After all of the planning and the worrying and the hustle and the bustle around Kimberly's visit to Winnipeg since I first brought it up, how did everything work out?

Pretty relaxed, actually.

( Hello, City )

The rental car is being picked up in a couple of hours, and the apartment is on track to getting (somewhat) more organised, which means the pieces are slowly coming together for Kimberly's arrival in Winnipeg tomorrow...

Unfortunately, however, she just sprained her ankle, and the weather forecast for this weekend is colder than I'd hoped, so we' ( Read more... )

Trying to make sure Winnipeg doesn't prove to be a massive letdown during Kimberly's visit has yielded better results lately than it did last week--thanks in no small part to the excellent feedback on my original entry mentioning it, along with offline input from a variety of local sources ( Read more... )

So far, my efforts at finding local events of interest for Kimberly's upcoming visit to Winnipeg have proven to be an exercise in unfortunate timing. :/

Amongst the events Kimberly will miss by less than a week are the Flashlight Vigil at Lower Fort Garry (and the end of the regular season there, actually), an appearance by a mentalist at The Park ( Read more... )

We've talked about the possibility for years already, but my very good friend Kimberly (whom I've mentioned in various contexts, including her role as co-founder of Regator, which I've also talked about before) has only just now finished booking her trip to visit me here in Winnipeg ( Read more... )