Wasted Weekend!

What a long weekend! First we were hoping to go camping because the forecast at the beginning of the week was gorgeous. We quickly changed our minds as the forecast turned sour nearing the weekend. Instead we decided to do random 'campy' things without the camping. Friday was a nice evening so we went out for dinner and then to a challenging game of mini golf. That was a really great date night! However, saturday was a total right off....I slept in while Ike cleaned the fire hall. Then we borrowed our friend's canoe and drove all the way out to Killarney. Going back to the whole borrowing a canoe thing...Other people make it look so easy to strap it to the roof of a van and go....hmmm...Not so...first of all, it was SUPER windy on saturday which didn't help at all. We got the thing well positioned with foam blocks and strapped as tightly as possible. At first it seemed ok...only minor wobblage due to wind...but then...the semi test....Not so good. two blocks went flying out from under the canoe and into the ditch....causing the straps to seem loosened and the canoe to shift majorly! After that emergency stop to chase after the foam blocks and re-strap and add more straps...we finally got the hang of it and were on our way to Killarney. We chose Killarney because some friends' of Ike's were camping out there and we figured we could hang out. Wrong. Apparently my husband never called in advance (which I asked him to do the day before) to make sure that this would work out. We get there and they are on their way out for dinner with other friends. Sigh...so we found our own disgustingly dirty little restaurant to eat at and drove all the way home again. We would've gone canoeing by ourselves but the weather was crap--windy, rainy, dark dark clouds. The upside to saturday was that we then had tea and played Uno (the new one with the machine that spits cards) with the friends that we borrowed the canoe from when we got home. Sunday we slept in...ahhhh holidays....I found a listing for a very cheap used canoe (we've been looking for one for ourselves) and so we drove out to Marchand (South-East of Steinbach) to have a look at it. It wasn't exactly what we had been hoping for but for the price, it was good enough. It has a couple of patches which Ike said he'll make nicer and then we'll get his brother to paint it for us. It'll be brand new. We didn't end up having time to test it out yet...but maybe this evening when Ike gets home. Later sunday evening we went to the drive-in in Morden for a triple feature-- Clash of the Titans, Cop-out, and Valentine's Day. We've been tons of times before and never had any problems but for some reason this time we couldn't get any sound to work....ugh...totally ruined the first movie. By the second movie Ike rigged up a wire and walkie antenna which sorta worked....sigh....Just not our weekend....Couldn't even just make-out either cause I had my period and was getting quite crabby by that point! lol Monday we slept in...as we only made it home after 4am due to the movies....and I spent the rest of the day in my pj's just relaxing which I should've just done the other two days too...Probably would've accomplished more and spent less money and gas!

Our new used canoe...I guess we'll need paddles at some point too! :)