(surprised at my not bloggingness :P)
Well, for those of you who just want the up to date info, skip ahead NOW and just read the last paragraph… Because the rest is just going to be from the past… whoops!
Feb 19
So, if you don’t remember, our family was staying at Grandma and Grandpa Anderson’s house while we were in Winnipeg. They were in Mexico and were leaving their house empty so we filled it in for them… But they got back from Mexico today. Also, from Feb 18-Feb 22, Gina was signed up for a week long horse back riding lesson. Pretty cool eh? I was able to get rid of my sister for a few hours everyday for that whole week!! It was great!
Feb 21
The only thing I have written on my calendar was the Lunar Eclipse.. Wasn’t it cool?! The moon was practically red! I think that was the first Lunar Eclipse I have ever seen! Probably mostly because I haven’t paid attention to any others 
Feb 23
Today was the day I was most looking forward to 
We drove to Calgary today!!! WOOT! I was soooooooo excited to see everyone again! I think you could say the same for Torrey Because when I told him I was in Calgary he said:
“WHAT?!?! KSJH;DFK JAS;DFLKJ AS;DLKFJ ;ASLKDJF ;ASLKDJF ;KLJ; Why didn’t you tell me sooner!!!???!!!!????!!!?”
It was pretty funny… I’m like “well sorry I couldn’t tell you the second we got here!” lol… We also decided that on the 24th (Sunday) that Gina was going to be able to go to church… She was really excited for that! She was able to see her church friends and hang out with them for a bit… Unlike me where I didn’t go to church… 
I wasn’t able to see my pals :’( I feel bad for not even letting them know that I was in Calgary! I was so busy!!!!!! Oh… we also had this massive fight over the sour cream… Shows just how lame my family can be Like, my dad hates having the sour cream stirred but for the rest of us, we think it’s gross not to stir in that nasty liquid… Who’s with me?!?! lol… so Dad told Gina not to stir it, but she did anyways, and dad freaked out, causing Gina to freak out back, and Dad started yelling… Like I mean YELLING! At the top of his lungs… I wasn’t really part of this so I kinda ran away for a hour or so just to get away from my family for a bit… That was so stupid… OVER SOUR CREAM PEOPLE!!!
Feb 25
Today, I ended up going to Sara’s house and we chilled there for a bit and I surprised her by hiding in her closet, so as soon as she walked in the door I popped out and she was like “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK Mel!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and she hugged forever! and told me how much she missed me, etc… Then she invited me for dinner and so I called my parents to see if it was ok but mom was like “No… because the Moseman’s already invited us for dinner at their house” and I said “well thanks for telling me” then Dad came on the phone and said “if you wanna take it like a man, you should have a little bit of supper at Sara’s and then have more supper at Kierra’s after!” “I’m not a man dad” is what I said back… haha good times So I just told Sara that I couldn’t and then I left. It wasn’t that blunt but do you really need every single detail?? lol… So I got to Kierra’s and she was texting Richard… Turns out Richard was on his way! I was so happy when Richard got there! lol I stood at the door and told Kierra to sit at the window and watch for him, then just as he was about to grab the doorknob I opened it and his hand was still reaching for the door! lol… GOTCHA! Then he ran in and was like “MEL!!!!!!!!!!!!’ and gave me the biggest hug and swung me around and almost broke my back haha! So the three of us hung out for several hours and did DDR on their Wii, ate supper, and Salt and Vinegar chips. Kierra’s little sister Krystin is obsessed with those chips so when Rich stole the bag from her, she actually fought him to get the chips back… Then (with a really serious expression… not even joking… man she was so serious!!!) she said “Don’t touch my chips.” And that was it! She sat back down and kept eating her chips… whoa… Then, just as we were heading out the door, Mom and Deb (kierra’s mom) started another subject so Richard, Kierra and I sat on the stairs talking amongst our selves until they were done… Turns out, we were on the stairs for another hour or so… lol Then after that, we decided that there was still another 3ish weeks to see each other, and then we actually walked out the door. It was about 10 o’clock before we left, then it was another hour to drive back to our trailer, which was in Cochrane. So we didn’t get to sleep until about 11:30 pm… Phew.
