August 02, 2005

Loooong Weekend

Things that can make your long weekend seem extra long:

  1. Weddings
  2. Inlaws
  3. Family pictures taken outdoors

Ok so we were dragged invited to a wedding which took place outdoors on a farm on Saturday about 45 minutes out of Grande Prairie. We were bribed enticed there by the fact Ambers mom booked us a room with a king size bed and a jacuzzi, but the drawbacks of course filled up a list of it's own:

  1. We couldn't afford the gas, the dog kennel, the present, etc.
  2. We couldn't actually get a dog kennel booked for Ajax, since it was last minute and it was the long weekend
  3. It's on a damn farm in the middle of nowhere.. with inlaws
Luckily our friend Dan was able to drop by a few times to our house to look in on the dog, and I've had enough gigs in the past while so we're not hardcore in the red.

The drive was fine, nice weather, Xavier was very good, he's a good traveller because everything is exciting to him, clouds, hay bales, cows. The car ran perfectly fine, other than the leak we thought we had fixed in the AC is not fixed, so the condensation leaks into the passenger seat, Amber gets wet feet.

The bride was beautiful, the dress was ridiculous though, here they are on a farm where there's grass and mud and cow dung in some places and she's got a train(sp?).. YEah, that's what you want, something draggin around behind you..in the aforementioned places. Oh but they had Corona so that brought them up in my books, but then they made you pay for it so... neutrality it is.

Weather was nice, cloudy but no rain for the wedding day, sunny and hot the next day for the family pick chores (yeeehaw! We is city slickers but we is on tha fahm! Weehoo!). The unfortunate thing about Ambers family is they are all fair skinned, so ... yeah, sunburn city. Stupid people had a 9 month old out unprotected for 2 hours, poor baby.

The best thing about the whole trip was spending time with MY family. We don't have many days where we spend that much time together, so that was nice. OH yeah and making her cousin uncomfortable (the one that's feuding with her), that is always fun.

Posted by Oorgo at August 2, 2005 03:23 PM Permalink - Category: Things | TrackBack
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