Attack on Boredom

(cue Lord of rings Music)

Once upon a time long in a far away land, in the bush lands of Boredom lived a young knight of impeccable strength and courage. He lived there in his humble home with his young, and might I add, stunning wife. Day to day he would leave their home to shovel snow away so that he could provide for his wife this beautiful house to live in. Although each and every day he would desire more than just snow shoveling, he desired adventure and excitement, after all he was strong and courageous and snow was not a very scary thing. One night he came home to his humble home in the bush land of Boredom to his stunning wife who also struggled with lack of adventure. They sat down together feeling defeated when all of a sudden there was a loud noise. The young knight leaped towards the window in a single bound and saw the flickering light of fire and flames. Boredom was under attack! It was the adventure they both were looking for, so they suited up and grabbed their secret weapon, carcassonne. They ran out to give their all to protect their dearly loved boredom they had become so acquainted with. At then end of the battle, the two young warriors had remained and their bushland of Boredom had been saved. Though the battle during the attack on Boredom had been the most exciting thing in days, the small land of Boredom had been restored, and life continued, until the next time adventure happened to knock on the door.

(The End)
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(So this was just a fun thing to share with you on how Andreas and I were bored one evening and decided to take are game of Carcassonne ["a clever tile-laying game" that involves claiming castles] and we took the pieces, built a map and Andreas decided to form an attack on my castle, the red, with his green men. So I wrote a story to share with you guys.. Thanks! )

snow day, or afternoon either way

This weekend we were requested to join in the young adult's retreat so Andreas could get a better idea what camp is like. So we joined in and it was a bit awkward because most people come to these retreats to... retreat, retreat from daily life and work and even location. We did not retreat and it was more of a task than a relaxing "retreat." So after this weekend was over and we had our share of "camp life" we just wanted to relax and calm down and it was beautiful day out, unsure of what temperature but beautiful none the less. We decided to take advantage of this amazing spring time weather and went outside to play. We enjoyed laying in fluffy snow banks and crawling around in the snow like silly children and walking across a frozen lake or in Andreas' case running across a frozen lake. It was the most relaxing and fun and best time of the whole entire week. Here are some pics from that day. Just to give you a better idea. :)

Do you Ski?

So there seems to be this common question we get asked living here up north, Do you ski? It's like asking someone who just moved to California, Do you surf? And just to clear things up, they are talking about cross country not down hill. So today we decided to try. We left the house in our very funny shoes to walk out to the ski trails. By the time we got there I had a pile of snow in my shoe but it was my idea to go out and give it a try so I tried to bare the pain. As we started out we didn't even make it to the first trail and I was ready to go in, I was cold and it's actually hard work cross country if your not use to it. My skis were very slippery which was great for flat areas, but the trails started having hills and the first hill I tried making it to I wasn't able to get up because every time I made it somewhat up the hill, I started to slide down again, so Andreas had to pull me up the hills. Then there are the curves, not knowing how to go around a curve I kind of went straight into the bush and into really deep snow, so I tried to turn around and give it another chance but silly skis just got all tangled up and I couldn't figure out how to get them untangled and before I knew it I was on the ground tangled in skis, arms, legs and poles. So thankfully my Swiss hero came a unlocked my shoes so I could get up. So that happened once again when I was attempting another hill, but what's worse is when you stick both those things together. We had given up early and were already on our way back home taking ski trails to get there, when it came, a steep hill with a curve at the bottom. Andreas being a skier from the alps, ;) perfect position and speed and curve. And I, Jessica being from the flat lands ended up going with tremendous speed down the hill screaming, Andreas yelling back "trust the skis hunny!" then it came to the curve, straight into the snowbank with great speed flew Jessica, face first. It was such an epic crash that I lost my shoe, it was still attached to my ski that was sitting on the trail waiting for me. I was laughing so hard I started to cry then my tears started to freeze, I lay in the snow with my shoeless foot in the air, and Andreas yells, "Do you need help getting up?"

So Andreas came to my rescue and unattached my foot from the ski and placed the snow filled shoe back on my foot and said, "Let's walk home."

Through rain, sleet or broken doors

So this story is going to lead back to this other important story that I am going to share with you now.. (don't worry it's short) One day, the car door wouldn't shut for Andreas, so I simple reached over and wiggled the latch and it was fixed.

Today, in my plans for the day, I wanted to send off the final wedding thank yous so I went out started my car and swept it off. When I came back I realized that my car door wasn't closed like I thought. So having done this before I juggled the latch and shut the door... but it bounced back. For about half an hour I sat outside jiggling, closing, jiggle, close, wiggle, and it just would not close, so I came up with a better idea, seeing as the post office wasn't too far I grabbed the scarves from the closet and tied them together and then tied the driver door handle and the

passenger door together with these scarves, then drove into town to send off my mail. Determined that the mail would go today. So on my way back I decided that I should probably get my door fixed so I can park it for the night. So I stopped at the main building where Andreas was painting and asked him to take a look at my door. He came out and wiggled once and closed the door. This time it did not bounce back. He turned to me grinning, "didn't you show me how to do that?"

learning humility... :S

Bringing home the newest family member

So yesterday we found out that we were able to pick up the newest member of our family, the mattress. As I wrote earlier we traveled all the way to Edmonton with that awful weather and back just so we could order a mattress from the Foam King. Now we went there with the intentions of ordering one mattress and came out with ordering a different one. One that would be better for my "special" back conditions. So then we got is shipped out to us in PA. Well it came to PA yesterday and we borrowed the camp truck to go pick it up. (giggle) if any of you have been to a camp you probably will understand when I say that I couldn't help but laugh. The camp truck is a lovely rust brown colour... or at least there is so much rust that you can't actually see the real colour, I don't know. A standard rear wheel drive. Yeah, major drifting! We were blessed to have it though because it did it's job, we went into the city got the mattress some slats and some groceries and made it home all in one piece. When we got home I rearranged some of the stuff to make room in our bedroom for the new mattress, while Andreas tried to get the truck back to the camp shop. He was at the shop for over three hours, later he shared his afternoon with me. When he tried to get the truck back it got stuck in the snow five times and once had to grab the tractor to pull himself out. Then when he was sanding down the wooden slats we bought for our bed frame, he said that the work table he was using just fell apart so he had to fix that before he could continue sanding the boards. So here I have some pictures of Andreas building the bed frame he created to support our mattress and our mattress.

WE'RE BACK!!

Hey so we have been back for a while and there has been a few interesting times so far. First off Christmas was really relaxing and very nice, we were able to hang out with some of my family and that was great.

So here we are back, this last weekend we decided that this was it, no more of these camp beds. We had switched them too many times and were running out of mattresses to try. So we researched foam mattresses and the best ones we could find were Foam King mattresses. So we took a trip all the way to Edmonton to Foam King mattress store and tried them out. And hopefully we will have the new mattress by Wed. Yes better sleeps to come!

While we were in Edmonton we stayed with some friends and in that day that we were there, it snowed at least a foot and a half, SO much SNOW! it was crazy we tried to drive our car a whole like 4 blocks and got stuck at least 7 times. It was so insane! but thankfully we knew some great people and we were able to stay another day because of this silly weather.

That's all I got for now!