Weekend Adventure Part One

This past weekend I went down to the coast to visit my sister and her wonderful family. The trip down was quite the adventure. It was extreme weather the entire time. When I first left Kelowna it was 3 in the afternoon. It was cloudy but nice. Once I got into the mountains(a whole 15 mins later) I was surrounded by fog. Not just any fog but fog so thick I couldn't see a car length in front of me. After I finally came out of the fog, which lasted all the way to Merritt from before Brenda Mine Road(so roughly an hour and a half because I could only go 30 clicks at some parts), I stopped for something to eat and some gas. Not gas from the stuff I would eat but gas for my car...sicko..where was your mind at? Anyways, then I headed back onto the road to encounter a new extreme weather condition. Rain. Yes rain is extreme in BC. I could hardly see anything and my car kept getting caught in puddles and pulled in different directions. Destination desired...Dawn and Corrie's house. Direction the puddles wanted me to go...over the cliff. But I won that battle. So getting to their house took me 5 hours to get to. That's right people..5 hours. That's like an hour and a half too long. Once I got there the first thing Gabriel told me was that he wasn't allowed to have candy because he had misbehaved at school. Then he continued on to ask me if I wanted to have one of his candies. I of course can not refuse candy and agreed. I thought, wow how sweet is he. He asked me if I wanted smarties but I said no because I know those are his favorite. But he insisted that I take them. So I agreed after a long debate. As soon as I opened the box both Grace and Gabriel were there waiting for me to share. So of course I shared them. It's just not right to eat candy in front of kids. After we ate the Smarties I sent home the babysitter(actually she asked me if it was ok that she left and I said sure...there goes my chance of making a new friend). Then I got Grace ready for bed and asked Gabriel if he could get his PJ's on but he didn't need to go to bed yet. He did right away. So easy to take care of these two kids....love it! Then Grace went to bed shortly after and Gabriel and I stayed up and watched half of Spider Man 2. Then he went to bed and I read a magazine. A little later Dawn and Corrie walked in the door. But before they came home I had talked to Dawn on the phone and she informed me that I had been tricked by a 5 year old. He wasn't suppose to have any candy and I shared the candy which he gave me knowing that I would probably give him some. Tricky! I had been had! So he had to hand over all his Smarties the next day. Ouch!
On Saturday I was woken up by Gabriel. He came into the room in which I was sleeping and so quietly said, Aunty M it's time to get up. I looked up at hime and said, how about 10 more minutes. He agreed. Then he came back and woke me up again. Again in the quiet voice. I said um...I can't hear you and then covered my head with a pillow. That's when he started to yell....you see it was a game that we created in that moment...we do this often. When I got down stairs Dawn apologized to me for Gabriel yelling at me to wake up. I just laughed and then told her that we were playing. She seemed relieved. haha.
Then Dawn and Corrie got ready to go to a mass. But before they went Dawn made the spagetti sauce and bread for lunch. So really I had it so easy. I had to make noodles, a salad and heat the bread....simple. Grace was down for a nap, Gabriel was entertained by cartoons...I just had to focus at the task at hand. Once lunch was ready Grace woke up...perfect timing...and we all sat down and talked while we ate. They are such funny kids. After lunch was over I started cleaning up and Gabriel came up to me and said, um...we're hungry. I was like what? We just had lunch. He told me he was still hungry though. So I offered him the rest of his lunch that he didn't eat. He obviously wasn't that hungry because he didn't want that. He was like, can I have a candy? I said no you've already had a candy and that was our agreement. How about a banana. He was ok with that but he wanted an apple too. I said no you have to decided a banana or an apple? He chose the banana. I told him that if he's still hungry after the banana he can have an apple or wait until his mom and dad got home to have an apple....which ever one came first. Well, Dawn and Corrie came home while both chillin's were eating bananas(I look like such a health nut aunty..haha) and the whole apple thing got forgotten about.
When they got home they had lunch and I read a magazine and the chillin's played amongst themselves. Corrie thought Dawn and I were crazy for reading instead of visiting but I think we were both quite happy. In the afternoon it was quite gloomy outside so it was an inside day. I remember waking up from a nap that I didn't know I was going to take, just in time to get ready to go out on the town. But that adventure is for my next post.