9/23 adventure

9/23:
because plans change, but not always for the worse

turns out my best friend's family decided this would be a good weekend to come to slo. but, as sad as it may sound, the point wasn't totally to see her, it was to get away. and i can't get away when driving half an hour to slo. she apologized about the sudden change in plans, told me not to worry about staying around just to see her- we'd see each other soon, homecoming.
thursday night joshua picked me up from tennis and i changed out of grossness (of mind from lame tennis co-coaches, as well as clothes) in the car and we went over to farmers'. we parked on the fourth floor of the parking garage and took the glass elevator down. but he forgot his cell phone, so we went back up, then down again in the elevator. we love elevators.
we went and sat in the new brick steps place on chairs. and just talked for a long time. jj called and asked if i could see the sunset? i spun all the way around looking for it, and could just barely see pink over buildings. i told her so. we hung up.
"do you think if we run to the roof of the parking structure we can see it?" he said.
"let's try."
so we ran. i thought he meant 'move quickly,' but no, he meant run. so we held hands and sprinted downtown, sort of getting lost but figuring it out nonetheless. we elevatored up to the roof and ran to the edge, dodging parked cars and pedestrians. i leaned against the wall.
"we missed it..."
"no, there's a little bit of pink left, see it? that little sliver of pink? that counts. we caught it."
we stood there for a long time. it was perfect. and we talked about how we could see all of san luis. and we looked for roofs that would be good to sit on, and planned how we would get up onto them.
we met alyssa and emma at gap, and gave huge hugs to both of them. as i was hugging aly, josh picked both of us up. quite impressive. we went to starbucks for water for me. he got pumpkin something. the people that work there that i like weren't there. bummer.
we sat down and wripped apart the straw wrappers making them say different things, instead of "not meant for use in hot beverages" or something.
"for hot men be not in rages." much better. it was left on the table.
aly's mom was coming pick her and emma up. so i said goodbye to both of them, alyssa for good, for now.
josh and i started walking- i led. he wondered where we were going, but i wouldn't say. "are we going to that park over here?" "no" "if we turn right we're going to the park" "we're not going to the park" but we went to the park. i lie.
there were two other people about our age playing on the play ground, and a few others walking around on the grass. we laughed at the fact that the last few times we've been there there have only been high schoolers on the little kid playground, not little kids. it's funny how things go from being cool- to uncool- to cool again. like going to bed early, and stuffed animals, and stickers. ya know?
we walked back to the garage and drove home.
friday was great too. and yesterday was great too. i will have to write about them soon. but i need to start today now. so *rain check*. i'm happy things are looking up in my life. and in others' as well. i love you all.