the whole sh'bang
i'm sick. it's a weird sickness having to do with tenderness in my throat. this is not a welcome development. i was just sick a while ago for heaven's sake! perposterous.
my internet romance is over. there will be no roundez-vous. and i'm left with a rather nice scarf. elicia said i should give it to someone in the family for christmas but i felt that that would not do. fatima gave me a better idea and it has birthed a whole set of ideas. we'll see what happens. we'll see if something good can come of something disappointing.
so sarah-lynn and adriEL came to visit me for the long weekend and the recording of that visit is the main purpose of this post. sarah and i tried to remember everything as we went along but the chance that i'll remember all the goodness and funtimes and sayings is low. so what i'm saying is you get what you get.
i went to the gym friday after work. i was adamant that i not miss a day at the gym. i convinced sarah to take the tswassen ferry because, i reasoned there was no telling if i would be late due to rush hour traffic. so anyways after sweating profusely from my wrists and forearms, i made a stop at save-on to buy cheese bagels, cream cheese, bread and a special havarti cheese with herbs and sund dried tomatoes in it.
when i neared the ferry, i could tell it was crazy busy. the cars were backed up to go into the pay parking pick up area that i never go to. i always go to drop off. i mean come on. i'm not paying to pick someone up from the ferry! and drop off is way closer. but i was nervous because a victoria ferry had just arrived and the place was crawling with the reflector vested guys who tell you to leave. so i parked quickly and went inside. i didn't want to go inside because i was in my i heart mom gym clothes. there's nothing wrong with my gym clothes but it's not my favourite to parade around in them when outside of the gym or my own home if you know what i'm saying. plus my hair was frizzy and unkempt from the work day and the work-out. but like i said i didn't want the guy to tell me to leave, so i came in. i found a piece of wall to lean against and i watched the people coming and going, specifically paying interest to their fashion sense.
sarah was the last person out. and there was a looooong pause between her and the previous persons, so much so that i began to wonder if she missed the ferry. i went into the luggage area to take a look around and shortly she came around the corner with chubby cheeked adriel. we grabbed playpen, carseat and suitcase from the pile of stuff left in the pick up area. it was a gusty windy night. there was a ticket in a plastic cover tucked neatly under my windsheild wiper. ??? the nerve! i mean i'll admit that the sign says 'strictly enforced' but everyone knows that's a joke. i guess the joke was on me. fo sho it is. sarah read it while i started up the ol' car and took us out onto the dark causeway. 39 dollars if paid in the first week. oh gash. i paid it yesterday. it sickens me.
sarah and i made it clear to one another early on that we both were starving. chubby cheeked baby made cute sounds from the back seat. so we chatted about where to eat. a longing for the hot seafood caesar at bridges has been building up in me for a long time. i haven't been there since 2004 for karey's birthday when steve and i were dating and he was irked at my seating choice. i told sarah about bridges and since there was a hot chocolate place on granville island that sarah wanted to go to, we thought everything would work out perfectly.
we stopped at the apartment enroute for me to change. sarah was impatient about this. why can't you change in the car was her attitude towards me. no way was my attitude right back at her. she and adriel waited in the car. my blinds were open so i changed in the hall and fed the cats. when i hopped back into the car i told sarah "if you had looked up you would have seen me naked and looking down at you." it sounded pretty creepy when said out loud so i quickly added a "just kidding" on the end. just a jork. just a case of opening your mouth and saying something inappropriate.
we found parking about as far from bridges that you can but still staying on granville island. but it was a lovely night. balmy and it smelled strongly of autumn and leaves wood chips or something. we took turns holding adriel. once when i was holding him i started skipping and sarah did too and we chanted "yummy food, yummy food" as he jerked and bounced in my arms. this was a big hit with the kid. he laughed delightedly, if i may say delightedly. do indulge me. the yummy food skip was fun and all, but we found that it greatly reduced our carrying todler capacity. so we traded off. as the vancouverite taking siblings places i'm expected to know the way to things and how to get to things and sometimes i don't know. sometimes i'm trying to remember and i have a general idea but i'm flying by the seat of my pants. this was the case with bridges. i was letting the actual bridges (burrard and granville) be my guides because i knew it was between those two (thus the name) near the water's edge. i wasn't saying that i wasn't exactly sure of the exact directionals but when i saw the sign emerge from the jumble of other signs i brought my arm up to shoulder hight and pointed to it and abruptly barked out "there it is" in a monotone voice. this amused sarah and off and on through the night we would each reinact the moment. suddenly busting out the "there it is" point. our mood could be described as festive.
we had a reservation (we made it on route thanks to sarah's 411 skills). we were brought two round tables put together. i got to face the view of the harbour and sarah got the view of me and adriel in a high chair faced the cozy looking room with the fireplace. we felt it unfair that we weren't seated in there. adriel played with his car-car and was mostly kept happy. then he discovered the waitresses and began flirting with them. he did this mostly by leaning back in his highchair and tipping his head back as far as he could whenever they went by. one spent some time looking down on him and saying "hi" sweetly and this cemented his resolve to engage each and every waitress. sadly, and by sadly i mean tragically, hot seafood caesar was no longer on the menu. our waitress tried to console me by pointing out the seafood penne. cold comfort missy i said back to her. not really. i grimaced instead. in the end sarah got the halibut and crab burger and i got the wild salmon burger with tzatziki and fries. meanwhile to amuze adriel we took the cloth napkin and put it on his head for games of peek-a-boo. our meal came fast. when the waitress put down sarah's she said 'crabcake burger' sarah gave me a startled look. i guessed that it was halibut and crab together. she seemed unsure. "should i ask?" she wondered. no, i shook my head. we each ate half a burger and traded and kept adriel plied with fries and bun pieces and burger tidbits. we were planning on hot chocolate so we didn't get dessert. when we got the bill it said crabcake burger on it. this made sarah wonder even more. "but it SAYS crabcake burger!" she objected. "we'll look on the menu on the way out to see if there is a different crabcake burger" i told her. but then when she was paying her half i took adriel outside and there was no menu posted outside and when sarah came out she sadly said "laura we didn't look at the menu!". "we'll look it up online." i reassured her, but we never did and it remained a cloud over her head the whole weekend. did she in fact get the right burger? because she really wanted the halibut AND the crab! i can understand this. no one likes getting jipped of one of their fishes. however, i just looked it up and there is no crabcake burger listed and so i think she got the right burger but that they call it the crabcake burger because that's really what the halibut and crab burger is. a crabcake!
