My weekend....and Wet Coast Women.....

Well I had a whirlwind visit on the mainland. After rushing to catch the 3:00 pm ferry I made it to my sisters place just after 5:00 pm. I thought that was pretty fantastic seeing as it was Friday and I was dealing with rush hour traffic. Actually, the traffic only got bad once I came out of the Cassiar Tunnel....it was bumper to bumper, with the traffic merging from 1st Ave onto the so called Freeway.....(freeway my ass) that has to be the slowest route anywhere. You know I grew up and lived on the mainland for fourty-three years, so I am no stranger to the traffic....but my gosh how things have changed in the short time I have moved to the Island....the aggressive drivers....and I am talking all types of drivers from teenagers to grandpa's and grandma's.....pushing and riding your tail the whole time....it's no wonder the insurance rates are so high.....At one point I was letting a vehicle merge in......I left space....he didn't come in...he watited and wanted to sneak further ahead in line....still I left room...you know this driver stayed on the outside for as long as he could....but at the end of the day he ended up right in front of me.....it's a very interesting mentality these drivers have....things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm.

I arrived at my sisters...she looked surprised at my arrival.....I said to her it looks like you weren't expecting me...she said she thought I was someone else... she thought I didn't catch the 3:00 and was on the 5:00...I said SURPRISE!!! here I am. The person she thought I was, is a girlfriend of mine who I had arranged to come over for a visit. My girlfriend arrived about 40 mins after my arrival....we had a great visit, regardless of the thunder, lightening and snow storm.....

Saturday morning arrived....I am an early riser....I got ready to go for my morning walk....my sister decided to join me.....it was a tad chilly with the snow still on the ground...but we were not going to be deterred by the elements so out we went. Upon our return home sis and her roommate(who is also a good friend of mine) made breakfast.....after breakfast it was a dash to get ready to go meet my girls.

The girls and I planned to go shopping...but I had forgotten my bank card at my sisters so I had to go back to her place which cut into our shopping time....anyhow...got the card and we ventured off to the mall....which I call Metrohell(Metrotown). It is a very high density mall that twists and turns and goes everywhere....one can very easily get lost there. Now because of my silliness of forgetting my card it ate into our shopping time....so it then became power shopping....four women dodging people who were oblivious to the fact that we were on a mission. Part of the reason things ended up being rushed was that eldest daughter and middle daughter had to work by 4:00 pm and I really wanted to make sure they had something to eat before they started work. We split up in order to cover more territory, eldest daughter with youngest and middle daughter with me. Middle daughter and I were on a mission to find me a jacket....one wouldn't think it should be so difficult....but it was....challenging to be exact....the clock was ticking.....I needed roller skates.....my face begins to glow with perspiration....I loss track as to how many stores we were in.....but wouldn't you know it....the last store...we found it....I left middle daughter to go the shoe store to find shoes for work....I ran to meet up with eldest and youngest as youngest wanted this shirt and it was mom's treat so they needed me....I found them.....time is still ticking.....line up at the cash register...urgh!!! Saturday shopping at one of the busiest malls on the mainland...what was I thinking....anyhow....the purchase is made....now there are three of us making a mad dash back to meet up with middle daughter....we find middle daughter disgusted and distraught by the rudeness of others in the mall. She is incensed that people don't say excuse me..or pardon me....unaware that their parcels that they are swinging so freely are barely missing her head.....LET'S GET OUT OF HERE was the cry. I said ok follow me....single file we weave in and out of the people make our way to the escalator...and find our way to my vehicle and our little oasis.....we all breath a heavy sigh of relief. It's now time to get the girls to work.

Got eldest and middle daughter some food and then it was into work. Youngest daughter and I decided it was time we had a little nibble, so we had a little something at the restaruant the girls work at. It was then time to take youngest daughter home...and high tail it back to my sisters to get changed and to go meet up with women for the Wet Coast Women blog.

This was the reason I went to the mainland was to meet up with some of the blogging women from Wet Coast Women. I don't know how many of you ever noticed the logo on my sidebar...

Now I can appreciate it is an undertaking trying to get any group together but Crunchy from Crunchy Carpet who is also the creator of Wet Coast Women took it upon herself to organize a get together. There were five of us for dinner and another joined us a little later. It was so nice to meet all of these women and to learn a little bit more about them.....here are a few photos I took....

On the left is the author of The Love Blog and Crunchy Carpet is on the right.

On the right is Left Coast Mama and by now you know who is on the left......

And here is the lovely and charming JMB from Nobody Important.

And here are three of the lovely ladies together........I had a couple of pictures of the group together but one didn't turn out and somehow I deleted the wrong one so I am hoping I might be able to retrieve them and forward it along.

So there you have it.....my first meeting with some fellow bloggers....I look forward to continuing corresponding with them.

Sunday was a whirlwind as well.....after my walk it was time to pack up and dash to go see youngest daughters field hockey game...which her team won ....after the game I went to pick up middle daughter and we made a mad dash for the ferry home. I'm out of breath......how was your weekend?