Astrid & Her Amazing “Random Events, Conversations, and Pictures” – Adventure

A friend of the house, named Chris, came over for a visit. He was first sitting in the lounge, but then came over to the kitchen where Astrid was at that time. He started looking for “something” and Astrid offered to help him find that what he was looking for. So Chris started describing what he needed and Astrid thought she knew exactly what he needed. So Astrid opened one of the cupboards and, with pride for solving the little riddle, handed him a rolling-pin. She was slightly off though, coz what he was actually looking for was a washing-cloth!



Richard, Tom, and Astrid love to keep themselves occupied by playing little games around the house, so when Astrid went out shopping, Richard set her out on a mission: “Buy me a nice surprise which would cost you less than 50 Pence.” So Astrid was in the store looking around for the perfect gift when her eye caught a little jar of baby-food which argued it was a dessert containing blueberry and apple. Astrid then remembered Richard’s request to bake him a cranberry-apple-pie for his birthday, so Astrid thought this might just be the perfect surprise for him, as it was a dessert containing apples and berries as well. The surprise was well-received and placed in the refrigerator. Then housemate Tom came home and uttered the following phrase to Richard and Astrid: “I opened the door of the refrigerator, saw baby-food, and somehow I WASN'T even surprised!”



Astrid works for LEGO and helps people with all sorts of LEGO-related questions, from people wondering about the safety of building houses of LEGO for hamsters to the amount of bricks necessary to built a LEGO - tower to the moon! Astrid’s colleagues are daily challenged by the same sort of questions and one day Astrid’s colleague Kajsa was posed the following question:



“One of my DUPLO figures has loose arms, what can I do?”

So Kajsa turned to Astrid and asked her: “What do I tell this lady? To buy the DUPLO hospital as well?”



This weekend Astrid went out clubbing.

Expected conversation:

Bouncer: “Hello there, can I see your ID?”

Actual conversation:

Bouncer: “Hello there, where is your bike?”

Apparently, the bouncer sees Astrid passing by on her bike every morning when she goes to work.



When Astrid went to buy her ticket in, she raised her finger, meaning she wanted one ticket. The lady at the check-out then showed Astrid three fingers, and Astrid shaked her head, and again showed her one finger. Then the lady at the check-out shaked her head and again revealed three fingers. Apparently, the ticket price for one girly girl was three Pounds!

Astrid & Her Amazing “Where are the Whales in Wales?” – Adventure [Part 2]

So Astrid was unlucky in finding whales in Wales on her first day there, so for the second day Astrid and her mates thought of a MASTER-PLAN:



“Why don’t we go to the beach and seek for whales over there?”

So off they went to the beach, two beach boys and one beach girl (with slightly hairy legs and the shorts and belt on of one of the guys, since you CANNOT be prepared for ALL weather-conditions during a weekend in Wales).



On the way to the beach, they happily sang about the fact that “everybody’s gone surfing, surfing USA” and also played the CHAPS game, not the ORIGINAL animal-edition, BUT the beach-edition (copyright Christophe, Sud, & Astrid 2006):

C = Chest-hair
H = Happiness
A = Astrid
P = Proud Parents
S = Sand



Maybe you already sensed it, but there was continuous clapping going on, as the beach was just PACKED with chest-hair, happiness, proud parents, sand, and okay, maybe not so many Astrids, but there was one so loud that she could be recognized from afar.

Still, there were no whales to be seen and Astrid and her mates got hooked on building (with the LEGO spirit in mind!):



“P – R- A – T,” the rock-formation said. How unfortunate for Sud to fall asleep on such a rare spot on the sandy beach:



After “the joy of building and the pride of creation” (copyright LEGO 2006), Astrid and her mates continued looking for whales. They found many objects on and around the beach covered with sand, salt, and drips of ice-cream, but none could satisfy them as much as the sight of a whale would or maybe Astrid and her friends would just settle for a cute looking dog then!



Then Astrid had to return home again, as work would start early again the following day. Five hours later, when the train-manager ran out of excuses for the delays, Astrid returned home, bewildered but pleased with the outcome of her quest:

Astrid & Her Amazing “Where are the Whales in Wales?” - Adventure

“Where are the whales in Wales?,” Astrid wondered.



Extremely eager to find out she set herself on a true quest and in the weekend took the train to Wales.

Upon her arrival, she didn’t see any whales, but not giving up on her quest that easily, Astrid went to check out the country-side.



As a small-degree nutcase, she was drawn to all the nuts in the trees around her, especially those of the hazel-kind. So she started collecting and eating them, but soon stopped that practice when she realized she didn’t have a dentist in the UK yet.

Continuing her journey, she nearly tripped over a gold-mine. Signs told her where to go panning for gold and it was gold Astrid found, but who needs chunks of gold when you are actually looking for whales? Not Astrid, that is the obvious answer.



So Astrid continued her journey and her quest. Keeping her animal-observation skills alive started playing C H A P S (copyright Chris & Sud 200?):

Be on the lookout for a Chicken, Horse, Anteater, Pig, and Sheep. Once your eyes have fallen upon an animal of each kind and you have pointed every observation of these animals out to your mates, then clap your hands as loud as you can. Whoever claps first, will win the game. But be aware of the fact that if one of your mates sees an animal before you, you may NOT use it in your C H A P S-game. Yeah, so find your own horse or … be a chicken!

All sorts of animals now started crossing Astrid’s path, from dogs with boots on to sheep with tails, and slowly Astrid & her friends transformed into animals as well:





“Lechyd da,” these animals said as often as possible.

Would Astrid ever find her whales in Wales?



Check back and find out!