Képes szombat - Picture saturday

Warning - long and picture-heavy :)

Well, i started the morning at 6.15, when i sit up, turned on the pc, and then tought "why the hell i'm up?" and went back to sleep. Then got up again after 8am, posted my sp package picture on the forum - finally, i kept forgetting to do this for 2 weeks now - then popped my head out the front door to check mail and I GOT PACKAGE!! Again!!! Lovely way to start the weekend :)

After knitting a bit for breakfast, i started to sort out all the things laying around in the room, so now it is really, truly messy, so much that i realized i have to go and buy some boxes for all the magazines, colour papers, yarns, and other thingies i own. So i hit the high street - and only managed to not buy anything 'coz i know how filling italian food is and i could not eat anything of it alone, and throwing out is not an option, i feel terrible when i have to do that. It's a sin(-like thing). We usually have food stalls on the highstreet over the weekends, mostly locals, but sometimes we get french, german, and now, italian ones. Green-white-red everywhere, even the Tomassi (italian restaurant on the other end of the street) were decoreted.
I only bought a vanilla latte in my fav starbucks, and walked down to the seafront to check out the ship. Should've arrived yesterday, but we didn't see it then - but now it was there! Can't wait for tomorrow to go on board :)

Owl Man was out there too, with a new owl - the fair one whit it's head down - plus the big eagle owl who is always there and a very windblown one with a i-wanna-get-outta-here expression. I see them regularly for four years now and still keep stopping by and just watching the birds for a while. I like the most when they have the little one out too - it's really small, a real life Pigwidgeon :)

I went to the little market off high street as i wanted to by some fabrics but didn't liked anything well enough to pay for it. I walked around though and find a flea market shop with some seriously cute and ridiculously cheap things - lamps, china tea-sets, figurines, victorian silver spoons, and a brilliant chess-set with knights, dragons and wizards on it - for less then 20 pounds. The queens dresses where the only downs - painten with made-for-guys, show-everything costumes :D If those would've been ok, i would have bought the set right there.
Then popped in the LYS too, bought some aida, beads and... sock yarn... *weak grin* I just had to buy some monochrome ones! I got two 100g balls of dark green Regia. The sellers asked if i really want this much, two big balls and not two 50g balls? I said yeah, as i will make socks for my brother from them - he has big feet and is commuting a lot and goes to concerts all the time, so if i make him socks, they ought to be thick and long. They louhged. (Oh and the lady who sold the Noro for me last week, she gave such a longing sigh when she saw it... :D couldn't help thinking about this when i walked past the Noros)

Back on the highstreet i found a booth where they collected for a kid's charity, and had a lottery; the price was a real Mini - and there were some minis around too, but... well, the italians not only took their food and wine - apparently they took a Ferrari too. It's italian day, it is.
Then i walked back, through the food stalls, and i really don't know how did i missed it out on my way out, but in the square in front of the cinema there were about a dozen Ferraris and a same amount of Ducattis. Wow!!!
I drooled, and gazed, and snapped pictures as i walked around - made two full rounds :) And i'm no car enthusiast. But these things are just beautiful!! There were 7 Ferraris, a Lamborghini and some Alfa Romeos, but really... i don't know, on pictures, they - the Ferraris - aren't that impressive for me, but in real life... it just feels good to even look at them. The shape and colour together i think just makes them perfect- at least for someone like me who doesn't really know about cars, and just goes about the look. But they outlook really says something like " i can do 300 kmph and that is good for you" or something like that. :D
Ah and there were the bikes too, one of the Ducattis just left and had a crazzzy sound :D

All in all, a very nice saturday morning. Cousin K is working - making pizza :D - so we will go only tomorrow anywhere else - we plan to go to Basildon to the Hobbycraft store (yeay) and after coming back to Southend, i will take the cousins to the pier. They never went there before - and hopefully we will be able to see the ship too, if the weather is cooperative. Here's hoping.