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Adventures
NYC Update
Jul 8th
There are just a few days left until I ventured out into the city that never sleeps. In just over 48 hours I, along with my friend Irma will be boarding an over night Greyhound bus bound for New York City. We arrive Friday morning at 11am. Hostel is booked, Amtrak tickets back to Oakville are booked, and everything is set to go. We plan on being complete and total tourists for our three day stay (okay 68 hours total), what else can you do on your first trip to New York, especially when the stay is so short. We’re going to grab the City Pass, which will provide access to the biggest tourist destinations for a discounted price.
There are quite a few things on my list that revolve around NYC so I will be running around crossing things off. We’re going to be taking in the Statue of Liberty, museums, Empire State Building, eating the local foods (I hear Little Italy has some phenomenal cuisine!) and one last completely amazing thing. Bon Jovi in Central Park! I seriously almost shit a brick wall when I heard that Bon Jovi would be putting on a free concert during my stay. I emailed Irma promptly and ensured she would agree to spending Saturday afternoon grooving to some awesome 80′s tunes, and of course she complied.
As for now I’m just biding my time until I’m on that bus and Big Apple bound. I have a list of things to do prior to leaving on Thursday, especially since I will be without internet access for over a week (I’m going to die). Today I booked up an appointment to give blood upon my return, and there are some other house keeping issues I have to take care of before I escape into what will feel like 1832 and am without internets.
Montreal Days 3 and 4
Jul 6th
Day three in Montreal helped me feel a bit better. Half of our time in Montreal was over, and with every hour that passed I was ever closer to getting out of the city. We figured when we woke up that morning we should do some of the things we didn’t manage to do during our our first two days in the city. Old Montreal, Notre Dam Basilica, and the Bio Dome were on the agenda for our Monday.
We were within walking distance of the older side of the
city, so we decided to use our legs and get a glimpse of the French Chinatown on the way. Not much was opening or happening since most people were off using the long weekend to the full advantage. Chinatown was quite small but had some spectacular entrance ways guiding you in. It started raining on us at this point, but it was actually a nice drizzle, cooling us down. From Chinatown we had another 15 minutes until we hit old Montreal. I believe I said in my previous post that Old Montreal was beautiful, but marred by all the vehicles and tourist shops lining the streets. Oh! There was also a homeless shelter in the middle of one of the streets, which meant on several of the streets there were groups of homeless people bumming money. We wandered around for a little bit, but began heading in the direction of the Notre Dame Basilica.
Notre Dame is incredibly impressive, despite me not being a Catholic or much of anything in terms of religion. It just is a gorgeous building overall, inside and out. Chris and I were in awe of the splendor inside, but we both felt a bit weird over how much money must have been put into a single building by a religion that supposedly acts as a charity. Ah well, we took it for what it was and enjoyed the sights. We opted out of the guided tour, and I’m glad we did because from the snippets I could hear from other tours it was quite boring. It costs $5 to enter, which isn’t bad at all. We spent about 20 minutes inside the Church before we decided to head onwards in our journey.
We wandered down to the nearest train station in order to get to Bio Dome which we had purchased tickets from during our trip to the Insectarium and Botanical Garens. I’m not normally a fan of places that keep animals locked up, but I made a concession in my ethics to get my money’s worth. I had also heard from my mom’s friend Ramona (shout out!) that the Bio Dome was well worth it and very well done. And it was! The place was amazing. Since it was a holiday it was fairly busy, but still managable. The Bio Dome is essentially a zoo in a building, which is quite unique, but nice since the weather doesn’t affect the experience. There are several different world areas displayed in the building, and all of the animals seem very happy in their habitats. From monkeys to penguins to giant turtles this building has it all!
After the Bio Dome we were quite hungry from wandering around all day. I had been itchy to get some poutine since we arrived, so we headed to a little place near our hostel once we got back into the gay village. Well I must say the poutine was HORRIBLE. It was just gross and rank. I got to cross it off of my list, but it was simply unsatisfying. See the above picture for the gross poutine. Luckily the next day I managed to go to La Belle Province and get a much better poutine that was incredibly delicious.