the market was closed when we came out. we looked forlornly in the windows. then we walked back through the lovely night. it really was a lovely night. i mean it was sooo nice. i enjoyed it immensely. i could have stayed outside forever. on the walk back to the car was when the talk of libraries began. at one point in the evening sarah had asked what we were going to do and i said "well i thought we could go the library and spend all our time there and adriel can pull all the books off the shelves" sarah laughed and said "like he does at gramma's house." so on the walk back we were passing emily carr institute and through the windows we could see what must have been their library. "is this the library" we're spending all our time at?" asked sarah. from that, and i don't remember how began the library testimony. we amused ourselves greatly telling the library testimony. "i told myself i wouldnt' cry this time" we choked out "but i just see all your faces and i know that you love books too, and if you had a book you would share it with me." in the end of our testimony we surmised that libraries really meant love and that the two words could be interchangable. this conversation brought us endless amusement and laughter. the twins if, they had been present to witness this converstation would have groaned and rolled their eyes and tried to quell it in any way they could. "enough!" bethany would have burst out. "libraries are dead." amy would say in a savage yet lifeless voice. "no fun on christmas!" dad would have yelled. but left to ourselves we carried on to our heart's content and not only this, but we returned to the library testimony often throughout the weekend and relived it again and again.
i said we would get dessert on the way home. but we didn't. i lied about that. we did stop at roger's for some dvds. adriel began at once to take the dvds off the shelves. as sarah was picking up one, he'd be grabbing another. and he met a girl who was a bad influence in this regard. together they were monsters. her parents didn't seem to notice. sarah was flustered. "how about you go outside and i look and come out with ideas." i suggested. sarah adopted this strategy quickly and i perused. i came up with the last mimzy and mostly martha. sarah said sure and so i rented them and gave them to her on the way to the car. "wait, didn't you say the last mimzy?" she asked. "yeah." "well you have the last sin eater." she said handing it to me. back inside i made the trade. "i told you which ones you had." the girl said to me pleasantly rebuking me. " i know, i wasn't paying attention." i answered even though i wasn't sure that she DID tell me. but she probably did. it doesn't really matter does it?
sarah bought milk.
back at the apartment the cats were reintroduced the adriel. they haven't seen him sinse he began walking. they now think of him as the baby monster. he had a good time chasing them the whole weekend.
the dvd player isn't working. so we watched mostly martha (after the baby monster was put down with only a few minutes of crying) on elicia's laptop. sarah had a hard time getting comfortable. "if you had any intuition you'd be able to do it." i accused. "amy was able to do it no problem." i added. thus the if you had any intuition accusation was born and used extensively. mostly martha is in german. lisa and i have since realized that there was an american remake of it with katherine zeta jones and that handsome guy aaron eckhardt. i remember the preview. i wanted to see it. well now i've seen the german one. it was pretty good. at first it seemed really depressing. sarah and i really liked the italian guy and the funny things he would do to the kid. sarah got sleepy part way through. i forced her to stay up. then we went to bed. she forgot her pjs as per usual. she wore the guest pjs. the snowflake bear night shirt. mom, sarah, katie, bethany have all worn it. have you amy? if not you will. katie was the first i think. apparently no one brings pjs. sarah forgot her camera in her excitement and to take her allergy pills before she got to the house. so she had a rough time of it. dave spent the weekend on the hopechest.
when i got up on saturday sarah accused me of making her stay up and then sleeping while she got up with adriel. what can i say, it's true. we had bagels and cream cheese and mandarin oranges for breakfast. i had six bagels and i said we got two a day. i was confused. sarah set me to rights, pointing out that was only if one person had them. gash, i'm ashamed.
we decided to go back to granville island for the elusive hot chocolate. we were worried that adriel wasn't going to enjoy himself but we perservered. we found parking in a flooded lot and only paid for one h
our. it was a beautiful day. sunny and clear and not too cold.
i took this with my cell phone as we walked away from the flooded lot.
we searched the market high and low and found lots of neat things, like this guy who put his pictures on ceramic tiles and then made stuff out of them. like the top of a nice box, or a picture frame, or split his photo into four ceramic tiles and put them on the wall or a really cool flower vase. the pictures were so vivid and beautiful. i asked him how he did it but he was very close with the information "i take the pictures and i put them on the tiles." he says to me. thanks palsie. we also found this bakery called stewart's bakery. we've never seen a bakery like it. everything, EVERYTHING looked perfect and wonderfull and exceeding all expectations. we both agreed that amy should work there. we couldn't find the hot chocolate place though. we did find brother and sister elliot and his mom and daughter and grandson. brother elliot thought sarah said adriEL and so thought he was a girl. then we explained the boy thing and the right way to say it but nonetheless on sunday he called him adriEL in front of the whole gospel doctrine class, a couple of times. but he did say "today he looks like a boy." haha. anyways we were about to give up, we bought apple crunch cheesecake from stewart's and we looked at one more spot and there it was. so sarah got belgian hot chocolate with toffee in it and i got a combo of asian and mexican hotchocolates. both are spicy but one has ginger and one cinnamon, so the girl offered to put them both in. ok, i said. the girl reminded us of andy. sarah pointed it out and i instantly recognized it. "ya, except for less chatty" i ammended. the hot chocolate is made with real organic belgian chocolate. and we got whipped cream and then she put the lids on and on top she put a chocolate truffle. and it got melty with the steam. you can see how wonderful and good this is and how it made us happy on the insides. we decided to sit outside and eat our cheesecake and nurse our hot chocolates. we got a table and let adriel out of stroller confinement. there were huge flocks of pidgeons and lots of kids feeding them bags of seeds. there was an old man with a big bear of a dog. there was a peruvian band playing their wooden flutes. adriel had the time of his life. he forgot all about us he visited the old man and the dog. he walked in wonder among the pidgeon flocks. the pidgeons would flutter and land and peck around all the kids. then all of a sudden something would scare them and they'd rise up as one in a huge flu
tter of wings and circle around seemingly to the music and land again. when sarah was gone buying some seed (she asked one of the parents where they got it from) i noticed a lady and man with professional cameras taking pictures of adriel and the other kids. when sarah got back i told her about it. later we wrote sarah's email on a receipt, and described adriel on it and we walked up to her. sarah explained that she forgot he camera and was here out of town. the lady was nice and right away asked for her email. we handed her the prepared note and laughed. she offered to take more pics of adriel and we did not say no. so hopeful
ly we get some nice pictures of it. anyways meanwhile sarah and i left our talbe and sat down on the curb by adriel and our bag of seed and fed the pidgeons. it was so fun.
