Interlude (Sarah leaves)

Sarah got the train to London in the morning, so I went down to the train station with her and saw her onto her train. We grabbed starbucks first, and I encountered a spelling of my name I had never seen before: 

I spent most of the rest of that day at school doing work.

In unrelated news, I had previously mentioned mum buying me a Stila liquid eyeliner pen for my birthday from Sephora and I feel the strong need to gush about it for a bit.

I've had a couple of liquid eyeliners and have been attempting to master it for a couple years, but am bad enough at it that I kind of tend to avoid doing it and thus have not been getting better at it, but my friend Shanni recommended this eyeliner, as have a couple of other people I know, so I decided to give it a shot and WOW.

This pen makes it so easy to put on liquid eyeliner, even and with straight lines. Its even easy to do wings with it. And it does not move - my old liquid eyeliner I always had to be careful how I blinked right after I put it on or I could risk transferring it to my upper lid - not the case with this pen! So if you're in the market for new liquid eyeliner, I really recommend the Stila one.

Awesome birthday present <3

FRIENDSHIP

Though I was a bit pressed for time while home, I did drive up to Airdrie twice to see some friends. And drink a lot of coffee. On Friday I drove in and met Graeme, and also went into Good Earth and saw the team - I don't recognize most of the people working there anymore, but there were a few familiar faces still hanging about, and it was really fun to see them! I have to say, working as a barista at Good Earth is still the best job I've ever had, and visiting made me really miss it. Graeme and I grabbed lunch at 5 Guys (yum!) and then I met Sarah for coffee. 

One of the things I probably miss the most about Canada is the beverages - they just don't do the same awesome summer drinks in this country, including the Starbucks Passion Fruit Iced Tea Lemonade (above, YUM), slushees, and Arizona Iced Teas. I probably miss all those more than my family tbh (just kidding).

(not really).

Sarah and I then walked all around Airdrie before heading up to CrossIron Mills, where we went into Chapters and were bad influences on each other.

Then I headed into the city, where I picked up Caitlyn and we had dinner at a Vietnamese place near her house, before walking around a park for a bit. It was really funny, when I got to her house, her mum beat her to the door and elbowed her out of the way to hug me first - Caitlyn was not super impressed.

On Sunday the boys went skiing so I headed into the city again, where I met Andrea, a former coworker at Good Earth, for coffee at Good Earth (I had a rooibos vanilla latte - another excellent beverage) were I again recognized none of the new employees, but was impressed by their latte art:

I then met up with Nicole and we hung out for a bit before I drove back down south. All told, it takes about an hour and a half to drive from Christine's farm to Airdrie using Stony Trail (which is awesome to drive on - so much more pleasant than Deerfoot), so two visits about did it for me. It was really good to see people though, and I was happy I got the chance to do so after so long away from home.