And thus ended the fun we had in Montreal. We tried to go out for St. Jean Baptiste but couldn’t find much that was going on. We flew out Wednesday morning and headed out to Toronto, where I would be staying for two weeks until I was heading to New York City.
#478. See the Notre Dam Basilica in Montreal
#243. Eat poutine in Montreal
A Jaunt in Montreal – Days 1 and 2
Jul 4th
It seems that this summer is Chelsea’s Tour of Canadian Cities. Only four days after my feet were reunited with Calgary’s desert floors, I was boarding another flight bound for Montreal. My friend Chris and I were staying in Montreal from the 20-25th and the possibilities seemed endless upon departure. We didn’t have too much planned, though I did have a few things planned that revolved around a trip to the city of Montreal in Quebec. I figured my trip was off to a good start after seeing a land formation shaped like a penis, but our travel time took longer than expected due to our connecting flight from Pearson to Trudeau was cancelled. I admit I was peeved at first, but a few days after I received an email informing me of a $69 credit towards a future flight and my wounds were soothed. Yet one more reason to love Westjet. We did eventually arrive in Montreal, and discovered that it’s a flat fare to the downtown from the airport, only 35 dollars. Kick ass! Our cabbie was incredible to top it off, funny and giving us suggestions of what to do and where to go. I ended up with high expectations based on the evidence I had been presented with.
Well, my expectations were not exactly met. Though I have asked if I am insane because of it, I will admit that I am not a big fan of Montreal. My crank was not turned sufficiently. There were several things to cross off of my list while I was there, staying in a hostel, eating poutine, and so forth, and I did manage to get through them, but the atmosphere or something was off. I simply did not enjoy my stay there. While most people as I mentioned ask if I am insane or crazy for not liking the city, some people have professed the same odd distaste with the old French city. Regardless, we were there for 4 days/5 nights and there was not much I could do about the situation except live through it.
We arrived at the hostel around 8pm on Friday the 20th. While it had fairly decent reviews, Chris told me that compared to European hostels it was on the lower end of the scale. It did have a quaint charm to it but that quaint charm seemed to reform itself into rickety and unable to pass building codes in some parts of the structure. We were on the more private side of the two buildings that made up the hostel, as we had booked a private room, shared bath. It may as well have not had doors or walls, since our lock didn’t actually lock the door (I’ll post video later) and you could hear everything on our floor without even trying. Conversations could be had between rooms without raised voices. Glad I brought my ear plugs! Safety didn’t seem to be a huge concern to the owners or managers, they had signs saying to lock your belongings in the lockers in the basement, but provided far less lockers in comparison to tenets, which makes no sense to me, but whatever.
I suppose upon our arrival I wasn’t too concerned about the state of our hostel, I generally assumed we wouldn’t be spending much time there. Alas, there is not much to do in Montreal that doesn’t cost an ass load of money. Old Montreal is free and beautiful to a point, but the beauty is marred by all of the cars, homeless men, and tourist-shit boutiques lining the streets. The St. Lawrence is fairly beautiful but I was put off by the lack of public access beaches and parks along it, as industrial factories seemed to have precedence over everything else. Rue St. Catharine’s and rue St. Dennis provide some entertainment, with panhandlers and loads of sexy gay men, but like most of Montreal, the sleazy factor takes over, as well as the over priced tourist-shit.
I digress from my rant against the city. What did we do while we were there? The first night we were there, not much of anything. By the time we were settled into our hostel, it was after 10, and we decided to do just a quick jaunt up the main strip we were near in the Gay Village and head back to bed so we could get an early start the next day. Peep shows and gay men galore on Rue St. Catharine’s and not much else.
