Friday, September 30, 2005


First things first.......You ever have those days where you want to pull your hair out, yell, scream and cry all at the same time!?!? I know all you girls know exactly what I am talking about. And for all you men out there no it's NOT that time of the month.

With that said, I really don't feel like blogging today but I will. And only cause Andrea asked oh so nicely to tell her about living here in the states etc...

I really honestly don't see a lot of significant differences, not anything life altering anyways. A lot of the little things I noticed and still do are the things like say asking for a side of gravy in a restaurant. They first of all look at you like your retarded and second when you ask for a side of gravy here 9 times out of 10 they will bring you the kind of gravy you put on like country fried steak or something. I have found this to be the same all over the USA. They cannot phathom the idea of putting gravy on their french fries. Or vinegar for that matter, pretty much any restaurant in Canada you will find a bottle of white vinegar on the table or near by. Americans seem to find this odd and they more likely have white vinegar in their closet with cleaning supplies. Not all Americans call pop soda, but out here on the east coast they pretty much all say it. So when I order "pop" I always get looked at funny. But in the big scheme of things, it's all the same to me. Before I ever moved here I always thought Americans in general were not nice, that they thought they were all better than Canada etc... While I am sure there are plenty of Americans who do think this way I have learned its not the majority. I have yet to meet someone with the obnoxious we are better than everyone attitude. And it makes me sad that so many people have it all wrong and think most people here are that way. Sure maybe I am bias because I live here now....Too me though, its all the same. It's all the same people just trying to live life.

Boston in general is a great place to live. Expensive mind you, but as for the city itself I like it a lot. I had no idea what to expect when we came out here last year. But it is BEAUTIFUL here. Boston is a very very OLD city. Most of the buildings and houses are old and gorgeous. The churches here are incredible because the majority of them are HUGE and brick and completely breathtaking to look at. New England is just amazing in general. For those of you who don't know New England consists of 6 states. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Fall is like nothing I have ever seen anywhere.

The thing that is so different here from Seattle is that in Seattle, other than Portland, Oregon you generally need to drive a really long time to get to another major city or state for that matter. Here you can pretty much go any which way and be in another state in an hour or less. Whether it be Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut etc... New York City even is only a 4 or so hour drive from us.














For the most part Boston is great. It's beautiful here.

** I don't know why these pics are so off after I posted them, I tired to fix it so they didn't look so out of place but got tired of fighting with them**

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful!!! Are you having a grumpy day? Stay away, i know from experience...

Big bro in Edm...

Family Of Five said...

I know those days quite well!!! I hope your day gets better and that you have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for sharing! I hate driving in the States... it scares me!! I'm glad you enjoy living in Boston. Are you working there?

Leslie said...

sounds awesome! I have driven through New England ( I am from the east) in the fall, it really is unbelievable!

Lori said...

So pretty. Wish I could come and see it with you. Vinegar is supposed to be eaten with chips! Yummy! Don't you remember the song? Fish and chips and vinegar vinegar vinegar. Fish and chips and vinegar pepper pepper pepper salt.
Okay sorry.
Hope your weekend gets better. Love you!
They don't put gravy on the side? Weird.
I guess we just do different things. Oh well.

Evey said...

Thanks Lori, now I am going to have that song in my head ALL day!

Cori said...

Those are beautiful pictures. And I thought they looked nice how they were layed out. I really thought you meant to do that! I am glad you like it here-and I want to visit Canada really badly. I think I would really like it!!

True Jersey Girl said...

We put gravy on our fries here in Jersey - but only at diners. And if you put cheese AND gravy on them, they are disco fries. Why? I have no idea.

Evey said...

Cheese and gravy....in Canada we call that Poutine.....YUMMY!

Zoe said...

Okay, so I am gathering that you are Canadian? Is that right? I am a ff and vinegar freak!! Just because I was born in London and grew up with fish and chips . . . but I use malt vinegar. But gravy, humm, I am going to have to try that!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the East Coast, especially the New England states, I would die to live there! I love your pictures. Thanks for sharing. I hope that, given that this post is late, you are feeling better today. I am with you girl!! I pull my hair out at least 3 times a week! :)

Peggy said...

Glad you are enjoying the states and find most of us are friendly folk. I had the pleasure of traveling across Canada for a year and love every minute of it! Especially in the winter. You need to come south for gravy. We put gravy on everything and waitresses will always ask which kind of gravy when you request gravy on the side. Yeah there are a few old timers that like biscuit gravy with fries. Myself I love cheese and chili on my fries........ have a great day!

fakies said...

Trying to get caught up here, so I just saw this. Glad you are enjoying the US. It's funny how different the little customs are in different places. I'm a pop girl myself. :P

My sister kept commenting on how polite people in Canada were. They were very impressed by everyone's hospitality there.

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