Mardi Gras, Pictou County Style

After being postponed a week due to weather we were finally able to celebrate Mardi Gras in Pictou County! It was held at The Palace, above the Stone Soup Cafe (who catered the event) and was a super fun time.

Greg was decked out in the finest mish mash of Frenchy's attire and I was a bit more modest just wearing lots of purple and a mask. While I didn't make the mask I'm wearing (below) I learned that having a mask on a stick is challenging and it's best to go with a mask on a string. Thankfully our friends came prepared with extra masks:

Snazzy friends (top), we made up a game: who can get three strings of beads on their bottle the quickest (bottom) - endless creativity at this table:

Headbanging in his grandmother's wig, really just showing how well it stays on. I was impressed:

There was a band, so there was lots of dancing, the food was amazing and we paraded around the room showing off our costumes. A colourful and very fun night!

Halloween Party

Like many others Greg and I had our Halloween party on Saturday night. Here's a look:

I made some pumpkins from styrofoam balls, yarn, acorns and a bit of hot glue:

Some of our costumed guests:

Greg went searching for old lady glasses and came back looking like a hipster, but it works! We went as Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf:

Runnning for a Cure

Last weekend a group of fine people got together to make the wonderful team the Neon Runners for the Fredericton Run for the Cure. I didn't know a number of these folks before the run so it was great to meet new people, have a nice run and raise monies for a great cause. The rain even held off until later in the day, hooray!

I'm pretty slow getting these photos up, but it's better late than never!

The Neon Runners! Photo credit to the photo lady for the run!

Dealing with the cold weather - check out those neon socks!!

I had the honour of being Team Captain, and I got a pin for it!

The Agnews

Mittens? Nope, they are socks!

Pre-run we went to Nancy and James to warm up,
the shoes had a party

What I was running for!

Neon Runners at the front of the pack, pre run

And we're off!

Accidental self shot while running

Where walkers meet runners

Signing the Wall of Hope

Summer!!!

Thanks for a super awesome time, super awesome team!!! YAHOO!!

Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival

I mentioned Greg and I headed to Fredericton to check out the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival but I neglected to post photos, so here we go:

Where we spent much of the afternoon

We caught a few of these shows

There was a pig roast...I was amazed AND
grossed out all at the same time

There was also a guy in a chicken outfit,
not sure what that was all about.

Dan and Sarah were our lovely hosts for the day/night

They were lovely as usual

We went to see David Myles and Steven
Page at the Playhouse, it was great!

The show was supported by CBC as was
obvious by the glowing logo on the wall

Remembering Jack Layton

I stumbled across a link that George Stombolopolus shared on Twitter where you could download a mustache (a trustache) to place on your profile picture to show your remembrance/support/admiration/sympathy/inspiration of Jack Layton.

I don't like crying, so I put off reading his letter to Canadians but I finally did and needless to say I was moved.

We will be watching his funeral on CBC tomorrow and I'm sure tears will well up once again.

I am happy to be able to pay tribute and remember the man behind the mustache through something as simple as a jpg

15 Minute Visit

I'm not sure how this slipped my posting, tisk tisk!

My wonderful friend Rodd was stopping in Halifax just for a day on his way from Ontario to Labrador. Due to me leaving on a train for Miramichi we had very limited time to catch up. This resulted in an awesome (but much too short) catch up at the Halifax train station. Rodd literally just got in from the airport and I had to board my train, but better 15 minutes than no time!

A nice gentleman at the station snapped out photo, check out the amount of light that comes through the windows!

Rodd is an excellent photographer, in fact he has a website to show off his skills. Check it out: www.roddlaing.com

Last Day of School

Well at least my last day as a student (for awhile). I will hopefully have lots of last days of school in my *fingers crossed* employed future.

I was fortunate to attend the last class of the entire BEd program, hooray! Despite it being a 6 hour class on a Friday it was always a treat. For the last class our profs even brought us in a yummy chocolate cake and hilarious picture props to celebrate.

I'm posting those photos, but a few others from the last week of classes.

Yasmine and Katrina chalk it up with wonderful words
outside of BMH

The thoughtful thank you wall that Ashton made, thank you!

More pictures after the jump!

Amazing & Talented Friend!

I was leaving campus, about to bike home when I ran into a group of lovely classmates drawing for an Art class. It turns out that I was of suitable model caliber for a gesture drawing assignment and a very talented Alana put pencil to paper and 2 minutes later this happened:

Bravo Alana!

PS. Updates are coming from a fun-filled BEd weekend! I promise (Yasmin!)

Happy Birthday!

David Suzuki!

Source

He turns 75 years young today and the CBC is celebrating it by having a special on his program The Nature of Things (which is 50 years young - amazing!). The show is on tonight so you know what I'll be busy doing!

You can check out the David Suzuki Foundation website and read all kinds of neat things and even send a happy birthday message his way!

Speaking of busy, that is what I have been. I started my second internship on March 14 and it seems my posts have stopped entirely with all of the busy I have been.

I have a new and hopefully reasonable goal. To have one post a week. I anticipate a weekend posting time but we'll see. Greg and I went to the Irving Nature Park (not an oxymoron) last weekend so I should really get my butt in gear and get those photos up. That will be a project for the weekend!

Last, Last Day of Camp

After 4 summers of working with awesome individuals at SuperNOVA I'm happy that my last, last day of camp was an awesome one. Things went smoothly, kids left earlier than early, the team worked together as they have been for the past four months and things came together with pizza, cake, awards and a sing-a-long (Smash Mouth and Britney Spears among the songs).

It's flown by, but this has been hands down the best summer ever!

The team minus 2 with the "We Made Friends With Science" cake!

The team (again minus 2) but this time with Mara and I !

Note the medals the staff are wearing around their necks -  I have a post coming soon with the details of their creation!

Like I said, it was an awesome summer, an awesome day and I even received AMAZINGLY thoughtful presents from the team.

BEST SUMMER EVER!