Changing the View
By Kaemon
October 27th
Today I woke up to hear a buzzing sound. It was the sound of my alarm clock. I immediately knew that power was back at that point. It was amazing to be able to take a hot bath in a brightly lit room instead of a cold bath in a dim room. Ryoga was sitting at the table by the time I went downstairs. I was amazed that he had managed to stay in the same spot for almost five days now. It has to be a personal record of his. Breakfast was also a lively meal today because, like me, everyone else in the house was excited to have power back. Since we had planed to spend most of the day at the theme park we had to leave the house only about an hour after breakfast.
Due to the fact that we were going to a theme park, and those tend to have lots of food stands, I decided I would go as a girl today. We left the house at around eight thirty and managed to get on a train by nine. At first I thought it would be difficult taking Ryoga along with us due to his tendency to get lost every time you blink, but actually he managed to stay right between Akane and me the entire trip.
I was quite amazed when we got there, because due to the fact I've spent the past sixteen years of my life being taken around the world by the old man I've never been to a theme park myself. It was a huge place filled with rides, stands, odd buildings. Some of the rides were so high up into the sky I wondered if they could even be considered safe, of course for people like me I'm sure I could manage myself no matter what dangers could possibly happen. Overall it was a great experience. We all went on the rides, ate food (none of which I had to pay for), and generally had a good time. Now that I think about it Ryoga stayed right with us the entire time even in that crowded area. I bet his sense of direction is at least getting a tiny bit better. Ryoga seemed nervous for the entire time though. It was probably due to actually managing to hang around Akane for more then an hour at a time before he got lost. It still bugs me how he uses his curse to get close to her, but there still is nothing I can do considering it is my fault he has it. Besides, no matter how much he hides it I'm sure that he still is thinking about his family, and the last thing I would want someone to do to me if I was in that situation would be to ruin one of my few friendships.
By the time we decided to leave the theme park we had almost all been on every single rid or attraction that the theme park had to offer. When we first got there it seemed huge and like it would be impossible to cover the entire thing in just one day, we eventually found out that since we really weren't taking breaks between things we had already covered over half of the park and we weren't even near the time we planned to leave. The ride back to the dojo was uneventful like the ride there, but most people would expect that. I'm different though; people have randomly jumped out of places you would never expect someone to be able to hide in and attack me. Actually, last week I had a run in like that. I was taking Akane to some store because Soun wouldn't let her go off on her own for some bizarre reason, probably because they think every second we spend together is another second closer to us getting married, when out of the blue Taro jumps out and attacks, but where did he come from? It wasn't the air, or a building, and he wasn't just walking down the street. No. He came from the sewer in order to get a surprise attack on me. I don't see why he feels he has to fight me when he should be focusing all his energy on attacking the old pervert. While that is interesting it's not the end of it, about ten minutes into that fight Mousse jumps out of a women's underwear store and starts to join Taro in his insane attacks on me. I don't know if it's just me, but hiding in an underwear store waiting to attack is just one level too high of insanity for my tastes.
By the time we got home the sun was setting and the rest of the house had already eaten dinner, so the three of us were left to fend for ourselves for the night. Akane and Ryoga just got some leftovers to eat but I decided that I would go get something to eat from around town. I had been eating out all day today anyway; I might as have well again. Of course I never did get the chance to get something to eat, because I foolishly decided to cut through the park again today, and the past few days every time I do I end up getting distracted by that dog. Today though when I went through the park the dog wasn't there, I was actually slightly disappointed I wouldn't get a chance to try and pet it, but as I was leaving the area of the park something slammed into my back and smashed me into the ground. I quickly got up and looked around for who did it only to see that stupid dog sitting a few feet away looking at me as it wagged its tail. "I hate you." I told the dog, but all it did was bark at me and then run away. Akane must have some secret dog petting martial arts techniques because she was able to just walk up and pet the thing. I'll have to bring her out there tomorrow and have her show me how she pets the dog.
Due to the dog I completely lost focus on what I was originally out there to do, which was to go and get something to eat. I didn't realize I hadn't actually gotten anything to eat until I got back to the Tendos and Akane asked me what I got. I just gave in at that point and ate leftovers.
Nothing else really happened tonight and now I'm the last one up in the house writing all this out. At first I actually had doubts about writing a journal, but it actually gives me time to think about what I did in the day.
The power is back so Ryoga is back to sleeping in the dojo during his abnormally long stay at the Tendo Dojo and I have my room back to myself and the old man. I changed back right before I started writing so I'm going to bed as a guy.--
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Hmm, Not much to say here, except I'm typing this note while still half asleep and with my eye's closed from my bed... ah the fun of writing things a couple days in advance.