The next morning we got up early and headed out for some croissants and activity. The croissants were good and gave us energy to navigate the Metro system. Well, it’s not that hard, their underground subway system is actually one of the finer points of the city. Easy to navigate and quick, who can complain about that. On the first day we decided to head over to the side of the city with the Bio-dome and Botanical Gardens. Since we had traveled that far and there didn’t seem to be much to do in the way of “free”, we shelled out around $20 to get a student discounted ticket pack for the Insectarium, Botanical Gardens, and Bio-dome. First stop was the Insectarium, which was actually quite nice and fairly unique. I can imagine it would be a huge draw for kids, but luckily there was a sincere lack of children while we were there. I wasn’t that into it since I’m not a huge fan of bugs, but there were certainly interesting parts and Chris was enthralled by it. We didn’t spend that long inside, since you can only look at so many random bugs before it grows a bit dull.
After a quick break to sit and recoup in from the heat, we headed to the Botanical Gardens. Now, when I added this to my list, I thought that Botanical Gardens had gorgeous plant sculptures and was completely done out. Well I was wrong. I still enjoyed my time there, other than the absolutely confusing nature of the place, but it just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. It was still gorgeous and very well done. The only part Chris and I didn’t like was how confusing it was to get around, we were completely lost for a while, and you couldn’t go five feet without other people looking aimlessly at their maps trying to figure out how to leave. If you are going there be prepared to have several hours to be spent lost or have an insane sense of direction!
At this point we were very hot and drained so we headed back to our hostel for an afternoon of napping and escaping the heat. The evening was fairly uneventful, as we just wandered around the streets of Montreal looking for some excitement.
Day two we weren’t expecting much out of the city, we were kind of bored of it already. Regardless, we ventured
out to Petite Italie looking for some adventure. With another trip on the Metro under our belts, we wandered around seeing what we could. Little Italy in Montreal is cute, without a doubt and a very nice place to spend a morning or afternoon, maybe do a little shopping. After a quick stop in a Italian shop to grab some pesto for Chris and some nougat for me, we headed back to the downtown core to do a little shopping. We saw Mont Royal, but decided it was too hot to be bothered to climb the giant hill, and headed into a more historic section of the city, past McGill. While it was tourist-y I love the street vendors that lined the more popular streets that had been shut down to vehicle traffic. I bought myself a nice bracelet and Chris some ridiculous Kayne shades that caused me to giggle.
We headed out that night to a small cafe and had some fruit smoothies and enjoyed the cool evening air. We only had two days left in Montreal and it was a bittersweet feeling. We wanted to go, but we felt there was so much more to see, that we might be missing. Then a French guy kept talking to me in French about losing his pen and ruined the mood completely.
#361. Stay in a hostel
#448. Walk through the Botanical Gardens in Montreal
Sea Plane Adventures
Jul 2nd
The entire trip to Vancouver and Victoria was just an elaborate birthday present from my dear Adam, but he really outdid himself when he told me that he had booked us a sea plane back to Vancouver. All based on the simple child like comment I made while pointing at the sky: “I wanna fly in one of those”. I doubt that if we hadn’t gotten into a big fight I would have ended up in one, so sometimes anger and storming 45 minutes back to the hotel has positive points. In all, it was a perfect I’m sorry present from a man incapable of apologizing for anything. A thirty minute scenic flight taking off from the water and landing right back in it, excellent!
We had spent the day in Victoria, and had been somewhat anxious all along. Spending the day within viewing distance of the harbour where the crafts were landing and taking off on about one minute intervals did nothing to ease any nerves about the procedure. We were excited though, incredibly excited. Adam had booked the ride with Harbour Air, which is one of a few companies providing air tours in the area. We chose the Victoria- Vancouver leg, but they have a variety of short trips and scenic tours available.
After we had finished sight seeing, we wandered over to their easy-to-find location next to the water on Wharf Street. We had been there already that day seeing if we could drop off our bags. Points to them for being so nice as to ship our bags ahead of us so we wouldn’t have to lug them around all day with us. I was quite nervous as we headed there, as I am not too keen on flying, but I was mostly excited. How could I not be! It’s a water plane (though I think sea plane is the proper term). We did have a bit of a wait, and the process was a bit confusing to me as a newbie to the procedures (keep in mind most things confuse me). After a bit of a wait, we were boarded onto our tiny plane. It is truly cramped in there, but our plane wasn’t even half full so we had a little breathing room. Our pilot (I believe Chris was his name) was very nice and friendly, giving us information about the trip and related matters. We sat in the water, taxi-ing for quite a bit, waiting for other planes to take off and land, but we eventually were kicked into high gear and were soon gliding in the air instead of the water. Just a tad freaky! The views were amazing from the get go, and we were provided of a gorgeous glimpse of the entire city as we circled around. The ride itself was a bit turbulent but not as scary as I imagined. Though I believe that this particular route is mainly for commuters, it provided a very tourist-friendly trip with sights you couldn’t get from a commercial airline.
