Labour Day weekend
There wasn’t much labouring going on for me this long weekend. The weekend went like this:
Friday
- BBQ dinner at home. J & I surprised my sister, meeting her out at a bar for drinks for her birthday.
Saturday
- Early morning drive up to a friend’s cottage. Spent the day getting blown down the lake on a windsurfer. Also did my first run tubing (see photo above). Note: don’t tube for 20 minutes straight in choppy water at high speeds. I turned into a ragdoll and my arms, neck, back and chest are still aching days later from holding on as hard as I could. I’ve got terrible neck headaches. Hopefully they go away soon, or I’ve gotta go for a massage to get everything back in order.
- Hung out with friends at the cottage, ate lots of food and played with babies. Babies are the new thing amongst a lot of our friends now. I guess now that everyone’s married, babies are the next step. Good kids, they keep us entertained.
- Filled up with gas on the way home. I was actually thankful when I got to the gas station and saw it was $1.22/L. “That’s not too bad” I thought to myself. It’s only because the day prior it was near $1.39. Crazy that 2 weeks earlier it was in the $0.80’s.
Sunday
- Drove to Hamilton for a wedding. My first Greek wedding. Kinda long at an hour. I’m used to less than 30mins now. It was cool because everything the reverend/priest/? said was in a sing-songy rhythm. Half talking, half singing.
- Hung out in a hotel room with friends in town for the wedding. Another baby afternoon, but he slept (along with many of us) for the whole time Watched more sad New Orleans news.
- Wedding reception with a TON of food. Great antipasto table. Round after round of food. Followed up by a lot of dancing around in a big line holding hands. A fun wedding overall. Then I lost my camera.
Monday
- Slept late, loafed around the house while J had to go into the office to complete some work. She works a lot. Watched hours of CSI marathon on Spike TV.
- Went out to Blockbuster to look for videos. Watched the Snowbirds airplanes fly overhead for a while at the CNE airshow.