b’s blog

I am so behind on posts; it’s not funny! I just wanted to sum up Toront by saying that there is so much fabulous food to eat out there! Sampling so many different kinds of ethnic foods is so much fun! You can do all the touristy things for a week or even less but the culinary tour would last you a month! oh YUM! And these are just the restaurants within walking distance from where we were staying.

One highlight - Craig Olejnik from “The Listener” was sitting across from us at an Italian Restaurant. The lineup for tables was at least 10 long! It was still busy at 8pm when we left the restaurant!

Beautiful ceremony at a quaint church outside of Christy’s hometown of Busby in mid-September. Although I was early for picking up Charlene and Dan at Spruce Grove, we were confused about the direction to take to find Hwy44 and therefore ended up about 10 minutes late for the ceremony. Luckily, the congregation was standing and we managed to squeeze in beside Angela nearer to the front of the chapel.

Charlene volunteered to play hostess for Beau’s mom at her home in Spruce so that the family and friends would have a place to relax and enjoy their time before heading to the reception. We were pretty organized and followed Sue’s instructions to the letter and then sat down to catch up with people I haven’t seen in ages.

The reception was really fun. You had to sing songs with the word “love” in them to get them to kiss as tinkling glasses just doesn’t cut it anymore.

The dance went on all night and Charlene, Ange, Calvin, Dan, Tanner, Lauren and Glen all closed down the dance floor! Beau took all the ladies for a spin on the dance floor between dancing with his wife. He is a very confident two stepper! Glen Rees surprised me with his dancing. Pics are now up on Facebook!

I've been here about 3.5 days now and the weather is absolutely perfect! Sarah arrived at the airport about an hour before I did so we took the TTC (subway) into town together and easily found our hostel. (Thank you ... [Continue reading this entry]

Charlene, Dan, Jane and I took the time to do a small hiking trip after driving out to Mt. Robson for Jana and Jonathan's wedding. It was my first back country camping experience and I think Jane's also. We had a ... [Continue reading this entry]

This weekend I invited Angela out to Lake Wabamun for tubing and swimming on a friend's boat. It was a great day as the weather was hot (+30) but the lake was cool. We were trying out her new 3 ... [Continue reading this entry]

Drove out with Charlene and Dan on Saturday morning to Mt Robson, BC. Watched as Jana and Jon were married right near the mountain they love to hike so much. It was a very interesting wedding ceremony as they had ... [Continue reading this entry]

Starting this evening, the Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival will run all weekend. My team, Platinum Ratz, is racing on Saturday and Sunday. There will be entertainment, food and lots of stuff to see and do. Come by Louise ... [Continue reading this entry]

This is the tenth year of street hockey for the group! I can't believe it! 9 of them were at the Duggan rink. Yay for us for going so long!! I've uploaded pictures to Facebook with the group of us ... [Continue reading this entry]

Long weekends are great. We need more of them. I think we should have one for every month. I don't appreciate that June has no holiday! And although February is a shorter month we should have a national holiday there ... [Continue reading this entry]