This week has been interesting. In some areas of life its kind of sucked. But that's not what I'm going to talk about. No, no...I'm here to talk about FUN!!!
Wednesday was Larissa's 25th birthday which means for the next 12 days we will be the same age. It was a great day. She and I went shopping for the afternoon and she spent her Xmas and birthday money and I spent...well, my money. Then we met up with her sister Rachelle, her aunt Rose and our friends Sarah and Sherisse for supper at Olive Garden. Oh it was GOOOOOD. I had shrimp and asparagus on risotto with creamy tomato sauce and I think its my new favourite thing there. The day helped me remember what a great and wonderful best friend I have and how awesome it is that we help each other through so much stuff. God has truly blessed me with her!
Thursday wasn't really a major day but in one way it was GREAT. Kelly and I watched the first episode of the new season of Beauty and the Geek and it looks like this one is going to be a WINNER of a season! My favourite couple is Nate and ... Candice??? is that her name?? Anyways, I like them. My favourite guy is most certainly Piao (but you can call him pi as in the mathematical figure). Seriously, there were a few moments during the show I thought I was going to lose it it was so funny. And P.S. I'm an expert in things I know.
This weekend I went to the Young Adult retreat at Koino with Kelly and Leah. It was a super awesome weekend
! Friday night we just hung out, had our first worship session and ate the world famous (at least Mennonite Manitoba famous) Koinonia cinnamon buns. Oh and played broomball. I am not good at broomball and I think the guys on my team were kind of annoyed when I accidently shot the ball away from my net. oops. Saturday we had another worship session and then in the afternoon Leah and I (and another girl Nadia) decided we'd go on a little walk outside. That "little walk" turned into a 45 minute hike in the deep, deep snow. I was pretty sure death was upon me I was so exhausted. But it was a good workout and definitely wore off whatever calories were in those cinnamon buns the night before! Sat. night we played some serious dutch blitz (I lost the first game and got 2nd last in the other) then everyone but Todd and I went tubing down this toboggan slide they have there. Which brings me to one of the funniest things I find about living in Manitoba. In Sask, its pretty flat but I come from just outside the Cypress Hills and my grandma's house was right across the street from the biggest hill in Swift Current. So we don't need to build artificial things out of wood to toboggan. I think toboggan runs are the most hilarious thing about Manitoba. Oh...other than the Blue Bombers ;) Anyways, then I was deemed "official photographer" for broomball, mainly b/c I was NOT making a complete fool of myself again and then proceeded to stay up until 1:30 when I had told a few people I'd be in bed by 11:30. It never works out how you think it will! Today we had our last session, had the very predictable lunch of Taco Salad and said our goodbyes. And Kelly thanked the camp manager Matt for sleeping with her... haha, you won't live that one down Kel!
! Friday night we just hung out, had our first worship session and ate the world famous (at least Mennonite Manitoba famous) Koinonia cinnamon buns. Oh and played broomball. I am not good at broomball and I think the guys on my team were kind of annoyed when I accidently shot the ball away from my net. oops. Saturday we had another worship session and then in the afternoon Leah and I (and another girl Nadia) decided we'd go on a little walk outside. That "little walk" turned into a 45 minute hike in the deep, deep snow. I was pretty sure death was upon me I was so exhausted. But it was a good workout and definitely wore off whatever calories were in those cinnamon buns the night before! Sat. night we played some serious dutch blitz (I lost the first game and got 2nd last in the other) then everyone but Todd and I went tubing down this toboggan slide they have there. Which brings me to one of the funniest things I find about living in Manitoba. In Sask, its pretty flat but I come from just outside the Cypress Hills and my grandma's house was right across the street from the biggest hill in Swift Current. So we don't need to build artificial things out of wood to toboggan. I think toboggan runs are the most hilarious thing about Manitoba. Oh...other than the Blue Bombers ;) Anyways, then I was deemed "official photographer" for broomball, mainly b/c I was NOT making a complete fool of myself again and then proceeded to stay up until 1:30 when I had told a few people I'd be in bed by 11:30. It never works out how you think it will! Today we had our last session, had the very predictable lunch of Taco Salad and said our goodbyes. And Kelly thanked the camp manager Matt for sleeping with her... haha, you won't live that one down Kel!Going to the retreat was really good for me. I needed to get out among different people for a bit and it was nice to see some people from CMU I hadn't seen in a while. The worship was amazing (as always) and being able to sing those familiar songs brings me so close to God and I am so thankful for that. That Backstreet Boys sing-a-long was pretty good on the way home too... :)
2 comments:
DOWNEY!! this page is HILARIOUS - i am definitely bookmarking it. i so totally miss your humour! holy frig i was dying reading your stuff. this is so awesome - keep it up!
i haven't really communicated with you in a while, and dude it sounds like life right now is rockin for you. really glad that you weren't hurt in that car accident.
happy new year!
cara
Who are those two beautiful ladies in that picture???? They must get asked out all the time because they're just so hot! Hee, Hee, Hee!!!!
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