Home!

It's good to be home. I've been home for a couple days now, well one full day and a bit. I got home Friday at around 4:30. It was great to see my family again! Eva and Kathy had made me a sign and hung it on the window. Eva was really quite proud of it.

I left Calgary on Thursday morning. Jeff made me bacon and eggs for breakfast! It was super great! Tilly had to work so she wasn't around when I got up, and I left their place just as the carpet guys came …. hopefully everything went alright. The drive was long. I stopped for a walk in Medicine Hat, and had super in Swift Current. It was pretty dull day. I as going to spend the night in Regina, but unfortunately Jordan Courtney had the flu. Total bummer! So I decided that I was going to spend the night in Moose Jaw. The summer Eva was born, Kathy and I camped under the big moose. There's a Tim Hortons across the street, and the price to park there for the night was good … free! I like free! There were a few others who camped there for the night. So when I got to Moose Jaw I went and got something to drink, and sat watching the cars on the highway go buy. I chatted with Kathy for a bit then went to sleep. Like I said, not a very exciting day.

I was up early on Friday, so after hitting up Tim's again I made my way to Regina. I decided to go visit the old campus of Canadian Bible College. I spend thee years there, besides many of my current friends, I met Kathy there. So it has a special place in my heart. I still remember my freshman year. My dad put my on the plane on September 1^st, all my earthly possessions in two duffle bags. I knew nobody, and I was only 19. I got off the plane and met Joe Chan. I don't think it was very hard to point me out in a crowd. A lost looking kid with a funny hat and huge side burns. He was my first friend and I ended up going for coffee with him and a few others later on that day. It's funny cause when I first met Kathy she didn't really talk to me, and I though she was a snob, and she says she was shy cause she thought I was really popular cause I hung out with all the upper-classmen! I was just in the right place at the right time. My first dorm was Skitch Two. I still have one of the relics from there. The ARA hat. I was only in that dorm one year, the next year they shut it down cause enrollment was down. So my second year I was in Brooks One South, there were two assistant RA's that year cause many of the guys from Skitch went to that dorm. Anyways, my freshman year on Skitch Two was awesome! My RA's was Stevens. He was a big black guy, and his black-ness rubbed off on us. He even taught us how to iron our dress shirts, cause he wasn't gonna have any of his guys going out looking like they just rolled out of bed! It was fun.

Back to Kathy, she was also in Skitch that year. For the first time ever Skitch was divided into two. Guys were upstairs and girls down. There was an electronic alarm that separated guys and girls. We each had our own entrance so we couldn't mingle and cause all kinds of hanky-panky. But what is even weirder was that Kathy's room was right below mine AND we even slept on the same side of the room. So we were destined to be together.

But I was shy, contrary to popular belief, so it took me for ever to ask her to the Christmas Banquet that year. I finally did it for fear that someone else would ask her. She was also the one who broke the ice with the “I really like you” line. She was my first girlfriend, so I was nervous. Our first date was to the symphony and then out for desert. But it was a “not-a-date” cause we were “just friend”! Our friend Grady eventually got sick of us being “just friends” so he provided the tickets. He told me that he bought them for him and his girlfriend and then “wasn't” able to go anymore and that I should have them and take somebody special, knowing full well that I wold take Kathy. So that's how it all began. I should also note that our first kiss was, unbeknownst to us, in a farmer's driveway. How romantic.

So I traveled back to the old CBC campus, I found somebody to take me for a tour of Brooks. The main floor is now private apartments, so I wasn't able to go in there, and Skitch is owned by a different group now so I couldn't go in there, but I went upstairs. It was different, but a who lot of the same. It was just neat to go back.

After my tour, I thanked my guide, and continued on my way. It's divided highway all the way home so it was peddle to medal, I was getting anxious to be home.

Now I'm home, the van is unpacked and most of my other stuff is put away. Just some clothes and odds and ends to clean up, but for the most part I'm re-settled. Over the next few day's I'm gonna put together a video of all my pics and musings so be sure to check back in for that

But until then it was good to have you along!

~ Until next time