Honeymoon - Day 1 & 2

We stayed at my cousin's, Grahame, place on Sunday night so we could get a start to our honeymoon ASAP. When we woke up (6am, ugh!), we went to the unbelievably cute, Diary Lane Cafe. Emma had the tofu scramble and I had the french toast with cream cheese and berry compote. Both were fantastic. Hopefully, we'll make it there again before we leave for Toronto.

Then we drove to the Kensington area to get the keys to the condo we rented for 6 days (only $250!). Also, internet fucking access! Omigod, a dream come true. A week with full internet access and we can download tv shows and watch them right here! Awesome. We've been deprived of our beloved internets for some time now thanks to the impossibility of decent access out in the boonies.

Here's a couple pictures of the condo we stayed at:

The next thing on our list after setting up the computers was a long nap. A 3 hour nap to be precise. It was amazing. In all the time we've been here I've slept better here (with constant city noise) than I have in the last 2 months. After the much needed nap we checked out the shops in Kensington, and scored a butt-load of awesome consignment clothes (mostly from Trend Fashions)! We did basically the same thing on Tuesday, except we went to 17th Avenue SW (Calgary's much cooler equivalent of Edmonton's Whyte Ave). We easily could have bought a ton of stuff, but we exercised some restraint (Emma mostly), and I only bought the dress below (albeit mine's a bit different - it has a halter top instead) from Blame Betty and shoes to match. Actually, the shoes came first. The dress was fate. I usually think fate is a bunch of hoo-ha, but not when it comes to fashion. 

While on 17th Ave we went to The Coup for lunch which we highly recommend, and we visited Bird Dog Video to rent Time Crimes. P.S. Never time travel and do everything wrong! Another great find was A Little More Interesting, where I made a fool of myself by turning on sex toys and then not knowing how to turn them off, and having to ask the sales associate there to show me how. They sell the best lube ever! Cheesecake flavoured ones! Brilliant. Who doesn't love cheesecake?

Tattoo Tuesday

As I type this Emma is getting tattooed by the extremely talented Shawn O'Connor at Ink Machine. I think this is one of the reasons to stay in Edmonton - the abundance of great tattoo artists. We've been lucky to get some great work by Shawn, Miles Kanne of Lucky Strike, Lee Conklin at Crimson Empire, and even a little neck tattoo by Kevin at Urge 2. Unfortunately, Toronto has close to nothing for great tattoo shops, so every time we end up back in Edmonton we'll have to get some work done. Or there's always Montreal. 

Also at the moment, Mr. Buns and Finnigan (my mom's dog) are getting their spring haircuts, and Mr. Buns is getting his mohawk dyed! Blue! We're hoping it comes out more of a purple-ish colour but blue is still pretty cool. I'll post pictures once it's all done. I'm really excited for this grooming because, lately, Mr. Buns has taken to burying his bones in shit. Yup, good ol' shit. I don't know where he's finding it, and it doesn't smell like other dog poop so I'm guessing he found a pile of manure somewhere in Grandpa's garden.

But enough of tattoo and doggie talk - yesterday, I got my Canadian Income Tax refund. I sent it in on Netfile and it said I'd be getting somewhere close to $900 back. To my surprise, it was... $67 (and that's rounding it up)! What the hell? How do you go from $900 to $67? Monkeys could do better math! And, perhaps, they do:

Well, there went all of my plans to take my French 112 course at the U of A in a couple weeks. Now I have to wait until the summer course in July. I can afford the $700 then. So, since Emma and I can't move until I finish that course in mid-August we've decided to go on a brief honeymoon in Calgary a day or two after the wedding.  If anyone knows of some cheap accommodations please let us know. Currently, we're looking at renting out a condo for a week. Slightly cheaper than hotels and we can make our own food! Personally, I just can't wait to get away from the constant amounts of people around. Emma and I can finally just sit and peruse the interwebs, and not worry about being interrupted by company or seeming lazy (for those who don't know - we are living with my Grandfather for the moment which is a great way to save money for the wedding, and we helped him out after his car crash, but it's a bit tough living back at home after you haven't lived there in probably 4 or 5 years). Oh, also The Dears play in Calgary on June 2! Hence, good reason to go!