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sister time.

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hi everyone.

i meant to post this earlier but lately my brain is somewhere far far away from my actual place where my brain is normally supposed to be.

so, my sister and her boyfriend made the journey from Nova Scotia to Toronto (like a 1.5 hour flight, it´s great) for the weekend to visit with Gabriel and I this past weekend. We had a great time visiting, and we haven´t seen her since our wedding, since we haven´t had a chance to get back east, so it was great of them to come to us.

My sister comes here usually 2x a year to visit (i know, I´m spoiled) so she´s seen a lot,    done a lot and is used to a lot of what is really different about a small city of 500,000 to a big city of close to 5 million. We went to the Distillery District (Brick Street Bakery~ like, ohmagaaawd),  Balzac´s coffee shop, Soma chocolate Lab, and then hit Vaughan Mills outlet mall. (so good).                         

We took Saturday to go to Niagara Falls, and see some sights there. This was their first time, so it was nice to be able to get a chance to go outside the city. As many times as we´ve  been,  always so breathtaking. You really do forget how beautiful nature can be sometimes, you know? Even though i´ve been a florist for 11 years, i still somehow forget things like this when they are not right in my face.  Maybe Toronto stole my ability to remember nature away from me? Anyway, we had great weather and a great day to enjoy~ overall a great weekend indeed!

              

For the rest of their visit we walked in High Park, went to Polson pier, went to The Beaches area and sauntered around in the 40 degree heat and smog, Cherry Beach, Steamwhistle Brewery, downtown around Spadina  area, Film Buff for ice cream, Sherway Gardens Mall, Utopia for lunch (always amazing), Ikea (a must-go for Maritimers, as we don´t have one at all)  and i´m sure some other areas I´m forgetting with my phantom brain.

             

So,  a giant thank you Heidi and Roger for coming to our city and staying with us~ we love you and wish we got to see you and do this kind of thing more often!  (G loves to navigate and act as Official Tour Guide to our out of town guests)

For the rest of you, if you come to Toronto, look us up so we can cart you ´round and show you the sights and sounds. (and, sometimes smells)

Happy Wednesday night, whatever you get up to or into!

M.I.A but happy holidays!

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hey everyone. i have been so not a blogger as of late. everytime i go to write a post i just feel like not completing it for some reason.

anywho, this week i have celebrated my 29th (eeeek!) birthday,and  my mama had her birthday yesterday. also, we had our funny little 2 year anniversary (since our first date) this month. so that’s been fun. today we are off to kitchener to celebrate christmas with our brazilian friends and their family who are visiting from sao paulo. i am so excited to see the kids open presents~ this is their first christmas in canada!  i wish (as much as i hate, hate, HATE to say this) that we ‘got a little bit of snow for them to be able to play in, so that this first one could be all the more special to them. otherwise i have no desire to see the  shit ever again. just for the kids.

after we spend the night in kitchener we decided to go to niagra falls for a few nights to celebrate our first christmas as de Oliveiras. it was g’s idea, as we didn’t leave toronto and  take any time off after the wedding. so we have  a nice room to stay in and we will just hang out, drink wine and enjoy the frozen falls from the canadian side. might even pop by Hart and Huntington and get a little ink…. ! maybe, maybe not. i’ll keep you posted.

it’s really kindof strange for me to not be going home to Scotia for the Holidays, and i will be really missing my family this weekend. sometimes i think about how g and his family have been apart for so long (he has only been back to Brazil once since he came to Canada) and i know they miss him and find the holidays pretty tough, too. hopefully we will get to see them in the New Year, and i can meet all of the amazing family in Sao Paulo. i am really excited that this is our 1st christmas as Mr. and Mrs, so i will make sure to document our lil’ vacation and post sometime soon.

happy happy holidays to everyone~i miss all of those i won’t be visiting this year, so a big hug,and  best wishes to you and yours’ for the New Year!

                                                                                        last christmas at citadel hill in hali

 

 

nova scotia, the sea bound coast

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we are probably drunk in this one....

well, tomorrow night gabe and i are off to the maritimes for christmas, arriving on my mama’s birthday!
i haven’t been home since last year at this time, and this time they will be meeting my other half, so we are all pretty anxious and excited.
for any maritimers reading this, you will note that i know it will be an absolute shitshow of all kinds, and i am thoroughly prepared and ready.
loving your current city doesn’t mean we all don’t get homesick from places that we once loathed, right?
i am just so excited to see my family and girlfriends that i have been missing lately and also my pseudo nephew, Mateo. I last saw him a mere few weeks after he was born, and now he is a spry 1 year old and walking! sigh…..i am tearing up with the thought. christmastime at home, seeing all the random people from your past is always fun, sometimes weird as hell,…. but fun. yee haw! gabe says we are headed to the country…. i said, “i’ll let you decide that when you get there”.
so, off we go. i will try and keep some awesome random shit posted from the “hub of nova scotia”~ truro, for you all to feast upon whilst i am away.and upon our return? a guest from calgary, my gurl charley louise. yay holidays!

 

HOLLAH! here we coooooome!!!!!

~dj