Welcome to April......unfortunately April in Canada apparently means snow. This has been a particularly bad winter and my heart is aching for some warm weather and flip flops! This past Thursday my husband and I left for a 12 hour drive to rural Manitoba for my friend's wedding, and we just returned late last night.
The way there was pretty good. We went to the library before we left and borrowed some audio books. I keep wanting to call them books on tape, but they are on CD's and I'm pretty sure that's the way they've been doing it for many years! They make long drives soooooo much easier to take. I love music, but I find after a few hours it starts to give me a headache and I start flipping the stations trying to find something that I like but nothing seems to work anymore. Audio books are awesome, because it doesn't get repetitive, and the drive seems to fly by, well maybe not fly by, but it does make it way easier to handle. It was funny the one we were listening was kind of an action-mystery type one that had a genetically-modified sabre-tooth tiger in it........for some reason for the rest of the drive whenever the book got to one of those sentences where you knew something dangerous was about to happen my husband or I (ok usually me) would interject with "and there was a SABRE-TOOTH TIGER!!!!!!!! Perhaps only funny to us, but we had a pretty fun ride there.
The wedding was nice, my friend was a beautiful bride. There wasn't a whole lot of exciting things to do, but it was nice to see the area that my friend grew up and put faces and visions to all the people and places she had described in her stories to me. Her family was really sweet, and and although there was some drama involving her Dad, at the end of the day everything went according to plan and it was a great event.
The drive back home was not quite as fun. We were really tired from the wedding the night before, so even before we started the drive we were really exhausted. Of course, it had snowed overnight, so for the first 200km or so we were driving over snow covered roads and making our way through snowbanks in the middle of the road. We saw a whole bunch of vehicles off the road and this part of the trip probably took us double the time. It was white-knuckle driving, I'm glad my husband is a good driver and that we have a all-wheel drive vehicle! Although we left early in the morning we didn't get home until 9pm last night. So after my spring break trip I arrived back at work this morning more tired than when it started.
On the upside the end of spring break means only 54 teaching days left until the end of school, but who is couting? It's bad, but my position is a mat leave, and ever since I found out the woman is for sure coming back (most people were expecting she wasn't) and I know I am finished here with the school year I am way less motivated. I still want to do a good job teaching, but I don't visualize all the things I can do to improve the program for next year etc.
So come on sunshine, come on summer.......I am ready!
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