We’re heading down to Regina and Moose Jaw soon and wont be back to Saskatoon til tomorrow afternoon.  We are unreachable til we return and won’t have the internet down there.  Photos will be updated upon returning home to ‘Toon.

Today was always going to be good, if for no other reason than we were going to see Dane Cook live tonight at the C.U.C.  Before we could get there however, we had a whole day to get through.

Our actual day started at 9:30am when the alarm went off.  Getting almost 9hrs sleep was huge for us, as over the last 2 weeks we’ve averaged less than 5hrs a night.  After getting up and doing the breakfast-shower-internet thing all loaded up into the mini-van and headed down to the local mall to get some lunch and hopefully find a new pair of jeans for me.

You would think that Saskatoon, being a cold city known for it’s long snowy winters would have undercover parking, right?  Apparently not.  The mall itself was like most malls, although the food court was pretty cool as it had loads of places to eat we’ve never seen before.  We ended up going on Bella’s suggestion and getting “Extreme Pita”, which i guess could best be described as a pita bread version of subway.  Incredibly nice, and like many places over here, incredibly well priced.

After lunch we headed into the mall and found this great sports memorabilia store where we picked up 5 packs of hockey cards for only $1 each!  All of them had Mike Modano cards on top, so we couldn’t say no.  Everything is green here right now thanks to the Saskatchewan Roughriders (Riders) making the playoffs!  I can’t remember the full details of where they are in the standings, but it’s the first time in years that the team has been this good, so everything is “Riders” right now.

After the sports store we went to Zellers where we found a great pair of Wrangler jeans for only $30.  They were on special, so the final price we paid was only $21!  Never have i found a pair of jeans so well priced.  With me underway we headed out and to Chapters-Indigo to look at books and pick up a Latte from Starbucks.  It turns out Latte’s don’t exist at Timmy Ho’s over here in Saskatchewan either… disappointing people, very disappointing.  Anyway, Starbucks was awesome, one of the best SB coffee’s i’ve had thus far.

All coffee’d up, we headed home for a few hours before heading out to Dane Cook.

Dane Cook… wow.  He had 2 opening comedy acts (Al Del Bene & Robert Kelly) who were both incredibly funny.  Thanks to Robert Kelly, I will never watch True Blood or read about Sookie Stackhouse the same!  Dane did over an hour and left people in stitches as he visited every un-PC joke you could think of, and then added some more just for good measure.  Like most Dane Cook shows, he pushed and pushed that line between OMG and OMFG, and did it incredibly well.  Needless to say, it was a show worth seeing, so if you get a chance, go see him!

After the show we hung in Terry’s office for a bit before heading back home, stopping first for a quick detour to Timmy Ho’s for a Hot Chocolate (liquid crack!).

Tomorrow we’re heading down to Regina and then on to Moose Jaw to see the Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL team) play.

Dane Cook

Tonight Wendy, Bella and I are off to see Dane Cook live at the C.U.C.  Dane Cook is an outstanding comedian and actor, so the chance to see him live is fantastic!  His film credits include “Good Luck Chuck”, “Torque”, “Mystery Men” and many more, and of course, his comedy credits are long and detailed.  We will post photos (hopefully) tonight when we get home.

If there is one thing that Wendy and I are generally great at doing, it’s traveling on less than 3hrs sleep.  Today was no different, and after just a few hours sleep we were rudely awoken by our alarms at the horrible time of 5:40am so we could get down to the airport by 6:15am.

The drive to the airport was an experience.  It was raining pretty hard and of course, still dark, so we were not only driving on roads we were unfamiliar with, but doing so in bad weather conditions.  Luckily for us we had Ms Garmin, the name I gave the GPS we had purchased with the rental car to help us get there safely.    Would you believe, we actually DID get there without getting lost?  Yep, proud of us, eh?  The drive itself was pretty scary… Toronto drivers are crazy people who like to speed 2okm over the speed limit, even when it’s dark and wet!

With the car checked back in we head to the terminal to check our bags in and get boarding passes so we could get out of the city and over to Saskatoon.  Those who’ve not been to Toronto Pearson Intl Airport before, they have the worse gate system i’ve ever seen.  Both domestic and International flights go through the same tiny gates, and that a shortage of bins (for the xray machines) and queues (lines) much too short of the amount of people.  Needless to say, it was a bottleneck in a hot airport while wearing warm clothes.  Ick!

Toronto wasn’t yet done with us,  as we were flagged for a bag check while going through customs, so my very tightly packed laptop bag is messed up while the lady, who was very apologetic and nice, did her scan thing.  Eventually we’re let through.  A debate over where to eat was followed by good before we finally boarded the plane, and OMG Karma smiled on us!  We were given Isle 10… the emergency exit.  that meant that not only did we board first, but we also had LOADS of leg room!  Woohoo the trip is looking up.  The flight attendant was really great and had a good chat with us.

The fight was scheduled for 2hrs 55minutes, but we must have had a tail wind as landed in Saskatoon 15 minutes early, so by the time Bella picked us up from the airport, we had just collected our bags from the baggage claim area.

For those that don’t know, the reason we’re in Saskatoon is to visit Bella and her partner, Terry.  Bella is Wendy’s best friend dating back to high school.  Before moving to Canada a few years back she lived with Wendy and I in Brisbane.  Needless to say, it has been absolutely fantastic to see her again, and to meet Terry and their 2 kids, Tommy and Bob.

As a journey with Wendy and I is not a journey without getting lost, we did exactly that, somehow ending up on a road we did not know, nor need.  After a great laugh, Bella had us on the right road and we headed home to their place, our home til December 1.  The weather here was cold… -2 celcius when we flew in at 11:15am but like all our other stops, there is no snow.  We hear that there is a very big chance of snow before we leave though, so there is always hope.

The afternoon consisted of going out for Timmy Ho’s for lunch and to get some antihistamines for Wendy, and then chilling with some downtime on the net while we did our laundry.  Dinner of home cooked butter chicken and a night relaxing watching hockey and Supernatural (season 5, ep. 10) while catching up with Bella and Terry had this day finishing on an incredible high point.

Tomorrow: Dane Cook live, catching up on sleep and having some down-time.  Night all