Feb 27
Today, Jess and the Moseman’s (Kierra and her family) came over to our trailer for supper. After supper, we went swimming for an hour or two and chilled as friends. It was sweet… We played a little bit of Volleyball (without a net :P) and sat in the hot tub talking about… well… talking about stuff. So there. Then after swimming, Kierra bought me a chocolate bar and we sat waiting for mom and Deb to come pick us up… oh by the way, Gina and Krystin came too but who cares? Not me obviously!
Feb 28
Today was an ordinary school day for me… I had no work to do and was just waiting for lunch (usually by Wednesday or sometimes before, I get all my work done for the week. At lunch, mom drove me to Crescent Heights to meet up with Kierra… Jess, and Kierra, and I made plans at the pool with my mom so that I’d be at their school for lunch. So I got there, met up with Kierra and all of a sudden a massive stampede of people came running over to me! Everyone was giving me hugs and telling me how much they missed me… and telling me never to leave them again… WOW that was crazy… All but Torrey… the one who’d been surprised to hear that I was in Calgary… I snuck up behind him and gave him a light hug then he tried turning around to see who it was as I kept ducking so he couldn’t see me… Then, just as he was about to give up, I poked my head around with a big smile on my face and he screamed and gave me the BIGGEST HUG!! (from the front this time ) it seems like he’s the only one really happy to see me! Actually, that’s a lie haha considering the massive stampede, lots of people missed me
Feb 29
Today, my good friend Tyler and I went swimming at Airdrie Pool. At first it was kinda awkward and he was like “Whaddya wanna do?” and I was like “anything that has to do with water!” so he said “Slide??” and I’m like “Yeah!” so we went on the slide a few times, and he crashed at the bottom a few times, and I almost slipped walking out of the end of the slide… That would’ve been funny! After the slide, we swam around in the main pool for a while kind of just talking and catching up on life, I guess… Then we went to the diving board… He kept doing these whacked out flips while I was doing these gracious dives… Then Tyler had some competition… This other guy (which, by the way, was kind of freaky looking) lined up behind me and started doing better flips AND dives than Tyler… hmmm… what happened next? Well, Tyler tried brushing up on his dives AND flips that he was so confused as to what to do next, that he ended up doing a belly flop!!! I killed my self laughing!!! The “guy behind me” then tried showing of by just diving in and, man I gotta tell you, he sucked! haha So I went on the diving board and showed him who’s boss… I did an awesome back flip in and they both kinda backed off on the competition because, obviously, I was the better one of us three 
After that, we walked into the sauna. Stupid boys… There were three boys, about 12 years old, and they were being rude and obnoxious… And they were throwing rubber bands on to the heating system… I was afraid a fire was going to start! Eventually, after 5 minutes or so I blew up at them and told them that “This is a sauna where you’re supposed to be quiet and relax, not throw things at the heater or act stupid ok?” and they retaliated by saying “You’re not the boss of us, you can’t make us stop” and Tyler said “No but we are older than you and we can inform a lifeguard” so they left and some other boy, same age as the last three, walked in and was like “I heard how you were treating those boys” and I’m like “and? we’re allowed to kick them out if they’re not being mature” and he’s like “no! it’s a free country! I can do what ever I want!” then these three girls about my age, walked in and sat listening to us argue. Then the boy was like (this was him talking to me by the way) he said “What would you say if I pinched you, or flicked you, or spat on you??” and just before I blew up, Tyler was like “I’d punch you!” and the boy ran off. Then the girls looked at us and was like “Is he related to any of you!??!” We both shook our heads and they laughed… So we talked with them for a bit and Tyler and I decided that it was too hot and walked into the lazy river. Just then, the kid started following us and so we went into the big pool and HE STILL FOLLOWED US!!! So I went up to the nearest lifeguard and told her that the boy was being annoying and following us. As Tyler and I were walking out of the pool, and just about to head into our change rooms, we saw the little boy tattling to his older sister (who didn’t seem to care very much) but we ran into the change rooms and got dressed as fast as we could and met each other in the gym afterwards, where we played basketball until dad came to pick us up.
Mar 1
This evening we went to watch Richard’s hockey game where his team won 3-2. It was a good game… Sara, Chelsey, and Mitch were there too! So we talked and kinda watched the game at the same time And took pictures!
