Can I get a woop woop!

Well ladies, looks like everyone is set and ready for a great time in August! Glad to hear everyone is doing so well. As for myself, I am super-excited to get home and get the party started! I get home the evening of August 3... so I will be ready to go Friday night for whomever is up for it (CT maybe? Hmmm?? haha) Oh, by the way, as some of you might know, I carry a jewelry line from New York that I distribute here in Calgary. I am thinking about taking some of it home with me, and I am wondering who might be up for a little jewelry party? We can talk about it when I get home though... Anyways, just wanted to check in and say this is going to be one hell of a good summer! See you soon girlies!

Marla

stories are better and quicker in person

Hey there everyone! Do you ever have so much to write that you just don't want to write? Well first of all, Lyndsay I am still serious about going on the trip!! And Congrats on getting all that money, i'm sure it will really help out a lot :)
Now as for the wedding!!! It went over really well and I'll bring home pictures to show you and I'll tell you more stories later and in person b/c they will be better that way. They got married at Niagria on the Lake in a little chapel then had the dinner etc. at the Hilton that just opened up a few months prior, actually it was the first wedding they held. Everything was so nice and Jenn was so pretty. I want to write more but the stories are much better to be told in person. I'm posting a picture I thought was really nice that I took.



PS I got a new research job at MSVU and quit my rec. coordinator position today (gave 2 weeks). In the interview I had mentioned I wanted that week off in Aug. and I still got it so yea yea!!

Talk to you all soon!

Love
Pam

My news!!

I just got some exciting news yesterday. I've been awarded a FERASI fellowship for the upcoming year!! (FERASI is a big organization dedicated to nursing administration research.) I'm so excited!! My friend David also got one so we're going out for celebratory drinks Monday night. (Julie (and some other classmates) also applied for one but I don't know yet if she got one. She's off learning French right now.) I'll be setting aside some money to fund my trip to a tropical destination so I hope you're serious about going!!!
Darcy was in Montreal this week. He had to write his American boards exam Monday and just left tonight. Tuesday night we went to see Dimitri Martin who was here for the Just for Laughs festival. He was hilarious! Yesterday we did some shopping for his new nephew (Jonas Lee - 8 lbs 14 oz) and later went for drinks with some of D's friends. I also found a Madonna t-shirt like one on her website - which was obviously very exciting for me. :) We went out for dinner at a BYOW place tonight to celebrate my scholarship tonight before he left. Matt arrives back in MTL soon because the meds start back to school Monday. Then MC is coming next Friday!! Yippee!!!!! I'm very excited for your visit - I have lots of plans! (Don't worry - movies and brownies will be scheduled in too!!!) A little over 2 weeks until I arrive in PEI!! Summer in Montreal has been fun but it's not the same as PEI!! I plan to go to the beach as much as possible. Anyone know if you can fix bathing suits once the elastic dies? I don't understand what happened to my fav bathing suit...damn Old Navy.
Miss you lots.
Love, Lynds

No more suspense

Sorry MC I have been trying to get ahold of you for awhile, suppose you are busy doing that thing some like to call a career! :)
I am just heading into my last week of work and jumping for joy!!!
Next week will be relaxing. I am heading to the Okanagan to meet my new boyfriends' parents (met his dad already when he was in town for a drumming circle)......
New boyfriend.... His name is Woody (parents are hippies, guess his middle name and you win a prize). We met on the bus when I was coming home from work. Everything in this relationship is forming so easily. I am in love. I wanted to tell you all in person however I don't want to leave you in suspense anymore than I have to. I have never said, "I love you" to anyone before this. Sure I have been excited and abit overdramatic with some of my past "likes", however this one is different. I just know it. We are in for a long-haul.
I will still be arriving on PEI as planned August 5th but plans after that have changed a little. I am now staying on PEI until the end of October when I am then flying to Glasgow, Scotland and to Woody who is meeting me there. He is staying here in Vancovuer until his brother (whom he lives with now) finds a place to live and until he can get all the rest of his affairs in order. He ironicaly recievied his British Passport 2 weeks after we met.
I have finally met someone real. Someone who is willing to travel and has an amazing zest for life and actually nice.
I'll leave the rest of the details for when we meet. I am so happy!

Peace, Amanda

Leaving Tomorrow...

