August
27th
Hello from
Winnipeg! When
Joey went home on the 23rd I decided I would take some vacation time and come with him for a visit. I'll be here until Sunday morning. So far we haven't done too much cept hang around and eat good food. Sunday we went to Kildonan Park to see
Merina's friend Poul in the play "Peter Pan" on the Rainbow Stage. Before the show we went to a cast barbecue and walked around the park for a bit. It's really nice and has some enormous squirrels. The Rainbow Stage is a huge outdoor theatre and Peter Pan was amazing. I've never seen such a colorful, energetic play before. After the show we went out for a beer with Poul and some of the other cast members at the King's Head pub, it was a neat spot.
Monday we went to Carlos and Murphy's for supper with Nathan. I got the Chimichangas again (I tried em on the visit before last) and was able to eat both of em this time. After supper we went to a gelato place on the way home that
Joey has been wanting to take me to for years.
Yesterday I got some huge news from work. I had an email from John in the morning asking me to call him ASAP. When I talked to him he told me they were making some changes to staff positions in the company and it involved giving me (as well as Ryan and
Chris) a promotion! Very terrific news to hear while on vacation.
Undecided
Silence
August
11th
Interesting weekend I guess. Friday night there was a going away party for
Sarah at my place.
Jen,
Sarah,
Andrew and another
Sarah went out for drinks to start, so I played some Halo 3 with
Chris for a bit. Later on all my friends from
Summerside showed up (
Joey,
Noel,
Merina,
Andrew) as well as some friend's of
Jen's and some of
Sarah's co-workers. Sadly everyone but my friends and
Chris' friend John left pretty early, so we all just hung out, drank, and chatted. I ran out of energy pretty early on... ate a few pizza pops around midnight and napped for an hour, then went back upstairs to visit some more.
Saturday
Merina had to catch a flight back to
Winnipeg so around noon I drove home to
Summerside. We decided to take
Kalon's car cause I was tired and felt like taking a nap on the way there.
Merina's flight was delayed so we got to the airport quite early and sat around for a bit. After leaving the airport we went into
Moncton for a drive around. I stumbled upon the new Don Cherry's location, so I've definitely gotta go back and eat there sometime. We stopped by the mall, Chapters, Gamezilla, some pawn shop, all the usual places, then tried to go to Jungle Jim's for supper but it was packed, so we settled for Wendy's instead. After eating it was back to
Summerside, and then back to
Charlottetown for me.
Since Sunday was
Sarah's last day on
PEI I took her for a trip to
Summerside. (So much driving!) We got up a little early and made some scrambled eggs with cheese slices for breakfast (my specialty) before she left to go to work for a few hours. We went to
Summerside in the early afternoon, stopping at the Frosty Treat in Kensington for some ice cream on the way. In
Summerside we did a quick little driving tour of the downtown, and then went to my house so
Sarah could meet Buddy and the cats. I was expecting
Joey to be around, but it turns out he went to
Charlottetown for the day with
Noel and Jon.
It was kinda nice out so we took Buddy for a bit of a walk, and afterwards watched a few episodes of Undergrads. At this point we were both pretty hungry so we went to Burger King for some supper, which is kinda funny cause the first time we went out for supper in
Charlottetown was at Burger King. When we got back to my house
Joey and everyone else had gotten home. A little later
Kalon and my parents got home from some weekend trips over to New Brunswick. (Apparently mom and
Gary rented a cottage near a cliff and my mom almost fell off of it... scary?)
Sarah and I got back to
Charlottetown around midnight.
Chris and
Jen were hanging out in my room so we talked to them for a bit before going to bed. This morning
Sarah's parents arrived around nine to pick her up and drive back home to Montreal. Everyone was pretty sad about having to say goodbye but
Sarah is definitely gonna have a great time going to school in New York in the fall.
So now looks like I'm back to playing video games and working on websites in my spare time. I might even start watching a bit of anime again eventually.
Undecided
Matt Pryor - I'm Sorry Stephen
August
5th
Ahh I wish this thing would just update itself... kay it's time to catch up on two weeks, but I'm gonna leave a ton out I spose. First will be the weekend before last. Friday night I think my computer was dead, I hung out with
Sarah and her friend Megan for a bit. We went down to the park around midnight sometime. Around one in the morning
Joey,
Merina and
Noel stopped by. We sorta just hung out in my room until around four in the morning,
Joey tried to fix my computer.
Saturday of that weekend we had a little camping trip.
Andrew got a spot for us at Twin Shores. I went home early in the afternoon to get
Joey and
Merina, we stopped at Sobey's for food, Kensington for booze, and then met up with
Noel,
Andrew and Alison at the campsite. First thing we did was go down to the beach for some swimming. The water was cold but the weather was great even though it was late in the day. We went for the longest walk ever along the beach through some dune grass to a big dune pit.
After the beach we went back to set up tents and cook some hotdogs for supper.
Noel, Andew and Alison went to Kensington for food and drinks at this point. We spent the rest of the night sitting around a fire chatting and drinking. At one point some of us went to the park but got kicked out pretty quick. A little after midnight everyone but me and
Andrew went up to the main office to get
Kalon and Craig (they decided to come stay the night.) While they were gone security came by twice to mention noise and fires, which was funny cause
Andrew and I were extremely quiet and our fire was almost out.
When everyone got back we decided to head to the beach with some firewood before we got ourselves kicked out. We got a good little fire going and a few random strangers (and some people I actually knew) stopped by to hang out with us.
Sunday we packed up our camping gear and then made a quick stop at Thunder Cove for some extremely hot sun and cold water. We found a few lobsters in the shallow beach water, which is pretty rare.
After the beach we went back to
Summerside, then to the Heritage for some lunch/breakfast. In the evening
Joey,
Merina and I went to dad's place for Supper. We watched the movie "Bank Job" which was kinda alright.
I spent Monday night working on my computer. I decided after five years it was time for a format and reinstall, so that's what I did. After many hours of messing around I had my computer back up and running better than ever, so cool! (Thanks Dalton!)
I can't remember anything else happening last week... so I'll skip to last weekend.
Friday night was my ten year high-school reunion. I originally wasn't gonna go, but then Will and Ryan were gonna show up so I kinda had to. It was held down at the
Summerside waterfront. I'd say there was only about 30-40 of my graduating class present, but it was cool seeing Will and Hannah, Ryan, Kevin Millman, and many others. It wasn't really as awkward as I thought it would be.
Saturday the weather was lousy so the beach was out of the question. Ryan,
Merina,
Joey and I went to
Charlottetown and had supper at Britt's Fish and Chips, it was very good. Afterwards we took a bit of a drive around
Charlottetown and out to Stratford, then headed home.
Saturday night we all went over to
Noel's for a bit of barbecue and lots of Soul Caliber 4. Sunday was a pretty lazy day, but
Merina did a lasagna, garlic bread and salad supper, it was goooood. She's flying back home this Saturday, but me and
Kalon are very likely taking a trip out to
Winnipeg near the end of this month so we'll see her again very soon.
Hungry
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