Memorial Day Weekend

So this past weekend was the May long weekend for the US. So we got together with the other IRD roadies for the area (that would be Jeff's co-workers) and went to the lake.
Went stayed in a beautiful cabin at Kentucky lake. It was more like a house than a cabin, but a very nice place to relax. And only a 4 hour drive away, so it's not too bad.
On Friday we didn't do much but just hang out. On saturday Jeff and I went hiking at Land Between the Lakes. Then we played poker taht night. Then on Sunday we rented a pontoon boat and spent the day out on the lake.
Here's a top 5 list
5. Learning how to play poker and not loosing all of my money.
4. Yelling at Jeff for hunting snakes and salamanders during our hike.
3. Having a nice bed to sleep in after hiking, swimming, boating etc.
2. Darrenn hitting the 5 foot wave and full speed and causing a mini tsunami in the pontoon boat, way to go Darren.
1. Being in a room with a bunch of Canadians and being able to talk about home.

Definitions

So I had a little arguement this weekend with a few girls, one from Inianapolis and one from Atlanta about the meaning of the word Toboaggan. Now I got a little worked up for which I'm a little ashamed, however, I think that any Canadian can understand my frustration. For some reason some Americans think that the word toboggan means tuque or hat, and will argue with you about it. As a Canadian who knows what real snow is, I would have to disagree. So I did a little bit of research to settle this arguement once and for all.
I went to the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary and here's what I found out.
A Toboggan is a French-Canadian word meaning a long flat-bottomed light sled usually made of thin strips of wood and curved up at the end. Here's a picture.
A Sled is a vehicle on runners used for transportation, especially used my children to coast down hills. Here's a picture.
Now a Tuque is another French-Canadian word that means a knitted hat, usually pointed, but it doesn't have to be. Here's a picture of a tuque.
Now I hope this clears things up for everyone. I'll try not to get too upset when having this arguement in the future, I'll just refer people to this page instead.

Famous People

So Jeff and I are in Cinicnnati tonight. We went to "Newport on the Levee", which is a very nice area along the Ohio river. I don't know if any of you have noticed this before or not, but Jeff has a habit of pointing at things in public. You should never point in public so as not to offend the moron who thinks you are pointing at them and gets mad about it. And being as we live in a country where people can carry guns, I've really been trying to convince Jeff not to point in public. Anyway, so we were sitting on this bench eating ice cream and all of a sudden Jeff's arm flies up almost hitting me in the nose, and he forgot his inside voice and yells "There's Jerry Springer" and sure enough there he was. Apparently he used to live in Cincinnati and was mayor. He just walked on by and you saw all these people stop, look then keep doing what they were doing.
Another famous person I saw recently was Leslie Neilson. He was at the airport in Saskatoon, just standing there with a luggage cart. I was like Ï know he's from here, but there is no way someone that famous would stand at the Saskatoon airport with a luggage cart like that" Well then I heard him talk, and yup that was him. No one made a big deal about it though.
DISCLAIMER: just so you all know, i may elaborate a bit on my Jeff stories, and I have to include this disclaimer so that he doesn't get offended by my elaborate stories later:) He didn'thit me in the nose when he pointed, and although Jeff does often yell too loud, he was surprisingly reserved when he saw Jerry Springer, but it still wasn't an inside voice:)

Home

Well, Jeff and I were just home. Jeff's grandma passed away, so it was a crappy reason to go home, but we did get to have a good visit with family and friends. So here's a top 5 list.
5. Going to Tim Hortons:)
4. Meeting Jeff's uncles and cousins, it explains a lot.
3. NorthWest Airlines loosing my luggage, I got a free dress out of it:)
2. Having a BBQ at Jeff's for friends
1. Jeff waking me up Sunday morning at 6:30 because he thought it was 9:30 and we had to get ready to leave. Silly Jeff.

We have now stocked up on Tim Hortons coffee, Aero bars, Oh Henry's, and iced tea mix. But of course these are good presents to send to us at any time.

We had a really good visit, and thank-you to everyone for coming out to see us:)

We have INTERNET!!!

We finally got the internet hooked up in our apartment today. So now watch for more regular blogging. You don't know how many times I tried to blog on the laptop, and then when I went to post my hard work, the computer was thinking to hard and it crashed. Anyway, Jeff took a long time to call the cable company and to call about internet. This meant that I was stuck in my new apartment with no TV and no Internet for quite a while. Annoying. So now I have both, which makes me feel better.

Kentucky-isms

Did you know that Ï don't care to" means yes? I thought it meant no thanks. You learn something new everyday.