Well tomorrow I head to Ontario for the big wedding, it will be a quick trip casue I come back on Sunday afternoon. I wish that I was staying longer :(... oh well. I'm really pumped up for the reunion too, i'm trying not to think about it too much cause I kinda think maybe that was part of last year's problem, too high of an expectation!? I don't know, either way I'm still excited. There "might" be a problem with me coming home (if I get a new job) but I"m letting them know in the interview that I had vaction booked off that week. Let's keep our fingers crossed that a. i get the job and b. get the time off! :) hahaha Don't worry about it though I'm not going to miss out this week for anything in the world!
Well I haven't packed or anything so I should get going and get some stuff done. Have fun visiting Lyndsay Michelle, when do you go? ....

Love y'all!
Peace
P.

I changed up the template of the blog for a bit. With the dark background you couldn't see my countdown to the reunion! I'll post it again just to make sure you see it :P Can't wait!

All-American Rejects

Hello ladies,

I thought I'd contribute with my own concert pics. I've been to quite a few in the last couple of weeks, but I have surprisingly few pics from them all. Except from Saturday when I went a little nuts. It's too bad they all ended up looking almost identical. Started off with Great Big Sea when CT arrived, then Sam Roberts and Matt Mays (who was a little disappointing), Nelly Furtado and Live on Wednesday and All-American Rejects on Saturday. They were really good, but so messed up. I'd love to know what kind of drugs they were on. Above is one of my few pics where the lead singer doesn't look totally mental. I wish there were more!

Is everyone getting pumped for the Reunion: Take 2? I'm really hoping that this one goes a little smoother than last year :P Although, I think this one's going to be even bigger and better. I'm so ridiculously excited. I think I really need to get away from here for a bit. I've been in the same city and same job for 6 months!!! That's quite a record for me considering how much I've moved in the last few years and how I've made no committment for more than 4 months at a time. It's got me feeling a little restless and like a need to travel. So, to remedy that I'm going to go to Montreal to visit the Lynds the weekend before I go home. Hopefully that'll help me out :)

I feel like there was something else I was going to mention. No idea. Oh, Amanda, if you read this, can't you just write a post to let us all know what your news is? I keep missing your freaking phone calls and the suspense is starting to get to me. You've confirmed it's about a boy, but I'm still trying to figure out why it means you'll be staying in PEI longer. Is he from there? Meeting you there? Do we already know him? Come on...we're curious.

I should be off since I am at work, but this is the beauty of coming in an hour before most other people. Miss you all so much and I'll see most of you in 19 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MC

Sunday Night LIVE Concert!

Rockin' The Strings...


Lighting Crashes!!


yum yum

Well Kendra and I had a great time at the concert last night. I was very impressed with Ed as he was sporting a pair of Rockin' Republic jeans...excellent sense of style. It was his birthday was last night too! I will post some pictures on the blog but the others I will put on my space. We went to eat at a great Italian resturant before yum yum!! The food was wonderful, drinks were so good. Well I'll let you all mull over these pictures he took his shirt off too but I think we were too distracted :)
One point I want to make though, if I ever catch any of you making out, holding hands, in the arms of your "loved one" at a rock concert I'm going to kick you! You should have seen the people, beside us , behind us, all around us...I was like YOUR AT A ROCK CONCERT ... if you want to be like that stay at home, it was annoying!! hahaha Anyway enough of that, onto the pictures...Enjoy!
~Pam

Finally...words from Pam

Well I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing well. This week has been pretty damn crazy for me. On Thursday we had a strawberry Ceilidh at work the attendance was approx.300+ we were expecting over 500 but it was raining and we had to have it inside, so that was busy. So afterwards we have a couple drinks at the bar and smoking with the boss!! hahaha Needless to say that was interesting.
My visit at home last weekend was alright, it was so freakin' busy. I got my hair colored which makes me feel a lot better. The shower???? WOW it was pretty terrrible. The brides mother (my aunt) invited all these old relatives from all over...and I mean old, like can't walk, can't put food in their mouths or straighten their backs!! Mean, but I'm in gero. so i can get away with it!! :)
Besides that I met up with Debbie and we had an interesting night, first the Piolet House and then down by the jazz festival. We went to the "just us girls" shop and had maritnis yum yum...very strong!! :) One of the ladies that runs the place was there and I was asking her about the cotton candy pink expresso machine that was there, she said that ordered that from Italy, it was the only one that company ever sent to Canada.Anyway they sell lots of stuff, food, dessert, fun drinks, we should really.
As for the Canada rocks concert, Debbie would really like to go I was telling her about it so she will be my date...why do we HAVE to bring dates?? Can't we all just go as a group.?? Anyway I have lots to do today buying Jenn's wedding gift etc. Should be fun

OH YEA KENDRA AND I ARE GOING TO LIVE..AND WE GOT FRONT ROW SEATS!! (SUNDAY)!!