we made trails to our feet. then i put seed on our feet and on my pants and on sarah's knee. they never went as far as the knee but they hopped up on our feet and my legs. i sneekily poured some under the tongue on sarah's shoe. she didn't appreciate that, but i wanted them to explore her shoe. she was aflicted with seed in the shoe for the rest of the day.
at one point we had them eating out of our hands at the same time. we thought it might hurt but it didn't. "peckity peckity" i said to sarah and we laughed and she knew exactly what i meant.
here they are in sudden flight.
what a gorgeous day hey?
adriel didn't want to leave but we made him. we thought we'd take him home to sleep and then we'd go to metrotown but on the way home he fell asleep. we tried to keep him from sleeping. we took turns making loud annoying noises. i roared as loud as i could and he half smiled half laughed with closed eyes. meanwhile we invented a lot of annoying loud and rauccous noises. like the chiwawa bark. (that's what i call it anyways).
so we decided to let him sleep and just drive to metrotown and let the drive be his nap. but first we stopped for a donair. i parked across the street in the back alley and walked to get he donairs while sarah stayed with sleeping adriel. since there is no more romantic tension between me and smokie, i felt free to ask him the difference between a donair and a shawerma sandwich. he told me one was greek and one lebanese but they were the exact same thing. something i've suspected all along. i told him "i thought so." there was some awkwardness and confusion around the payment. at first i wanted to pay seperately, but then i decided to pay together but he didn't know that and i didn't know that i didn't pay for both and i was putting the money back in my wallet and he was just standing there waiting, watching me and then i realized. gash. i reveled in the day once more as i walked through the sunshine and rusty leaves back to the car. we sat in the warm silence of the car and reveled in the perfectness of a delicious donair. sarah asked me with some apprehension if i made a practice of licking the wrapper after. i assured her that i did and that she was not alone in that. then we left for the mall.
they're doing some building at metrotown and it effects mine and fats' parking area. it was soooo packed and i kept missing my chances at spots. sarah was getting really frustrated, not being used to the time and finesse it takes to get a spot sometimes, so in the end i took an illegal spot that someone vacated.
despite what we thought adriel enjoyed granville island. he did not however enjoy metrotown at all. but we perservered. sarah found a cute top at her favourite store--mini mcqueens. i found some sale items at old navy. like the red vest with a softy soft sheepskin like lining, the brown hoodie and the t-shirt for only three nintey nine. our changerooms were far apart and we travelled back and forth to visit one another at their changerooms. adriel meanwhile exposed a guy without a top in his changeroom by opening his partially closed door. well he should close his door more firmly. i walked to sarah witht a green and blue plaid shirt under a red vest. that took courage, you have to admit that. sarah hummed and hawed about a green sweater. we decided to leave it and come back. we went to american eagle which was packed and unbearably hot. we found some cute tops for cheap and i found my favourite thing--knit gloves with mitten tops. they were cute but i didn't buy them or anything. we had to wait in a stifling line up for the changeroom. when sarah and adriel went in, i couldn't stand it in that store for one second longer and took stroller for a walk out to the cool hall. i sat on a bench. when sarah joined me she was frustrated. she needed opinons on her shirts and i wasn't in the store and adriel was acting up and so we decided to go feed him. we got him a happy meal at mcdonald's. i waited in the line-up while she went to change his poopy diaper. i heard a trail of his whines and screams on the way there and on their way back the noise reached me before the sight of them. we got him a cheeseburger happy meal. it came with bacon and i don't know why because last night i got a happy meal and asked if it came with bacon. "no said the girl, but you can add bacon". it came in a bee movie box. we got him milk and we got the coolest straw that had flavour crystals inside it so when you sip the milk it flavours it. well we loved this straw. it was a really sweet vanila honeysuckle flavour. we don't even like milk and we loved it with the special staw (with this in mind i got milk last night. sadly i got a bee movie toy but no straw and was left with a useless carton of milk). we sat outside on a bench relishing the cool air and our ice waters.
we didn't want to go back in. i said we could get her sweater on monday. so we were appesed with that. we talked about what to have for dinner. i said i could make a chicken stir-fry. then i thought of boneless chicken wings which i've been wanting for a while. then i forgot about them and didn't stop on the way home. we were so tired. this could have been the time that there was a really yucky smell lingering in the hall of my apartment building. "poo or cooking?" i asked sarah. another saying that we kept coming back to. we were back home, but what to do about the boneless wings?? elicia said she watch the baby monster, so sarah and i jumped back in the car and drove up to 49th and knight the only kfc that i know about in these here parts. we bought two packs of 12 so we could have 8 each. elicia was making a yummy salad for our greens. sarah wanted munchies for movie watching. i didn't want to stop at any stores and i pooh-poohed the gas station idea because of how they mark up the chips. as we started to drive away from kfc sarah pointed to a corner store and said " do you think they're marked up there?" "chipsh?" i asked and slammed on the brakes. that caused us to laugh quite a bit but we never stopped for chipsh. that reminds me that we sang fish and chips and vinegar a lot during the weekend saying fish and chiiipsh, the way we do and we enjoyed it.
back at home we never did watch the last mimzy even though heather lent us her dvd player. we ended up watching the end of hope floats. harry connick jnr. aka justin matisse, is as karey would say without shame, 'delicious'. then adriel went to bed without a tear and we were about to put on the last mimzy but saw that two weeks notice was on and we decided to watch that. sarah faded before it was over and went to bed.
the next morning we shared a pomegranite and each had our daily bagel. then we took adriel to the park. we noticed that areas of the park that people had been sleeping. signs like a single dry bench when all the others were wet, and cardboard up on the play thing platform and a burrow in the woodchips underneath.
adriel going down the slide head first.
adriel on the swing.
sarah pushing her babe.
sarah and i had our turn on the swings. we had swinging competitions. each claiming every time that we were the highest. we reached for the airport station sign with our feet. then we would jump. one time sarah jumped from the highest point and the momentum carried her hop skip jump and a slide on her side in the grass.
i found my frog hat.
doesn't sarah look rememberance dayish?
we made it back to the apartment around ten thirty and i turned on the tv to watch rememberance day things. we caught the last part of a special on these five guys. it was good. then we watched the vancouver ceremonies. elicia and i sang o canada too. the commentator bugged me because he talked all through the vancouver traditon of singing abide with me. we saw jo ward in the vancouver youth bach choir. of course it started to rain.