Sweet picture eh?? (left to right: Sara, Me, Chelsey, Mitch) After the game, we decided to go to Richards house to have some fun… So we made brownies and pudding We also had a wad of Chips and Pop… we were pretty hyper. We were also stealing Mitch and Rob’s hat (Rob is a friend of Richard’s that ended up staying the night because he went to watch the game too…) So I stole their hats, and while they were looking for me, I hid in a bin (seeing as I’m small) and they could not find me! I ended up not being able to breath in there so I called for help and they came and helped me out… The looks on their face were hilarious!
Mar 2
Today Richard, and Chels, and I went out for lunch at Applebee’s Chelsey said “Desserts are on me!” Then Richard said “Appetizer is on me!” and then I said “well I didn’t think I be buying for anyone else so Free waters are on me!” lol… haha After lunch, Richards mom came and picked us up, then dropped Chels and I off at Sara’s because Rich couldn’t come because he had a project to work on. So Chelsey and I played games while Sara scrapbooked because she saved her homework till the last minute… as usual. Chels and I played Guess Who for a couple hours and then Sara wanted to play Clue so we did. It was fun and I even got a couple rounds of guess who on video!! haha good times!
Mar 7
Today we (as in just the family) ended up going to West Edmonton Mall… The wave pool to be exact! Gina and I went to the wave pool while mom and dad did something else… that I don’t remember… But we had fun there… then on our way back, I made plans with my friends to go to the Youth Night at the Wave Pool in Calgary but we didn’t meet up until like 9:00 pm… It’s a good thing the night there didn’t end until 11:00pm!! So we swam and danced along to the music and did what friends do… Jeremy actually picked me up and threw me into the water… ohhhh boy… I think I killed his ear though! But at the end of the night, we went to Sara’s again and had a cool sleep over… We stayed up till about 3 in the morning talking and watching Kierra text people haha. and we ate maccaroni at midnight. The next day we rented a movie (just at Kierra’s house though) and we watched Sydney Whit, ft. Amanda Bynes.
Funny movie!! I loved it! It’s just a modern day version of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. It’s cool… Chelsey also got her hair streaked for the FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE! Crazy how it’s only the first time though!!! WOW! But it looked great.
Mar 16-21
This week we were in Unity, Saskatchewan at our campground. I was even the one driving around town seeing as we got the car back for a while! It’s a little red Volkswagon Golf.
It looks like this except this is only a picture from Google good ole google!
On the 21st, though, as were were just leaving town, the lady at the gas station ended up putting GASOLINE in our DIESEL car!!! so we had to wait another 5ish hours before we were able to leave the town!!! Then, about 2 hours away from where we had just left, the car broke down and Dad had to come pick us up in the truck and we all drove to Winnipeg in the truck OVERNIGHT! Man it was crazy…
Mar 22
Today was the Rocan Easter Gathering at the school that Uncle Jean works at. We also had a massive easter egg hunt in which all the little kids participated in… No, I do not count as a little kid. But I wish! There was soooo much chocolate! mmmmmmmmmm yum.
Mar 23
Today was ANOTHER easter egg hunt, except on the Anderson side… there was WAY less candy and more socializing Fuuuuuunnnnnnnn…..
Mar 25-26
We slept the night at Granny and Gramps Anderson’s house on Tuesday and then on Wednesday Gina and I went to Church with Granny and we helped out with the nursery and watched about 21 kids… It was sooo cool. I have to say there were more boys than girls and we had several little 5 year old boys crushing on us… It was soo funny because one would beg me to come play lego, then another would come ask me to do a craft with him, then the other came and sat on my lap while we had snack and watched veggie tales, then another told me that he was going to clean up for me… HAHA! Cute! it’s funny when they go for much older girls But after all the kids left, it was just us “leaders” and it turns out they got every leader a box of chocolates… I tried to refuse but they wouldn’t let me!!! but they were good anyways… After babysitting, we went to the Movement Center, which is where my cousin goes (she has Cerebral Palsy) to get some “Training” on how to be independent in her everyday life… It’s pretty cool because it’s kind of like an army camp for the disabled… It’s cool to watch each kid succeed at something different… Each kid has their own strength and my cousin Sarah has many strengths… If you want to read a little bit about it go to http://movementcentre.ca/default.aspx and if you’re interested, you can watch a little video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwj8Y7o1bQM and this shows what they do there. It is 10 minutes long but I think it’s a good idea to know what it’s like there… No my cousin is not in this video but most of her friends from there are. The kid at the very end, Jordan, was there when we went to visit my cousin and I could barely tell that he had a disability… This video was filmed a while ago but when I was just there recently, he was talking just fine, sitting up just fine, but he had a harder time walking and controlling his hands… It’s truly amazing to see the change that has happened from the time that video was filmed to now…
