Rockin' Weekend

So, once again, I have refrained from writing in my blog until I returned from Nanaimo. The reason for that is, I was just having way too much fun...And also, I was up till ridiculous hours, and would crash the second I reached my bed. So here's what I spent the weekend doing:

After my final concert of the year on Thursday night, my mom drove me and Dan to Wendy's to grab some grub, and then took us back to the house so I could eat and grab my stuff. Then we headed back up to Nanaimo. Dan was unable to come along, as he had to work the next day, and also, someone had to stay with Sam. I worry about him being alone for too long, especially when he's unable to use his legs properly.

The trip back was uneventful, and so was most of that night. I was a little too late to be able to do anything with anybody, but I was alright with that. I stayed in and hung out with my family.

The next day, I tried to get a hold of Robyn and Jim and Linda. I got a hold of Linda first, and I went over to her house for a short time, mostly just to say Hi and talk for a bit before she headed off on her camping trip. Then I had dinner with my parents and my sister, Robyn, and had some awesome cake for dessert. Mmm-Mmm, Hedgehog Cream Cake. Nummy! I called Jim after dinner, and we ended up going for a bit of a walk and then went back to his place, where he showed me some Japanese sketch comedy that I was unable to understand, but was still funny. Think Monty Python styled humour in Japanese. You know? Where it doesn't have to make sense for it to be funny. After that, Jim walked me home, and I decided to give Friend Robyn a call (as opposed to Sister Robyn). She was quite excited to hear from me, and shortly there after picked me up and took me to Manza Vinos, the popular hang out for her and her friends. We chatted for many an hour, and at 3 or so in the morning, I was dropped off at home again.

The next day, Friend Robyn had asked me to give her a call, and so I did. Unfortunately, she slept through most of the phone calls I made, and it took her until about 3:30 or so in the afternoon to call me back. When she did call me back, I had run out with my mom to do some errands. I eventually got a hold of her though, and she came to pick me up. She had to get her friend, John from the ferry, and then we went and watched the hockey game at their friends' house. I was having a lot of fun till the end of the first overtime and had been simply sitting there, watching men skate back and forth for half an hour. At which point I said something to the affect of, "I wish some one would just skoal a gore so we could go do something." At which point everyone laughed at me and my speaking skills.

Another point of interest of this little hockey party is that there was a girl there, that, about half way through the hockey game recognized me and asked what my last name was. When I told her, she yells, "You're Kelsey's cousin, aren't you?!" My mouth just dropped to the ground. She knew my sister, Bonnie better than myself, but I've been told many times that there is a strong family resemblance between myself and my sisters. Anyway, it turns out that she was one of Kelsey's best friends from Prince George. The only reason I remember her is because she happened to go for an involuntary swim in the river while I was there one summer. Her dad is also quite good friends with my dad. What a strange, small world...

After the game, Robyn and I spent the rest of the night hanging out with a bunch of her friends, and generally just chatted some more. We also headed down to MGM for some dinner, which I probably shouldn't have ordered, as I wasn't really hungry, and wasn't able to finish. After a while, we decided to head down to Sway-a-lana (I honestly don't know how to spell that word) and just kinda walked around downtown. We stopped in at Timmie's for a few minutes to say Hi to Carla and Vedran (friends of Robyn's), and at about 4 in the morning, Robyn dropped me off at home. The sun was rising when I walked in the door. I always think that's so strange; seeing the sun set and then still being awake by the time it rises again....

Anyway, on Sunday, RayC-BC was supposed to be playing at Sway-a-lana at 1:00 and 3:00. Robyn figured we should head down for the 3:00 since she would be sleeping through the 1:00. I called up Ward and asked if he would like to come out and play with us, and he said he'd meet us down at the pavilion at 3. When Robyn finally came to get me, we were downtown a little early, but there was no sign of any kind of concert. Robyn and I went for a short walk, keeping our eyes and ears open for any kind of sign of a concert, and could find none. Then we had to wait for Ward and Ayla to show up, so we headed back to the pavilion. When they came, Ayla gave me a birthday present! It was so cool, I totally didn't expect to get a present from her. It was this really neat Green Tea Chai, which I fully intend to try tonight. Possibly with dessert or something.

So anyway, Ayla had a gig, and we had given up on the idea of seeing RayC-BC's last concert, EVER, and went to Fast Eddie's for some food. I'm sorry to say that Fast Eddie's used to kick so much ass for food and proportions. The key words being "used to." Now, the food sucks and the proportions are nothing special. All Ward had was a milkshake, and he said that even that was awful. How do you screw up a milkshake? It's just milk, ice cream and flavor!

After lunch/dinner, someone suggested that we go see a movie. We ended up agreeing on Troy, which Robyn said was good. But we had like an hour to waste, so Robyn decided to take us to the craft store so she could buy beads to make friendship bracelets. Abby ended up coming in and asking me if I could help her make a surfer-style necklace. You know, with hemp and cool beads and stuff. When the craft store closed not too long after that, we went to Tim Hortons (again) and wasted some time there. Then we went to the movie.

Troy was actually pretty good. It was kinda funny to see the guy who played the Hulk and Orlando Bloom (aka Legolas) in a movie that wasn't one of the ones that made either of them famous. Of course, the first time Mr. Hulk got mad, I made the obligatory joke that you shouldn't make him angry. And what's also funny is that even in a completely different movie, Orlando Bloom was still killing all the bad guys with arrows! I found it amusing, anyway...

It was eleven by the time the movie was over, and Ward had to go home because he had to work the next day. After Ward had left, Robyn commented that he had excellent taste in music. There was even talk of having Ward's band on Robyn and Abby's radio show. They exchanged emails and such before he had gone home for the night.

Robyn and I spent a little more time cruising around town, and then she had to call it a night, cuz she also had to work the next day. We said good bye and Robyn told me that I just had to come up again for her birthday. I told her I'd try, as my funds drop a little more each day and I had nothing to replenish them with at the moment.

I attempted to take the bus back to Victoria on Monday, and had no end of difficulties. The bus was an hour and a half late leaving the Nanaimo depot, due to construction, and so I was an hour and a half late getting home. Though it was a pain, there was nothing to be done, so I just let it slide.

Yup, I had an excellent weekend, and I can't wait to be able to do it again...Preferably with the aid of a good job and loads of money.