Landing was smooth, but disappointing to say the least, as I could have spent several hours up in the skies watching families of otters fishing and making myself jealous over the houses spotting the numerous islands. Realizing they cater to people using the Vancouver airport, Harbour air provides a shuttle to the main airport from their location, which is incredibly convenient.
Though it may be a tad expensive (we paid about $80CAN per person) it was well worth the price. I would recommend this company for tours, commutes, and anyone wanting a bird’s eye glimpse of the Vancouver Island area.
Trip Part Deux – Victoria in One Day
Jun 28th
So this is the second part of my little series on my quick trip to the West Coast, carried over from my previous post about the Vancouver leg.
We had an incredibly early wake up call (for me) at 5:30 am in order to make the first ferry out at 7:00 am. It involved a pricey and somewhat scary cab ride, but we did end up making it with a little bit of time to spare. I was very excited to take the ferry, as I enjoy boats and water very much. It’s an hour and a half to get across to Victoria, so I had plenty of time to enjoy the experience. The car portion of the ferry was packed, seeing as how the next ferry that departed at 9:00am was alright 80% full. Walk on traffic was not that bad, though the waiting area was a bit crowded prior to boarding. The ferry is completely done up, with restaurants and internet connections and games rooms. I spent most of the time outside taking pictures though, seeing as how the line for breakfast was incredibly long and neither of us had cash. Luckily we’d brought power bars and water, and I do suggest bringing some food with you when you take the ferry in the morning.
The view from the ferry is just breath-taking and envy inspiring, as you drift by all the houses sitting on the edge of tiny remote islands. I would adore to have a house in the middle of the ocean waters, with only a few select neighbours. Gorgeous and something I hope I have the ability to do in the future. It takes about an hour and a half to get across the channel Victoria, so we were there by about 8:30. The ferry terminals are quite out of the way, but Victoria (unlike Vancouver) provides wonderful city transit service that is direct to the downtown core. It must have been my lucky day because sitting in the bus terminal waiting to take us to Victoria was a double decker bus, which just happens to be on my life list. The fare was only $2.25 too, so it turned out to be an excessively cheap double decker ride. We of course sat on the top level.
It took about an hour to get into the main city of Victoria from the ferry terminal, but we were provided with a fairly scenic tour. We were dropped off about two blocks away from the main harbour or Wharf Street. I have to say this before I go any further: I LOVE VICTORIA. I was blown away by the atmosphere, the water, the buildings. Astounded! There was just so much to do, and we did make a full attempt to as much as we could. I think we did more in Victoria in less than a day than we did in a full three days in Vancouver.
We started the day off by visiting the Parliament Buildings, which is too touristy for words, but how can you resist when it’s one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, rivaled only by the Empress Hotel, really. You can also have a self guided tour or a full tour complete with stylish tour guide and characters along the way for free, and I’m not sure what I enjoy more than free things. I love free things when traveling, and I typically find them a lot more worthwhile than shelling out big bucks for tourist traps that don’t reflect any semblance of genuine culture or atmosphere. We spent about 30 minutes in the Parliament Buildings, mostly waiting for groups of small children on field trips to get out of the way. This did provide us with something of a tour guide without having to wait around for one at all times. The building is beautiful and full of history, and given that it is free and a fairly quick stop, it’s a must on any trip to Victoria. 