adriel was not on his best behavior at church. his nap was interrupted.
after church we went home to change and then headed out to visit gramma b. this is when the wind got really strong. i felt it sideswiping the car as i drove. and when we stepped out of the car at the hospital it whipped my hair straight up and about blew the car door off. gramma was really surprised to see us and i felt good that i actually visited her. she talked about crying when she saw the boys marching off to war because they were the men of her generation. she kept saying that. she talked about her brother too. she didn't eat anything. she was just starting to eat some salad when adriel got so crabby that we had to leave. that was right at the time the power went out. we suddenly plunged into darkness but that didn't last even a minute until the generators came on.
we sang to adriel to keep him happy on the drive to jordan's. some songs he liked and some he didn't. addlebuns was strangely the most effective. sarah and i had a certain way of singing it that whe perfected. it was on this leg of the journey that my brakes really started sounding really really bad.
patrick and katherine morely were at jordan's too. tracy made a yummy cheesie casserole with cripsy garlic bread. maria ran to me exclaiming "i missed you!" . jane is more chubby and has more hair. we tried to play pictionary. sarah and i had it all planned that it was going to be clarkes against nonclarkes and it was working, but julia (katherine's baby) and maria and jane made it too difficult to play so in the end we played catch phrase instead. it was fun. it was me and sarah and katherine against jord, tracy and patrick. jord and and patrick kept trying to go really slow so we would have it when the buzzer went off (this is when tracy was putting jane to bed). it was the best when patrick wouldnt' get the clue and it would backfire on them. when tracy came back sarah would whisper the answer to her so that she would say it and foil their evil plan. also pat kept saying part of the word giving us lots of points. one time i had to get them to say blueberry. so i said fruit of my favourite colour and katherine jumps in with kumquat. haha it was funny. of course she doesn't know my favourite colour but why does kumquat come to you?
adriel slept on the way home.
the next morning i woke up to the alarm from my cell phone. well actually i was ignoring it but sarah shook me awake. i couldn't find my bra in the dark so i put on my sports bra and i left in the stormy stormy early morning and picked erin up from the bus deopt. my brakes have just had it and i don't know what to do about it. but that's neither here nor there. we went downtown to get her stuff from tristan's apartment. i forgot about the stroller in my trunk and the carseat in my back seat. erin was skeptical that we'd get her giant of a suitcase in the car. that's because she doesn't know my packing capabilities. i parked in an illegal place but we didn't think anyone would care that time in the morning. erin called and woke up tristan and he let us in. it was here that i learned she couldn't get in to her place until nine. erin grabbed her stuff and then we all took it down to the car. it was raining hard and the wind was at the hight of it's wind storm-ness. i was wearing flip flops and my pants dragged in the water on the ground. before the morning was over i was able to wring them out and gather half a cup or more. anyways i took the stroller out, and we stuffed the suitcase in. admittedly it was the largest suitcase i've seen in my life, and it barely fit in my trunk but we shoved it in and another little bag as well. a big long dufflebag full of stolen comforters and linnens went in the back with some boxes and the stroller on top of that and erin surrounded her feet with stuff and held them on her lap.
i took erin back to my place and while the storm raged and rattled my one pane windows, we watched cool runnings and i fell asleep. i woke up around eight thirty. sarah and adriel were up. we left shortly after. we woke up the weekend manager who met us outside with a black hoodie on. he obligingly showed us there was nothing on underneath. i found that a bit creepy. he was young and scraggly looking. then the regular manager guy met us. he was sporting longish hair and a beard. also a black hoodie with the hood up. after some chat with the other guy about a girl who was the sister of a friend of his who wanted an extra key for someone who was staying with her and the front door not locking, he took us into the office and did some stuff with some door key cards, he took us to erin's room. the whole building has wood paneling on the inside and extra wide halls and school like doors. erin says it was an old dorm or something. we wondered for what school, but couldn't come up with anything. so you open a door in the hall and then there are two apartments, a and b and a shared bathroom. her apartment is a light pumpkin colour with gray cupboards. i took the liberty of asking if she was allowed to paint it. as long as it wasn't black said the guy. erin said it would be dumb to paint such a small space black and the guy said defensively that it took five coats to paint over black. well we think it's dumb to paint it black so i don't know why you're being defensive i thought to myself but kept it to myself. she has tiny little stove. even smaller than mine and i thought mine was small. but it was very clean and a nice normal size fridge. her room had a built in closet, like a armoir built into the wall and built in drawers coming down the wall. and a mirror over an orangeish (i think) little counter. that part reminded me of the mtc. it was very dormish. her windows (very heavy old ones that you lift up) faced the outside of another part of the building very close up. as erin said "her very first ghetto apartment". it has a lot of character and it's not horrible like amy's apartment on knight. then we went back out into the rain and wind and brought in her stuff. then we went to caper's and i nabbed her some plastic forks and spoons since she realized that she didn't have any cutlery. it was my first time to capers. i've been to choices but not caper's. it's very nice. like a mini whole foods. then i dropped off the neice and went back home to the sister and nephew. we had bagels and a grapefruit. at first the ferries were canceled but then they started up again so that was good.
we got ready and left to go to old navy at park royal and what do you know, whole foods. by the time we went outside it was sunny and nice. adriel fell asleep on the ride and so when we got there we stayed in the car and played this game where if we had unlimited amounts of money what would we buy for each person of the family. basically everyone got a house with specialties that had to do with their talents, needs and personalities. for martha we agreed that more than a house, although a house too, we wanted safety and happiness and peace and as sarah aptly put a cure for shizophrenia. and when she said that tears came to my eyes and i thought if it worked that if the rest of us were poor for the rest of our lives so she could have that, we would do it and it would be worth it.
we went in to old navy and sarah tried on the sweater and some other things and we hummed and hawed and a lady came and chatted with me while i waited and sarah looked stunning in this one shirt especially. now come to think of it, i don't really know what she ended up getting! then we went
to whole foods and got something new, if you can believe it. we didnt' get a panini, we got a pulled pork bun and as the lady said, it was was sinful. soooooooo good! and we got a slice of pizza to share and a turtle brownie and a florentine. as usual we forgot water. we ate outside on a bench as adriel amused himself with a pylon. "i have to get a pylon" said sarah as it wasn't the first time he was kept happy with a pylon. i accidentally threw away some of the pork bun bits she was saving for the boy so we fished them out agian. still in the wrapper and in our box, so come on, it was ok right? then we drove to the ferry and that was our weekend. if i left anything out sarah'll have to highlight it. i've been typing this for about 3 hours and my fingers feel arthritic.
