Reunions

Well I have been on two weekend get aways in the past month. Both were a sort of reunion.

I spent May Long in Calgary, reunited with my two housemates from when I lived in St. John's. They both are now living in Alberta (surprise?) and so we finally got our acts together for a meet up!

It was pretty much what you would expect as an "East Coast Reunion", copious amounts of fun!
I flew in from here, Jess and her BF drove down from Ft. Mac, Ashley is living in Calgary, plus their friends Trisha in Calgary and Meghan who flew in from Halifax.

We initially had grand plans of hitting up the mountains, but sadly that fell through, and we were stuck in Calgary :( We made due. And really, the whole trip was to hang out with each other, which we could obviously do anywhere. Plus the weather wasn't the greatest (that is my excuse to get over missing the mountains). And the one thing I could take away from the weekend - nothings changed! Hahah those girls are a riot.

Reluctantly I returned North, only to have fantastic weather. It's always a let down to go South and then it be nicer here. One of the biggest issues I have with travelling in the summer - it makes up for our ghastly winters.

This past weekend I went on a whirl wind trip to Vancouver. My friend Peter (and old neighbour) got married this weekend! I headed down on Friday for a day of shopping, and the big city experience of getting my nails done. My past three trips South have included getting my nails done. 
When I got downtown it was this awful mist, but not quite rain. Thankfully after lunch and my nails it cleared off to a sunny evening. Walked along the seawall and tried the delicacies only found in cities: fine dining combined with foods not available at home.

Met up with my parents for drinks and snacks of Oysters and stuffed yorkshire puddings. The former was great, the latter, meh.

Saturday morning was spent on Granville Island in the shops, took an aqua bus back across then out for a Korean BBQ. It was good, but I have had better, and am a little disappointed it wasn't what I was expecting as my parents had never experience on before. It could have also been whenever I've had them before, it was with others who ordered for us... it was still satisfying.

The wedding was over on the UBC Campus, in a beautiful park area. The sun was hot, really it couldn't have been any nicer. Cheryl was ecstatic throughout the ceremony, and really the whole night!
Met some really cool people - they are both doctors, so there were some interesting specialist there, and Peter's undergrad was in engineering, so they added some flare to the group. Hahah, every engineer I have met since finishing school fits the stereotype.

Partied until the wedding was over and we had to leave. I had wanted to go to the Museum of Anthropology on Sunday morning, but that didn't happen. I didn't get out of bed until 10... and was really not feeling it anymore. Serves me right. I think it was worth it though.

That ended my whirl wind trip as I flew home that late afternoon.... almost solstice time! Landing at home at 11 and the sun was still high in the sky!

My next trip will be out to Jean Marie for 10 or so days for work. The bugs better be under control this summer! That or not one day of rain. I think I would actually take the bugs over rain... then off to Iqaluit for a weekend, followed by another 10 or so days of field work.

Hooray for summer!