Sunday, April 16, 2006

Panning for Gold!


Okay, I had Jamie all day Friday and we really had a blast. I forgot how much energy kids have and she tired me out! We started our day out swimming for two hours and Jamie is a good swimmer. After some lunch, we headed to Sydney, a really pretty little town 30 min north of Victoria. Its right on the ocean (of course) and we were blessed with good weather. I took Jamie to "Mineral World and Scratch Patch" where she looked at pretty gems, visited the kids interactive area, panned for gold and collected rocks. Jamie loves rocks and has her own little rock collection in her bedroom (don't all kids?), so I knew she would love it there. She really enjoyed panning for gold and I had fun helping her. I took her for ice cream after that and of course she got the wildest flavour with blue,red and yellow. It was yucky but she ate it all! ha ha ha. We wanted to go rollarblading when we got home, but it started to rain and so we played Spyro on PS2 and ended up falling asleep together on the floor! All in all it was a great day. I gave her her Easter present and some American money to spend at Disneyworld, where the family is now. The house is a little silent, but I was out last night and I will be again tonight, so I dont notice it as much right now.
I took some picture of Sydney because I thought they were pretty and showed a bit of Syndey.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Relieved/Relavado/Soulagé


Okay! Classes have ended and I am almost home free. Almost. The last day of my Greek History class, my professor brought in wine for everyone. That was the first Greek History class I enjoyed!! I have had one final so far and it was a piece of cake. Call me a freak but I love finals. Its my chance to prove how much I have learned and I work well under pressure. I have three more, wish me luck.
The picture above represents the peace and relief I feel inside that my classes are done. I worked my ass of this semester and I will (hopefully) never take 5 classes in one semester again! It's demanding!

www.urbandictionary.com and their #8 description of what school is: an inhumane experiment where the governments tries to throw as many people as possible together in the same building and f-with them without getting sued for it.

Donde esta la biblioteca? Okay, now that summer is almost here I am happy but also cautious. I buy too many books. No, I buy an absurd amount of books. It was great back in the day when I had time to read them but now I am now a full summer behind my reading list which includes: Diary of Ann Frank, 4 Canadian History books, Dune:Chapterhouse, Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell (he's fantastic-wrote the excalibur series about King Arthur)plus others. I blame the summertime because my favourite thing to do in Calgary was to visit a Chapters...at any time of the day. Late in the evening was the best because it was quiet and gorgeous outside. I would browse for an hour or two and then hit the bargain section hard. I have bought many bargain books because they looked interesting and they were cheap! I dream of owning a library one day and filling it with books. I know its rather corny, but I dream of having a library like the one in Beauty and the Beast. Do you remember the look of joy on Belle's face when she saw that place? I do because I had the same one. I still dream of that library. Now, living where I do, the only Chapters is downtown and a pain in the ass to get too. This may help curb my book buying fetish but we'll see. I will probably just make up for it by buying more shoes or purses...love purses.

Ha ha ha. I had to include this picture becaues it makes me smile everytime I see it. This is Kristi, Jamie and my mom at the breakwater. Its a walkway that goes out into the ocean and is very enjoyable to walk on a nice evening. As you can see, it was a bit windy that day. We had to hang onto Jamie because we were afraid she would blow away!

Question #2: What would be your dream job?

My answer: Marine Biologist or Historian
That's all for today, buenos tardes mis amigos.