east coast update

i left early, very early, last sunday morning for the airport in vancouver. when 6:35am hit, i boarded my plane and began my little journey east. a number of hours later, after listening to what seemed like thousands of songs, and a little bit of napping/movie watching, i arrived at the toronto airport and made my way down to the east coast boarding lounge. originally, i was supposed to wait there for about three hours before boarding my flight to moncton, but the plane i was scheduled to be on broke down, and before i realized it, my three hour stop had somehow managed to turn into six and a half. As if it was any consolation, i was able to finish one of my two major projects that was due today, but i'd really rather not have waited oh so long to hop on a flight to moncton.

eventually, i walked outside in the snow, towing my luggage behind me (the littlest of the two suitcases i had with me) to the small prop plane that would take me the rest of the way to new brunswick. after de-icing the plane, and waiting until the cabin reached a more natural temperature (at first it was like a sauna) we took off and landed an hour and a half later in moncton.

there he was. he looked pretty cute, but then again he always does.

there wasn't any slow-mo, but i definitely giggled quite a bunch. i think i even had to pinch myself a few times to realize that i wasn't dreaming. i was actually in moncton with my ridiculously cute boyfriend.

in the past few days, we've been all over the city. we spent the first few hours after i arrived touring the house that he'd built and now sold. i've met grandma and bumpy, had lunch with his mom & sister (girls lunch out), gone out to dinner theatre with his mom and dad, made christmas cards, watched three one-act plays at his old high school, volunteered in the operation christmas child warehouse with his senior high youth group, shopped, watched james bond, and toured p.e.i. (which was fun, but it's definitely a summer province). tomorrow we're off to nova scotia because hey, i'm on the east coast, and why not. i'm not quite sure what there is to do in halifax, but knowing us we'll find something.

i would have to say that i'm loving the east coast. i'm perpetually cold and i often find myself wishing that the snow hadn't followed me east, but the snow is pretty, so i can't really complain. it's strange to me that there's only one starbucks in the entire city, that just about everyone speaks french all of the time, traffic lights are horizontal and each light is a different shape, no one uses an umbrella, walmart is the busiest store, a traffic jam is only two blocks long, and there are traffic circles galore, but it all just makes me smile. i really don't think i could be any happier. i've missed seeing my boyfriend for three months, and now here i am in his hometown, where i get to see him everyday for two weeks. i'm a lucky girl, what can i say.