my internet romance is over. there will be no roundez-vous. and i'm left with a rather nice scarf. elicia said i should give it to someone in the family for christmas but i felt that that would not do. fatima gave me a better idea and it has birthed a whole set of ideas. we'll see what happens. we'll see if something good can come of something disappointing.
so sarah-lynn and adriEL came to visit me for the long weekend and the recording of that visit is the main purpose of this post. sarah and i tried to remember everything as we went along but the chance that i'll remember all the goodness and funtimes and sayings is low. so what i'm saying is you get what you get.
i went to the gym friday after work. i was adamant that i not miss a day at the gym. i convinced sarah to take the tswassen ferry because, i reasoned there was no telling if i would be late due to rush hour traffic. so anyways after sweating profusely from my wrists and forearms, i made a stop at save-on to buy cheese bagels, cream cheese, bread and a special havarti cheese with herbs and sund dried tomatoes in it.
when i neared the ferry, i could tell it was crazy busy. the cars were backed up to go into the pay parking pick up area that i never go to. i always go to drop off. i mean come on. i'm not paying to pick someone up from the ferry! and drop off is way closer. but i was nervous because a victoria ferry had just arrived and the place was crawling with the reflector vested guys who tell you to leave. so i parked quickly and went inside. i didn't want to go inside because i was in my i heart mom gym clothes. there's nothing wrong with my gym clothes but it's not my favourite to parade around in them when outside of the gym or my own home if you know what i'm saying. plus my hair was frizzy and unkempt from the work day and the work-out. but like i said i didn't want the guy to tell me to leave, so i came in. i found a piece of wall to lean against and i watched the people coming and going, specifically paying interest to their fashion sense.
sarah was the last person out. and there was a looooong pause between her and the previous persons, so much so that i began to wonder if she missed the ferry. i went into the luggage area to take a look around and shortly she came around the corner with chubby cheeked adriel. we grabbed playpen, carseat and suitcase from the pile of stuff left in the pick up area. it was a gusty windy night. there was a ticket in a plastic cover tucked neatly under my windsheild wiper. ??? the nerve! i mean i'll admit that the sign says 'strictly enforced' but everyone knows that's a joke. i guess the joke was on me. fo sho it is. sarah read it while i started up the ol' car and took us out onto the dark causeway. 39 dollars if paid in the first week. oh gash. i paid it yesterday. it sickens me.
sarah and i made it clear to one another early on that we both were starving. chubby cheeked baby made cute sounds from the back seat. so we chatted about where to eat. a longing for the hot seafood caesar at bridges has been building up in me for a long time. i haven't been there since 2004 for karey's birthday when steve and i were dating and he was irked at my seating choice. i told sarah about bridges and since there was a hot chocolate place on granville island that sarah wanted to go to, we thought everything would work out perfectly.
we stopped at the apartment enroute for me to change. sarah was impatient about this. why can't you change in the car was her attitude towards me. no way was my attitude right back at her. she and adriel waited in the car. my blinds were open so i changed in the hall and fed the cats. when i hopped back into the car i told sarah "if you had looked up you would have seen me naked and looking down at you." it sounded pretty creepy when said out loud so i quickly added a "just kidding" on the end. just a jork. just a case of opening your mouth and saying something inappropriate.
we found parking about as far from bridges that you can but still staying on granville island. but it was a lovely night. balmy and it smelled strongly of autumn and leaves wood chips or something. we took turns holding adriel. once when i was holding him i started skipping and sarah did too and we chanted "yummy food, yummy food" as he jerked and bounced in my arms. this was a big hit with the kid. he laughed delightedly, if i may say delightedly. do indulge me. the yummy food skip was fun and all, but we found that it greatly reduced our carrying todler capacity. so we traded off. as the vancouverite taking siblings places i'm expected to know the way to things and how to get to things and sometimes i don't know. sometimes i'm trying to remember and i have a general idea but i'm flying by the seat of my pants. this was the case with bridges. i was letting the actual bridges (burrard and granville) be my guides because i knew it was between those two (thus the name) near the water's edge. i wasn't saying that i wasn't exactly sure of the exact directionals but when i saw the sign emerge from the jumble of other signs i brought my arm up to shoulder hight and pointed to it and abruptly barked out "there it is" in a monotone voice. this amused sarah and off and on through the night we would each reinact the moment. suddenly busting out the "there it is" point. our mood could be described as festive.
we had a reservation (we made it on route thanks to sarah's 411 skills). we were brought two round tables put together. i got to face the view of the harbour and sarah got the view of me and adriel in a high chair faced the cozy looking room with the fireplace. we felt it unfair that we weren't seated in there. adriel played with his car-car and was mostly kept happy. then he discovered the waitresses and began flirting with them. he did this mostly by leaning back in his highchair and tipping his head back as far as he could whenever they went by. one spent some time looking down on him and saying "hi" sweetly and this cemented his resolve to engage each and every waitress. sadly, and by sadly i mean tragically, hot seafood caesar was no longer on the menu. our waitress tried to console me by pointing out the seafood penne. cold comfort missy i said back to her. not really. i grimaced instead. in the end sarah got the halibut and crab burger and i got the wild salmon burger with tzatziki and fries. meanwhile to amuze adriel we took the cloth napkin and put it on his head for games of peek-a-boo. our meal came fast. when the waitress put down sarah's she said 'crabcake burger' sarah gave me a startled look. i guessed that it was halibut and crab together. she seemed unsure. "should i ask?" she wondered. no, i shook my head. we each ate half a burger and traded and kept adriel plied with fries and bun pieces and burger tidbits. we were planning on hot chocolate so we didn't get dessert. when we got the bill it said crabcake burger on it. this made sarah wonder even more. "but it SAYS crabcake burger!" she objected. "we'll look on the menu on the way out to see if there is a different crabcake burger" i told her. but then when she was paying her half i took adriel outside and there was no menu posted outside and when sarah came out she sadly said "laura we didn't look at the menu!". "we'll look it up online." i reassured her, but we never did and it remained a cloud over her head the whole weekend. did she in fact get the right burger? because she really wanted the halibut AND the crab! i can understand this. no one likes getting jipped of one of their fishes. however, i just looked it up and there is no crabcake burger listed and so i think she got the right burger but that they call it the crabcake burger because that's really what the halibut and crab burger is. a crabcake!
