An unforgetable adventure

Today has definitely been an interesting day! After I got out of Spanish class at 4, I headed to Concord Mills with several of my friends. It should have taken just over 1/2 an hour, but it took us over an hour and a half because we went the absolute wrong direction.

Here's a video of our frustration. It's really dark and turned sideways, but the audio works:


I was just a passenger in this whole thing, and a very hungry one at that! Once we got to the mall, we headed right for the food court and Becka and I enjoyed some delicious Chinese food! We shopped for a little while and had many interesting experiences:

The first of the night was when one of the girls bought a cute little pick bra from Victoria's Secret. She pulled it out of the bag and held it up to show us while we were sitting on a bench outside the store. Right after she held it up, 2 guys walked in full view of her holding up her bra. They smiled and did the little head nod that guys do. She turned bright red and threw it back into the bag completely embarrassed.

The second was while we were in search of Starbucks. Some of us were beginning to get a little tired and needed a coffee pick-me-up. We were just around the corner from it when a lady from one of the little sales islands came up to us and asked us if she could ask us a quick question. She wanted to know if any of us used straighteners. Most of us said no, but one girl said she uses one on occasion. She immediately swooped in and directed her to sit down in front of a mirror and started combing her hair. Then she pulled out a bright orange straightener and started straightening her hair! We were all a little intrigued, especially when she told us to feel her hair. It was so soft and completely frizz free where she had straightened. We kept watching as she flipped out then curled her hair. She must have been able to sense that we were gullible college students who were addicted to our straighteners. Because i have naturally straight hair, i don't use one much, but after she finished with the first girl, she moved on and started straightening strands of everyones hair. She sat me down and proceeded to flip under my hair and show me everything else i could do with it. Oh, and she kept saying how they were on a Christmas sale, and that they were going to go up over a hundred dollars in price the very next day. (i came home and checked their website, and found that they really are about $220, which is what she told us) She then asked us what kind of straighteners we had and one girl said she had a chi. The sales lady pulled out a chi and took a ceramic plate she had sitting on her table. She scratched it, and you could see the metal under the ceramic coating on the chi, then she did the same thing to the one she was trying to sell us, and it didn't scratch. I needed a new straightener, but i wasn't sure i wanted to buy one in the mall. Once she found out what brand i had, she kept pestering me and wouldn't let me stand up from the chair until she had convinced me that i really needed one. I ended up caving, because i really did need one, and i wanted her to leave me alone. It was on sale for $90 which isn't that bad for a good straightener. I love it, and hope that i won't regret it later on. Becka curls her hair fairly often, so she bought one as well.

Our third adventure of the night was the little mall cop. In movies spies and government people are often seen riding little futuristic scooter things. The cop that we saw had one, and it wouldn't have been that funny, but he was only going about 2 miles per hour, and was wearing a HELMET! Why on earth does he need a helmet?! I mean he's not going that fast, and he's only about 3 inches off the ground so if he falls he's NOT going to hurt himself! We were going the same direction as him, so we started pretending like we were on scooters too with our hands in front of us like we were steering it. Right after we returned to our normal behavior, we saw two guys going the opposite direction that did the exact same thing when they passed by him. We had a good laugh and were glad that we weren't the only immature ones there!

Imitating the cop:

Our fourth adventure was really the whole trip back. We had come in two cars, and traveled on the highway. The car i was in decided that we were going to go through the back roads instead of the busier roads. When we got to Albamarle, the girl that was driving said that we could stop and meet one of her friends from church. We were all for it, because it was only about 9:30 and we weren't ready to go back to school. We stopped in and met him and some of his friends. It was kinda awkward, but also fun. Becka did her nerd voice and helped break the ice for the rest of us to talk. While we were on our way there, we had been texting our friend from school who lives in Albamarle to see what he was up to and if he cared if we came and visited. Once he found out we were close, he wanted us to come save him from having to do his homework. So when we left the first house, we went and stopped by his at about 10:15. We didn't leave till an hour later after meeting his parents, getting a tour of the house, and being serenaded.

We finally got back a little after 12 and talked about a number of things. It's been quite a fun Friday night! I'm still not that tired, but we're meeting in the morning to go work out together, so I'm off to get some sleep...