im going to canada to hug mooses and whales

im heading of to canada to spend the winter snowboarding and the summer......well i dont know yet but i hope it involes looking at lots of big whales and working as little as possible, before returning to edinburgh in september 07

Sunday, March 18, 2007

happy st patricks day

a wee update for u folks at home

on thursday i went to the post office and i had 3 parcels, i was so excited :) they were from debbie, she had posted them at different times but they all arrived at once, i wont miss the canadian post when i leave here, it takes forever for anything to arrive

me with my goodies
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then at night dave made us all a risotto, my favourite, it was so good

ed enjoying hers
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the risotto, yum
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then last night it was st particks day celebrations, it got messy but was a lot of fun. yes i know im not irish but scotland is pretty close, kinda

luke didnt have a green t-shirt on so had to borrow one, didnt quite fit
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podge, rodge and anna
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me
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our token irish person, quigsie, we shot some canadian whiskey in her honor
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me sporting quigsies rather irish hat
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tim irishing it up to the max
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ed was busy with her felt and glitter glue
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we got green beers in the pub, very strange
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abby and her leprechaun deely boppers
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rob and me and green beer
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so the big news this week is that emma is coming to visit for 2 weeks, she is currently on the tranfer bus and should be here around 9.30 ish, very exciting. and good cause i wont have debbie to chat to for hours online as she'l be in new york

3 Comments:

Blogger Debbie said...

dreads are looking gooood ! i think the canadians and americans celebrate st paddys more than anyone else !

12:25 pm  
Blogger gingermonkey said...

yes i did indeed drink whiskey, but it was just a little bit and it was canadian so it wasnt so hard core

9:33 am  
Blogger gingermonkey said...

and yeah they go crazy for paddy's day over here!! so what else can you do but join in

9:34 am  

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