Can't wait to see you soon
Love
Pam xoxo

I'm back......

Hi girls, It is your long lost friend that got abit trapped in the Vancouver lifestyle but has surfaced once again stronger and happier than ever!
I will be home for the best August ever. I believe that summer does not start until we are all home together on PEI!!! Beach, Pool, BBQ's and Peakes (and Baba's for me) that is all I will be doing for the 2 weeks we are all together. I have lots of news and stories, but will wait until I can tell you all in person. Or over the phone tomorrow (MC and CT try not to be too hungover when I call, hahaha).
Love you all and see you in less than one month!!!! I am so excited.

Peace, Amanda

Viva Italia!

I've never seen a city so crazy over the World Cup (except I'm sure many European cities!). It has been crazy here ever since it started but today I felt out of place not draped in an Italian or French flag! After the game today people were parading through the streets totally blocking traffic. At one point I thought there was going to be a riot between some Italian and French fans.
Tonight I went to the Jazz Festival again with a couple friends. It was the last night so the streets that were blocked off for the festival were jam packed with people. It was insane! My friends had to leave early because they work early tomorrow so I decided to stay downtown and listen to some more music since I have tomorrow off. I'm glad I did because I had a great time. I met a couple of guys - Guillaume (un Quebecois) and Garreth (a kiwi). They were friends who had met while both were in Australia. The were entertaining for awhile but I lost them when I went to look at the souvenirs. I said I'd try to find them but knew there was a slim chance of that happening in the crowd. I want to be here for the festival again next year! It's such a cool atmosphere with good music and public drinking...it was like one gigantic beer tent! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far! I'm dying in the humidity up here...damn frizzy hair! Miss you lots and lots. Less than one month until I come home! I can't wait for the beach!

Love, Lynds

Ladies!!

It's the summer. Potentially the most amazing bestest best summer ever!! And noone has anything to say beside how bored MC is at work. Weak ladies, it's weak. As for me I am sunburnt beyond. MC and I went to a 'beach' / lake in Quebec yesterday and I didn't put on sunscreen because you all know how I end up with ridiculous tan lines when I put on sunscreen. Well somehow I still got ridiculous tan lines but this time it was not my fault. Last night we went out to the mall and afterwards we watched Pride. Decent movie although seemed a little long. So that's about it, Great Big Sea on Friday night was awesome!! They are so good live. Tomorrow night we're going to Sam Roberts and Matt Mayes and Wednesday it's Live and Nellie Fortado. Thus rounding out a good vacation. That's about it for me. Pam how was your weekend home and bridal shower? Kendra Lynds what's going on with you. Kendra I know you appear to be missing in action yet check the blog every day. So I think we need to finalize a date for Canada Rocks for those who want to attend. MC says she'll go if she's home. It doesn't matter to me but you guys need to find a date when you're all home or some people need to decide not to go. Anyway that's all I've got for you ladies, hope all is well and you're enjoying your July. Hey Amanda and Marla, you guys still out there??? Amanda I can't believe I haven't heard yet how excited you are to come home. I would think you'd be so ready for a night at Peakes!!
Love you all,
CT

Bored

I am so bored at work. I'm miserable! The morning went by really fast, but this afternoon's going to last forever! I just have a bunch of little things on the go at the moment and they're not doing much to fill my time. On the upside, CT will be here tomorrow night and she can distract me from work...at least in the evenings.

I hope everyone had a good Canada Day. Carolyn from TO was here. We had fun. Didn't do anything too over the top, but it was nice to just have someone around. We went downtown for the fireworks, saw the changing of the guard yesterday, saw the locks opening on the canal and wandered the Market. Pretty fun.

I don't really have much else to say. Just needed to distract myself from the office for a minute.

I'll be home one month from today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

MC