Then...Now...the Future

I said good bye to Julia tonight. It was another hard good bye! It was a big good bye! The next time I see my bestfriend, it will be just before my wedding this summer, shortly before her very own wedding.

24 November 2005 - Vancouver Canucks vs Chicago Blackhawks - GM Place Arena

This photos was taken in November 2005 at GM Place (now known as Roger's Arena). This was one of the first photos of Julia and I together. It was also our first hockey game together too!

Julia and I have caught the Vancouver Canucks play every year since that photo, traditionally on Boxing Day...

January 2012 - Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks - Roger's Arena

This photo is the latest photo of Julia and I taking in a Vancouver Canucks game together. It will be our last photo together at a hockey game as single women.

When this last photo was taken, it brought back soo many memories for me. SOO MANY MEMORIES!

Julia and I have been through a lot, together and apart! We can't even start to record everything that has occurred...and there's constantly more occuring every day we are bestfriends!

We worked together at Bell. We became friends together at Bell.

We worked together at PICH. We partied together during the PICH years.

We travelled and vacationed locally together, Pender Island being one of them.

We struggled to stay connected when Julia went to London, England for her Master's. That's when Facebook came into play for our friendship. The photos we loaded...I think it stopped once we both broke the 100 album marker...hehehe It helped when she kept coming back home for the holidays.

We struggled to stay connected when she remained in London to work. It really helped when she came home for the holidays.

I managed to visit her in London and we travelled to Spain together. We love Sangrias, Paellas and all the other Tapas selections.

I loved it when she moved back to Vancouver, but it hurt when she moved to Ottawa shortly after! Even though she was back in the same country, she was still miles and miles away. The visits during the holidays continued to help.

After family, she was the first person I called when Richard proposed to me...she already knew it was coming. Toby, her fiance msg'd me to give me a heads up that he was going to propose. After family, she called me when he proposed in the YOW airport!

With her fiance's help, we planned a great surprise visit where I dropped in on her in Ottawa!

As engaged women, we enjoyed wedding dress shopping and bridesmaid dress shopping and of course each other's company! It's always great to share everything with your bestfriend and I can't think of anything better than what we are going through now in our lives together at the same time. Engagement...Wedding...and our futures together with the man that we love!

Here's to memories of the past...memories we are making with each new day...and to our futures!