After a quick pit stop for lunch and liquids, we headed over the the Royal BC Museum. I don’t normally vote for museums while traveling unless their a niche museum, but this one was huge and looked like it would be worth the money and hour or so. I did feel bad we didn’t have more time to invest into the museum, as Adam 
truly enjoys reading every single sign and type plate in museums (making him a grossly unsuitable museum partner for me, unlike my mom who can do a museum in 14 minutes and then proceed to fucking around with me [evidence here.]) The museum wasn’t very pricey either, at 14 dollars for an adult (given that you could spend four hours in there easily, I figure this is fair if you compare it to an average movie ticket price). Adam and I also have the ability to use student ID cards, though to be honest hardly anywhere actually checks them so I might reccomend just claiming student status and seeing if you can get discounts anyways. During the summer of 2008 it has a wonderful display focusing on the Free Spirit of BC, which I reccomend highly. Though it will cost you some money, I don’t think any trip to Victoria can bypass the Museum!
Since we’d already gotten our tourist feet incredibly wet, we figured we’d give in and shell out some bigger bills for a boat tour of the harbour. While it wasn’t cheap by any means, it was fun and gave us a nice perspective on the city from the point of the harbour. It was given in a little tug boat that could hold probably 10 people at the very most, making it adorable to boot.
The last thing we did on our trip to Victoria was just so full out tourist it kind of hurt a little, but since it was on my list, I couldn’t quite resist the temptation. The Royal London Wax Museum is right along side the harbour (like everything else we did that day) 
and is actually very big and well done. Not cheap, but worth the money, especially when you factor in the “Chamber of Horrors” in the basement of the place that is gory and disgusting. Also, they have a full wax set up of the last supper, which (ignore if you’re really religious) gave me and Adam amusement and then some. Is it worth going to? Well, to be honest probably not, even if you are dying to go to a wax museum. Unlike houses of wax in Europe and some North American cities, all the wax figures in the Royal London are glassed in. This means that you can’t get “Look I met Marilyn Monroe and Johnny Depp!” pictures, and any pictures you take of the installations feature a nice glare of light off of the glass. Though it was fun and gave us a few giggles and “wow” moments, you may want to go to one that provides more interaction and gives better photo ops.
There was so much more to do in Victoria that we just couldn’t fit into our 7 hours on the island. They have an Undersea Garden which I hear good things about (though it’s expensive and you may just want to go to the Aquarium in Stanely Park, Vancouver). The culture there is also incredibly, just walking around the main harbour and up and down Wharf Street will provide sights and sounds to entertain you for hours (and for free in most cases).
So far on this portion of the trip I crossed off
#221. Ride on a double decker bus
#445. Go to a wax museum
Here are some random pictures!
In the BC Royal Museum, he was just too happy to ignore.
Not sure how this picture came to be, but here it is
This above photo was Adam’s favourite and I found it quite amusing too.
Adam on the Harbour boat
Statue outside of the (useless) tourist information centre.
Vanco-tour
Jun 18th
Yes that is me making a ridiculous play on words that really doesn’t work. Oh well.
It is about time that I post up something about my trip to Vancouver, considering Friday morning (less than 48 hours!) 
I leave for my one month excursion to the eastern part of this continent. I’m still trying to convince my mom to join me for the last leg, while I am in Kingston visiting my grandparents since I don’t want to do it alone. She is very reluctant, which makes me sad. I even had a dream last night that she came with me and we were going to Ottawa (with a bunch of other ridiculous crap, as is always present in my dreams).
But I digress. Our trip to Vancouver was excellent. I’m just going to blog about our time in Vancouver and leave Victoria for tomorrow, seeing as I don’t have “make the longest blog post ever” on my list. This entire trip was a birthday celebration gift from my Adam, since I told him that I didn’t want to have a party or anything, I felt too old for that, I just wanted to spend time with him somewhere. I thought we’d go to Cranbrook for a night, but I ended up getting four nights on the west coast. Not complaining, it was wonderful. We left on Thursday night, after some drama with work (all my trips involve drama, usually it’s concerning concerts though, not work), and we had a quick hour and 15 minute flight. To get from Calgary to Vancouver, we had to fly over the Rockies, so it fulfilled
#518 Fly over the Rocky Mountains sitting in the window seat
The Rocky Mountains are beautiful in their own right, but from the air, it was too much for words. Poking out of the clouds and extending or miles beyond the window, they were just breath (and word) taking. I couldn’t believe how gorgeous they were and how moved I was by the image of them from my little window.
