Every year, myself and 4 other girls go punting for Nina's birthday. In the earlier days of Parkside, I was in a friendship group of six girls rather than twelve. The group was me, Phoebe, Ruby, Marie, Clara and Nina. By mid-late year 9 we became friends with Esme, Ella, Saskia, Isobel, and Anna. Holly came over from Australia and joined the school at the beginning of year 11 and it didn't take her long at all to fit right in to our group and be popular with the guys! I applaud her for that actually because it can't have been easy! So now and it has been for quit a while now, we are just one big group of twelve. Every so often though, it's nice to catch up with your original group just like old times, as much as I love the others!
Aaaaaanyway, I got completely sidetracked there! Nina's birthday is on the 2nd of July and usually we go on that day but this year we went yesterday which was the 5th. We chose to do it yesterday because the weather was forecasted to be scorching hot...and it sure was! As I said up there, there are 5 of us that go every year, not six and this is because Marie has never come with us before because she is always on holiday but this year she came, wahoo!!
Over the years we have learnt that I am the best punter of all of us (their opinion), Nina and Clara aren't bad but Ruby and Phoebe are absolutely awful. Phoebe just zig zags from one side of the river to the other and Ruby just doesn't move it. So every time, I do the majority of the punting. This time, Marie did it first because she said she'd done it before and we wanted to see if she was any good. She was actually really good! Phoebe tried next but failed epically so I punted us to Grantchester where we stopped to hav a swim in the river and get some water. When we got off and attached it to the side, a little puppy came up to us and it was so cute so we were playing with it and you know when puppies bite you and it doesn't hurt? Yeah this puppy had really sharp teeth!!
This is a photo of the bite mark I just took. It looks a lot better today, it bled loads yesterday!
after funzies in the river and covering our skin in clay from the bottom of the river...it's good for your skin apparently...we set off on the punt again and headed back to town to return it as it was around 7pm. By this point we had been punting for about 5 hours! We stopped at Lammas Land to go to the park, the best park ever.
Left to right: Clara, Marie, Ruby
Clara drinking beer in the park...looks so trashy haha!
Putting the beer away because I told her off...
Looking guilty...
Uncomfortably close?
Marie and Phoebe
Nina looking..yeah
Me and the birthday girl, Nina
Phoebe looks drunk already after one sip of beer!
n'aww Marie looks cute here
The ONLY photo I managed to get of Clara on the punt! She doesn't like photos even though she's drop dead gorgeous! Silly girl...
See...
Phoebe's classic nostril flare hahahahaha
eeeewwwwww Marie's nasal hair.....Why do her eyebrows look like eyelashes...
I may have punted away while Nina jumped off to get changed...
Ruby looking serious
Nina is so beautiful
Then again...!
I look fat here but I needed a photo of me punting!
I don't even know!
As usual, punting this year was a lot of fun and memorable, even more so with Marie there! And it's always nice to split off in to my group of 6 every so often to have a catch up. My muscles ached so badly on Saturday and Sunday but feel a little better today. I hope this punting tradition continues but I have my doubts that it will now that we're all going to be going off to different sixth forms and making new friends. This makes me sad but I'm going to do my best to stay in contact with all of them coz I loves em!
Anyway, I'm going to watch Princess Diaries in bed now because I'm a big kid so good night friend :)
Love and stuff xxx
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