Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:51
Hello to all,
Well our time in New Brunswick is coming to an end. We are heading towards Québec City tomorrow. The egg tour has been a rousing success in New Brunswick however. All of our events went extremely well. Both Duke and I had a lot of fun. The best event during our stay in New Brunswick was an event at the Moncton YMCA. We blew up the egg inside a basketball gym and there was 50 some odd kids standing around. They were so happy and excited that there was a huge 20 foot egg in the middle of their gym. We also conducted hard boiled egg relay races and the kids really liked them ( I found it hysterical that the kids were whipping the eggs against the walls, but I wasn’t really supposed to be laughing and I think the organizer was upset that I was laughing so hard, but oh well, it was funny to see the little hombres smack those eggs around).
While in New Brunswick Duke and I stayed with members of our family. We stayed with Duke’s Uncle Keith the first two nights. We arrived at his house at 5:00 and he greeted us with a few beers. At that point he said that we would be having dinner at about 6:00. Well by the time 6:00 rolled around Good Ol’ Uncle Keith had already pounded 3 or 4 beers. It became apparent to me that we weren’t going to be eating on schedule so Keith kept pounding back beers ( I did my best to keep up with him, but in actual fact I was hungry but didn’t want to make any mention of it).
Well we finally got to eat at 10:30, that was after Good Ol’ Uncle Keith pounded back about 12 beers. He was plastered. Dinner was great but it took a back seat to Uncle Keith getting out the guitar and playing some drunken tunes. I didn’t know there were so many uses for the F word in the Bluegrass music he played. We were very grateful however that we were able to eat and sleep somewhere that didn’t have a Comfort Inn sign hanging on the wall, so thanks to the Duke’s Uncle Keith.
The next few nights we stayed with members of my family. They were a little less exciting, but we were appreciative nonetheless. Last night we went out in Fredericton. It was Duke’s birthday so he hit the town hard (I took it a little more easy them him, but again the local economy is doing much better now that we have visited). Again his dance moves were either too advanced New Brunswick pace of life or they were so X rated people were afraid. In actuality Duke looked like National Geographic special on Tribal dances, maybe that’s why we have run into so much bad weather. We went to a couple of local watering holes and we had a good time (most notably Duke had a good time but I’ll let him tell people at his own discretion).
Today is a day of rest and tomorrow we are off to the good ol’province of Poutine and 3 O’clock last call at the bars. Well I hope all is well with everyone wherever you may be. I want to give a special shout out to Big John MacDonald (aka the Prime Minister of Defence) for being drafted 7th overall by the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the recent CFL draft. Way to go big fella. Apparently I was overlooked again in the draft, my agent believes i’m being discriminated against because of my success as a hair. Nonetheless congrats John. Also to all those who will be at the closing of the DSJ have a good time and try not to get arrested. Wish I could partake in some of the shenanigans.
Take care Goonz, until next time.
Yours always,
President and CEO of Arsenault INC.
Ryan Arsenault
Straight From the Arse 
