southey/regina/moosejaw

july7th - july9th 2007
a nice 8am leave on saturday morning. the drive there wasnt much special seeing as of how i slept most of the way until we hit grenfell, where we decided to stop for lunch. it was a nice place, cute restaurant, and my pancakes were super good. by the time we got there the one hour saskatchewan time difference was already getting to us! ahah and then we continued on with like 2 hours left until we would make it to regina. my mom phoned her uncle dave and we decided we werent stopping in regina and we were just going on to southey. and i had some freaky allergic reaction to something which involved splotches everywhere and my eyes going almost completely red.. inside and out. so i took some benadryl which knocked me out right until we got to regina. i dont spend too much of my time in big cities so i always love going through/into them. we took a few wrong turns, and eventually were on the way to southey. again i fell asleep in the vehicle on the way there, and woke up just as we had pulled up to the "hotel" now this whole time the temperature was like over 30 celcius and we were practically dying haha. and okay so anyways back to the hotel, we get there and really i couldnt explain it to you if i tried. most rundown place ever and just like.. hahah i still cannot believed i stayed in there. the hotel owner was like "blahablha only way you can stand it is if your wasted!!! come to me at 3am for some beer folks!" anyways so we "travelled" the "town" and eventually i crashed in the hotel for an hour or so. okay now coming up is like the highlight of my trip pretty much. as we started getting ready for the wedding (the whole reason we went on this trip haha) other people that were going to the wedding started to show up. now okay i come out of the room and run right into this guy and he looked so much like jeff czum.. seriously! and i didnt realize who he looked like until the wedding but seriously like. a young version of jeff i swear and i was like amazed at this guy. he was actually really nice too, and staying in the same horror movie hotel that we were. okay so back to the trip hehehe, i got my dress on and did my hair and such and then we went to the church. i saw bob & deedee, and i havent seen them for a very long time so i gave my hugs and said my hellos. (the funny thing is that with like.. all of these people i know im related to them im just not sure how hahha) so we went into the church and i said my hellos to my moms uncle frank & aunt jackie.. cousin wendy & her son issac, some relatives named dianne and shane and jordan. and it was like over 40 degrees in that church and i was dying once again. but the ceremony ended up being lovely. i saw my moms cousin frankie and his wife glenda right before and i love them a whole lot so it was really nice to see them. then the ceremony started and i saw frankie boy (aka son of cousin frankie haha) who i havent seen in years, and his sister whittney (same story) and then amelia came down the aisle and her dress was so beautiful and her hair and her and just everything. the ceremony was fairly quick and right away we were out of the church saying more hellos to everyone. including bob & reita. then we went over to the hockey rink (i felt very much at home if im being honest) where the supper and dance was held. the speeches were intended to be funny but really werent. and the food was good. then like halfway through glenda wanted a pair of shoes so i said i'd go get mine from the truck.. and while doing that i realized that the side of our car had been keyed. so i told my dad and mom, mom got frank, and frank got the best man trevor, and the cops were called. then it turns out by the end of the night over 31 cars were keyed. woo!? hahah but besides that minor problem, the rest was good. i danced with frank to the sweet escape.. it was sweet. said hello to frankie boy, maaan its been so long since we've actually talked like relatives/friends/people haha. and im still waiting for whenever we actually talk like that because actually it wasnt even a hello just a wave and smile. i saw whittney and she told me she didnt even recongize me anymore and we talked for a good 30 seconds but it was good! and she's so pretty really. then i said hello and congrats to amelia, and we talked with her for like 10ish minutes or something. oh and jeff czum jr was sitting behind us and he really was amazingly cute.. and my mom lied to him cause he asked if we had extra chairs and she's like "no sorry" even though i think it was pretty obvious that there were like 3 extra chairs at our table.. but whatever 90% of their table were wasted by the end of the night so im sure they didnt notice. anyways, i started to have the rash and red eye thing happen all over again so mom gave me more benadryl and i fell asleep sitting up at the table.. so i was kinda sure that it was about time to go back to the hotel so we did that.. and i crashed right away despite the fact it was a zillion degrees and we were in a slasher hotel haha. then i woke up day 2 (sunday) by dad kicking our door haha. (liss