Longest Post Everrrrrrr

...For me, anyways ;)


Well, I suppose I should be posting about 2 weekends ago, for a number of reasons:
1. I haven’t done so yet, and it was a very significant weekend
2. I haven’t posted in a long time
3. As a result of number 2, you ladies have been breathing down my neck for quite some time (a la Valerie) to post, and my neck is getting very warm. :P

So. My weekend. Well, you already know the biggest new of the weekend. Andre and I did a looot of laundry, and it was glorious. ☺ But in between all the laundry, we did do lots of other stuff.

I arrived Friday night with Brenda after a two day riding clinic with Grand Prix rider, Hyde Moffatt. I’m going to talk about this for one quick second, just because it was fabulous ☺

He had a lot of really great ideas, and yes the majority of it was him talking at us and explaining the theory behind stuff, but he also had a very very excellent concept that I plan on carrying with me throughout the rest of my riding career: Less work = Better results. Seriously, his main point was that as a rider, we should be doing far less work than we had been! ☺ It was amazing! He justified this with telling us about how when he used to be a catch rider, and would ride 30 horses in one day, and do 60 trips around a course! So yeah, less riding would definitely make more sense there! Now if only that concept could be applied to all things in life… ☺

Now, back to Friday night, so Brenda and I went to Oshawa together, with my dad driving us, since he needed the truck during the weekend. However, we were a little late, and ended up missing the train we were intending to catch. Now, Andre was going to meet us in Oshawa ( :D ), but my dad was insisting that we got to the Whitby station instead, to see if we could catch the train there. So Brenda and I had a great time convincing my dad to go to Oshawa instead, without telling him that Andre was there. :P I wasn’t quite ready yet for dad to meet him :P

So we got there eventually and yes, missed the train, so we waited around for a bit till the next train got there. While we were waiting, Brenda made friends with some gangster kid. We think it was the hat she was wearing that attracted him to her ;) lol

We got to TO eventually and Brenda and I looked quite ridiculous riding the subway to Rez. Me, still in my riding breeches and colourful boot socks, topped off with my trusty Birkenstock sandals, and Brenda with her mammoth sized suitcase plus 3 other bags that had god knows what else in them. You would have thought she was gone for months, rather than a few days!

So once we were back at rez, I dropped off my bag in Andres room, then we went for dinner at the pub. Yummy. :P haha, after we went back to rez for a bit to watch the episode of Grey’s Anatomy that I had missed the night before, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up missing the majority of it again. :P but it was a welcome distraction. :P

We were then supposed to go see Tangled, but missed that too. Oops. :P

After a long joyous night, we finally got out of bed around 2pm had a shower, chatted with Brenda for a bit, then fiiiiinnnnallllyyyy had Subway around 4pm. Needless to say, I was staaarrrrrving at this point, after not eating anything but some water for almost 20 hours straight. Yikes. :P

After food, we killed some time at rez again (by * actually * watching Grey’s :P ), then went to go see Tangled. I loooooved it! :P lol, so corny and cute and awesome and Disney-ish (aka, my kind of movie). :P

(*** SIDENOTE: We stiiiillllll need to watch Camp Rock 2 sometime!!!!! :D please? * puppy dog eyes *) lol

On the way back from the movie, we went to Metro (conveniently located right across the street from rez!) and Andre bought some supplies for dinner. He made me a deeeelllllish stir fry with red and green peppers, chicken and topped off with loots of cheese. So. Good. :P

We had another fabulous night together again, starting off by watching the movie ‘Little Fockers’ (verryyy funny :P), and had a wonderful sleep-in again the next morning, although we didn’t sleep for nearly as long as Saturday morning. :P

Then we had some breakfast/lunch and went SKATING!! :D soooo much fun. Haha, I was very proud of Andre because he only fell a couple times, but thankfully did not run into any small children like the one incident that we witnessed. :P It was a little cold, and I did get a rather nasty blister on my heel from my skates, but it was still a very very good time. ☺

So then we headed back to rez to warm up, and nearly missed my train in the process, but ended up making it regardless. ☺

So that was my weekend! I apologize that this is so overdue, but you ladies have to understand that I have a lot going on in my life right now, and while I love you all to bits (and this blog ☺ ) I do have other stuff that needs to be taken care of as well ☺

Hopefully my next post won’t take as long as this one to put up :P And also won’t be as long as this one, because according to the Word document I am typing in right now, I am pushing 3 pages. Yikes. :P

Haha, anyways, the pants are officially en route as of yesterday (again, I’m sooorrrryyyyy!!!) lol, but they’re very much ready for some new adventures. Think you guys can top what I’ve put them through? ;)

Love you all!!

Michele <3

oh, and Valerie? Try not to be a Blog-Hog ;) we love you, but you're making the rest of us (cough cough me) feel inadequate with your excessive postage ;) lol, loves ya!