Friday, November 20, 2009

BACK FROM SASKATOON

I'm back from Saskatoon. Helped Angela drive back. Had a great two days. Although the bus ride seemed like the trip from Hell. This bus stopped at every small not even on the map town in Saskatchewan. Had to laugh though. Since the incident last summer on the greyhound bus in Manitoba, their security measures have supposed to be vamped up. At your originating city, they check all your bags, and all your carry on, which is supposed to be limited to one small bag with reading material etc. No clothes, weapons, sharp objects, no glass bottles. Okay I'm with this. Safety is paramount. What seemed ludikrist to me was at the first stop, 10 mins long, a woman gets on the bus with a full duffle bag and takes up the whole seat beside her and another woman gets on with a glass bottle of ice tea that she purchased in the store. Now both of these women were harmless but what is the use of security measures when the bus makes several stops and anyone can get on and bring on anything including weapons etc. Seems rather riduculous to me to go through all of these increased security measures and then let these things happen along route. Any way enough on this. My visit with Angela was great. We went to the barn to see Classy and she let me take Classy for a ride around the arena. What a blast. I felt so comfortable and at home on her. These abilities have been hiding now for some time and I think I have found them again. She is a great young filly with so much potential. she will make some lucky person a very good friend and partner. Check out the video. I also went for some great walks, stopping at the local Timmy's for coffee and checking out the two huge book stores, McNally Robinson and Indigo. Bad place for me to be. Can't go into a book store and not buy anything. Found some great Christmas presents. We went for dinner to a great Mexican restaurant and then headed to the local 50 some flavours Gilato shop for dessert. It was really great having some time with just her and I. Enjoyed our drive back and now she is home for a couple of days partying and visiting with her old friends from the U of A. The phone has been ringing off the hook all day. Before she leaves for Saskatoon, we are going to celebrate her 21st birthday which isn't officially until the end of the month. We had a great day today, but that's for another blog. Hopefully this weekend I will get to it.

4 comments:

Sherry Sikstrom said...

Looking good! Glad you enjoyed your trip.Nice for you and Angela to have some time together.

GoLightly said...

"I've been thinkin' about grain elevators.. I've been learning 'bout food".

Sorry, "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" is now running through my head.

Gotta love the Guess Who.

That's a gorgeous big movin' mare!!
Wow!

GoLightly said...

And I didn't realize you were riding, duh!

Awesome.

Kudos!

CharlesCityCat said...

Greymare, sounds like you had a great time. It is so much fun to spend time with our grown kids. I so enjoy the times I have with my daughter who is 22.

Hey, someone lob a Timmy's muffin my way and some c****e too. The way ya'll talk about them, I really want to try it.

Jealous you got to ride that filly, LOVE HER!