We didn’t do much on the night we landed, since we arrived in the evening and I wasn’t feeling very well. We got used to the new altitude (well Adam did at least, my ears didn’t fully pop for a few days) and hung out. We stayed at the Plaza 500 Hotel which was on 12th and Cambie. It was a nice hotel, albeit a bit small. The biggest complaint I had was that they did not have “Do Not Disturb” signs for the door and they were knocking before 9am in the morning, even on the Sunday morning. I was incredibly tempted to make my own sign, but refrained. We did have a balcony though so I spent some time out there enjoying the ocean air and nice weather.
The next day we got up bright and early and headed out for the downtown. 
The walk there was fairly long from our hotel, and there was about a million instances of construction (for the Olympics presumably) blocking our set path. It was actually really annoying to be there during this time, since it’s incredibly hard to get around, as a tourist at least. The path we finally managed to take involved the Cambie bridge which provided a nice view of the downtown and the inlet.
The downtown was really busy for an early afternoon and packed full of trendsters. Wandering around aimlessly was surprisingly fun. We made our way along the inlet as well, enjoying the sun and water. Downtown Vancouver is just fabulous, and surprisingly easy to navigate (forgetting the incredible amount of construction blocking numerous streets). The bus system was pleasant and easy to use as well, barring the strange Zone system they have which I didn’t manage to figure out.
Friday was spent essentially just wandering around the downtown area. Saturday we were slow to start, but I eventually made contact with my friend Damien who was in the city for the weekend. Though I said we weren’t expecting a tour of any sort, he took us around down, showing us the Church of Scientology which was in the midst of a protest which I found simply TOO entertaining. All the V for Vendetta masks on all the corners around was amazing and we stopped for a bit while Damien chatted with a protester and I just gawked and took it all in.
We took the SkyTrain over to Commercial Drive, where we spent the rest of the afternoon just wandering up and down the drive, popping into the occasional shop (I bought myself a bobblehead Jesus for 10 bucks, awesome). The street was amazing, bustling, and full of neat signs and people. Such as this kick ass Lost Fish sign. We all had a good laugh over this.
Sunday we got up and left to spend the day in Stanley Park and the Aquarium. Stanley Park certainly lived up to the hype. It was absolutely gorgeous! And there was a raccoon, which much like the Church of Scientology got me a little bit too excited!
The aquarium had a fairly long line, I guess that’s what we get for going on a weekend and on Father’s Day. The line wasn’t that bad, but the people inside were the stupid kind of tourists that can’t wait their turn nor look after their children. We still got to see most of the aquarium, even if we had frowns on for a fair portion of it. I think Adam’s favourite part was a star fish orgy in one of the tanks.
I was personally more of a fan of the jelly fish and such creatures.
After the gong show that was the aquarium, we headed into the far less populated park portion of the area. After a fairly long walk along a road, we found the main walkway along the water.
It provided a view of North Vancouver (a place we never actually went to) and the shore line. It was a really busy day on the path way, with lots of bikers, rollerbladers and families out for strolls. I loved the water and could have stayed the entire day wandering on the path, but we were both starving and had to get ourselves into bed early for our early wake up call to get on the ferry for Victoria.
So that’s the first few days of the trip. Can’t believe in less than 48 hours I’ll be heading out on another vacation. It’s sinking in that I’ll be gone for an entire month! Sort of scary now that I think about it.
Crossed Off – #518
Jun 13th
Yesterday I ate a cheeseburger. It tasted seww good.
That’s what Adam told me to write, so I did. That actually has nothing to do with anything and is neither here nor there. What this post is actually concerning is that I have accomplished one more thing on my ever growing list. Yesterday en route to Vancouver I sat in a window seat while we passed over the Rocky Mountains.
