super awesome fun victoria day(s)

we had a super awesome fun extended weekend this week! dan and katie came to visit late sunday night and stayed until tuesday after supper. patrick is fighting a cold, and it was rainy and dull outside, but we had a lot of homemade fun and laughs and we miss dan and katie so much already!
it was all awesome, but here are the highlights:
-janelle and katie went shopping on monday, and bought anniversary presents (happy third to us! yay!) - a new magic bullet and a new set of glasses for the kitchen because we're clumsy and break ours a lot.
-rebekah daigle joined us for a yummy supper - katie made her famous macaroni salad and we had burgers too, and we all pitched in and made a rainbow cake that looked awful but tasted fantastic. three cheers for a great group effort!
-we 'helped' dan study for his major final exam. during this quizfest/conversation, patrick revealed that he once (or twice...) put a partridge's beating heart in his mouth. all kissing was curtailed.
-on tuesday, janelle got up bright and early to make smoothies for breakfast. the new blender isn't as good as the old one, and the smoothie ended up all over the kitchen. janelle ended up in tears. breakfast was nixed, and poor dan had to go to his exam with just a piece of toast to tide him over.
-dan wrote his six hour exam alllllll day long. katie met him for lunch, then came home with the great news that she saw a bubble tea shop while she was out!
-katie was wearing an awesome sundress that told the weather, "you're not the boss of me!"
-nursing a burned finger (for reasons that shall remain undisclosed) janelle kissed patrick goodbye, and went out with rebekah and katie in quest of the bubble tea shop.
-poor patrick worked all day, fighting his nasty cold that seems determined to win. he was vastly cheered up, thought, beccause ...
-WE FOUND BUBBLE TEA IN HALIFAX! it's not quite as good as C'est Bon, our toronto favorite, but it's quite passable and will definitely be our date-night location of choice.
-after slurping up our tea, we felt a yen for asian food and went to the asian grocery market on quinpool. we bought chicken wontons, soup base (yuck), and dumplings. we also got some yummy taro cookies and dried fruit candy. three cheers for a fun outing!
-we picked up dan (exhausted from his exam) and came home and made chinese food for supper. (wonton soup base tastes like fish - we threw it out and made a chicken version). when i say "we" cooked, i should really say rebekah cooked - or slaved over the stove - ps mad cooking skills, bek! - and finally, we polished off the last of the cake and said our sad goodbyes.
c'est tout!