the market was closed when we came out. we looked forlornly in the windows. then we walked back through the lovely night. it really was a lovely night. i mean it was sooo nice. i enjoyed it immensely. i could have stayed outside forever. on the walk back to the car was when the talk of libraries began. at one point in the evening sarah had asked what we were going to do and i said "well i thought we could go the library and spend all our time there and adriel can pull all the books off the shelves" sarah laughed and said "like he does at gramma's house." so on the walk back we were passing emily carr institute and through the windows we could see what must have been their library. "is this the library" we're spending all our time at?" asked sarah. from that, and i don't remember how began the library testimony. we amused ourselves greatly telling the library testimony. "i told myself i wouldnt' cry this time" we choked out "but i just see all your faces and i know that you love books too, and if you had a book you would share it with me." in the end of our testimony we surmised that libraries really meant love and that the two words could be interchangable. this conversation brought us endless amusement and laughter. the twins if, they had been present to witness this converstation would have groaned and rolled their eyes and tried to quell it in any way they could. "enough!" bethany would have burst out. "libraries are dead." amy would say in a savage yet lifeless voice. "no fun on christmas!" dad would have yelled. but left to ourselves we carried on to our heart's content and not only this, but we returned to the library testimony often throughout the weekend and relived it again and again.
i said we would get dessert on the way home. but we didn't. i lied about that. we did stop at roger's for some dvds. adriel began at once to take the dvds off the shelves. as sarah was picking up one, he'd be grabbing another. and he met a girl who was a bad influence in this regard. together they were monsters. her parents didn't seem to notice. sarah was flustered. "how about you go outside and i look and come out with ideas." i suggested. sarah adopted this strategy quickly and i perused. i came up with the last mimzy and mostly martha. sarah said sure and so i rented them and gave them to her on the way to the car. "wait, didn't you say the last mimzy?" she asked. "yeah." "well you have the last sin eater." she said handing it to me. back inside i made the trade. "i told you which ones you had." the girl said to me pleasantly rebuking me. " i know, i wasn't paying attention." i answered even though i wasn't sure that she DID tell me. but she probably did. it doesn't really matter does it?
sarah bought milk.
back at the apartment the cats were reintroduced the adriel. they haven't seen him sinse he began walking. they now think of him as the baby monster. he had a good time chasing them the whole weekend.
the dvd player isn't working. so we watched mostly martha (after the baby monster was put down with only a few minutes of crying) on elicia's laptop. sarah had a hard time getting comfortable. "if you had any intuition you'd be able to do it." i accused. "amy was able to do it no problem." i added. thus the if you had any intuition accusation was born and used extensively. mostly martha is in german. lisa and i have since realized that there was an american remake of it with katherine zeta jones and that handsome guy aaron eckhardt. i remember the preview. i wanted to see it. well now i've seen the german one. it was pretty good. at first it seemed really depressing. sarah and i really liked the italian guy and the funny things he would do to the kid. sarah got sleepy part way through. i forced her to stay up. then we went to bed. she forgot her pjs as per usual. she wore the guest pjs. the snowflake bear night shirt. mom, sarah, katie, bethany have all worn it. have you amy? if not you will. katie was the first i think. apparently no one brings pjs. sarah forgot her camera in her excitement and to take her allergy pills before she got to the house. so she had a rough time of it. dave spent the weekend on the hopechest.
when i got up on saturday sarah accused me of making her stay up and then sleeping while she got up with adriel. what can i say, it's true. we had bagels and cream cheese and mandarin oranges for breakfast. i had six bagels and i said we got two a day. i was confused. sarah set me to rights, pointing out that was only if one person had them. gash, i'm ashamed.
we decided to go back to granville island for the elusive hot chocolate. we were worried that adriel wasn't going to enjoy himself but we perservered. we found parking in a flooded lot and only paid for one h
our. it was a beautiful day. sunny and clear and not too cold.i took this with my cell phone as we walked away from the flooded lot.
we searched the market high and low and found lots of neat things, like this guy who put his pictures on ceramic tiles and then made stuff out of them. like the top of a nice box, or a picture frame, or split his photo into four ceramic tiles and put them on the wall or a really cool flower vase. the pictures were so vivid and beautiful. i asked him how he did it but he was very close with the information "i take the pictures and i put them on the tiles." he says to me. thanks palsie. we also found this bakery called stewart's bakery. we've never seen a bakery like it. everything, EVERYTHING looked perfect and wonderfull and exceeding all expectations. we both agreed that amy should work there. we couldn't find the hot chocolate place though. we did find brother and sister elliot and his mom and daughter and grandson. brother elliot thought sarah said adriEL and so thought he was a girl. then we explained the boy thing and the right way to say it but nonetheless on sunday he called him adriEL in front of the whole gospel doctrine class, a couple of times. but he did say "today he looks like a boy." haha. anyways we were about to give up, we bought apple crunch cheesecake from stewart's and we looked at one more spot and there it was. so sarah got belgian hot chocolate with toffee in it and i got a combo of asian and mexican hotchocolates. both are spicy but one has ginger and one cinnamon, so the girl offered to put them both in. ok, i said. the girl reminded us of andy. sarah pointed it out and i instantly recognized it. "ya, except for less chatty" i ammended. the hot chocolate is made with real organic belgian chocolate. and we got whipped cream and then she put the lids on and on top she put a chocolate truffle. and it got melty with the steam. you can see how wonderful and good this is and how it made us happy on the insides. we decided to sit outside and eat our cheesecake and nurse our hot chocolates. we got a table and let adriel out of stroller confinement. there were huge flocks of pidgeons and lots of kids feeding them bags of seeds. there was an old man with a big bear of a dog. there was a peruvian band playing their wooden flutes. adriel had the time of his life. he forgot all about us he visited the old man and the dog. he walked in wonder among the pidgeon flocks. the pidgeons would flutter and land and peck around all the kids. then all of a sudden something would scare them and they'd rise up as one in a huge flu
tter of wings and circle around seemingly to the music and land again. when sarah was gone buying some seed (she asked one of the parents where they got it from) i noticed a lady and man with professional cameras taking pictures of adriel and the other kids. when sarah got back i told her about it. later we wrote sarah's email on a receipt, and described adriel on it and we walked up to her. sarah explained that she forgot he camera and was here out of town. the lady was nice and right away asked for her email. we handed her the prepared note and laughed. she offered to take more pics of adriel and we did not say no. so hopeful
ly we get some nice pictures of it. anyways meanwhile sarah and i left our talbe and sat down on the curb by adriel and our bag of seed and fed the pidgeons. it was so fun.
