May 9, 2006

Well after a long exhausting weekend we're finally home and settled in. We had an exciting weekend that's for sure. Not an uncommon thing in the Blackmore house to plan a LAST minuite excursion to Nova Scotia. Saturday morning we got up and got ready for the 11:30 am ferry to head to North Sydney to surprise my mom with an early mothers day present. An altered canvas I made for her with a photo of the kids in PEI last summer in pederioc clothes. It turned out great. I'll post a pic as soon as I remember to take one of it. Anyway we got to where my mom works and lo and behold she's not there. They're out for the day. So we take advantage of the free time, poke the present into the mail box and go off shopping for a few hours in Sydney. While we were about to head back, stopped in to get some gas and Mom calls us on the Cell. She asks where we are and I say Corner Brook as to not ruin the surprise and tell her that a friend at M.A had dropped off the present into the mail box for me. hehe...I think she was on to us! And sure enough she was. The kids knocked on her door and she ran up and said I knew you were here. But it was still fun! We then took a hotel at the Clansmen for the night. Don't think we'd stay there anymore...it just wasn't up to par for me. We did however have a nice night, had a few beer, watched a few shows and played some cards. I won of course! haha! Sunday we stopped in McDonalds for Breakfast and then went to a few yard sales. Found some great deals! Some new lawn chairs for $2 each and a nice photo album. The kids even found something, a wonderful basket full of activity books, crayons, dolls and water squirters. And of course the big Kid, Cecil even found some movies that he "always wanted". Then we headed downtown and some guy almost ran into us, cut us off and threw some foul language our way...which of course we threw some right back...just a little more than he could have wanted. Then the car started acting funny and Cecil said that's surely not right. Then on came the check engine light. We pulled into Ron May Pontiac and there was nothing anyone could do for us as it was sunday and everything was shut down. What a pain in the A$$! But they said they were 99% sure that our hotel would be covered for the night and up to $500 of food coverage because we were so far from home. We went back to my mom's and spent a little time there, washed our clothes as we were only packed for one night and then went out to buy pampers and then headed to The North Star Inn....ahhh....nice hotel. Much better! We had a great night's sleep and got up early and headed back to the car dealership. Turns out the Fuel injectors, on our 3 week old car were gone. So they set us up with a rent a car and we headed on the 11:30 ferry back home. I'm not really impressed with the car...it consumes 2 times as much fuel as our car would have and it has only have the space. I sure hope they accomodate us for this when it's all said and done.

Anyway back to today! We spent the whole day outside. I raked the yard, dug some sawd up and filled in a few holes nad the kids played around me. They loved that! We even took a little walk up the road. Didn't get very far...as that first hill leaving our home is just enough to give me a mild heart attack i'm sure. It's hard pushing a 1 year old and a 4 year old. Cecil got home after school and had to head to St.Davids to fix a satellite. When he got home we had some supper and came back outside and tore up the rose bushes. What a pain they're being already. We got them all cut off...now I guess we'll have to dig them up. No fun but it has to be done! Time for bed now for the kiddies...I'd better get going! Have a great day!