Mar 28
Today was my VERY first time in the planetarium in Winnipeg…
the Planitarium is a dome shaped building. It’s kind of like an Imax theater except the whole roof, 360 degrees, the top half of a sphere, is the theater… So we pretty much watched a Court Debate as to whether Pluto was a planet or not… and then after the presentation, you could vote and when we voted, according to the voting, Pluto WAS a planet…
Mar 29
Today we spent our day with the Kehlers , and Miranda, Janessa and I went to the convenience store where I bought my first Pic-a-Pop… I would post a picture but there are really any good on Google and I can’t find my camera at the moment… Pic-a-Pops are mostly like Jones drinks just with a different name… But I still love them and we went to church but Jen and Gina and I stayed and watched kids in the nursery. That was fun!! But there were a ton of kids with weird names… like Ocean for example… Someone named their kid Ocean…
Mar 30-31
These two days we were at Kehlers again… since we were camping on their driveway!! But we played Wii, watched Enchanted about 4 times, and walked to the corner store… and that’s about it… NOW ONTO THIS MONTH!!! oh way… it’s May now… ohhh boy…. another month to go
Apr 1
OMIGOSH!!! I pulled the oldest prank on my sister!!! You remember the old “Saran Rap” Prank?? ohhh man… priceless… So I Saran Rapped the toilet bowl so that when someone went to the bath room, the stuff they did wouldn’t go into the toilet but just sit on the saran rap and soak them or make them dirty… So my first victim was dad… He must of saw the light glare off of it or something so he just walked out and told me he knew but he would leave it there for someone else and he just used the bathroom downstairs… Then Gina ran into the bathroom because she really had to pee… So she bolted into the bathroom and Jen and I ran to the door after she closed it and waited there to hear what she’d say… It took her a bit because she had to wipe herself clean but she came out and laughed and freaked out at us at the same time… It sounded like this “HAHA You HAHA guys!!! HAHA that’s not HAHA Funny!!!” but we all knew she thought it was a good one… Then later, we went to Foody Good, where they have one of the best Chinese Buffets in the World! So mom and Auntie Carole had their own table behind us… Gina, Miranda, Jen, AND Me were all trying to prank each other at the table… But after a while we kind of “gave up” to make Gina not care any more… So she left to ask mom a question or something and while she was gone, Me and Jen LOADED (and I mean loaded… and then stirred) salt and pepper into Gina’s Diet Coke and made sure it was not noticeable… So she got back and started drinking her drink and Jen giggled a bit and said “How’s the drink??” Gina didn’t suspect anything because I added “You’re just chuggin’ er back!!” just to make it seem casual and we all laughed along with her… Then Jen and I looked at each other both with a “Phew” expression on our face… Then Gina left again so we did the same to her food but she came too soon and just went back for another plate… Then she had a little bit left of her drink and she noticed some white gunk on the bottom of her cup… “EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!” she said… I can definitely understand why she said that because there was about 1 to 1.5 cm of salt at the bottom her cup… JEN AND I JUST ABOUT PEEEEEEEEED OURSELVES LAUGHING!!!! then after, before it was time to pay, Miranda left to go to the bathroom. Leaving her purse behind, Jen and I looked at each other and stole the money from her wallet… We got to the front desk and she was just about to pay her bill when she turned around and said to us “Alright… who stole my money??” Jen laughed and gave her the money back… Man that was a good day of April Fools!!! HAHAHAHAHA
Apr 2
This evening we set off firecrackers at 9 at night! It was SO MUCH FUN! We pretty much had the following:
They were loud… The Boomer ones almost made Miranda DEAF!! because the first time she lit it, she didn’t think it would blow up that fast but MAN DID IT EVER!!! haha i killed myself laughing… We also got a video of Miranda throwing some Snappers (little bomb thingys that, when you throw them at something, they make a “bang!”) anyways…We got a video of Miranda throwing one of those at Jen but it hit the lens of the camera and so you can see a little explosion on the camera!! It’s sooo funny though…
These are those little snapper things
Apr 3
Today Miranda, Jen, and I spent the day at the mall… No, Gina didn’t come because she didn’t finish all of her school work HAHA! And I didn’t buy anything but I did get my hair layered and my bangs trimmed… I didn’t think it looked much different but whatever… We also went to Mariposa and randomly tried on each one dress… just to see how it would look… I loved the one I was wearing but if I bought it, when would I wear it?? We even got pictures of us trying on dresses!!! HAHA
Darn Miranda just kept her Jeans on… PARTY POOPER!!! 
