Yesterday: Friday, May 30th 2008
   
    Alright so my friend Kayla and I have been planning me to do her grad pictures for the longest time, actually since the start of her school year of being in 12th grade! I am a freelance photographer striving to go professional after school so we finally decided on this yesterday that we were going to get them done even though it was month before her grad, but she'd be two busy in June and so would I.

    So first on the docket was that i was going to do her hair. She wanted me to curl it... I was like 'Sure this shouldn't be a problem, I work with curly hair all the time.' (Since my own hair is VERY curly). So she sits down after washing and drying her hair, I found out to me great disappointment that her hair is as flat as i was from before we washed it. I mean seriously! Her hair was so straight that even after getting it wet it didn't fluff in the least. So I tried mousse 3 different kinds! NOTHING so I grab my hair curler.... which took a great deal to find because I never use it, and I try to curl her hair, which doesn't work because her hair is just really that flat. So I use my last resort... (Me being dumb in the ways of making salon strong curls) I SOAKED her hair in hairspray and commenced to curling her hair. (-.-) yeah I know now that what I did was wrong. I just glad her hair didn't start on fire, even though it was smoking and sizzling from the hairspray. To no avail, I just could do it. The side and the back look O-KAY-ISH but it really, really sucked.

    But Kayla was not let down she and I got ready to go the city, resolving that we were going to make a hair appointment at a salon in the mall for her to get her hair down for these pictures. Okay so mom loaded up the car with my cousin me and my sister and kayla and we were off to the city!

    Mom dropped us off at Midtown Plaza (So far the biggest mall in Saskatoon) and we got busy. We went straight to the hair salon there and around that time it was 2:30, her hair appointment was to be at 3:45! Yeah alot of wasted time indeed! So I went to Arby's to get a large curly fries and Kayla and I then went to booster juice.... but now if anyone knows Kayla they would have to agree with me that she has a punkish sense of style. yes she is one of my best friends but she's kind of a darker character. BUT extremely perky and cheerful and random, thus I love her to bits. So she got the dirtiest looks of them all when we went into stores and the hair salon especially.

    Anyways we blew the time away and she was taken in for her hair appointment. It being a spa I just kind of sat in the chair next to her till I heard a voice go. "Hi, do you want a tour of the spa?" It was an EXTREMELY feminine voice so I turned around and there was this guy... Yes I know he was gay. But I smiled and said "Sure" So he cheerfully showed me around the spa, even though I myself was a hilarious looking creature at the time... my big backpack with my camera's in it and tripod and all. He was an extremely enjoyable character, maybe because he was happy through everything it made we feel at ease.

    (I know alot of people would be like "WHY WOULD YOU ASSOCIATE WITH SUCH A THING?!" I would just have to say "Because Jesus died for him too. You break one of God's commandemts you break them all it doesn't matter what it is one is no better than the other, I'm the Christian he isn't, I have to show God's love because only God can judge him, I have to be careful but it doesn't hurt to witness)

    Anyways so he was going on about different things like aroma therapy and was letting me smell all the smells to "relax" and he took me through the massage area and the waiting room with like 5 big screen T.V's and asked me what I was doing there today. So I told him "Oh I'm a freelance photographer and I am taking pics of my friend for her grad." and he was like "WOW... THAT IS LIKE SO COOL! Do you have you're own business I should get you to take pictures of me!" I was like "o.....k....." and I gave him my card.

    By that time Kayla was done her hair appointment and it was 4:42 in the afternoon. She then shanged into her grad gown.... surprising EVERYONE with her beauty. Which I always knew was there, I mean she took the hair-stylists by surprise. There was not one closed mouth in that studio. So we paid and left ... but now the fun part. We had to WALK through the mall to get the washrooms so that she could put on her make-up and earrings for the shoot. So here we were, (prince charming) is what she called me and (cinderella with a red and black dress) which was Kayla walking through the mall hand in hand skipping.... I was DYING of laughter and couldn't stand up straight so as we were skip/walking hand in hand through the mall of people who were staring at us incrediously, I was barely standing up because of laughter, which made other people look all the more. We got to the bathroom, I'm still shaking because of the fun I just had... (I was NOT embarrassed whatsoever, I thought it was fun) she puts on her make-up and stuff and we head back THROUGH the mall to get the doors that will take us 4 blocks to get to the park but before we reached the doors, this girl comes running up and says "Can i take a picture of you going through the mall like that?!" So we pose for a pic and start our four blocked journey... four blocks of walking DOWN-TOWN like this... that was even funnier, people were like "Hurry. hurry, you'll be late for the ball!" Kayla and I just laughed it off and finally reached the park... and here are the pictures from the park after that BUSY BUSY day!