On Thursday 4th July 2007 my friend Dianna came to visit me in Blackburn with her boyfriend Nathan. This was the first time that we'd met in person but I wasn't that nervous which was shocking to me.
The week before they arrived I spent a lot of time cleaning the house and sorting it out as well as buying a lot of new furniture and a futon from Ikea for them to sleep on. The day before they arrived in England I was rushing round the house cleaning it all day and sorting everything out and even the day they were arriving I was still rushing round the house cleaning.
An hour before they were due to arrive in Blackburn we went to the shops to pick up some last minute shopping before rushing to the train station to meet them. We got to the car park and made our way down to the station before waiting on platform two (the platform we thought they would arrive on). We were stood there for about 5 minutes when a train arrived behind us on platform 1 so we turned round thinking that Dianna and Nathan may be on that train. We were stood there watching to see who got off the train and ther was no sign of Nathan and Dianna so I turned to my dad and said it must be platform 2 they were arriving on so I turned to go and stand on platform 2 when suddenly I got a feeling that I should turn around again and look at the train that arrived a minute earlier and that's when I saw Nathan and Dianna for the first time.
We all started to walk towards one another and I felt more nerves then than I'd felt all day. It was so strange because I'd gone from feeling totally fine to being nervous and we got closer and closer and I didn't even know what to say when I got up to them. I'm making it sound like we were stood really far apart, we weren't but the walk up to them seemed to last forever. I can't for the life of me remember what our first words our but Dianna and I hugged whilst Nathan and my dad shuck hands.
We then decided to go to the car so my dad and I walked ahead whilst Nathan and Dianna walked behind us. It was at this point that I didn't know what to say to either of them, on voice chat we can talk non stop but to be face to face it's so hard to think of anything to say. We got to the car and even the car ride back to my house was quiet. Even entering the house we were quiet, it was so funny in a way because normally Dianna and I can't stop talking *lol*.
I think we were home 15 minutes when Dianna came and sat next to me on the futon and we basically started to talk like non stop. It was so strange because we went from barely talking to talking like we do online and it was so amazing to be like that. I didn't know what I should or shouldn't say and I just felt so unconfident at first but once Dianna came over and sat with me everything because so easier for me.
We laughed and talked and took some pictures and went into my bedroom and laughed and talked some more. We then decided that we should go to my favourite shop, Next, and see what they had in so we went there. Dianna and I looked round the ladies section whilst my dad and Nathan went up to the men's section. I love Next and have at least one item of clothes from Next at any given time. In fact as I type this most of the things I have on are from Next including my watch *lol*. There was a lot I already had but I saw an amazing top and a long denim skirt and got them as well as another umbrella because the one I already had from there got damaged outside the train station because of the stupid wind. I also bought Dianna one too.
Next we went back home and I checked my hair and make up before we went out to the resturant we had booked in. It's a nice little Chinese place that I love but don't go too that often. It's in a little village about 15 minutes from where I live. I had the surf and turf because I fancied trying something different and it was very nice. We took lots of mints when we left too but I don't think they minded because the owner came out to wave and my dad waved back. Maybe she fancied my dad *lol*
Because we were close to where my mum lives we thought we would pop around and say hello. Now I am thinking maybe we shouldn't of gone because when we got there all she went on about her car. My dad said it was green and she "no it's not, it's British Racing Green", then my dad said the leather interior were cream and she was like "actually it's champagne". Then I said to her she had to guess what my friends were called and she just went "OK" and didn't even try to guess their names *lol*. We sat inside and she didn't even bother talking to us which was just so ignorant, she just sat and talked to her sex starved dog and acted really strange. I think my dad was happy to leave there when we left *lol*.
We came home and not long after coming home Nathan went to bed but Dianna and I weren't tired so we decided to go online and see who was around so we signed into MSN. We ended up talking to Matt and putting webcam on and doing voice messages. It was such a fun night, Matt was laughing so hard that I swear he was close to falling off his chair about 10 times *lol*. It was such an amazing chat we had and because of privacy issues I can't go into too much detail here other than to say Matt has such a sweet singing voice, he sang us a couple of little songs and it was great fun. We also talked to Wolf, well we were leaving voice messages and he thought we'd been drinking but of course we hadn't because that is how we act all the time. I think we went to bed at something like 5:30am and I was totally shattered by then but I enjoyed myself online that night, it was so much fun.
The next morning of course I didn't want to get up too early. I think I set my alarm for something like 12pm so only got about 6 hours of sleep because I couldn't get straight to sleep when I went to bed because I was way too hyper from the fun that Dianna and I had been having on MSN the night before.