we made trails to our feet. then i put seed on our feet and on my pants and on sarah's knee. they never went as far as the knee but they hopped up on our feet and my legs. i sneekily poured some under the tongue on sarah's shoe. she didn't appreciate that, but i wanted them to explore her shoe. she was aflicted with seed in the shoe for the rest of the day.
at one point we had them eating out of our hands at the same time. we thought it might hurt but it didn't. "peckity peckity" i said to sarah and we laughed and she knew exactly what i meant.
here they are in sudden flight.
what a gorgeous day hey?
adriel didn't want to leave but we made him. we thought we'd take him home to sleep and then we'd go to metrotown but on the way home he fell asleep. we tried to keep him from sleeping. we took turns making loud annoying noises. i roared as loud as i could and he half smiled half laughed with closed eyes. meanwhile we invented a lot of annoying loud and rauccous noises. like the chiwawa bark. (that's what i call it anyways).
so we decided to let him sleep and just drive to metrotown and let the drive be his nap. but first we stopped for a donair. i parked across the street in the back alley and walked to get he donairs while sarah stayed with sleeping adriel. since there is no more romantic tension between me and smokie, i felt free to ask him the difference between a donair and a shawerma sandwich. he told me one was greek and one lebanese but they were the exact same thing. something i've suspected all along. i told him "i thought so." there was some awkwardness and confusion around the payment. at first i wanted to pay seperately, but then i decided to pay together but he didn't know that and i didn't know that i didn't pay for both and i was putting the money back in my wallet and he was just standing there waiting, watching me and then i realized. gash. i reveled in the day once more as i walked through the sunshine and rusty leaves back to the car. we sat in the warm silence of the car and reveled in the perfectness of a delicious donair. sarah asked me with some apprehension if i made a practice of licking the wrapper after. i assured her that i did and that she was not alone in that. then we left for the mall.
they're doing some building at metrotown and it effects mine and fats' parking area. it was soooo packed and i kept missing my chances at spots. sarah was getting really frustrated, not being used to the time and finesse it takes to get a spot sometimes, so in the end i took an illegal spot that someone vacated.
despite what we thought adriel enjoyed granville island. he did not however enjoy metrotown at all. but we perservered. sarah found a cute top at her favourite store--mini mcqueens. i found some sale items at old navy. like the red vest with a softy soft sheepskin like lining, the brown hoodie and the t-shirt for only three nintey nine. our changerooms were far apart and we travelled back and forth to visit one another at their changerooms. adriel meanwhile exposed a guy without a top in his changeroom by opening his partially closed door. well he should close his door more firmly. i walked to sarah witht a green and blue plaid shirt under a red vest. that took courage, you have to admit that. sarah hummed and hawed about a green sweater. we decided to leave it and come back. we went to american eagle which was packed and unbearably hot. we found some cute tops for cheap and i found my favourite thing--knit gloves with mitten tops. they were cute but i didn't buy them or anything. we had to wait in a stifling line up for the changeroom. when sarah and adriel went in, i couldn't stand it in that store for one second longer and took stroller for a walk out to the cool hall. i sat on a bench. when sarah joined me she was frustrated. she needed opinons on her shirts and i wasn't in the store and adriel was acting up and so we decided to go feed him. we got him a happy meal at mcdonald's. i waited in the line-up while she went to change his poopy diaper. i heard a trail of his whines and screams on the way there and on their way back the noise reached me before the sight of them. we got him a cheeseburger happy meal. it came with bacon and i don't know why because last night i got a happy meal and asked if it came with bacon. "no said the girl, but you can add bacon". it came in a bee movie box. we got him milk and we got the coolest straw that had flavour crystals inside it so when you sip the milk it flavours it. well we loved this straw. it was a really sweet vanila honeysuckle flavour. we don't even like milk and we loved it with the special staw (with this in mind i got milk last night. sadly i got a bee movie toy but no straw and was left with a useless carton of milk). we sat outside on a bench relishing the cool air and our ice waters.
we didn't want to go back in. i said we could get her sweater on monday. so we were appesed with that. we talked about what to have for dinner. i said i could make a chicken stir-fry. then i thought of boneless chicken wings which i've been wanting for a while. then i forgot about them and didn't stop on the way home. we were so tired. this could have been the time that there was a really yucky smell lingering in the hall of my apartment building. "poo or cooking?" i asked sarah. another saying that we kept coming back to. we were back home, but what to do about the boneless wings?? elicia said she watch the baby monster, so sarah and i jumped back in the car and drove up to 49th and knight the only kfc that i know about in these here parts. we bought two packs of 12 so we could have 8 each. elicia was making a yummy salad for our greens. sarah wanted munchies for movie watching. i didn't want to stop at any stores and i pooh-poohed the gas station idea because of how they mark up the chips. as we started to drive away from kfc sarah pointed to a corner store and said " do you think they're marked up there?" "chipsh?" i asked and slammed on the brakes. that caused us to laugh quite a bit but we never stopped for chipsh. that reminds me that we sang fish and chips and vinegar a lot during the weekend saying fish and chiiipsh, the way we do and we enjoyed it.
back at home we never did watch the last mimzy even though heather lent us her dvd player. we ended up watching the end of hope floats. harry connick jnr. aka justin matisse, is as karey would say without shame, 'delicious'. then adriel went to bed without a tear and we were about to put on the last mimzy but saw that two weeks notice was on and we decided to watch that. sarah faded before it was over and went to bed.
the next morning we shared a pomegranite and each had our daily bagel. then we took adriel to the park. we noticed that areas of the park that people had been sleeping. signs like a single dry bench when all the others were wet, and cardboard up on the play thing platform and a burrow in the woodchips underneath.
adriel going down the slide head first.
adriel on the swing.
sarah pushing her babe.
sarah and i had our turn on the swings. we had swinging competitions. each claiming every time that we were the highest. we reached for the airport station sign with our feet. then we would jump. one time sarah jumped from the highest point and the momentum carried her hop skip jump and a slide on her side in the grass.
i found my frog hat.
doesn't sarah look rememberance dayish?
we made it back to the apartment around ten thirty and i turned on the tv to watch rememberance day things. we caught the last part of a special on these five guys. it was good. then we watched the vancouver ceremonies. elicia and i sang o canada too. the commentator bugged me because he talked all through the vancouver traditon of singing abide with me. we saw jo ward in the vancouver youth bach choir. of course it started to rain.
adriel was not on his best behavior at church. his nap was interrupted.
