So Nice To Be Home!

I made it. It took me five hours both to go and come home, even though I took different routes, and I'm happy to report that my drives were uneventful.

I honestly think that my attention span is only good for a five hour trip, max. I amused myself on the way to Ottawa, by taking numerous photos with my daughter's digital camera. Yes I was driving at the time, but I refrained from talking on my cell phone while snapping. Not sure why but the scenery looks bland in the pictures, even though it was quite beautiful to the naked eye. I'm going to try to get my pictures uploaded and will provide a link in the near future.

On the way home, I amused myself by pretending to be a Formula One driver while I swerved in and out of the slow moving vehicles that were imposing their sloth like driving habits on me.

The pig roast was a lot of fun. I've decided I would not survive in the wilderness though. I much prefer to see my protein packed in cellophane. The site of Porky swirling around on the spit was heartbreaking. I had a piece of ass anyway. I couldn't resist. When it comes right down to it, I am a carnivore.

I took 4 bottles of red wine with me for the weekend. I drank two, with help and came home with two. So I didn't get drunk, didn't eat any funny brownies and I never smoked any peace pipes. All in all, I would say that I was pretty well behaved.

I was clumsy though. I ended up spilling red wine all over my favourite white gauze shirt. I have it all gummed up with stain remover right now and before I go to bed, I'm going to pray one more time that the stain will come out. Perhaps after this next wash (number 10) it will disappear.

This incident happened early on in the party, before all the guests had arrived. I was busy snapping pics of the pig, the guests, the playing dogs etc. and Mark, a neighbour invited me over to his place to upload the pics. On the way up the slope to his house, I slipped and sloshed my wine all over myself. He graciously grabbed a t-shirt for me to wear. In the end, his USB was too big and we were unable to transfer the pics to his computer. I felt funny about going back to the party next door wearing his clothes, besides the fact that it was not nearly as attractive as my own shirt, but because it drew unwanted attention by most of the guests. Turns out we were the talk of the hour. I think it was forgotten by the time I sloshed wine all over his T-shirt. I decided that I would just ignore the last spill. He doesn't know that I ruined his shirt as well, so I will also pray for the wine lord to remove those stains.

It was a very pleasant, cool evening. I was exhausted by the time we headed back to Ottawa even though it was only 10:30 pm. We had been there for about 8 hours and it would seem that the air in the country does have an impact on me. My head bobbed in the front seat all the way home. I hope I wasn't snoring. :o)

The rest of the weekend was very enjoyable. We went for breakfast two days in a row at different restaurants, went for a drive to a nearby town in Quebec, Alymer and enjoyed the waterfront, went to dinner with a group of friends from the pig roast party and sat around gossiping.

Ana and Bob, my hosts were so wonderfully gracious, that I was a little sad to leave.

I am very happy to be home though. To see my daughter, mom, my pets and my beloved bed. I love my bed. In fact, it sounds like a good idea, I think I'll go to bed now, and perhaps I can post some pics tomorrow.