Warm Gulf Wind

The text is almost verbatim from my pen&paper journal from Thursday.

Favors, wedding chores, multi-lingual cereal boxes!, waiting for Steve, headed to Cape Spear 11:30am or so.

Walked around,

saw whales, realized we had to pick up Melly and rushed toward the airport. Karen called Steve to pick her up. Steve, Les, Melly, Jo, Clay, Karen, Robyn, Shar, Missy and I all met at Tim Horton’s on Major’s Path. Served by slowest sandwich maker ever. Ate.

Headed to rocky beach, Middle Cove.

Walked on beach barefoot. It became painful, but probably exfoliated my feet really well.

Dipped feet in North Atlantic.

K+S said it was warm, but really it was pretty cold. Perceptions, I guess. Walked back to shoes. Parted ways as Clay + Jo played tour guides and took Robyn, Shar and I (the ones who hadn’t ever been before) to Signal Hill.

Wandered, took pictures, walked up and down hills.

Jo got on a cannon.

Jo got stuck on said cannon and Clay helped her down. (I thought this was very sweet.)

First trans-atlantic message received there.

(Jo – Poldhu is the place where the first trans-atlantic message came from. I had to google it when I got home because it was bugging me that I had never heard of it before.)

Back to Robyn and Shar’s hotel then to Jo’s house. Hung out for a bit, I dozed on the couch and evidently snored a little which is totally embarrassing. Then to Karen’s for Currystravaganza -Yum!

Being grilled by Ed, Erin’s dad, was probably more uncomfortable than getting grilled at Calgary customs. There I had to login and show the lady the site and with Ed I just had to hide it as much as possible. Crazy. I think he gave everyone else the third degree as well. He kept calling me Miss Denver which was kinda funny. At one point he asked me if I knew how to ride a horse. I was taken aback a little because the question seemed to come from left field but then I realized cowboys and Colorado are pretty closely associated. I said no and admitted that I don’t ski, either. He seemed fascinated. When he was asking me if I had a boyfriend, I told him no as quickly as possible because he seems like the type to pick up on any little hesitation and pick that apart. I didn’t really want to explain my complicated relationship situation.

Steve played awesome music. Stephanie got in finally after all of her crazy delays. People left. Bed.