alley

it has been a jam-packed last couple of days....

first, i'd just like to say that after a fabulous night's sleep i woke-up feeling much better on friday morning. after work, melody arrived from waterloo, it was great to see her and as usual we picked up right where we left off – which has been our trend since we were 16. the really neat thing is that i met all her friends, family, and in-laws last year at her wedding, and she knows of all my friends by reading my blog! she even frequents some of my friend's blogs. so it was nice being able to talk about my friends and her already know who i'm talking about, and vice versa. mel and i are incredibly different, you couldn't find two more different friends, and yet we have a connection that doesn't disappear thru time or distance. last night we did the haunted walk of kingston, it was a little cheezy, but an interesting activity, and one i've been wanting to do for quite some time. this morning we went to pan chancho's for breakfast. we loved it. it felt so parisan (well, i thought it felt french, mel thought it felt italian), it has a great buzz to that place. we window shopped in the rain then, finished off at the goat before she headed to her next stop in belleville.

this evening i went to a wine-tasting party with al and shari, which coincidentally was held at melissa's friend's place, so she was there too! it was very fun. sitting between al and melissa was quite entertaining, especially when we were evaluating the body and odour of water. at the end we all had to select our 'wine personality' and mine was 'the livewire'. ray was not surprised by that, which i found very interesting that my personality was so easy to pin over the course of an evening. al was 'the softy', melissa was 'the pure-one', and shari was 'the emporer'.

i'm very excited because while melody and i shopped we went into trailhead and i bought a pair of hiking books 40% off for my trip to peru! they're really great. they're super light weight and comfortable. we booked our tickets yesterday, we fly out of toronto on july 18 and arrive back on august 3. hurray! that's 3 months from today!! so exciting!

will you succeed? yes, you will indeed. (98 3/4% guaranteed).