and i stayed in a seperate room from mom & dad) and we pretty much packed up and called moms uncle dave to meet him at the best western for breakfast. but remember haha our 9 is only saskatchewans 8, so we had a really long time until we could check in to the best western for night 2 (checkin was 3, 4 for us) and we had breakfast where i had french toast with whip cream and strawberries :D then we went up to uncle daves suite, it had two huge skylights, probably one of the nicest rooms ive ever seen. i watched a baton twirling championship hahaha, just to kill time before we were going to moosejaw. then mom came up to the room so we went to leave for moosejaw, haha we got lost a couple times but eventually took a very long dirt road back to the highway to get there. once again i fell asleep on the drive and woke up as soon as we arrived. now this is the most amazing town ive ever been in. it is 99% old fashioned buildings, its beautiful, i couldnt tell you what time era these buildings are but its just.. so amazing.. a place everyone should go see. and so we got lost a couple more times (we arent that good with cities) but finally found the tunnels place, and once we knew where it was we had an hour to spare (time diff) and so we went to the walmart so i could get the AP episode with BLG in it, but of course i found AP but it wasnt the right one.. but i got it anyways, and a pair of flipflops since glenda lost mine the night before. then we ended up somehow wasting an hour in there and went to the tunnels. ahhh it was so neat too, its all underground and stuff and the bartender and piano player in the cafe looked so real and they moved and talked and it was sweet. haha when we ended up having to be below the ground i got kinda creeped out, specially since they always picked me out of the group of 15 to have to knock on the doors and open them first and stuff haha, but overall it was just really neat and active and awesome. we got tshirts, both me & lissa, mine says scarface (after al capone, of course) dad said it should say scarhand.. funny haha. anyways so as soon as we were done with that we got some fries from mickeyd's and left the city to go back to the hotel room. it was like 4 something our time when we got back and we had about 3 hours until we were supposed to be at the family barbeque, so i showered, and slept, and got ready, and we left haha. we got to frank & glendas and they had just finished cooking (good timing) and these burgers themselves were like double the width of my mouth hahah plus bun and stuff, i'm not quite sure what kind of hamburgers they eat in saskatchewan. but there was no way i was eating that haha. i talked to frankie about football and tvs but it wasnt anything too sweet. i sat outside and talked with all my family members which was good. then amelia and trent and whittney and some random little kid came back because they were at the roughriders game.. so we said hi to them and such. then eventually we decided we were going to go, so i gave frank a huge hug.. frankie disappeared so there was no saying bye to him haha, whittney left right away too no bye to her either haha, but i said bye to glenda and amelia and trent and shane and the whole works. then we went back to the hotel and watched some nice harry potter previews and interviews.. then i just crashed and through all the vehicle sleeps and the night in the horror hotel, that was my worst sleep ive had to say. so i woke up half dead, annddd we went for breakfast with moms uncle dave, uncle frank & aunt jackie, bill & reita, and wendy and issac, i again had french toast with whip cream & strawberries, again it was really good :D then we went for a "swim" which was really just me sitting in the hottub for like 10 minutes. then we went back and got changed, said goodbyes and we practically packed everything up and headed off. we just drove and i slept and we stopped in moosomin for food and shit and then i slept again then we stopped in virden to pick up something for our new camper then we just drove right home. and ive been anti-hailey for like 3 days now so picking her up was so sweet and im happy to be around her now hahah. and thats the trip :)

a couple side notes. i slept to regina, from regina, to southey, from southey, to moosejaw, from moosejaw. i slept a lot.. ahaha. oh and mom was telling me how close she is with this family and she hopes that we will be too and from where it looks right now its not looking like we will be but i really want to be. specially.. mainly.. with frank and glendas kids.. because the relationship my mom and frank have is a really good one, and i'd like to have the same with some of those kids. hopefully sometime frankie and whittney and amelia come down and we hang out like we used to. frankie and i were at one time like buddies haha, it'd be nice to go back to that. i actually really want to.. ive never been really close with any of my cousins.. (i think he might be a cousin somehow) mostly because ive never wanted to be hahah but really. oh and a final note, the waitress at the hotel was funny and jeff czum jr was adorable :)