labour day weekend full o stuff
it's 9pm and the end of a long and full labour day weekend and maybe i should blog but maybe i'm too tired.
maybe just a little...
friday was remarkable in that i watched 3 avengers movies and edited a lot of phots. avengers 22 movies are diabolically interconnected and overwhelming if one wants to catch up.
saturday heather and i met at went to the world festival at minoru park. i thought there was going to be food trucks from around the world, but the most interesting one was a filipino one. heather wanted to take a survey of all the trucks before we chose and i was like that's going to take too long and then we compromised by taking a survey of a row of trucks and then chosing. from the chickpea truck we got an eggplant wrap that was super yummy. stacked high with eggplant and 3 different flavours of tahini sauce: mango, basil and chipotle. we halfed that and shoved it in our maws while waiting for our jacked up coconut fries from the filipino truck. then no other truck really appealed or excited us. we saw various performances though, like some mostly elderly chinese ladies doing a folk dance of some sort, an african lady doing an amazing dance to a single drum beat. she was wild. and from afar we watched an okinawan drummer's group. we were tired and hot by that point. i saw 2 or 3 members and al, a guy from cowell auto group who often volunteers at pathways.
as we were leaving we stopped at the more shady library area to watch some girls but they were that girlish japanese style that really bugged heather plus super super super loud. i looked over at her and she was covering her ears. "we don't have to stay." i mouthed to her. and we didn't. we walked to no 3 road and got some shaved ice. the very berry. then i talked heather's ear off for untold hours about weird things like nobody believes me when i get trivial pursuit cards right at work...lol uhhh.. yeah, poor misunderstood girl.
then i had to do some grocery shopping for work and a little for me. but i had to pee so bad i couldn't focus until i abandoned cart and used the facilities. then i very clearly could think and chose the ingredients for my killer potluck salad.
sunday i was doing real fasting. it's one of my goals. i decided i want what the people in helaman 3:35 had so i'm going to do what they did. and to be honest, my fasting has been wanting these last few years. time to repent. so i had a good fast. and it was spiritual feast kind of sunday at church.
after church i edited the sister's group photos and then made my potluck salad which was romaine hearts, red plums, fig goat cheese, purple onion slivers, roasted filburts, aka hazelnuts and a dressing i made out of lime juice/zest, olive oil, blackberry balsamic vinegar, and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses. i just had to hope that it tasted good and i was very careful not to get any goat cheese on my fingers because the temptation would have been too much to lick it off.
i was 13 minutes late to the grant park, a park right beside the freeway in abbotsford and katie and brent and caleb and rachel were the only ones there ahead of me. douglas n tatts pulled up right after me and we walked over together. they brought a salad too. at first it seemed like everyone brought a salad but in the end it all worked out. rachel made a yummy jambalaya like rice and sarah brought some yummy mac n cheese and katie also had pesto pasta besides her salad and doug n del brought a roast. but before we ate i traveled back to the parking lot first to collect dad in his wheel chair and four by four him over the grass to the picnic area, only almost dumping out of said chair twice, and second to get my camping dishes which luckily i did not unpack from my car because there wasn't quite enough plates. then sarah and delanie forgot adriel and noah back at the trailor and had to go get them haha.
food was good. i stuffed the meat in my face really fast so the wasps would leave me alone but that did not stop me from suddenly flinging my fork away from me when a wasp suddenly appeared as i was having seconds. katie marveled that i'm still the same after all these years, no doubt reliving the 2 times i hucked my ceramic mug of hot soup down the rocky bluff during 4th years girls camp when the wasps came swarming... in giving it back to me, doug dropped it and then threw it to my left hand i and i didn't catch it. so 3 times on the ground. meh, i still used it.
after dinner i invited katie and martha to come lay on my sleeping bag with me on the grass. it wasn't long and sarah joined us and was the little spoon to martha's big spoon. they were wearing the exact same colours top and bottom so we joked that it was with spooning in mind that they chose their outfits of the day.
then mom brought a chair over, and then tatts came over and soon natalie...eventually douglas and kyle and mary and delanie and madelaine and boyd and we of course did what we do, and took pics of ourselves as other genders and laughed about it. it was a nice night.
i stayed over and katie's. first i went to the trailer with mary and nat so mary could get her stuff because she too was sleeping over.
once there katie and i started looking at all her yellowstone national park photos which were plentiful and interesting. of great note was a photo of natalie where she made her neck do something very weird at a very weird angle and we made her come upstairs and redo it. we named it chicken neck.