by the way, those straps are not meant to be there but it’s a strapless… I just wear normal bras that actually support me… so that I don’t have to pull it up all the time… But I liked that dress… It was sparkly!!! but the things is, it was a size too small so I couldn’t get it off!!! I had to get Miranda AND Jen into the changing room to help me get it off!!! By the way… like my mismatched socks? haha I do that a lot now!
So I’ve decided that, instead of blogging about EVERY single day, I’ll skip through and blog the most important (aka funny) ones…
Apr 10-12
Today we drove to visit Matt in Sherksto, Ontario. It was pretty fun there… On the 10th we kinda just talked and chilled for a bit… The next day he took me to a student night at a little cafe near by… It was fun! We played Spoons…. the old card game… And, for the record, I lost every game Then we played Go Fish… and I won that one… I also had a massive waffle bigger than my head, which I actually finished! it had apple slices and a mountainous pile of whipped cream on the top! Then Matt ordered a delicious looking chocolate cake and begged me to try it… I was like “no… i’m full from the waffle” but he’s like “come on!” So I took a little bite and he got mad!! “He said “TAKE MORE!!!” and I kept refusing so he just like inhaled his cake and I laughed at him The next day, we took Matt to Niagara Falls (which he said he’d been to 3 times before) but he kept repeating that he was going to be the first person to ride his dirtbike through the falls and make it out alive… It kind of got annoying because that’s all he would talk about and all he would say was “I’m gonna vrooooooooooom” and make weird sound effects… ya know?? the things that boys do!! HAHA after that, we went to the Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum which was sooo funny! There was this one part where you had to try and do like this person:
and they even had a mirror that you could try and do it in front of… So I tried pulling my lip over my nose and so did Gina but Matt just stood there and laughed for a bit… Then he said “Ya know that’s a one way mirror right?” Gina and I kinda looked at each other and ran away sorta thing… haha then we made it to the other side of the one way mirror and we were killing ourselves laughing so much that Matt didn’t want to leave!! he also kept knocking on the glass (which it said not to do.. another thing that boys do is don’t listen…) and he would freak out all the people who came up, made a face, and didn’t know that this was a one way mirror… and then we went out for lunch at Boston Pizza where they had a huge arcade…. So I bought about 2 dollars worth of tokens which got me about 8 of them while Matt bought $30 which got him well over 100 tokens! So after I spent mine he kept giving me some because he’s like these 2 player games are no fun with just me… So I played more games and he still had a ton of tokens left… Then after he had collected all of the little coupon things that come out of the machine to go towards a prize or something, he didn’t really have enough for anything so he just gave them to some lady and she said “You’re the best” and we left… haha
Apr 16
Today we went to a Blue Jays game and to the CN Tower… Here is a picture of me on the glass floor… Gina wasn’t very good at taking pictures because she was too scared to get to close to the floor because she thought it was going to break… HAHAHA
Don’t I just look so comfy in my TransX sweats and my Lulu lemon sweater?? haha (by the way, we left matt’s house about 4 days ago ) So there’s the CN Tower for ya… or at least, a little snapshot of the glass floor but the Blue Jays game sucked so bad! They lost like 7-5 … it was terrible! And about half way through the game, one of the batters (i forget who it was and from what team but it doesn’t really matter) one of the batters actually swung and lost his bat… like it went flying… far! and there were also so many fly balls… but of course we didn’t catch any because we were in the Nosebleed section … oh well.. we got a good view of the game and that’s all that mattered…
and if you can see it, there is three little people wearing red on each base… those are “The Worlds Fastest Clean Up Crew” apparently… they were pretty fast but I think there are others that are just as fast or faster……….
And that’s pretty much all I’m in the mood for blogging about… It’s been long enough… I think Unless you want me to write more! (i can just hear you saying “NO!! NO MORE NO MORE!”) haha
