Countdown: 28

Another weekend without badminton. That's 2 weeks in a row... bummer! Sunday mornings there is drop-in adult badminton at GRC in Stittsville. It is currently Sunday morning and my reason for playing hooky from fun times at the GRC is homework. To be specific, I am transcribing interviews. I've been at it for a while, but Bejeweled Blitz has been helping keep me off task for a little while... and now I'm blogging. Oops!

Fun Fact: Today marks the 1 month countdown until my departure to Europe... leaving on March 27, 2011 from Montreal, QC and arriving in Paris, France!

This morning I have managed to make plans for a few weekends from now; I'm going to Sudbury! Mini road trip to see some good friends before the grand adventure begins. I wanted it to happen this past week; however, as a wise man once said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need". My interpretation of that quote is that good things come in time... and you can't rush visits to Sudbury!

Coffee Break

Bridgehead and Beau's Brewery have made the ultimate fusion... Winterbrew beer! They've combined Beau's all-natural beer with fair trade Nicaraguan coffee to create this intense flavour-party-for-the-palette... and it kept me conscious for a fair bit longer than alcohol usually does! Last night I went to a party at the Bridgehead at 96 Sparks in Ottawa that featured this awesome brew. Really hoping that it will be available at the LCBO sometime soon!

I heard about the Bridgehead-Beau's event through an old camp friend, Cameron, who is a barrista (is this a gender neutral term?) at one of the coffee shops. While we were hanging out last night he also recommended I become a couch surfer. I don't know much about couch surfing, but I do know it is an extremely cost effective way to travel AND that joining the couch surfing community is by invitation only... ladies and gentlemen, I may have just found my in. So I'm in the process of signing up with the website... there is so much info to put in... but such great reward in the end.

I didn't clue in until the other day, but this week coming up is my reading week for school!! How college can schedule a March break in the mid-end of February is beyond me. Regardless, this basically means I have made no plans, and it may be too late to make any. Originally I was going to get to Sudbury, Ont. to meet up with some of my amazing friends at Laurentian University. It might take a miracle to pull this one off!!

Anyways, it's the long weekend here because of Monday being deemed 'Family Day'. No difference to me, it's my 'March break' after all! The plan for the week is to get a move on on my school projects, and perhaps pull a trip to the Dirty Nickel AKA Sudbury outta my bag... wish me luck!

(Sudbury, Ont., view of the water tower from the downtown Tim Horton's!)