#44 - Sara Contreras Day

Meet the amazing, one and only SARA CONTRERAS. Ever since the first day of summer, Rachel and I have been trying to set a date when all three of us can hang out. And finally...WE DID! *insert applause here* So we picked Sara up in Rachel's hardcore mini-van, and set out for Raleigh. After getting there and dodging all of the construction workers (every single time I go to Raleigh, there's street construction which is pretty inconvenient), we parked on the side of the road, beside a house with a purple/blue/lavendar door (we all disagreed on the color) hoping that we wouldn't get towed.

We first went to SchoolKids Records again, since Sara had never been. She bought a Yeah Yeah Yeahs album (yeah!) aaaaaand some other album that I can't remember. :P But it was on sale for 4 bucks! On our way out, Rachel and I saw this basket with stuff inside; the guy at the counter said it was free - so what do you think we did? Yep, the three of us stocked up with our hands full of freebies. We got a CD in a nifty, cute little indie case, Arcade Fire postcards!!, Wolf Parade magnets, and bumper stickers.

Then we just ambled around downtown Raleigh, stopping in a cute coffee shop and bought some goods from a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts place. We passed this pretty small building wedged between all the other stores that had a sign saying "Bowling Alley". Our curiosity kicked in - I mean who ever heard of a bowling alley in downtown?? So we went inside, up the stairs, and were greeted by this adorable old-fashioned bowling alley! There was only one guy working, and the rest of the place was completely empty. He let us snoop around, and we've already made plans to get a big group together and come back to go bowling sometime.

We were originally going to see that movie Date Night at the dollar-fifty theater, but decided to drive to Southpoint instead and check out Urban Outfitters. On our way there we decided to check out what was on the free CD we took from SchoolKids. The band is called Scraps, and I tracked down their myspace here. We all actually liked it and I think listened to the whole CD twice hah. Soooo we finally made it to Southpoint and headed straight to the huge Urban that has its own building. Since none of us had any money, we had to window shop which SUCKS and made us all cry (not really, but I felt like it).

Overall a pretty good, well spent, Sara Contreras-filled day! :)