. (there should be a meditating smiley instead of that silly praying one maybe I”ll create one… one day). Oh, and Mel tried to growl at people to get them out of the way… but they were mostly not very scared.

Somewhere along Oxford Street we saw kids with balloons – notably M&S balloons. I wanted one. So we went to M&S and got one. We christened him Archie (after “Marble Arch M&S”). This is all very significant as Archie played a major role over the whole week-end. Yes yes, we’re that insane. Well, mainly me.

After about a 20min wait at the also very crowded KFC, we finally had our chicken stuff and went to sit in Hyde Park. This was most pleasant. It was nice and warm and there were loooaads of people. And we ate fast food. And Archie amused us.

Then we lay down and slept until the sun disappeared and we got cold. So now it was time to find fat people under trees. We didn’t have high hopes – but we were lucky!! We found one, and she had around her a fort of shopping bags, and to make things even more perfect, she and Mel were perfectly colour-coordinated!!!!

How marvellous!!! Mission accomplished. 😀

So we walked back along Oxford Street (yes the whole way). We had decided that our next mission was to go to Hamley’s and pretend to be Michael Jackson, or something like that. On the way we annoyed people outside the newly opened Primark. Mel had informed me that there’d been a huuge commotion the day it opened and they’d had to call the police and stuff and now you had to queue to get in. How exciting! So I had to check it out.

Indeed! Lots of people!

Look at them queuing!

Mel took a “I was there” pic for me. Note Archie at my side!

We got up to some more antics, like trying to convince some tourists that this was a very expensive designer boutique that one had to have seen (note to our international readers: Primark is like the supercheap shop). And Mel shouted at the top of her voice “Can someone get me a size 0 bra and knickers, I have soiled the ones I am wearing!” :)) Some people even laughed. 😛

Oooh yeah and for some reason there is a huge eyeball outside Selfridge’s – cue me shouting “oooh look it’s the London Eye!!” at everyone. :)) I too was largely ignored. 😐 But check it out for yourself…

It is unquestionably an Eye! In London!

Right. We finally made it to Hamley’s and had loooaaads more fun there! 😀 We spent ages in the Barbie & dolls section looking at all the stuff they have there now… it’s quite mind-boggling. There is currently a mermaid craze, for whatever reason. So you get, oh I can’t even remember… Bratz Baby Mermaids or something like that. So they’re Bratz… and Babies… and Mermaids. 8-| Completely insane. Who buys all this shit?! :))

Mhm. We played with cars and robots and giggly soft toys, had a swordfight in the boys department, and wrote rude words in various languages (and other crap) with some word-game:

French, German and Italian insults… and some Mika- and Mel-worship 😀

Aaaah and on our way out we met the lovely Steve (we’d already seen him on our way in actually, and he’d tried to get us to buy some toy planes). Steve had Spiderman face paint (it was for charity!) and a tiny guitar. Mel convinced him to sing Mika’s Grace Kelly. =)) He doesn’t know all the words, but he did quite well – and Mel added a little dance performance. 😀

We told him we’d put him on Youtube and make him famous – so spread the word, ya hear? :)) We also fed him jelly beans as a reward for his performance. 😀 Um yeah, after that it was slowly time to head home. Our last stunt of the day was hugging some random French girls who were standing outside Charing Cross station with a sign saying “I am French! Free Hugs!” Mel impressed them with her French (“j’ai une chienne!” *lol*) while I chose to keep quiet. *lol* Some of them filmed it, so who knows, we might end up on Youtube too. Oh, and on the bus we met a cute girl (who reminded me of Vega in her dress style) and she gave us her Myspace name but I can’t find her. 🙁

Once home we didn’t do much… mainly watch TV (such as “the search for the new Pussycat Doll” – yet another casting show. very fun tho, they all got sick and threw up, haha. And they were all bitches). And talk. And play with Archie who was slowly coming to the end of his life… anyway have a pic of us on Mel’s sofa. :))

It didn’t last long but it was true love! 😡

When I woke up the next day he wasn’t able to hold himself in the air anymore, so we had to leave him behind when we hit London again. But we made sure he was comfortable and had something to read:

He’ll die knowing all about women!

Yeah so this is Sunday. We went to St James’s Park becaaauuse… can’t remember. Cuz Kat suggested going to a park and Mel decided St James’s would be fun. We didn’t find any fat people this time (well no sitting ones anyway), but we still had fun.

Prettiness!

More prettiness!

We went to McDonald’s near Trafalgar square for a milkshake (for Mel) and a burger and fries (for me), and on our way there came across one of those poor guard fellows that stand there and aren’t allowed to move and keep having their photographs taken by annoying tourists.

Poor sod in uniform.

We felt very sorry for him and debated amongst ourselves how horrible a job this must be. So Mel asked him “Are you happy in your job?” and he almost imperceptibly shook his head. =)) Poor guy! After that we felt even more sorry for him. (but of course I still had to take a pic of him to document the event. but this is not at all the same as what tourists do of course. :wh )

Eventually we overcame our pity and went back to lounging about on the lawn. And I took a pic of a very very very cute-looking Mel, which I shall make my mobile phone background and my computer background, and maybe have printed out in A1 format and hang up on my wall. 😀

Extremely adorable Imelda 😡 😡 😡

And we chatted some more, and also did some silly work-outs, and noticed after a while that some people further along were filming us!! How dare they!!! I was very shit at it btw. I am soooo unfit. I have to do something about that. Soon. *cough*

Next to us was a guy painting… he mainly made a huge mess with oil paints and a spatula. Mel tried to convince me he was gonna turn it into something meaningful later… until she saw the stuff for herself. :)) But he looked quite content and zen.

Serene painter in St James’s Park.

Aaaand that was more or less the end of that day too. More TV-watching after we got home of course. Mel semi-forced me to watch parts of The Passion of the Christ – eek! It was every bit as gruesome and pointless as I’d imagined. And we also talked some more, about religion, and guys, and things in general. Did I mention Mel is very wonderful? 😡

Ja and then we slept and this morning I came home. This entry was meant to be about today in Brighton as well (mainly pics), but seeing as it’s already insanely long I’ll leave that for later. I’ve been meaning to make a video about Brighton busy-ness for a while now… hopefully I’ll manage soon. Oh, but I bought shoes today, and a jewellery case, and bracelets, and yummy rillettes at a French market in Hove. 🙂