#518 Fly over the Rocky Mountains sitting in the window seat
Here’s a random picture from my flight over the mountains.
Surprise Birthday Trip
Jun 12th
I found out that I am going to Vancouver for four days as my birthday present! Yay! I’ve never been to Vancouver which is apparently really weird for someone who lives in Alberta. I’ve been to Victoria… doesn’t that count for anything? I suppose not. I am quite excited to go to Vancouver, where the mountains and water meet. I have a short list of things I want to do while I’m there, such as go to Stanley Park, see the UBC campus, and see the water (generally haha). We have a nice hotel in the downtown area, so we are situated in a wonderful central position to everything!
I also get to cross two things off with this trip, if all goes according to plan.
#518 Fly over the Rocky Mountains sitting in the window seat
#498 See the sun set over the Pacific Ocean
I don’t have anything else Vancouver specific on my list, sadly, but I’m sure I will have tons of fun with Adam while I am there. I leave this evening, and I’ll have access to a computer the whole time, so I will be blogging! Check my twitter account for updates as well.
And I Think It’s Going To Be A Long Long Time
Jun 10th
Alright, so it’s Tuesday. Riveting, I know. Well it is for me, because it marks two more days until my surprise birthday trip (have I even mentioned that?) and like…10 days?… (this is me being too lazy to count) until my month long Eastern extravaganza. The surprise birthday vacation is Adam taking me to an unspecified (and as far as I know completely unplanned at this point) location to celebrate me turning 22. I have no idea where we are going, not a clue. We kind of went over a list of places that would be acceptable and unacceptable (Edmonton being at the top of the “unacceptable” list and Hollywood being at the top of the acceptable list), but that’s as much as I know. Well I do know we’re not flying to anywhere except within Canada since Adam does not have his passport. My guess is Vancouver since he keeps bringing it up. We leave Thursday night or Friday morning and come back Monday, I know that much too! Ah well, it’ll just be nice to go somewhere with Adam. We had a ton of fun on our Montanarama trip!
And only 10 day to go until the much hyped trip to the Eastern part of this continent. As has been discussed I will be crossing a ton of things off of my list and having a massive amount of fun. Notable: I’ll be in Montreal during Jean Baptiste Day. I’ll have to learn what that is before I go, but I’m assuming it’s some awesome white French dude who did something super French and now they use him as an excuse to drink (to fit in, I will be sure to use this excuse as well).
There’s tons to do before I go, such as go pretend I’m an 1890′s textile striker with my mom and getting all the hair ripped out of my legs and lady parts so I don’t have to think about what a hippie I look like while I am on vacation.
Oh! I get to pick up my passport tomorrow, which will allow me to actually use the other website Mr. Adam got me internationalhobo.ca. That’s my new career aspiration. Anyways, I was supposed to get it today, I paid the 10 bucks to have it available to pick up at the office and all. But I’ll be downtown tomorrow anyways, so I’ll go then. And then I can show off my HIDEOUS passport photo. /too excited.
Bike and Buttons – #256 Crossed off!
Jun 4th
So I crossed another thing off of my list, without even thinking about it! Yay for unintentional list accomplishments!
For my 22nd birthday present my mom (parents, I guess if you want to be literal), bought me a brand new spankin’ bicycle. I’ve been wanting a bike since last summer but circumstances did not allow for such extravagances! Ah well, I got one now. It was a bit of a hassle, the one I got yesterday turned out to be a piece of poo and I had to go and exchange it today. My 18 gear bike only had 2 functioning gears. The exchange was easy enough though and I have managed to cross my 16th thing off of my list! Kick ass!
#256 Buy a bicycle
I’m not very good at riding bicycles anymore, it seems, I’m a bit wobbly. I’ll get better I am sure, as I get back into biking mode. Nice thing is I should be able to bike to work if I ever switch jobs to the mall I am supposed to be at.
In other news, Adam’s super secret present finally came! I bought these about two weeks ago and have been dying to give them to him ever since. It’s fairly random, but it fits well with our sense of humour. He seemed to enjoy them.
