English Tavern

In the center of my hometown there is a large train station combined with a shopping complex and historical industrial buildings. Every week for the past month or so my best friend Nyssa and I have gone to the Lion Hotel, a cute little pub opposite a movie theater.

Friday the 7th of March, Nyssa and I decided to go see a movie (Run, Fatboy, Run) but we had to wait about 2 hours for the movie to start from the time we arrived. So we bought the tickets and had dinner (Beef and black bean sauce on rice), but there was still about an hour to go. We decided go to the Lion Hotel for a drink.

Friday the 14th of March, we decided to catch up again. Nyssa is training to be a massage/aromatherapist so she goes to Uni in the city. We grabbed dinner from the same Asian T/A (this time I had noodles instead of rice with my beef and black been). Then we went to the pub again for a few drinks. Afterwards we went home to Nyssa's, and she gave me a massage with Lavender oil. It was great.

Thursday the 20th of March was a special day. We went on Thursday instead of Friday, because Friday was Good Friday and Nyssa had family plans. Because it was Thursday, my beautiful boyfriend Cat (DarkLordSalem) was able to accompany me. After train delays we finally made it, about 40 minutes late. We met up with Nyssa and went to get dinner, this time we got a few things (including chicken wings) and shared. Then we got to the pub.
Cat, Nyssa and I always have a great time together. Cat's insanely funny, and Nyssa's just so open minded and easygoing that it's impossible to be uncomfortable around her. We joked and bought expensive cocktails, and by the end of the night Nyssa was gone, and the three of us were all sipping out of a Strawberry Daiquiri at the same time.
At one point, Cat was trying to convince Nyssa to join the army, and she was asking him a lot of questions, very loudly and drunkenly, and were both talking over each other so sitting between them I didn't know which of them was spitting on me at any given time. We didn't even mind that we missed Family Guy.

Friday the 28th of March, I called my other two best friends Suzi and Ingrid the night before, and by some miracle, they were both free. Suzi, Nyss and I met up for dinner, followed about an hour later by Ingrid. We made our way to the pub and ordered our drinks. Nyssa aims to try every cocktail in the known universe (perhaps even before she's of the legal drinking age in Australia), so she and Ingrid were drinking Daiquiris and Vodka Sunrises. I prefer liqueurs to cocktails, so I was drinking Creme de Menthe, and Suzi was in a "guyish" mood so she drank Beer. We drank, and the Hotel had a guest DJ so we danced too, and we talked about work, and TV, and made Ingrid thoroughly uncomfortable by talking about sex (she's a lesbian, and a feminist). I kept dropping my jacket on the floor, and leaning over to pick it up. After a while, Nyssa started flicking my fringe. I looked up and saw this black shape above me, but thought it would go away if I ignored it. A few minutes and it was still there, and I noticed the straw was missing from my drink. I reached up and pulled it (the black shape) out of my hair. My friends told me that it had been there for a while, but they had all thought I had put it there on purpose so they didn't say anything. But Nyssa thought this was so funny she had to call her boyfriend Dan and tell him about it, but she couldn't get a word out through her laughs.
We took a lot of photos, and here they are:


Nyssa


Nyssa and Suzi


Ingrid, unintentionally doing a sexy pose, which we teased her about


Nyss and Suzi, being slutty on purpose


Ingrid and Nyss


Nyss and Me


Ingrid and Nyss


Ingrid and Me


Cat likes this photo of Me and Nyss


The four of us, Nyssa, Ingrid, Suzi and Me

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Suzi and Me

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Nyss and Me

Thursday the 3rd of April, Nyssa and I met up, had dinner, but didn't stay late. Cat was away at an army base for a week, but unbeknown to me, he had a night off on Thursday and he came to the pub looking for me. Unfortunately Nyssa and I had left, less than half an hour before. I was sad that I didn't get to see Cat. But I took a photo of myself when I got home.

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Thursday the 10th of April, Cat and I met up with Nyssa and decided to have dinner at the pub.
Here's Cat:
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And here's Hungry Cat:
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Cat, being a cat, loves seafood, so he ordered oysters while Nyssa bought a packet of honey-soy potato chips. After a while Cat got hungry again and ordered the roast of the day. He said it tasted weird so after we picked at it a little it looked like this:
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We got pretty drunk, so I can't remember in which order anything happened. We took a lot of photos. Here, the Creme de Menthe and the Midori and lemonade are Mine, the pots of beer are Cat's and the white wine is Nyssa's:
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Here's a pretty drunk me and Cat:
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And here's me kissing Cat on the head:
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I really can't remember too much of the funny stuff, but at one point some kid on the other side of the pub started yelling incoherent crap, so I yelled back, "Yeh, nice work, Pokemon Trainer!" Which sent Cat into loud fits of laughter. Here's Nyss:
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Towards the end 9of the night I switched from Creme de Menthe to Midori and lemonade, as I was drinking it Nyssa said really loudly, "Guys, DON'T MOVE!" Worried that there was a spider or something on me, I stayed perfectly still. Nyssa got out her phone and took a photo of me and Cat. It was only after she showed me the pic that I realised why. LOLOLOLOLOLOL here it is:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e128/Sliv_Smith/Pub/moto_0120.jpg

Until next time.