Gargling

Another one of those 3 a.m. posts to catch up on the news. It's been a busy week as we all recover from the festivities of the weekend. I've come back to work to get a rest I told my coworkers. The newlyweds are really enjoying Seattle according to the latest email report "Last night I had the most delicious sushi ever! And the groom had lamb chops...at the same restaurant! The past two nights we stayed in the swankiest hotel ever. There is a dude that opens the doors when you come and go, it's so beautiful." And to think that her father and I camped in a pup tent as we moved to our new home.

On Monday we (oldest daughter and myself) had promised ourselves that our reward post-wedding would be to do a Frenchy's run. So we started out at 8 a.m. and didn't make it home until almost 11 p.m. We traveled around the bottom of the province with four hours of driving as we hit three great Guy's Frenchys locations. For those of you not familiar with the experience you can check out the link: http://www.guysfrenchys.com/ We had some really good luck and the daughter calculated that the $100 she invested paid back at least $1000 in brand name fashions. It was a rainy, foggy day so we didn't feel we'd missed anything, had time to spend together, got some nice scenery shots in Annapolis Royal and overall enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. As we made our way home late at night across the interior of the province near Kedge park it became apparent that the service stations weren't open along the way and we didn't have sufficient gas to make it out to civilization. The talk turned to sleeping in the car, bears knocking on the window etc. I stopped at the local grocery store and asked about fuel and was told there was none locally but....one of the employees called her mother who "always has a can of gas for mowing" then dropped over to pick it up. When I told her that she was my guardian angel she disagreed and said I was hers as she would've had to mow the lawn on Tuesday and it was her only day off that week. We made our way onwards with a great sense of relief towards an open gas station thinking 'only in rural areas do you get rescued like this'.

Tuesday was spent doing laundry of the new wardrobe until there was no more room on the clothesline, straightening up the house a bit and actually reading the newspaper for a change. I was surprised to find stories about the G20 summit, the Queen's visit to our province and various other bits of news I'd missed while we were concentrating on the getting the daughter married off.

Well, time to check on the troops upstairs as things have settled from a busy start to the shift. Happy Canada Day all!

Quote of the day.... Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.