Happy Mother's Day!

So I had originally hoped to celebrate Mother's Day in BC with my sister-in-law, Carly, my brother Dave, and their kids. We were going to do a video chat with my mom back in Ottawa, I'd play with my nieces, and all would be grand. Of course I'm still in OZ so that plan didn't quite work out. :-)

Instead, I called both my mom and my grandma today and wished them a happy Aussie Mothers Day, since at the time of my calls it was still Saturday back home. I did like surprising them with the calls... I bought an international phone card and thought that I had about 100 minutes of talk time, but when I punched in the codes, it turned out I had over 1000 minutes. Cool! Too bad I won't be in OZ long enough to take full advantage of this card. (I hope.)

Bill and Ruth and I went to Ruth's parents' house for lunch today. Ruth's mom Nancy made a fabulous baked meal (we would call it a roast) and we all ate a little too much. Ruth and I also went out and did a little shopping today, and I walked out of the mall with a whole new (and spiffy, if I do say so myself!) teacher outfit. Cool!

I feel like I'm back to the same old routine again. I spent the afternoon packing my bags. Again. Checking my email. Again. Double checking my flight information and backup plans. Again. :-) Tomorrow I'm heading to the airport - again - so I can try to catch the Air Canada flight to Vancouver - again. Please wish me luck. I really do kinda want to be home now. If I don't make tomorrow's standby flight I'll be forking out the big bucks to buy some tickets home.

So although I've already said this, here's hoping that the next time I write in this blog, I'm doing so from the Great White North!