The Keddys

Well, what a difference a month makes! I'm sitting in our new apartment in lovely Kingston, Ontario. For the first time in two years our apartment is NOT the size of a shoebox, and I'm eating a bag of ketchup chips with a cat on my lap. All of these things would have been unthinkable just 6 weeks ago, but it's amazing how quickly things start to seem normal again.

Another big change is that I've gone from being a teacher to being a student- I'm now taking the BEd program at Queen's University. In a random twist of fate, Melodie got a job right away, and she is now teaching for... Queen's! She got a great job at their School of English. Did I mention that we're actually renting our apartment from Queen's, too? I guess they own us now- hahaha.

Oh yeah, one more big change since our last update:

We got hitched!

Vegas was awesome! Can you think of a better place to reunite with 30+ family members and friends after two years abroad? I can't. We got married at the Graceland wedding chapel. We went to the chapel in a white limo- neither of us had ever been in a limo before- and we just barely got to the chapel on time. The whole ceremony was only two minutes and forty-five seconds long, which was just long enough for us! Elvis sang two songs and before you knew it, we were the Keddys!

The wedding after-party was at the Fremont Street Experience, a covered street flanked by flashy casinos, shops and restaurants. The street was full of crazy people (present company included) and impersonators of Michael Jackson, cupid, KISS and more. Loverboy was playing a free show and the ceiling of the covered street had a light show projected on it all night long. It was so fun!!

We ate lots of good food, toured through most of the famous hotels and saw a couple of shows.

The fountain show at the Bellagio was amazing.

We saw the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. It was grand, but all the driving to get there was not.

After 6 days in Las Vegas, we spent a day in Portland before going back to Melodie's parent's in Kingston, NB. Then we visited family and friends in Fredericton, Moncton, Hampton, Sussex, Aylesford, and Montreal before finally winding up here in Ontario. So you can understand why it took me so long to update this blog! I probably won't be updating it too much this year unless something really interesting happens because I'm SWAMPED with all my classwork, plus we're starting sign language classes next week in the evenings. But even if you don't hear from us for a little while, loyal reader, you can rest assured that we are content in Canada- happily eating our Arby's, petting our cat and maybe even day dreaming about the next place to go ostrich riding.