whining

went for a meander around Hillcrest today- god that place is weird and completely full of stay-at-home mothers with nothing else better to do with their time than to shop and buy little knick-knack crap. I haven't been up that way in a little while, and it seems the neighbourhood has exploded with shopping centres and spars. We went looking for an ATM at one stage- on our way from a quaint heritage market, through to another one- and went into a shopping mall parking lot. After driving around and seeing no ATM signs anywhere, we pushed on further- the weird thing was we went straight into another centre's parking lot, and then another. It was crazy- there were around 5 in a row, with another three directly across the road. And all of them small, single story, "quaint" places, full of small and completely obscure shops and restaurants (like the edelweiss delicacy- huh?). Was really astounded with this weird world that these people have created for themselves- this cant be normal life. To be constantly surrounded by small, ugly and weird shopping complexes, cant make for a normal, healthy upbringing or surroundings. It felt like it does when you go from living in big cities, when driving through the country side and stopping in at a small town shop. That completely out of place, wow this is bizarre and archaic, and look at that strange little man.... Well despite being around like 15 minutes from where I live, this kind of had the same feeling! Very strange. Had great scones and tea however at the rob roy hotel, overlooking the valley of a thousand hills- was late afternoon by then, and kind of cold and misty, which was the perfect time to sit and look out on the brilliantly green hills. was great. also got to totally pig out on the most enormous, completely covered in cream scones. hmmmm.. Still licking my lips with the memory of those beauties.