Tuesday. Crane dropping day. See, the idea was had that we’d make 333 cranes (origami) in memory of Anna, a perplex city character who was killed not long ago, and then take them to the Mind Candy offices and present them. So Tuesday was that. Mind Candy are in London, so lotsa travelling done by me (and I didn’t get lost a single time *is proud*).

I ended up arriving at the meet place far too early, but, of course a Starbucks was JUST outside. So I had a coffee and passed the time there. I was the first there, but luckily I recognised peoples and cornered them with such comments as “you have CRANES!”. Scared the wits out of the poor people! Due to train strikes, tube delays, and certain people being lazy, NO NAMES MENTIONED! (*cough*Jem*cough*), peoples were later than meant to be, but we all arrived eventually. Lots of hugs, and then we wandered over to Mind Candy, searching for the cube on the way.

We arrived at the Mind Candy offices and set up shop on a picnic table to pack 333 cranes into a massive box decorated like a present, by the lovely Izzy. During which a security guard came over and started telling us off, cue Jem hastening to explain the situation and explain we were expected! The security guard oked it, and went off, we finished counting cranes while Arieh video camera’d the puttin of the cranes in the box and the sealing of the present. He also carried on to record the the delivering too, and the video shall be edited and stuck up on youtube

We then told Jem to carry the box, which was so big he couldn’t see over it, so funny! And went into the offices. The same security rang them up and was like “sit there, they’ll be with you in a sec”. Cue much sitting and waiting. Then Guy came out and did the whole delivery of cranes thing, twas amusing. Lots of photos and talking, then he went to sign out and take us all to the pub! Woo!

Guy got the first round in, and silly me declined a drink cos I was on the spot and got confused Pub’s are not fun for me, loud, and I can’t hear anyone, but then in that pub, noone could hear anyone, the music was too loud apparently. So I wasn’t the only one!

We chattered to Guy for a bit, and then Jey (Wishi – ex PXC player) joined us. Twas cool.. Then Adrian (creator of Perplex City) also joined us for a while, and Guy and Jey removed themselves to a different table *tuts*. Adrian is a really cool guy. And he had Guitar Hero, always a positive! Batgirl and I were plotting to mug him for it. Haha! But he left before we could, so we plotted to pin Guy down and steal his Mind Candy leitmark (OMG *wants*).

Then Jo arrived! Yay! She came and sat with us and chatted to us for ageeeeeees. She’s so lovely! She wants to come to the next meet up too! Yay!

Then sadly, Rach and I had to leave to get trainage back up north, so we said goodbye, and we got lots of hugs. Guy gave me a massive hug, and I forgot to steal the leitmark! NOES! Then he asked who I was, and Jo told him.. cue much embarrassment, because then he apologised in person for the lateness of my Scarlett Code prize.. NOES *blushes and hides* He said something also, along the lines of “Scarlett is a bit shit” *giggles*. That was really amusing.

Then Rach and I went homeeeeee. We were on the same trains for the majority of the way, but I got to my station before Rach got to hers. MUST MEET UP AGAIN RACH! I miss everyone alreadys

All in all, a fantastic weekend was had, especially the London trip. It was great fun, and I met lotsa new people!

Pictures can indeed be found on my Flickr which is linked to on the right hand side of my blog.