An adventure on the highway.

So this weekend I went to Calgary to get away and do some shopping and as well to hang-out with Ashley & Nathan. So I was driving up on the highway just enjoying the solitude and enjoying the ride up. Just outside of claresholm I switched lanes and drove for about five minutes when I noticed a duck sitting on the side of the road. I thought that was strange and kept driving. As soon as I was about to pass this sitting duck, it decided to fly. It was like a slow motion movie of this duck's wing flapping up and down as it was trying to get itself into the air. The only problem was that it was trying this infront of my car driving close to 120km/hr. So I am just almost sitting in a time warp in my car watching this duck flap and flap and it just kept getting closer and closer to my front windshield. I hit the duck! It smacked so hard into my front windshield that the impact made a huge "THUD" and I cringed inside knowing I hit this poor defenseless duck who was trying to fly away from the highway. As soon as the duck hit my windshield and I heard this "Thud" I shut my eyes! I did not want to see this poor duck hit my glass. Nathan told me it was a good thing I shut my eyes incase the beak of the duck hit the window and shatter it.

So I am not the first member of my family to hit a duck on that highway. I am reminded of an instance not so long ago when a certain younger brother of mine was driving up to Calgary to visit Ashley. He thought it was something else and as his wheels were about to drive over it, he realized it was a mother duck with little ducklings following behind. He hit a mother duck and left the ducklings on the side of the road to be orphaned. So we have this history in our family of hitting ducks on the highway between here and Calgary.

So as you can imagine as soon as I told this to Ashley, she couldn't contain her laughter and we were laughing until we had tears in our eyes and could barely talk. It was just like what were the chances that the two of us would do the exact same thing. Hit a duck, what are the chances?

So we had fun this weekend. I stayed with Ashley's family and it was quite a full house this weekend. They get a lot of guests because the girls both have boyfriends and they now have one of Nathan & Ashley's friends living with them who also has a girlfriend...so their house is never quiet...we are trying to persuade Ashley to move back here! We miss having her around...but she has promised she will come to visit, so hopefully we will have more tales to follow.

The real Story

So the real story behind the "Zellers" Saga is as follows. Ashley, her mom, my mom and I were wandering around the linen & bedding department at Zellers when all the suddenly Ashley's mom got a phone call. She said "Kristie, please watch Ashley, she has a tendency to wander off." I told her that I would do my best to keep tabs on the whereabout's of Ashley. I was following my mom around while she looked for her duvet cover and kept having to tell Ashley to keep up because she was stopping, looking and touching everything!!! Telling me how soft the pillows were and which bedding really felt like it had way to much starch put into it before it was packaged. Well I kept a close eye on her, almost too close then soon we were seperated from my mom. Ashley began to freak out and run around the store screaming that she was lost, now you think in the commotion, my mom would have found us. But instead I had to chase Ashley around the store hopelessly trying to catch her and calm her down. Pretty soon we ended up at the 'lost property office'...(see picture above). I told the man at the desk that it would be nice of him to please page my mom to the office to reunite us. Instead the man, deciding we were playing a practical joke on him said this "would the mother of the two twenty-something daughters, please come claim them"...."They really should not be left unattended!"

So that is how the weekend shopping trip to Zellers really went...

Tuesdays Ponderings

So today I started school again...I have two three hour classes per week for 6 weeks. It would be a lot of fun except it is Psychology. That perhaps is the most boring, uninteresting class that I could ever think of taking but since I need it for graduation, I have no choice but to pass the class so that I can get the credits. I had considered taking psychology before as a major...so glad I didn't!!! I really wouldn't have lasted long.

The weekend was really nice to get away and I am contemplating attempting to escape the city again to go somewhere...this far the plan is on hold because I am in school right now and I have a part-time job at the hospital as a clerk, when I can get the work. I have realized that after having worked so hard last semester and with everything else that happened to help make my life incredibly hectic and crazy, that I just need time away. I will travel this summer, just not sure where I want to go yet.

Today it reached an amazing +30degree's outside. Oh so nice except being stuck inside half the day plus the sky looked kind of funny all morning like it was going to rain. The sky really only cleared up at around 2 this afternoon when the sun actually began to shine outside.

Well I am going to go watch Catch and Release...I have no idea if it is actually a good movie or not. We'll see I suppose.

A discovery while away for the day.

So today me and my mom decided to take the day and relax because I felt it necessary to take a little vacation and get my mind of everything and just have fun. I feel like I haven't had fun in awhile. So we took the day and went into Calgary to do some shopping. And by the way the Gap now sells Converse shoes! I was shocked because they are the most comfortable shoes ever and I wear mine every single day and own like five pairs!! But while in the kids gap we saw they had little converse shoes from size 1 all the way to adult sizes! They were too cute!

So we met up with Ashley and we discovered something very unique in the city of Calgary. A one stop wedding strip mall. First they had a bridal shop for the bride and a Tux shop for the groom...must haves for any wedding. Then next door was a hair salon, and a beach wear store. Then there was a travel agent. I mean how convienent when planning your wedding is that? The only thing missing was a caterer, florist and photographer and they would have been set. It was pretty funny, we had a good laugh.

So spending the day with Ashley was quite the adventure. We went to the malls, we hit Ikea and had lunch together with our moms. Then it was time to take ashley home. Now normally this should only take like twenty minutes but we decided to take Country Hills Boulevard to her house in the NW. The trip from Ikea to her house took a whole 53 minutes! Almost an hour...yes we had fun complaining about the traffic and seeing part of the north Calgary I had never seen before and parts I had seen many times before having lived there.

It was a fun day and I have harrassed Ashley to update her blog too. But with the whole facebook craze, who has time to blog anymore...heehee

Well as much as I would love to be sitting on a beach somewhere this summer, It looks like I may have to settle for a smaller trip somewhere closer to home in the time I have off between work and school which starts again for me on tuesday. I am taking an introduction to psychology class.....should be interesting.

Well I am tired, so I am off to bed!