Canadian girl out and aboot

The day after my reading, I went down to the Art Gallery of Ontario to look at the King Tut exhibit. This was a National Geographic exhibit and it was utterly fantastic. It opened with a short video narrated by Harrison Ford, and then you walked into an area where you could see some of the treasures of the pharaohs prior to King Tut. Then it went to the history of the discovery of the tomb, then a tour of various rooms of the tomb and some of the treasures found in the tomb. Following this, I toured some other galleries in the Art Gallery of Ontario and looked at works by the Group of 7, Henry Moore and other famous Canadian painters. I didn't see the whole museum as the museum is huge and I can only handle museums for about 2-3 hours.

Following this, I met up with [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], sarcasma and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and we went for dinner at Fresh, then a walk, and then a tour of Whole Foods because I had never been and enjoy grocery store tourism.

The next day, I took transit to the airport and hopped on the plane in record time. My flight was non-eventful, except for the fact that I was EXHAUSTED. I took a cab from the airport to my house, and ran to my last dance class. We practiced our tribal fusion piece and everyone was wearing their costumes. My costume is awesome, except I managed to snag my fishnet glove on my seashell bra during the practice. After dance class, I picked up Fergus from my friend Mari's house, and then picked up A from his bus.

The long weekend was pretty awesome- A and I watched movies all weekend, took Fergus for walks and went for Chinese food and dim sum.

Tonight is my dance recital. My friend was going to come see me dance, but her car is dead and she has no way of getting out to the recital, which is in a suburb. I'm pretty disappointed, but what can I do? It just seems to be a bad night for people. Perhaps next time.

On Saturday (almost a week ago), I drove down to Calgary to spend a few times with A. Since I work from home, I thought I'd take the opportunity to work from his home, which was great. I actually ended up doing a lot of work and got to spend a lot of time with him, which was cool. We actually ended up watching Olympic hockey (a first for me) and Olympic curling (another first), as well as the closing ceremonies, which were absolutely insane until we got to the craptastic music. I actually want to see the Michael Buble dance number again, because it was so over the top. I called my mom during this segment and she was laughing so hard that she could barely speak and was almost crying.

Anyway, A and I spent a lot of time hanging out, watched Olympics, went for sushi, wandered around his neighbourhood and went to see "The Last Station." I also got to finally meet Melanie , my co-blogger, and have lunch with my friend Courtney and her daughter Maren.

On Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I managed to become somewhat ill and was in a super crabby, sick and tired mood for my last day there and my drive home. However, I was already feeling better by Thursday.

I'm working like a fiend and trying to get a lot of stuff done. My bro and his Fiancee are coming to town for some reason. I think they have some shopping to do, so they'll be staying here. My dad was going to bring my dog next weekend, but my parents decided to send him up this weekend since it didn't make sense for two family members to drive to Edmonton in such a short time period. So I have Fergus for an extra week! I'm looking after him while my parents take their first trip to China. I love having Fergus here and it should work out well, since I'm over most of my crazy driving days. I'm excited for him to be here.

This weekend, I'm teaching a journalism workshop! My friend Mari works at a community newspaper called The Rat Creek Press . I'm going to teach some news writing techniques to their writers :) I'm a little nervous, but excited, and I'm going to spend a great deal of today planning the workshop.