I went out to one of our sites today, and I accidentally got a soaker. I was on ice that was only about a foot deep, and I went through and got a soaker. So, I’m sitting here at work with only one sock on. My wet sock is sitting in my window sill. I just checked it and after 3 hours, it’s still soaked. I’m going out with my mom all evening tonight, so I have asked her to bring me a pair of socks that I can borrow. The last thing I want it so have cold, wet feet all evening.
Mom and I are going to a Creative Memories scrap-booking workshop tonight. I am really looking forward to it. I’m going to work on the rest of the pages from our girls trip out to Alberta in April/May 2006. So far, I have one page of our trip to Banff. Tonight, I am going to do another page of our trip to Banff, one page of Mrs. JB’s wedding reception, and another page of our trip to Drumheller. I really love the Creative Memories products, so I am ordering some from the consultant and I have also found some very reasonably-priced Creative Memories products on ebay. This is my first time using ebay, so I was a little skeptical at first, but it seems pretty cool. Now I can’t wait for my stuff to get here. Should get some this week, I hope!
My weekend was pretty good. The friend I was supposed to stay with on Friday ended up getting sick, so I decided to not go to visit her (I’ve been sick enough this winter). I still went to Toronto on Saturday to meet lj and nej for the bridal show and to look for dresses for them for the wedding. Had I known the roads were so horrible, I would have cancelled. I set out and on the 401, the roads appeared fine, but there must have been some black ice because we were all zipping along at about 100 km/hr, and then there was an accident up ahead, so everyone slammed on their brakes (BAD IDEA). Two cars that were ahead of me started spinning out of control through several lanes. I had never seen anything like it. Very scary. Luckily, they didn’t hit anyone, but it was a very close call. That shook me up quite a bit. The way home was no better. On the 401, there was a HUGE accident, so it was down to 1 lane. I was waiting to change lanes (everyone was going very slowly), and a car behind me got creamed. I had to cancel my lane change to get out of the way, otherwise I would have got creamed too! Very scary. The whole way home I was so tense!!! When I finally got home safely, I was so relieved and happy to be alive that I burst into tears as soon as I got in the door. I cried for a little while, CT comforted me and gave me a back massage, and then I felt much better. What a scary day though! I heard afterwards that there was 100+ accidents in the GTA that day.
Despite the horrible driving, the girls and I had a good time. The bridal show was pretty much a repeat of the one I had attended 3 weeks prior. And we didn’t find too much in terms of dresses, but we’re going to look again in 3 weeks.
My ceremony musician is booked! She said she gave up doing weddings years ago, but that she would do anything for our family. She’s honoured. I’m so glad she said yes! One more thing to cross off the list! Mom and I are going to look at cakes and flowers in a couple of weeks, so hopefully I can cross those off the list soon too!
Hope everyone has a most excellent week!
4 comments:
Jen and I saw several police and fire trucks going east on the 401 just after getting on the highway. We were worried that you would get stuck in traffic. sounds like you did. Weird though since the weather and roads were completely fine for me on the weekend. I guess thats what happens with a slow moving front through... takes longer for the east to get cleaned up than the west.
Glad you made it home safely if a little shooken up.
You are very lucky - someone was watching out for you. Glad it turned out ok.
Yeah, had I known it was going to be that bad on your drive home again, I would have INSISTED that you stay the night in B-town. Glad you were safe though. LJ and I figured there was something going on when we saw all those emergency vehicles headed in your direction. We hoped you wouldn't be stuck for too long.
Nope, I wasn't stuck in traffic for too long at all, there weren't too many people on the roads (I guess they all stayed home!). So the big accident with all the ambulances and fire trucks didn't cause too much of a jam.
I felt MUCH safer driving on the 115 because even thought there was lots of snow, everyone was driving nice and slow and in single-file. Not like on the 401 where the roads looked fine, so everyone was going really fast, when in reality there was lots of black ice. Crazy!
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