All the stuff that happened this weekend has made me feel nostalgic about Vancouver. Just got an email from an old friend, Corey. He and I met in first year at SFU, even before I knew of this thing called AIESEC. Now our mutual friend Albert is going away on a traineeship. His email’s reminded me of the friends and family I’ve left behind when I moved to Winnipeg. For the first 6 months, it was very hard here to make new friends and get settled in, and I guess it made it easier to cope by losing touch with the people in Vancouver that I missed.

Missing other things about my hometown…especially the springtime. Spring is probably my favourite season because of Vancouver. The freshness of that after-rain smell that lingers in the air. The pink cherry blossoms that fall from the trees, making the boulevards rain flowers. The sudden regrowth of green that happens at least 2 months before the rest of Canada (I hear Winnipeg won’t see it until May!). I wish I could visit just for a day, to see some of that springtime this year.

As it happens, we won’t be moving back in May, like we planned. Kurt will be working overtime during tax season now that he’s graduated. So we extended our lease to the end of July, and are now planning the U-Haul drive in the first week of August (-ish). It works out better this way, especially for Kurt. We won’t have to pack in the busiest time of year. He’ll have more time to scout for a CA job. It means three more months of not seeing my family and friends back home, but I’m sure the homecoming will be even sweeter when we return.

On a more mundane note, today was our family-and-couch-potato day. Went to the McTavishes’ for Finn’s birthday brunch, then came home and watched the Star Wars trilogy. We even took a break between #2 and #3 to make dinner. It was a nice relaxing day, considering that my Friday (with Hymie) and Saturday (with Melissa) evenings were non-stop salsa dancing at the Empire.

Salsa was a blast! An instructor from Ottawa was here for the past week so got to dance with him on both nights. He’s such a great dancer; it’s too bad I kept on messing up and stepping on his feet (at one point I knocked him pretty hard on the head, whoops!). Before dancing on Saturday, Melissa and I saw Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights. It was nowhere near as good as the original movie (and it wasn’t really a sequel) but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The lead guy is pretty cute The one thing that I found pretty amusing is that the dancing in the movie was pretty crappy compared to the dancing I’ve seen amongst the salsa’ers that I’ve met in Vancouver and Winnpeg.

It’s bedtime for me…bye for now. Hope your weekend was good too.

Books: Happenstance (Carol Shields)
Songs: Ewok Celebration Song (Return of the Jedi)
Boys: Kurtis