after church we went home to change and then headed out to visit gramma b. this is when the wind got really strong. i felt it sideswiping the car as i drove. and when we stepped out of the car at the hospital it whipped my hair straight up and about blew the car door off. gramma was really surprised to see us and i felt good that i actually visited her. she talked about crying when she saw the boys marching off to war because they were the men of her generation. she kept saying that. she talked about her brother too. she didn't eat anything. she was just starting to eat some salad when adriel got so crabby that we had to leave. that was right at the time the power went out. we suddenly plunged into darkness but that didn't last even a minute until the generators came on.
we sang to adriel to keep him happy on the drive to jordan's. some songs he liked and some he didn't. addlebuns was strangely the most effective. sarah and i had a certain way of singing it that whe perfected. it was on this leg of the journey that my brakes really started sounding really really bad.
patrick and katherine morely were at jordan's too. tracy made a yummy cheesie casserole with cripsy garlic bread. maria ran to me exclaiming "i missed you!" . jane is more chubby and has more hair. we tried to play pictionary. sarah and i had it all planned that it was going to be clarkes against nonclarkes and it was working, but julia (katherine's baby) and maria and jane made it too difficult to play so in the end we played catch phrase instead. it was fun. it was me and sarah and katherine against jord, tracy and patrick. jord and and patrick kept trying to go really slow so we would have it when the buzzer went off (this is when tracy was putting jane to bed). it was the best when patrick wouldnt' get the clue and it would backfire on them. when tracy came back sarah would whisper the answer to her so that she would say it and foil their evil plan. also pat kept saying part of the word giving us lots of points. one time i had to get them to say blueberry. so i said fruit of my favourite colour and katherine jumps in with kumquat. haha it was funny. of course she doesn't know my favourite colour but why does kumquat come to you?
adriel slept on the way home.
the next morning i woke up to the alarm from my cell phone. well actually i was ignoring it but sarah shook me awake. i couldn't find my bra in the dark so i put on my sports bra and i left in the stormy stormy early morning and picked erin up from the bus deopt. my brakes have just had it and i don't know what to do about it. but that's neither here nor there. we went downtown to get her stuff from tristan's apartment. i forgot about the stroller in my trunk and the carseat in my back seat. erin was skeptical that we'd get her giant of a suitcase in the car. that's because she doesn't know my packing capabilities. i parked in an illegal place but we didn't think anyone would care that time in the morning. erin called and woke up tristan and he let us in. it was here that i learned she couldn't get in to her place until nine. erin grabbed her stuff and then we all took it down to the car. it was raining hard and the wind was at the hight of it's wind storm-ness. i was wearing flip flops and my pants dragged in the water on the ground. before the morning was over i was able to wring them out and gather half a cup or more. anyways i took the stroller out, and we stuffed the suitcase in. admittedly it was the largest suitcase i've seen in my life, and it barely fit in my trunk but we shoved it in and another little bag as well. a big long dufflebag full of stolen comforters and linnens went in the back with some boxes and the stroller on top of that and erin surrounded her feet with stuff and held them on her lap.
i took erin back to my place and while the storm raged and rattled my one pane windows, we watched cool runnings and i fell asleep. i woke up around eight thirty. sarah and adriel were up. we left shortly after. we woke up the weekend manager who met us outside with a black hoodie on. he obligingly showed us there was nothing on underneath. i found that a bit creepy. he was young and scraggly looking. then the regular manager guy met us. he was sporting longish hair and a beard. also a black hoodie with the hood up. after some chat with the other guy about a girl who was the sister of a friend of his who wanted an extra key for someone who was staying with her and the front door not locking, he took us into the office and did some stuff with some door key cards, he took us to erin's room. the whole building has wood paneling on the inside and extra wide halls and school like doors. erin says it was an old dorm or something. we wondered for what school, but couldn't come up with anything. so you open a door in the hall and then there are two apartments, a and b and a shared bathroom. her apartment is a light pumpkin colour with gray cupboards. i took the liberty of asking if she was allowed to paint it. as long as it wasn't black said the guy. erin said it would be dumb to paint such a small space black and the guy said defensively that it took five coats to paint over black. well we think it's dumb to paint it black so i don't know why you're being defensive i thought to myself but kept it to myself. she has tiny little stove. even smaller than mine and i thought mine was small. but it was very clean and a nice normal size fridge. her room had a built in closet, like a armoir built into the wall and built in drawers coming down the wall. and a mirror over an orangeish (i think) little counter. that part reminded me of the mtc. it was very dormish. her windows (very heavy old ones that you lift up) faced the outside of another part of the building very close up. as erin said "her very first ghetto apartment". it has a lot of character and it's not horrible like amy's apartment on knight. then we went back out into the rain and wind and brought in her stuff. then we went to caper's and i nabbed her some plastic forks and spoons since she realized that she didn't have any cutlery. it was my first time to capers. i've been to choices but not caper's. it's very nice. like a mini whole foods. then i dropped off the neice and went back home to the sister and nephew. we had bagels and a grapefruit. at first the ferries were canceled but then they started up again so that was good.
we got ready and left to go to old navy at park royal and what do you know, whole foods. by the time we went outside it was sunny and nice. adriel fell asleep on the ride and so when we got there we stayed in the car and played this game where if we had unlimited amounts of money what would we buy for each person of the family. basically everyone got a house with specialties that had to do with their talents, needs and personalities. for martha we agreed that more than a house, although a house too, we wanted safety and happiness and peace and as sarah aptly put a cure for shizophrenia. and when she said that tears came to my eyes and i thought if it worked that if the rest of us were poor for the rest of our lives so she could have that, we would do it and it would be worth it.
we went in to old navy and sarah tried on the sweater and some other things and we hummed and hawed and a lady came and chatted with me while i waited and sarah looked stunning in this one shirt especially. now come to think of it, i don't really know what she ended up getting! then we went
to whole foods and got something new, if you can believe it. we didnt' get a panini, we got a pulled pork bun and as the lady said, it was was sinful. soooooooo good! and we got a slice of pizza to share and a turtle brownie and a florentine. as usual we forgot water. we ate outside on a bench as adriel amused himself with a pylon. "i have to get a pylon" said sarah as it wasn't the first time he was kept happy with a pylon. i accidentally threw away some of the pork bun bits she was saving for the boy so we fished them out agian. still in the wrapper and in our box, so come on, it was ok right? then we drove to the ferry and that was our weekend. if i left anything out sarah'll have to highlight it. i've been typing this for about 3 hours and my fingers feel arthritic.
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