We went out around 2:20pm in the afternoon to a place I like to go to called the Windmill. I go there at least once a week to have a meal and a couple of drinks and wanted to go there with Nathan and Dianna for something to eat. We went and I had the 12oz rump steak which was very nice. I couldn't manage everything on my plate but I gave it a good go *lol*. Nathan and I then played pool and I got beat a lot, I then played with Dianna (pool that is you dirty minded people) and she won the first game because I was a idiot and potted the black ball half way through the first game *lol*. My dad, in the mean time, had go to pick my brother up to take him to my house with his trailer and empty our back yard and take all the rubbish down to the tip. They ended up getting stuck in the work time traffic and took ages. I think we got bored in the end and ended up playing on a quiz machine for ages and ages. They finally turned up and Nathan and my brother played pool for gaes. I thought they would have a couple of games but they had like 7 games or something like that and Dianna and I were bored senseless waiting for them *lol*. We all eventually left and my dad dropped Dianna, Nathan and I back at my house so we could grab a couple of things before getting a taxi down to the bowl plex.
We went bowling and played three fun games. Dianna has such a funny technique were she would basically throw the ball from between her legs. Nathan was good at bowling and when I was sliughtly ahead or slightly behind he would always do something amazing and get really far ahead of me so I was never able to catch him or beat him in any game. Once we finished bowling we went upstairs to get a milkshake and Nathan ordered them and the guy started to make Nathan's and started to go on about ice creams so Nathan asked him about what he was making for us and he made no sense at all and then asked Nathan for money and then I realised he hadn't asked Nathan for enough money so must of mixed up the order so Nathan told him what he had ordered again but the gu was still going on about stupid ice creams. OMG!! We didn't even order ice creams and this guy couldn't understand that we didn't want a ice cream. It took him ages to realise this and then finally undersood and had to get someone to come and sort the till out and when they came he told them the wrong order....OMG!! It was getting more than annoying at this point, I felt like screaming at this guy because he couldn't or wouldn't try and understand what we wanted. We did end up with what we originally wanted but OMG!! It took forever and us telling him like 9 million times what we really wanted!! WE left there and headed for pizza hut because we wanted to have some pizza but it had closed at 10pm and it was now 11pm so we decided to walk up to Asda and get some snacks before getting a taxi back to mine and ordering some take away.
So we walk up to Asda and end up walking around looking at things for like an hour but we had a little fun there too. We then got a taxi back to my house and found a take away. When Nathan was on the phone the guy asked him if he wanted dressing on the burgers but Nathan thought the guy had asked for the address so gave the address *lol*. Anyway we sat waiting for the burgers and an hour went by and we were wondering where the hell the burgers had gotten to so Nathan rung up and the guy said they were coming but they were ages. We eventually got them but OMG! they took forever to come, at one point I did think they weren't going to come.
Nathan went to bed not long after they came and Dianna and I went online until maybe 4pm that night before making our way to bed. The next morning I had my alarm set for 11am so I could get up and showered. We were hoping to go to the Trafford Centre early but I knew after our late night it wasn't going to happen. To get to the Trafford Centre you have to go on a train, a tram and a bus and the same on the way back and it takes forever and isn't cheap so I asked my dad to run us there in the car. I suggested he could go and visit his brother in Manchester so he agreed and took us.
It took maybe 45 minutes to get there, it would of been quicker if my dad hadn't decided it would of been quicker to go another route. Anyway we got there and had a look in some shops before deciding to go and eat in pizza hut but when we walked round to pizza hut omg it was closed!! WE ended up having pizza from somewhere else but it wasn't the same as having it from Pizza Hut!!!!!!!!
WE walked around The Trafford Centre for a few more hours before going out to meet my dad who was coming to meet us to go for something to eat at Frankie and Bennys. My dad was in a foul mood for reasons that I still don't know why so he was annoying for a little while until he got his meal and then he seemed to calm down. I had a nice meal there and I didn't have dessert because I didn't fancy it at that point. The toilets were very funny because they had a Spaish tape on teaching us how to say some phrases in another language. It was so funny and the first one was how to say there in no toilet paper but Dianna thought someone was saying there was non in the toilets which was funny. The tape made me burst out laughing.
We were meant to be seeing a band that night but it got to the point where if we went we wouldn't of gotten into the pub because it would of been packed so we decided to go and bowl again. So my dad dropped us at Asda because I needed to get some painkillers because I had a headache and then we walked down to the bowl plex. It was Friday night disco night and the bowling was so cheap and we got a pitcher of drink too which was really cool. It was dark and they had disco lights and loud music and it was amazing and I bowled the best I have eer bowled. WE played our three games and Nathan won them all and then we played on some of the games there like the Ice Hockey and then left to walk back up to Asda.
Asda was so much fun, we had a crazy two hours in there walking around and taking pictures. If you want to know about that night in more detail then please check out my Asda blog that I posted a couple of weeks back.
When we left Asda it was 2am, yeah you read it right *lol*. We got a taxi back to my house and Nathan went off to bed while Dianna and I went online again but there was no one around. I think we stayed up till maybe 4am before going to bed. It was a early night for us *lol*.
Saturday morning I got up around 10am and was so tired from my late nights but this was Nathan and Diann'a last day and were leaving that evening around 5pm. We went to the Windmill and had a meal there and a dessert and played pool for a couple of hours before coming back and picking up their luggage and taking them to the train station.
Their train came five minutes later but it wasn't a sa goodbye because I was going to go and see them in Scunthorpe five days later.
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