MGL the makings of a good life: Manchester

Finally in Manchester, and after a week of just relaxing and doing nothing, Natasha finally arrives. It all started when I was in Dublin, and I decided to plan a surprise party for Shannon because she is going to be alone on her 21st birthday. So her flatmate Wallis and I devised a plan of action...

...With Natasha's help of distracting Shannon with her arrival, we quickly set out to decorate her room. The funny thing was, for someone who considers herself to be great at picking up on things, she had no clue what was happening, whatsoever, and was pleasantly surprised to see decorations set up for what she though was for Natasha....

...she soon found herself dumbfounded when she saw her name in balloons and realized the joke was on her. Muahahahaha. And she was not just set up by one, or two but all three of us. Her aloofness quickly turned to gratitude then self-hatred for no one has ever been able to pull off a heist over her sheer intellect...

...quickly getting over self-hatred, we celebrated and turned our attentions to the pizza and not the cake, and more importantly the fact that Natasha was here on the same continent as us and no longer in the Land Down Under. We were all smiles.

Because it was Natasha's first day here, they decided to show her around town. We walked down the streets of Manchester doing what tourists do best.

A lot of people seemed to stare at us, while we jokingly laughed and made merriment, but of course we did not care, caring only about our reunion after so many lonesome months apart.

Manchester, has many interesting architecture that drastically differs from that which is seen back home in Vancouver, mainly due to the rich history of the former industrial power city...(that we didn't really care about)