I had a great day today.

Currently I'm in Den Bosch, known on the map as Hertogenbosch. I'm staying with my aunt for a few days, we're doing some family reunion type things, but because she had to go to a workplace outing today, I was on my own. This was fine with me, my aunt Jos had given me all the keys to the house and to the lock of the bike in the shed, so I decided to ride down to the shopping area since there was supposed to be a comic store down there (lol).

I had a map with me, I'd marked the streets I intended on visiting, and then merrily jumped on my bike. And went in completely the wrong direction. When I next consulted my map, I realised I'd gone north about as much as I wanted to originally go south... so I had twice the distance to cover, hahah XD but it did take me on a bike path around a beautiful lake, so it wasn't a total loss :3

Once I did get to the shopping district though, I proceeded to get even more lost. You know how Melbourne's streets are all neatly parrallel to each other, with all the blocks as neat squares? Yeah, it's not like that here. Roads and sidewalks and bike paths cross over one another every which way, and what looked like a simple route became difficult everytime I took just one wrong turn. Still, like I said before, it's not like this was any kind of loss; I got to see a lot of things this way, and I also found a cinema. There was a viewing of Transformers 2 an hour and a half later, so I bought a ticket and then went to find the comic store.

I did find it, in the end! Spent a bit of time there, too. However, I think something was trying to tell me I should stop buying comic books, because after umm-ing and ahh-ing over different Dutch comics for some time, I had a little pile worth about EU$90, was gonna pay...

...and then the power in the entire shopping district shut down.

Due to the heat, something had blown in the powergrid. I did not have 90euros on me, I couldn't pay with credit card because there was no power and of course none of the ATMs were functioning either. I lamented this for a while, but when we found out the power would most likely stay out until around 5pm, we gave up. I had enough cash to buy just ONE book, and I chose Sky-Doll 3, since I'd picked up the first two volumes in Nijmegen before, but I wasn't happy. There was this AMAZING steampunk comic in a box, four parts, which I had wanted really badly, too. They also had THIS from Sky Doll which I jsdfhgjadlfhsdkjhf'd over like crazy, but goddammit it was 250 EUROS. 250. The figure itself was only about six inches tall, too D: and they also had the schoolgirl Witchblade statue for... 220, I think? So honestly D:

...maybe if I still have spending money by the end of this...

Sky-Doll really is gorgeous. It sucks that it's in Dutch because only I will be able to enjoy it :/

Anyway, the comic store owner then pointed out to me that with all the power out, I wouldn't be able to see my movie, either. I BAWWWed about this for a little while, then resigned myself to it and headed off on my bike again. At least the cinema pplz gave me my money back.

After that I cycled back home, and here I am. Also, my sunscreen exploded in my bag and I think my Pokemon Leaf Green is now no longer functioning because of it... fml. So, although the day had it's shitty bits, overall I had a ton of fun, I'm enjoying the warm (hot) weather, and I'm off to read my pretty new book.

Didn't do a great deal today; the tube strike made it kind of difficult to get around, so I ended up getting lost in Leicester Square and consequently veering off into Orbital Comics. This was a Very Bad Idea. Actually, going into any comic store is a VBI with me, but this one had Aspen/Top Cow posters I didn't have D:

Honestly, today was a lot of aimless wandering. We ended up at Euston and had a pub meal, met a nice off-duty policeman named Simon and Andy and I passed on Toy Soldier wisdom to him. We chatted to him for a fair while and only stopped when he had to head off, so that was nice :3 but honestly, we had no plan, so we just wandered and wandered...

...and ended up in Camden Town. Wtf.

Honestly, it was another VBI to wander around there, I should have just jumped on the tube and gone home. Instead, I bought another coat. *smacks self on wrist* I wandered a gorgeous corset stall too, but honestly, that was too much, waugh. We didn't stick around too long, but headed back to the hostel to plan events later in the week. Andy and I have now booked tickets for both the London Bridge Experience and the Afternoon Tease. Afternoon tea with a burlesque show? Yes please.

So they're booked in for Friday and Saturday. Sunday I've been invited for Sunday roast up at Andy's countryside area, and tomorrow I think I'll go do my bus tour and visit Madame Tussaud's. I think I'm set.

• Friday night Wolverine movie with friends
• Galactic Circus until waaay too late
• Get up Saturday morning waaay too early to drop stuff off at dad's
• Cosplay shopping with Hattie
• Free Comic Book Day!
• Annie's birthday party
• Tash came over and spent the night last night
• Sunday spent watching things and generally doing nothing