imagine that?: weekend in edmonton

so its monday again! time flies. thought i'd try to write a quick blog today. quick because i have a very busy week at school and i have a whole lot of work to do today. i have a midterm and an assignment due tomorrow. then i have my usual 5-6 hours of prep work for my night class on tuesday... or wednesday if i want... we get to pick what night we want, and although i highly prefer tuesday's class, i rarely have it all done in time! by far, this class, which has run all year long, has taught me more about international development than the rest of my classes combined. and the prof hardly does any of the talking... it is entirely student discussion with the leadership of the prof. anyway it is a lot of work every week. i'm now counting down the days till i graduate!

so our trip to edmonton was much fun! we got there Thursday and went straight to rexall center to the hockey game. we were 1.5 hours early but there was lots to do. we were in the very front row against the glass, so we had club seats. that meant we got to go to the lobby where only club seat people got to go! we had a roast beef dinner buffet and sat at tableclothed tables and ate among "the elite" :) haha. when the oilers went onto the ice, they walk through the lobby so everyone down there got to cheer and stuff when they walked through from their dressing room to the ice. it was kind of exciting. as you can see, we got there before just about everybody else!!!

our seats were fantastic. the players look so young up close! i made two awesome signs for us, and they took this one (to the left) away from us! they weren't allowing anything that had to do with the ryan smyth trade and kevin lowe, the guy that did the trade. yah the officials didn't like it, but everyone in our section thought we were heroes. i'll have to post a picture. we got to keep the other sign (below) but it was definitely not as cool.

well the oilers lost 0-5 againsts minnisota so jeff wasn't thrilled (as you can see by the look on his face here) but we still had lots of fun! friday we got up, had breakfast, and hit the outlet stores and Ikea. had lunch at Joeys (we NEED a joeys here. so delic). sat night we drove to jeff's aunt and uncles house who live about an hour outside edmonton. they had horses.

saturday it was west ed mall time and i was having shoppers bloc as i called it. i couldn't find anything to buy and i was kind of grumpy. jeff was having a shopping spree and it was just making me sooooo mad that he found so much and i didn't like anything. anyway he bought me a shirt at banana republic to get me going and then i was fine from there on. shopped from 11 am till 7 pm.

sat night we were so exhausted we didn't even go for supper. we had a really late lunch so we weren't starving at least. but we could hardly move. so we watched "the departed" at the hotel. SUCH a good movie. and promptly fell asleep.

sunday went back to the mall because i still needed a pair of jeans and some black work shoes which i never did find. but that is okay, because i underspent on my budget and have some money left to buy stuff here. this is absolutely amazing news.

all in all, successful shopping trip and so much fun. i bought: 2 pairs of shoes from Aldo (one pair is the sexiest shoes i have ever owned...they are dressy, but i want to wear them everyday), a Mexx blazer, a sweater from Abercrombie & Fitch, 2 shirts from Banana Republic, a tshirt from the Gap, a pair of dress pants, 2 camisoles and a strapless bra (need that for summertime!). oh yes and a hat.

2 things i learned:

1) $500 does NOT buy a girl a new wardrobe. not even close.
2) Jeff is the best boy shopper EVER. he was sooooooooooo patient and he even picked stuff out for me to try on. he bought me a shirt when i was sad and he wasn't grumpy at all, even after 8 hours of west ed shopping. i was so proud of him.

still need to buy: black work shoes. dress for the numerous weddings i am attending this year. pair of jeans. sigh. i need more money!!!

anyway, like i was saying, jeff really was the perfect companion on this trip. if he didn't come into a store with me he would just wait outside with his blackberry and play poker or suduko or something. he suggested i go here and there and picked stuff out for me to try on and gave me his opinion and so on and so forth. perfect. i cried cuz i was frustrated about not finding a pair of jeans (i cry about dumb stuff sometimes) and he was okay with going back to the mall on sunday. he even wandered around ikea with me and he hates that store. so i was very impressed with my wonderful boyfriend this weekend.

thats about all for now. hope everyone had a nice weekend as well!

thought i'd add a couple more pics. sadly i only pulled out my camera at the game... i have no other pictures!!!!