Her name is CORONA?! / Let's try new foods at Mui's!
Parents picked me up for church today, and my mother proceeded to kinda insult my intelligence by making sure I knew that I'd be sitting with the family at the wedding banquet on Saturday. "It's tradition, and you shouldn't complain about not sitting with your friends!" Like I didn't KNOW that?! Luckily, I had my book for company as Mom told me that I should respond to Erin's wedding invitation. For my brother's sake, I won't tell him some dark thoughts I have about weddings and such at this very moment! Not that I don't like Harmony - I do - but there are too many weddings and such. :P
When we got into the parkade, I saw Gabriel - we greeted each other at the elevator. I was looking for somewhere good to sit, and picked the row behind Steph and Jonathan. Said hi to them - it was good to see Jonathan, for sure! Gave Jon the durian wafers when Sam and Joey told us to greet everyone - also shook Jeremy's hand, and introduced myself to a girl called Caroline. I was pleased to see the announcement of the wedding in this week's bulletin, and Jon and Harmony also made a general announcement later on. Vanessa and I were giving Jonathan a hard time about it later, since he insisted that he hadn't been invited - did you not hear Jon say something about it during service, dude?! Hahahaha. Since Jon had to be himself, he joked that Calla and Stanford were the ones getting married - they just got engaged last Sunday, apparently! Too many weddings and engagements going on now!
I asked Cindy how the monastery retreat thing had been yesterday, and she said it was good. Everyone asked me whether I was really excited for Saturday - meh, I guess. Maybe a bit ENVIOUS, but really - weddings are a lot of work, and maybe I'm glad it's not me! Wandered out to the snack table and chatted to Tim for a bit - plenty of variety with watermelon, fries (which my mom was somehow involved with according to Uncle John), cheese and crackers, Joey's homemade huge cookies (according to Cordia), and some more stuff. Steph and I talked to little Hannah about watermelon, and I told baby Mattias that I'd hoped to see his wild hair today, haha. Hannah's baby brother Gavin cried when Auntie Cathy held him - he'd done the same a couple weeks ago when Harmony did that, heh. Stranger anxiety, man! Chatted to Andrew about exams, tests, and non-boredom... always good to talk to him! Tried saying hi to little Nathaniel and Abby while I talked to their parents Helen and Joe about the wedding and summer plans.
Talked to Emily, Quan (who was really red), Sarah, Mike (same green tie as the Thanksgiving banquet), Hien (I'll change my picture since she changed her name...), Isabel, and others too. Accidentally repeated my question to Jeremy about Friday and his exams - YIKES! Jonathan told me about plans, and the possibility that he'd eat lunch with my parents. Said hi to little Joshua and Keenan, too. Overheard Steph and Karmie talking about the Stanley Cup final scheduling - Pastor John will miss two Red Wings games on Thursday and Saturday due to the wedding rehearsal and the banquet itself, haha. After saying hi to baby Allison (getting a high-five in the process), I headed upstairs to the toddler Sunday School class. There was a new little girl, but Auntie Fonda didn't know her name - all she knew was that the girl spoke Mandarin! While Amanda went to the bathroom, I read to this little girl from some Dora the Explorer / Blue's Clues books. She seemed to know some English words like "fish," "sandcastle," and "circle" - and also seemed to understand my questions about whether she could see certain things on the pages... phew!
Little Arthur was back - his mom Tammy had been sick with the flu, so he got his stuffed animal later on. Of course it was for HIM! Got a hug and a "thank you" for that one, heh. Watson was restless, saying that David had run over his hand with his bike - yikes! (he also said that he was four years old) Amanda and Amos ("I live in Vancouver!") just wanted to play with each other, while Esther was pretty quiet. When the little girl's mother arrived to pick her up, we asked what the girl's name was: I couldn't help laughing a lot out loud when we received the answer, along with spelling: CORONA?!!! Told the girl's mom that Corona was a type of beer, even if it DOES mean "eye" in Spanish or something like that! I resolved to call the girl "Cori" for short, and at least she understands English from daycare!
Went downstairs, where I saw Steph escorting Grandma from the washrooms. Asked her whether Jonathan was there - yup, he was playing the fellowship hall's piano! This would be when Vanessa and I gave him a hard time about not attending the wedding on Saturday... he was looking back and forth from one of us to the other like it was a ping-pong match, hahaha! Told Jon, Harmony, Jeremy, and Nathan about the little girl's name - Jon immediately thought of Heineken and Guinness! I explained to Harmony that I had met girls with the names Fresnona (her dad was Fresno...) and Fedora before, too. Isabel and I talked about Felina, who was Jenny and Connie's German-Chinese cousin. Interesting stuff, for sure! Little Nathan said that he was going into Grade 4, as the second-oldest person in primary. His sister Natalie is due to hit HIGH SCHOOL?! OH MAN, THEY GROW UP SO FAST!
The family went to Mui's for lunch - finally, a break for me from Tsui Woo! We exposed Jonathan to a bunch of new foods, although he can't really have seafood despite being from P.E.I. He didn't really seem impressed by Shanghai Wonderful or the SLB when they were there a while back, but liked most of the stuff he tried today. Sure, he can being his parents when they come to see him later in the year! Grandma tried speaking some English to him, so we had to translate her Chinese! She was also cranky because it was hot and she was hungry - meh, we're used to it. Steph's going to Melia's for a girls' night since Angus is doing something tonight. Of course, I had cold yin-yang! It was an interesting lunch, anyhow - Vivian decided to serve us soup, while Grandma actually had tea and rice at lunch! (she normally NEVER does...) Steph gave me a ride home since I didn't want to stick around while the parents ran wedding-related errands... Terrence is coming to town in a few weeks, which should be interesting. Kevin's just sent us an email about Friday's Fellowship program - it doesn't matter to me what we do since I likely won't be there for it, hahahaha.
