Still Saturday...

So, I did go out with John and his family...
I went to his house first, and he only lives just a block away.
He has a nice place. Too spacious though... After living at home, where every available space is squeezed into usable room, I easily note at how much wasted floor space he has in his home. But oh well!
He showed me his old army pics, where he served as an army mechanic (he's now 40 years old by the way), and him and I had a shot of orange cream liquor mixed with baileys. Good stuff.
He has two girls, and a boy, all of them younger than 9. They had a friend over. He tried to organize the whole crew to go out for skating, but he apparently lacks organizational skills, so I could only laugh as he fumbled around as a parent.
We all piled into his truck, and he dropped the ketchup on the frozen driveway. It blew up, and we all laughed at him. Heh heh, not very nice, were we?

He took us to a not-so-far-away acreage, where his kids grandparents lived. The skate rink was just a pond that they made in the summer, just a large man-made pit in the ground. Full of water already, froze nice and thick.
I drove a quad down there, that had a snowblade on the front. I tried clearing the snow, but couldn't really handle the ice that well. His wife took over after I got myself unstuck from a very slick section. Had to use body weight to shift the quad the right way for the treads to get enough traction to move.
We and the kids all skated and played with hockey sticks and pucks for a bit, and even though I didn't have skates, I still had fun. It was a nice warm day, the sun was bright, and the ice wasn't melting.
However, John got a phone call on his cell to go and manwatch at Sherritt. I didn't really want to be left alone out there with his family that I just met, so even though he said I could stay, I just asked to be driven home.

After John is done work tonight, he's gonna call me up to come over to his place for a bit again. I'm gonna try hard to get Jamie to tag along too.

K, Saturday isn't over yet, so I'll finish this posting off later. Cya!