Best Friends from the Start

-->

Oh how it all began... Trenissa and Amanda were in a Grade 5/6 split class in an elementary school that backed onto Trenissa's parents’ yard. They took full advantage of that, forging notes to our teacher from alternate parents saying they were allowed to hop the fence to Trenissa's house at lunch. Where they would usually make Grill Cheese and watch Friends in her basement. One of the earliest “fights” Trenissa and Amanda ever had was over a silly Tommy Hillranger (not even Tommy Hillfinger) halter top shirt that Trenissa had and they agreed to sell it to Amanda. Let me tell you that this shirt was so small it only covered what it needed to and there was NO way either one of them was ever going to wear it. Anyways Amanda wanted to pay $10 but Trenissa insisted she wouldn’t take anything less than $15. Well 14 years later the halter top sits, unworn, in Amanda’s drawer, not sure how much she paid, but it is a good reminder of how silly some “fights” can be.

The girls drifted apart for a few years as Amanda went to WL high-school and it wasn't until Trenissa was in grade 9 at the Christian Academy School and Amanda was in Grade 10 at WL. Amanda started dating DA who was going to the Academy and who was also best friends with MB, Trenissa’s first “Love.” On our first double date we drove around in MB's car playing the game "Sex Me". For those who don't know, sex me is the game where you hit the roof if you see a vehicle with only one headlight. If your team hits the roof first then the other team has to remove one piece of clothing. Amanda and I were on a team in the backseat together and we won! THANK GOODNESS!!!! So the bet was losers have to drive thru McDonald's drive through naked and order something. So as Amanda and I hid in the backseat, fully clothed, MB and DA went through the drive through naked!!!

As high-school would have it, the double dating didn't last long as MB and Trenissa broke up right before Graduation. What can I say, a 16 year old, heartbroken for the first time.  She was devastated.  Amanda and Trenissa became very close over the next year as Trenissa mended her broken heart. A few months later DA and Amanda broke up and it was just us girls!! Best friends became sisters and we made and inseparable bond.  It is funny to look back now and see how things that mattered so much as teens don’t really matter at all now that we are adults.

Now that the girls had their own vehicle and Amanda had a license that was all they needed to start the road trips!! Trenissa sometimes would drive on road trips, even though all she had was her Learners Permit. Trenissa and Amanda just figured they would get away with it if they told the officers she was Amanda, and Amanda would then pretend to be sleeping in the passenger seat... Yeah Right!!! Thank God we never got pulled over!!

One of the first big road trips the girls went on just the two of them was to Vancouver. We stalked up on Redbulls, sunglasses, a city map of Vancouver and we were off. As Trenissa was driving for a portion of the trip Amanda got out the map, and plotted big red dots on all the stores and places we wanted to go in Vancouver. She was always the organized one like that. The type that liked her lists!!!

Trenissa and Amanda spent the first night in Chilliwack at Amanda's Great Grandmas! She is awesome. We decided to go to the fair that night which was just a walk away from her Apartments. The girls ended up being two of the 15 people that were at the fair that night. They thought SWEET!!!  The greasy carnies let the girls ride all the rides for free, one carnie thought the girls were pretty cute and decided they would like to go on the spinning ride for what felt like 20 minutes. After the ride T&A walked straight out of the fair grounds and across the parking lot to Zellers. Trenissa was not feeling good at all. Trenissa puked about 3 times, you would think that her BFF, Amanda would be there to hold her hair back or something but nope she was bent over laughing and Trenissa was bent over puking!! Ha-ha what a pair. We seem to remember our theme song of the trip being " throw some D's on that B ****." Ha-ha.

May Long 06, the girls birthday weekend, was one for the books. After stopping for some snacks, the girls headed out to Horsefly for the famous Ball Tournament in Merdle with all the essentials booze, a tent, and some snacks. Because the girls left late from town by the time they got to the campground all the campsites were full and they had to pitch their tent in amongst a group of rowdies from WL!! As every May Long in WL has it, it poured, the tent was soaked, the girls ran out of food and it was Chaos!!! In the morning the girls were very hung-over and just wanted to shower. Being a small hick-town they found a little bathroom at a gas station with an old basin for a sink! Perfect they thought!! The girls took turns washing hair and the essentials and dried with paper towel. 30 minutes later T&A left the one stall bathroom to see a huge line up!! Trenissa and Amanda were happy, all showered and feeling like a million bucks!! All in all, the girls had a great Birthday weekend, lots of laughs, bonfires, booze and little to no baseball!!!  

Sun peaks was so awesome that when Amanda graduated she moved there! Worked and lived there. Trenissa moved to Salmon Arm after Graduation. Amanda had finished up the seasons at Sun Peaks and went up to Tumbler Ridge to work in a mine as a first aid attendant. Even though miles and miles apart, the girls never skipped a beat.

When Amanda met Brendan, and Trenissa met Ajay the men knew the girls came as a package deal, where one goes there is her BFF.

We had some wicked times we will never forget, but Man did we go through lots of hard times together too. When two friends become best friends and eventually “sisters” they share a bond that is truly unbreakable. We hope one day our daughters can be as close as we are.