Thanks Auntie Tamara!
Been a busy past few days! Auntie Tamara arrived on schedule and left earlier this evening. It was an awesome visit. Mika took to Tam immediately. We padded around downtown and whyte and had a couple of visits with G. As soon as Tam arrived, we dropped off some bags with Daddy at work and headed straight to G's to surprise her. 'Twas grande! Daddy picked us up after work and we went home to make fajitas..whee! A quick walk to the mall and back later, Tam finished knitting the bestest blanket ever for Mika. Big thick cotton rainbow coloured bink. Thanks Auntie Tamara!
We missed out on a VV excursion with Kris and Saoirse yesterday as we were stomping whyte and I didn't hear the phone ringing. Lame! Mika had her first trip to the Rosebowl last night! At first I felt a little badly for taking Mika to such a place, but there was a 1 year old girl there! I was informed that the little girl was the mascot and is there everyday, so I felt better about Mika's presence. We met up with Kerry and Damon there too. It was so weird. Not meeting K&D, but the Rosebowl itself. The lounge is no longer called the Backstretch..it's the Rouge Lounge. Hrm. I dunno what I think about that. I also didn't see Janice anywhere. They removed the pooltables that were added when the lounge expanded a few years ago and the place is all flashy kind of now. The bar itself is constructed from those square glass cubes with red lights shining through. Of course, there were the same funky regulars hanging about, which makes it even more bizarre. Surreal, if you will. The restaurant has been remodeled as well. Funky neon lights behind the benches, new blue and white frosted hanging lights..three to a table! There's one of those gas fireplaces with the fake flames and a new big flatscreen TV. Clear picture too as it was brought in after the smoking ban. It was just so weird. The pizza was beyond awesome as always. That's the only thing that matters..the best pizza in town. Wonder if they still serve schooners of beer?
We got up this morning and headed over to G's so Tam could have a goodbye visit. Everyone was chipper and happy today, so our visit went well. G was really happy. Harassed Tam about when she's moving back, of course. Auntie Laura was there too and she was kind enough to dump us back at the greyhound station downtown after the visit. We had just enough time to grab a bite to eat downtown and get back to the station for the 6PM departure.
Tomorrow is my last day of being alone with Mika all day, at least for 10 days or so. While I am at work for the next few weeks, Daddy is going to drop Mika off at her Nana's place and pick her up when he is done work. It's going to be so odd to not have her around all day, let alone odd going back to work for a few weeks to cover a position other than my own. Well, the first week will be covering for Anthony, who is covering my mat leave, AND covering for the office mgr. Ant's back on the 18th, so from then til the 26th, I'll just be covering off for K. As far as I know, after Ant returns, I'm only really expected to be in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hope it works out that way. If not, meh...no biggie, I guess, but I will be missing Mika like mad.
Just a few more weeks until Mika's swimming lessons start!
We missed out on a VV excursion with Kris and Saoirse yesterday as we were stomping whyte and I didn't hear the phone ringing. Lame! Mika had her first trip to the Rosebowl last night! At first I felt a little badly for taking Mika to such a place, but there was a 1 year old girl there! I was informed that the little girl was the mascot and is there everyday, so I felt better about Mika's presence. We met up with Kerry and Damon there too. It was so weird. Not meeting K&D, but the Rosebowl itself. The lounge is no longer called the Backstretch..it's the Rouge Lounge. Hrm. I dunno what I think about that. I also didn't see Janice anywhere. They removed the pooltables that were added when the lounge expanded a few years ago and the place is all flashy kind of now. The bar itself is constructed from those square glass cubes with red lights shining through. Of course, there were the same funky regulars hanging about, which makes it even more bizarre. Surreal, if you will. The restaurant has been remodeled as well. Funky neon lights behind the benches, new blue and white frosted hanging lights..three to a table! There's one of those gas fireplaces with the fake flames and a new big flatscreen TV. Clear picture too as it was brought in after the smoking ban. It was just so weird. The pizza was beyond awesome as always. That's the only thing that matters..the best pizza in town. Wonder if they still serve schooners of beer?
We got up this morning and headed over to G's so Tam could have a goodbye visit. Everyone was chipper and happy today, so our visit went well. G was really happy. Harassed Tam about when she's moving back, of course. Auntie Laura was there too and she was kind enough to dump us back at the greyhound station downtown after the visit. We had just enough time to grab a bite to eat downtown and get back to the station for the 6PM departure.
Tomorrow is my last day of being alone with Mika all day, at least for 10 days or so. While I am at work for the next few weeks, Daddy is going to drop Mika off at her Nana's place and pick her up when he is done work. It's going to be so odd to not have her around all day, let alone odd going back to work for a few weeks to cover a position other than my own. Well, the first week will be covering for Anthony, who is covering my mat leave, AND covering for the office mgr. Ant's back on the 18th, so from then til the 26th, I'll just be covering off for K. As far as I know, after Ant returns, I'm only really expected to be in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hope it works out that way. If not, meh...no biggie, I guess, but I will be missing Mika like mad.
Just a few more weeks until Mika's swimming lessons start!
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