June 13, 2007
12:22:41 PM

Up With People is over. I am “home”. Its funny how everywhere else can be home except where you are. On the 12th when I flew into Halifax, my mom and sisters were there waiting for me. They had been waiting all night on account of the fact that they had never received the message that dad had sent them after I had called him. They ended up sleeping the night in the van in the parking lot. Fortunately they were still somewhat delighted to see me in the morning. Yay. We drove home for a few short hours before mom and I drove to the campground where Miranda was working. It was awesome that her and her mom were there waiting for us. They had banners and balloons and a huge supper. It was so good to finally be back with Miranda again. I’m sure that not to many other people could do something like that long distance. I spent the next week there with her and her mom just winding down after a long bit of travel.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
1:32:13 PM

Well, its been a crazy summer to say the least. Miranda and I spent the bulk of the summer working at various jobs around the valley. These included thinning apple trees, counting apple blossoms, sanding, painting, doing grout work in bathrooms, as well as picking strawberries, beans, blueberries, and raspberries. Not to say it was all work of course. We did manage to make it down to Halifax for a day, take in the Canada day fireworks, attend my sisters graduation, take a trip to New Brunswick for my friend Tim’s wedding, and visit the zoo and do some BBQ’ing. At the moment we’ve done our first roadtrip, traveling over 1500km from my place to hers in my dad’s old Ford Ranger. This doesn’t include the nearly 7hr ferry ride to Newfoundland from the mainland.
Its been “stressful” staying with my folks over the summer to say the least. Ah well, things are much better now up here in Newfoundland with her folks. Next week we are driving back down to Corner Brook to move the rest of our stuff into our apartment.