New Experiences - Michael and the Failed Tattoo

We know we promised to blog about Tinder next, but this is a much more interesting topic. We promise to fill you in on the Tinder happenings shortly.

After the enjoyable dinner with Kevin and company, there was radio silence. However, the news isn't all bad, as Bubbly Bella met another man on Tinder. This meeting produced an entirely different relationship to the one made with the French visitors.

Michael is a wonderful man, he is a budding entrepreneur, an artist and a graphic designer and his taste in music is enough to make any woman weak at the knees… and there are a myriad of other things that Michael is very good at that we won't get into right now.

Michael's self portrait

Let’s cool the horses on that topic and get to one that is another fail of ours.

Once Bubbly Bella has her mind made up about something, you just know that it will change at least hundred times more. Thus when Bubbly Bella came up with the idea that she wanted to get a tattoo - we were supportive of her decision but somewhat dubious about the time period of said art work.

However, in just a few weeks and through some fortuitous channels there was the opportunity; booked and paid for. Excitement to the Max.

Enter Murphy Stage Left

Bellas: We are here, 60 kms already driven… very early to ensure ultimate punctuality! Did we mention excitement?

Murphy: Haha! You poor fools!

Eskom, Murphy’s evil counterpart, cuts power to the entire area

Bellas: Well…… that sucks.

We began our journey home and decide that was not a fit way to end the story of our day, so we contacted Michael and asked if we could come visit him, and he thought it fitting. Driving through a part of Johannesburg that you are not familiar with at night is not too much fun, especially when Bubbly Bella decides to drive despite being practically night blind and  Brainy Bella and her phone GPS decide that it is the centre of Johannesburg rather than Randburg that we wish to go to. The Bellas end up driving through the South African equivalent of downtown Harlem...

Emerging safely a while later having worked up quite an appetite, we stopped to get vegetarian sushi and other Chinese food of deliciousness and proceeded to spend a fantastic evening talking nonsense, watching series and eating the worlds worst deep fried ice cream.

In one of those 'the world is too small' moments, the Bellas discovered that the friend whose tattoo Michael is designing is actually... Wait for it... Brainy Bellas boss *gasp* This has of course opened up avenues for messing with said bosses head which the Bellas have enjoyed immensely.

So Michael, we know you're reading this, you win at least 50 points for being awesome.

Way awesome ;) 

Much love and light