Road Trip, Party, Party and Party!

Road Trip, Party, Party and Party!

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My weekly look into the lives of the Carr’s is normally uploaded Friday afternoon, but with a busy week, ending with a very busy weekend and the fact I was on the road with no computer, I just was unable to make it happen. It’s not that I didn’t try to make it happen on Friday. I have this new fancy iPhone and I tried to upload this to the blog, but I ran into some technical difficulties. So here it is Monday night and I finally have a minute to think creatively. So here is the week ending wrap-up in the form of my confessions blog for week 9.

Road Trip
I love road trips with my girls. Friday we loaded the van, pointed it east and arrived at Aunt Edna’s house for the night and a family trip to Port Hope. My Mom is staying with her little sister and when she does we like to get out there and post bail. It is always a little crazy when Gay and Roger stop in too and today it was no different with the conversations shifting from Michael Jackson to air travel. Now I know what you are saying that does not sound that crazy but imagine the conversation is taking place in a loud waiting room and all the people talking are doing so at the same time. Crazy right? So much fun. The trip does have another purpose because we are all dropping in on a retirement party disguised as a Summer BBQ in Peterborough on Saturday afternoon and hitting a 40th birthday pool party at night.

Sex Ed
Back when I was a student at Seneca, one of my favourite teachers was an English and liberal studies professor who taught me photography and human sexuality. I often given him credit for teaching me everything I know about sex! The truth is that Michael Smith taught me so much more. He was one of the first teachers I ran into that showed so much passion in the classroom for the not only the subject matter but also for the students themselves and given my profession, I call on this example quite often.

Thousands of students before and after me have have felt the same about Michael, and so this retirement is another loss for Seneca and for that I am a little sad. I am so very happy that over the years since starting to teach myself we have become good friends and over that time I have called upon our relationship for advice and support countless times. In fact it was the confidance Michael had in me when I had little in myself that was one things that lead me to accept the acting chair job last January.

I am sure glad I had the chance to sit in his class, get to know him as a friend and still will have the ability to call him when I need his help, advice or honest opinion.

Canada Day
I love my country. I am so happy to be living in this country and I love celebrating it’s birthday every year on July 1st. This year because we are living in Caledon, we dropped in at the annual Strawberry Festival. It was a short drop in, and we only caught a far off glimpse of a strawberry, on a passing plate covered in whip cream, but we had fun anyway. The dip in the pool, after the walk in the heat was an even better way to celebrate.

Home Visit
Our super real-estate agent Debbie Gay (http://www.deborahgay.com/) was so fun to deal with and so incredibly on the ball that we would recommend her to anyone in that needs an agent. One of the conditions of the sale that she suggested for use to add was a couple of home visits before the closing to do measurements and whatever else we need to do, and so Friday our girls got to do a walk through with Nathalie’s Mom. They picked their rooms and have even started plotting the furniture arrangements. It was great to get in there again, and look around and take note of important things like window locations. Nathalie kept saying the window in the kitchen was in the middle and I said it was more to the right side. I am happy to admit publicly that I was wrong and Nathalie was right! You could not get the window in the kitchen more in the middle of the room.

Party! Party! Party!
Saturday night, we had a great time celebrating a friend’s jump into his 40’s with a fun filled pool party. It was just a little chilly out, so it was only a quick dip, but the hot tub was fun and playing poker was a blast.

The third party in two days was also a pool party of sorts because we had some friends over for a BBQ and some afternoon splashing in the sun. Thanks to all who played a part in our busy but very fun weekend.

In Closing
A little short for ideas for the blog this week, I ask my content providers in an open call in the car if anyone has any ideas for the blog this week and my call was answered. This is as close as an accurate account of the story Julia suggested as a great story for the blog at 110km per hour.

“Once upon a time there was a whole family on a trip to go to a party. Well two parties but the kids are only going to one of them. They don’t get to go to the pool party. The end and they all lived happily ever after.”

Julia, we will give you a recap of the birthday party when we get home and we might even take pictures and post next week!

Have a great week!
Jim