The 12 Days of Christmas

Well I have been very busy lately and its hard to believe that its been 12 days since my last post. Christmas came and went pretty fast, but didn't feel like the real Christmas more like the 1st of December. On Christmas we opened up presents and each cooked an item for dinner. I had a lot of presents thanks to all of the people who sent stuff from home, I guess I am pretty easy to shop for as mostly everything was Toronto Maple Leafs stuff. Boxing Day I went to Saba's, my billet mum, and had dinner. The food was just as good as billeting and I didn't want to go home for 80's night at the Katima-House because the food would not compare. Sara, Rob, and Emilie also came with me. After Christmas it was back to the Salt Mines for three days with most of the Katima-gang since they didn't have work, it was a whole lot of fun working with everyone.

Then we made our way down to southern Saskatchewan for New Years. On the 30th we drove down to Moose Jaw to see the Tunnels where Al Capone hid when things where hot in Chicago, and also the Chinese one, which was even more fictional then the Capone tunnel, but gave you more insight on how rough it was for Chinese immigrants who came to Canada. Then we did a walking tour of the murals in Moose Jaw. We the piled into our van and started the 1 and a half drive to Weyburn where we would spend the night. On our way we drove through Rouleau during daylight so we stopped to visit Corner Gas. We could see the famous grain elevator and water tower from about 10 minutes away and I went crazy when we stopped. I ran around like a crazy person seeing as much as I could, Corner Gas and the Ruby, grain elevator, cop station, FOO MAR T, and the Liquor and Insurance Store (which is a real store, not just made up for the show) among other things. We finally made it to Weyburn, which had a pretty awesome house. It was the old Town Hall and it was all redone, and was massive.

The next morning we started our drive back to Moose Jaw for our New Years Eve party with 5 other groups, but we had to stop at corner gas one more time, this time I went to the bard and bought a "JACKASS" shirt (if you watch the show you'll know who its from), a sign, and season 3 DVD which is pretty cool because I bought it from the actual bar. We also stopped at Drinkwater to get a picture of us in front of the sign doing what else but drinking water.

When we got to the Moose Jaw YMCA the Katima-Olympics started. Our team didn't fare to well at such sports as Twister and the chair game, but won the combined team event of Capture the Flag to bring our record to a poor 1-3. After it was time for a Katima-Pot Luck where each group brought their best Katima-Food and we pigged out. Then it was time to dance the night away until mid-night. Each region of Canada also celebrated their area of the country's New Year along with Saskatchewan's. So I counted down at 10:59:50 PM Sask. time and at 11:59:50 as well.

The next morning we cleaned up and started a scavenger hunt in Moose Jaw, after that we visited Mac the Moose, the world's biggest moose and then started to head home to Saskatoon. Overall it was a great weekend, we saw what flat looks like down around Rouleau, Sara said it was so flat you couldn't trip and I'd believe her.

Well less then a week in the House now, we are home today doing a lot of cleaning while Sara and I do the Final Presentation for next week when we go to Rosthern for Rotation Camp. It will be a busy week, open house is coming up on Friday, something that Emilie and I are in charge of. I have lots on my plate but people are helping us out a lot.