i slept on katie's and brent's mattress downstairs. they have a new mattress. i tossed and turned i think. at least in the morning i did.
elizabeth and malachi helped brent make a special breakfast of french toast, hashbrowns and orange juice with raspberries, peaches and whipped cream. i don't want to tattle but mary first spilled natalie's orange juice and then her own. it was super yummy breakie.
then i tricked myself into showering. i'll just wet my hair, i said to myself. then i was all, may as well get naked and get in the shower while you're at it. oh, you don't have to trick yourself into a shower? congratulations. mary did my eye make up. congratulations to ME.
we went to giggle ridge or cultus adventure park. katie had coupons so it was only 15 dollars each. it's an amusement park. mostly katie and i went with malachi on rides. we got him to go on the rollercoaster which was very short and not that scary. we did the ferris wheel wagons, and then he had bro time with shady spot brent on the water bumpers. meanwhile natalie, mary and elizabeth were going on the ride abuse rides. elizabeth likes all the scary rides. what happened is that a singing man made katie and i leave brent's shady spot so he could set up. what also happened is i went on a kiddy roller coaster. the seats spun while it went around the roller coaster tracks. i was with elizabeth and mary and nat were behind. so...my butt did not fully fit in the seat and i kind of had to half cheek it. that should have been a warning sign. but the saftey bar did pull down and did hold there. i thought all was fine. no it was not. part way through the ride the safety bar came undone. it totally clicked up! i had to hold on to elizabeth's and hope that i did not fly off. it was actually pretty scary. i had so much adrenalin after that. we went out of the park for ice cream. i got a salted caramel dulce de leche double caramel flavours type of a deal. then katie and i went with maladude to the water tunnels, and sat in the cool shade for quite some time talking while he ran around completely happy for a long time. one more coaster ride, which the dare devil elizabeth barely made it to because she was spending the line up wait time going on her favourite ride which was the kind that swung you upside down and abused you. this time on the coaster i was scared that my bar would come up again. added an extra edge. then malachi did a frog ride and the swings one more time. brent and mary and natalie had already left the park and went to the lake. so i took katie and the kids there and picked up mary, and some pizza slices and drove mary home and went home myself. and now i've written a full blog despite being very very very tired. goodnight.
maybe just a little...
friday was remarkable in that i watched 3 avengers movies and edited a lot of phots. avengers 22 movies are diabolically interconnected and overwhelming if one wants to catch up.
saturday heather and i met at went to the world festival at minoru park. i thought there was going to be food trucks from around the world, but the most interesting one was a filipino one. heather wanted to take a survey of all the trucks before we chose and i was like that's going to take too long and then we compromised by taking a survey of a row of trucks and then chosing. from the chickpea truck we got an eggplant wrap that was super yummy. stacked high with eggplant and 3 different flavours of tahini sauce: mango, basil and chipotle. we halfed that and shoved it in our maws while waiting for our jacked up coconut fries from the filipino truck. then no other truck really appealed or excited us. we saw various performances though, like some mostly elderly chinese ladies doing a folk dance of some sort, an african lady doing an amazing dance to a single drum beat. she was wild. and from afar we watched an okinawan drummer's group. we were tired and hot by that point. i saw 2 or 3 members and al, a guy from cowell auto group who often volunteers at pathways.
as we were leaving we stopped at the more shady library area to watch some girls but they were that girlish japanese style that really bugged heather plus super super super loud. i looked over at her and she was covering her ears. "we don't have to stay." i mouthed to her. and we didn't. we walked to no 3 road and got some shaved ice. the very berry. then i talked heather's ear off for untold hours about weird things like nobody believes me when i get trivial pursuit cards right at work...lol uhhh.. yeah, poor misunderstood girl.
then i had to do some grocery shopping for work and a little for me. but i had to pee so bad i couldn't focus until i abandoned cart and used the facilities. then i very clearly could think and chose the ingredients for my killer potluck salad.
sunday i was doing real fasting. it's one of my goals. i decided i want what the people in helaman 3:35 had so i'm going to do what they did. and to be honest, my fasting has been wanting these last few years. time to repent. so i had a good fast. and it was spiritual feast kind of sunday at church.
after church i edited the sister's group photos and then made my potluck salad which was romaine hearts, red plums, fig goat cheese, purple onion slivers, roasted filburts, aka hazelnuts and a dressing i made out of lime juice/zest, olive oil, blackberry balsamic vinegar, and a drizzle of pomegranate molasses. i just had to hope that it tasted good and i was very careful not to get any goat cheese on my fingers because the temptation would have been too much to lick it off.
