weekend update

It's been a good weekend after a good week. My second two days of work went well, and I think I'm getting the hang of what I need to do. Next week: learn the computer system, and start learning all of the exceptions to the rules (that's where a lot of post-its will come in handy!).

On Friday night, Steve and I met up with my family friend Sandy from Victoria, who was passing through Halifax on a bus tour. We went out for dinner, which was nice, cause I haven't seen Sandy in years. It was also our second 'family' event of the week - on Monday we met up with some other family friends, Dave and Leeann - also from Victoria, also in Nova Scotia at the moment. Same story (i.e. I haven't seen them in years), so also very good to see them. Plus, those were our first experiences 'hosting' in Halifax! We took Dave and Leeann to the Henry House pub, which is a very old Halifax institution, and then we took Sandy to the Economy Shoe Shop, which is a huge, cavernous, mazelike restaurant, despite the name. Not bad choices, I think.

This weekend was pretty lazy and relaxing - no waves, so no beach, but apparently the swell is coming sometime this week. We focused mainly on food: farmers market on Saturday morning, a long run-walk and baking on Saturday afternoon, good dinners both days, and Pete's Frootique this afternoon. Most tasty purchase (so far): fresh apples from the farmers market. Weird purchase of the week: sage-infused Derby cheddar from Pete's. (We haven't tried it yet, but I imagine it'll taste like the Kamloops hills!)

Steve would like to put a disclaimer in about the cheese because otherwise "people will think we're yuppies". The real story is that we get all distracted in the cheese section, cause Pete's has a million kinds, and they all seem so strange and wonderful - how could you not try them? So you see, we're not yuppies, we're just curious, clueless bumpkins.