When we got into the parkade, I saw Gabriel - we greeted each other at the elevator. I was looking for somewhere good to sit, and picked the row behind Steph and Jonathan. Said hi to them - it was good to see Jonathan, for sure! Gave Jon the durian wafers when Sam and Joey told us to greet everyone - also shook Jeremy's hand, and introduced myself to a girl called Caroline. I was pleased to see the announcement of the wedding in this week's bulletin, and Jon and Harmony also made a general announcement later on. Vanessa and I were giving Jonathan a hard time about it later, since he insisted that he hadn't been invited - did you not hear Jon say something about it during service, dude?! Hahahaha. Since Jon had to be himself, he joked that Calla and Stanford were the ones getting married - they just got engaged last Sunday, apparently! Too many weddings and engagements going on now!
I asked Cindy how the monastery retreat thing had been yesterday, and she said it was good. Everyone asked me whether I was really excited for Saturday - meh, I guess. Maybe a bit ENVIOUS, but really - weddings are a lot of work, and maybe I'm glad it's not me! Wandered out to the snack table and chatted to Tim for a bit - plenty of variety with watermelon, fries (which my mom was somehow involved with according to Uncle John), cheese and crackers, Joey's homemade huge cookies (according to Cordia), and some more stuff. Steph and I talked to little Hannah about watermelon, and I told baby Mattias that I'd hoped to see his wild hair today, haha. Hannah's baby brother Gavin cried when Auntie Cathy held him - he'd done the same a couple weeks ago when Harmony did that, heh. Stranger anxiety, man! Chatted to Andrew about exams, tests, and non-boredom... always good to talk to him! Tried saying hi to little Nathaniel and Abby while I talked to their parents Helen and Joe about the wedding and summer plans.
Talked to Emily, Quan (who was really red), Sarah, Mike (same green tie as the Thanksgiving banquet), Hien (I'll change my picture since she changed her name...), Isabel, and others too. Accidentally repeated my question to Jeremy about Friday and his exams - YIKES! Jonathan told me about plans, and the possibility that he'd eat lunch with my parents. Said hi to little Joshua and Keenan, too. Overheard Steph and Karmie talking about the Stanley Cup final scheduling - Pastor John will miss two Red Wings games on Thursday and Saturday due to the wedding rehearsal and the banquet itself, haha. After saying hi to baby Allison (getting a high-five in the process), I headed upstairs to the toddler Sunday School class. There was a new little girl, but Auntie Fonda didn't know her name - all she knew was that the girl spoke Mandarin! While Amanda went to the bathroom, I read to this little girl from some Dora the Explorer / Blue's Clues books. She seemed to know some English words like "fish," "sandcastle," and "circle" - and also seemed to understand my questions about whether she could see certain things on the pages... phew!
Little Arthur was back - his mom Tammy had been sick with the flu, so he got his stuffed animal later on. Of course it was for HIM! Got a hug and a "thank you" for that one, heh. Watson was restless, saying that David had run over his hand with his bike - yikes! (he also said that he was four years old) Amanda and Amos ("I live in Vancouver!") just wanted to play with each other, while Esther was pretty quiet. When the little girl's mother arrived to pick her up, we asked what the girl's name was: I couldn't help laughing a lot out loud when we received the answer, along with spelling: CORONA?!!! Told the girl's mom that Corona was a type of beer, even if it DOES mean "eye" in Spanish or something like that! I resolved to call the girl "Cori" for short, and at least she understands English from daycare!
Went downstairs, where I saw Steph escorting Grandma from the washrooms. Asked her whether Jonathan was there - yup, he was playing the fellowship hall's piano! This would be when Vanessa and I gave him a hard time about not attending the wedding on Saturday... he was looking back and forth from one of us to the other like it was a ping-pong match, hahaha! Told Jon, Harmony, Jeremy, and Nathan about the little girl's name - Jon immediately thought of Heineken and Guinness! I explained to Harmony that I had met girls with the names Fresnona (her dad was Fresno...) and Fedora before, too. Isabel and I talked about Felina, who was Jenny and Connie's German-Chinese cousin. Interesting stuff, for sure! Little Nathan said that he was going into Grade 4, as the second-oldest person in primary. His sister Natalie is due to hit HIGH SCHOOL?! OH MAN, THEY GROW UP SO FAST!
The family went to Mui's for lunch - finally, a break for me from Tsui Woo! We exposed Jonathan to a bunch of new foods, although he can't really have seafood despite being from P.E.I. He didn't really seem impressed by Shanghai Wonderful or the SLB when they were there a while back, but liked most of the stuff he tried today. Sure, he can being his parents when they come to see him later in the year! Grandma tried speaking some English to him, so we had to translate her Chinese! She was also cranky because it was hot and she was hungry - meh, we're used to it. Steph's going to Melia's for a girls' night since Angus is doing something tonight. Of course, I had cold yin-yang! It was an interesting lunch, anyhow - Vivian decided to serve us soup, while Grandma actually had tea and rice at lunch! (she normally NEVER does...) Steph gave me a ride home since I didn't want to stick around while the parents ran wedding-related errands... Terrence is coming to town in a few weeks, which should be interesting. Kevin's just sent us an email about Friday's Fellowship program - it doesn't matter to me what we do since I likely won't be there for it, hahahaha.
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