Sunshine and a bottle of wine

Funny, isn't it, how quickly time slips away when you are having fun and drags on when you are miserable? And when you are miserable you want time to pick up and when it does you are having fun and you'd rather it slow down? I guess enjoy what you can when you can. 3 days till home still sounds great to me!

Saturday the 26th

Friday night was late but I was determined to make it to the Farmer's Market in the morning before we had to go to our weekend activity. A group of us made our way down around 9am. I think the best part of any farmer's market is the food. I had crepe's again and I don't know if it is possible but I think it was even better this time around! An added bonus of going to is getting to avoid food at the caf.

I found some amazing button rings. Most of them were all old buttons this lady had threaded and turned into rings. I bought two, my favorite is a sailor inspired black and white button with little gold anchors on it - I like to imagine the blouse it came from, something flowy and satin and clearly from the 80s and hopefully with shoulder pads.

Before I left I bought a donair with grilled chicken so I would have something to eat a little later. On our walk home we stopped at a cute little cafe for coffees and continued on our way. On the walk home I decided I should eat some of my very delicious smelling donair and I was not disappointed, it was great! And it was so big that I couldn't even finish it all so I saved some for later.

By the time we got back to the school it was almost time for us to catch the bus to Pays de la Sagouine which is a mach historical Acadian village. Think Heritage Park but for Acadian's.

It had been hot and sunny all morning but when we arrived at Pays de la Sagouine the clouds had rolled in and the wind had picked up - it wasn't cold but it was kind of chilly. We walked across a long and windy boardwalk bridge to get to the village and sat down to listen to some live music. Afterwards we were released to tour at our leisure. The village was rather small and there were few guides around to actually tell you about much but there were a few live shows and by the sounds of it, it will pick up and get better in a few weeks when the summer tourists start arriving.

We spent about 3 hours there before we boarded the bus for the ride back. As we were stepping onto the bus it began to rain. Perfect timing.

The ride home was fine, we saw some pretty good rain.

When we got back it was around 5 (or dinner time according to the cafeteria hours) but I wasn't hungry. Instead I walked to the closest convenience store to scan my lottery ticket, and I didn't win anything, again. boo.

I walked back to res thinking I wasn't tired at all but by the time I got to my room and sat down I was exhausted. I spent the next 2 hours fast asleep. It was fabulous.

At 8pm I forced myself out of bed and down the hall to see what our plans for the night were. We made some loose plans to go to the New Brunswick Casino around 10pm because we'd heard about a great cover band playing.

I left to get ready and when 10pm arrived our plans naturally fell through. Some people had gone out to get liquor to pre-drink, others were off on their own adventures, or had bailed on going out at all. I should mention that I hadn't eaten dinner yet. Around 10:30 a few girls showed up at my door with their bottles and then a few more stopped by. We changed around some plans, sat around drinking for a while until we finally headed to Main, main street that is.

When we arrived on main we had no clear idea about where we were going but we decided to go to The Old Triangle - a pub on Main where we knew some people were. We collected them and headed to V. It is a nice lounge with great music! I was elated to be taken somewhere that I liked. After seeing the other club in Moncton - O2 or Oxygen what I will wager was a younger and sleazier crowd - V was refreshing and lots of fun. The dance floor was far too small and it became impossible to dance without being stepped on or shoved.

As the night went on we ran into more explore friends. We were out until the bar closed at which time we walked home - it was still quite nice out, a little chilly but hey it was 2:30am at least and I'm not in Mexico anymore so I can't very well expect it to be in the 20s that time of the night... morning?

Upon arriving home I wasn't ready to go to bed so I stayed up for a while with some of the other people who had been out for the night. It was late - around 4 - when I finally made myself go to bed. I would have preferred to hang out and watch a movie but there were no movies to watch and morning was going to come quickly.

Sunday the 27th

Naturally today started late. I woke up at 12:20 and found a text from my friend asking if I wanted to go to the beach, a plan that many explorers had had. Naturally I said yes, her response was that they were leaving in 15 minutes but truthfully they wanted to leave in 10. I did my best and by 12:36 I was sitting in the car on the way to a beach. A friend of a girl who is in the program and lives in the area was driving us to the beach for the afternoon.

I had hoped that we would go to the beach where all the other explorers were headed but we went to a beach a little further away. It was lovely. The sand was awesome, the water was cool, and the sun was shining for most of the time. We stayed for about one and a half hours before we packed up to head home. I guess the girls I was with had to get back to work on a project for class. I was a little bummed to leave so soon but I am glad I got to go.

On the way we stopped for a late lunch/early dinner - we sat on a patio - it was lovely.

I think if I had had time to ask questions and not 10 minutes to go from sleeping to a car I would have waited and paid the money to split a cab and go to the beach with the rest of the explorers. But hindsight is 20/20 and I did have a fun afternoon it was just the last free day and there are a lot of people I want to hang out with before I go home.

After we got back from the beach we headed up to dinner at the caf, it was only half bad. From dinner I worked on some homework with a girl from my class that we have to present tomorrow. Our project is about Alberta and its general awesomeness. Well mostly it is information about Alberta but I think it implies awesomeness.

Because I hadn't showered and didn't get a chance to go for a swim and it was hot I was due for a shower. I had a quick shower before heading to our last weekly Sunday evening meeting. It didn't last too long which was nice. It looks like there will be some activities for us during the last week before our exams and hopefully if the weather holds out we get to go to a great waterpark close by called Magic Mountain.

I got back to my room around 9pm and spent the rest of the evening, or about 2 hours, catching you up on what I've been doing. :)

Today I learned:

• The sand is nice here, I would not have guessed that
• The beaches her stink, no, smell like seafood
• Everyone loves a yellow shoe
• A good deal of my stuff was moved up to my new home this weekend for me, thanks family! Muchos muchos gracias!

I am grateful for:

• Sunshiney days
• Long walks
• Music - sometimes the right song is all you need
• The last song at the club being Hotel California - Ahh-mazeing

Pays de la Sagouine

The Beach

The Beach