i was 13 minutes late to the grant park, a park right beside the freeway in abbotsford and katie and brent and caleb and rachel were the only ones there ahead of me. douglas n tatts pulled up right after me and we walked over together. they brought a salad too. at first it seemed like everyone brought a salad but in the end it all worked out. rachel made a yummy jambalaya like rice and sarah brought some yummy mac n cheese and katie also had pesto pasta besides her salad and doug n del brought a roast. but before we ate i traveled back to the parking lot first to collect dad in his wheel chair and four by four him over the grass to the picnic area, only almost dumping out of said chair twice, and second to get my camping dishes which luckily i did not unpack from my car because there wasn't quite enough plates. then sarah and delanie forgot adriel and noah back at the trailor and had to go get them haha.
food was good. i stuffed the meat in my face really fast so the wasps would leave me alone but that did not stop me from suddenly flinging my fork away from me when a wasp suddenly appeared as i was having seconds. katie marveled that i'm still the same after all these years, no doubt reliving the 2 times i hucked my ceramic mug of hot soup down the rocky bluff during 4th years girls camp when the wasps came swarming... in giving it back to me, doug dropped it and then threw it to my left hand i and i didn't catch it. so 3 times on the ground. meh, i still used it.
after dinner i invited katie and martha to come lay on my sleeping bag with me on the grass. it wasn't long and sarah joined us and was the little spoon to martha's big spoon. they were wearing the exact same colours top and bottom so we joked that it was with spooning in mind that they chose their outfits of the day.
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| ma n pops beet gabbing with sarah |
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| cousins play ultimate frisbee |
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| 3 laughing sister heads |
then mom brought a chair over, and then tatts came over and soon natalie...eventually douglas and kyle and mary and delanie and madelaine and boyd and we of course did what we do, and took pics of ourselves as other genders and laughed about it. it was a nice night.
i stayed over and katie's. first i went to the trailer with mary and nat so mary could get her stuff because she too was sleeping over.
once there katie and i started looking at all her yellowstone national park photos which were plentiful and interesting. of great note was a photo of natalie where she made her neck do something very weird at a very weird angle and we made her come upstairs and redo it. we named it chicken neck.
i slept on katie's and brent's mattress downstairs. they have a new mattress. i tossed and turned i think. at least in the morning i did.
elizabeth and malachi helped brent make a special breakfast of french toast, hashbrowns and orange juice with raspberries, peaches and whipped cream. i don't want to tattle but mary first spilled natalie's orange juice and then her own. it was super yummy breakie.
then i tricked myself into showering. i'll just wet my hair, i said to myself. then i was all, may as well get naked and get in the shower while you're at it. oh, you don't have to trick yourself into a shower? congratulations. mary did my eye make up. congratulations to ME.
we went to giggle ridge or cultus adventure park. katie had coupons so it was only 15 dollars each. it's an amusement park. mostly katie and i went with malachi on rides. we got him to go on the rollercoaster which was very short and not that scary. we did the ferris wheel wagons, and then he had bro time with shady spot brent on the water bumpers. meanwhile natalie, mary and elizabeth were going on the ride abuse rides. elizabeth likes all the scary rides. what happened is that a singing man made katie and i leave brent's shady spot so he could set up. what also happened is i went on a kiddy roller coaster. the seats spun while it went around the roller coaster tracks. i was with elizabeth and mary and nat were behind. so...my butt did not fully fit in the seat and i kind of had to half cheek it. that should have been a warning sign. but the saftey bar did pull down and did hold there. i thought all was fine. no it was not. part way through the ride the safety bar came undone. it totally clicked up! i had to hold on to elizabeth's and hope that i did not fly off. it was actually pretty scary. i had so much adrenalin after that. we went out of the park for ice cream. i got a salted caramel dulce de leche double caramel flavours type of a deal. then katie and i went with maladude to the water tunnels, and sat in the cool shade for quite some time talking while he ran around completely happy for a long time. one more coaster ride, which the dare devil elizabeth barely made it to because she was spending the line up wait time going on her favourite ride which was the kind that swung you upside down and abused you. this time on the coaster i was scared that my bar would come up again. added an extra edge. then malachi did a frog ride and the swings one more time. brent and mary and natalie had already left the park and went to the lake. so i took katie and the kids there and picked up mary, and some pizza slices and drove mary home and went home myself. and now i've written a full blog despite being very very very tired. goodnight.
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| me n the reds. |
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