homesick

Tyler and I went on a mini adventure bike ride downtown yesterday. We ended up having lunch at John's Place and got a window seat to watch our bikes. We were waiting for our food when this chick tries to parallel park basically right in front of us. She does it all wrong, goes in nose first and everything, and at one point, actually looks at us laughing at her and mouths "Great, and of course there's people laughing at how I can't parallel park" to the people in the car with her. She got in, eventually. The best part was that we saw her looking at us looking at her and neither of us looked away. We just kept laughing, basically in her face. I hope she wasn't too offended because she really made my day.

I called my parents house last night. They had everyone over for dinner for Kim's birthday. It was great to talk to everybody, and at the same time extremely disheartening. I miss home, I miss having family around, and I miss having friends to hang out with and to talk to. After I hung up the phone I stood outside for a while, and our neighbour Tony called me over. He's from Europe, and is very entertaining. I can hardly understand what he's talking about, but I know for a fact that he raises bunnies to eat them and has a fantastic garden. We talked for a while, and he gave me some potatoes he had grown. We had them for dinner along with barbecued pork and carrots. They were delicious.