Whirlwind!

So tired. I had some fun this past week. On the weekend B and I didn't do too much. It was relaxing. Then on Monday I did a bunch of running around and was surprised when I finished my to do list by 5 pm. The next morning came early. I was up at 5:30 and out the door by 6am to head down to Vancouver. It was bright and sunny already at 6am and made the trip down so enjoyable. I got to Bridal Falls and realized that traffic had come to a complete stop. I was stopped on the highway for an hour. Well, it was moving, but at a snails pace. Finally I got to the closest exit and that seemed to be where everyone was being detoured. The highway was closed between Bridal Falls and Abbotsford due to a fatal accident involving a semi-trailer going over the embankment. Incredibly tragic. (I found this out because while stopped on the highway I called my internet savvy husband who told me the reason why I was a sitting duck.) I couldn't help but think of the truckers family and how sad they would be at this time.

So I took an hour long detour and was finally back on track with my destination. I was an hour later than when I had been expected, but luckily my sister and her family were delayed too so I actually arrived at our meeting spot first! WIN! We did some shopping and then headed for lunch at Earls. My second time ever. It was good. I had the quesadilla. It was very yummy. After lunch we went and did some more shopping after dropping my car off at my brothers parents' place. Than we went and did some more shopping. They are doing their last minute shopping for the things they can't get where they live. It was funny because we were standing in line and the lady behind me broke down and said, "Ok, I can't figure out what she's making, I've been trying to figure it out but I just can't". I looked at my sisters assortment and noticed about 50 packages of gravy mix and about 10 packages of chocolate chips and laughed. I explained how they lived overseas and these were the things they couldn't get. After a long afternoon of shopping we headed over to some friends house where we had dinner. It was so nice of them to allow me to come along. It was a great dinner too! BBQ'd hamburgers, very yummy coleslaw - I totally have to get that recipe - and corn on the cob. For dessert they took us to an Italian ice cream shop that had 200 ice cream flavours to choose from. At first it was very overwhelming. There was a crazy amount of people. I ended up having very yummy Black Forest. But they had flavours such as "Balsamic Vinegar" and "Wasabe" and some other very interesting flavours. Why? I guess just for fun. I was not brave enough to even sample these flavours. After leaving our friends we went shopping a little more to the stores that were still open. Than we headed back to the parents' house and I talked with my brothers parents. They told me about their business plan and it's very bold. Very cool.

I headed downstairs and helped stuff envelopes. Well, I didn't stuff the envelopes, I counted out pictures to go into the envelopes :) After this I headed to bed. I was soooo tired and the early morning wake up call was going to come way too soon. At 6am I hit my alarm and made it go off again in 15 minutes. Than it happened again. Finally I dragged myself up and got ready. They headed off to Langley for a meeting but I had to run an errand so I was going to meet with them later on. I went and did my detective work that took me an hour and a half to do. Finally I was able to deliver the mystery package - just kidding - and was on my way. I got to Langley and met up with them in their office. After they were done I tagged along with them to do some of their running around. Than it was time to say so long.

I headed to Abbotsford and stopped in at Budget to get my brakes checked because there was a bad smell coming from them and my car had had this problem before so I knew what it was. They told me they could fit me in at 2pm. So I called my friend Sherena, we had a lunch date planned, and told her what was up. We met at Red Robins -a tradition to eat there any time I'm in Abby - and had lunch. After lunch I saw the bartender and he remembered me from Bible College days. I was like, you have worked here for a very long time! He just laughed! After lunch we headed back to Budget to drop my car off. They were able to get it in early and told me the scoop, I called B and handed the phone over because I hate being the middle man and thought, I'd just let them talk. We got the ok to fix it since this time it was the front brakes and last time it was the back brakes. So I had an hour and a half to kill. So Sherena and Kohen (her son) and I went to the mall. We didn't go into any stores, just walked and it was nice. I got to hold Kohen for as long as my weary arms would let me.

We walked back to Budget just as my car was being lowered. Perfect timing. I got in my car after saying goodbye and paying and drove to my Uncle's place. I stopped in to say a quick hello. As soon as I got back in my car it was 5pm. I was getting hungry and I was super tired. I decided lets just get home. So I cranked my tunes and headed home. I got close to hope and debated stopping for something to eat cause by this time my tummy was getting really angry, I decided I could wait until Merritt. So I continued. As I approached Merritt I debated again...I decided to just get home. I have stew in the freezer that I can have. So I kept going. I don't know how I did it....ok I do....but I got home in 2 1/2 hours. The first thing I did when I pulled up was call B to let me in the garage. He answered the phone, surprised to hear that I was home already cause he was at a staff BBQ. So I waited, and I waited and I waited, finally someone came down and went in the garage and I followed them in. I got my suitcase out of the back of the car. Headed up and first went to the washroom, second got the stew out of the freezer and had me some dinner. And then B came home while I was just dozing off. And that my friends concludes the events of the last couple of days. I'm super tired now and I think I may just lay down for a nap before I start my baking for the camping trip we're going on this weekend.