Sep 2006

The 3 1/2 weeks I had at home were awesome. I worked for two at a lil' hot dog stand in Horseshoe Bay, and other than that I went to the beach and went boating and wakeboarding. I was so sore for days each time, but grew increasingly better. The last day I went I got up everytime, could carve in and out of the wake, and even got a little air!

I also went to Kelowna, with two other families with tuns of kids, all under the age of 6. It was awesome. The weather could have been better, but we spent most of our time at the beach anyways. We did a tour of Mission Hills, I took some beautiful pictures of the grapes and the barrels in the cellar where they age the wine. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I highly suggest going there in your lifetime.

Then it was off to Calgary -

It's been hot! My old roommate Nikki is living downtown (in the only Ghetto in Calgary) with some friends and they bought one of those 3 foot deep pools so we've been rafting in it almost everyday, all while the Caribbean mafia deals crack next door.

They have been living there for 2 months and both Nikki and Jill's cars have been broken into and Tyler's truck was found abandoned downtown, still running, doors open, with 100's of car stereos in the back and a crack pipe in the glove compartment. So when I saw Caribbean mafia, I mean it!

Tyler graduated last year and got a job with a big engineering firm downtown, so I went with him to the mall to buy 'buisness casual' clothes and boy was it fun! I got to dress him up and even persueded him to buy new cologne (Jean Paul Gautier, so good!) And you'll be happy to know mom, that I spent zero dollars while at the mall. Have you seen the fall clothes at the GAP? Willpower much?

I went to the campus bar last night, there was a line of about 200 people when we got there at 10, but luckily we know the bouncers so we went through the back door. That's right. We are that cool. It was pretty fun, saw people I haven't seen in 4 months, 8 months, years even. It's was really fun. Danced a bunch.

Myself and Lindsay are waiting to do our presentation for our practicum right now, should be a gooder! Some of the other girls presenting went to New Zealand for the summer so I'm pretty excited to hear how their trip went. Classes started yesterday and I am lovin' them! So far my teachers seem awesome, I am taking entrepreneurship at the buisness school here and my teacher seems awesome, and it's a night class so there are lots of cool people in it. I have found that there are always cooler people in night classes, so I take them any chance I get.

Looking forward to the fall and all the pretty leaves, I think Lindsay and I are going to have a photo day and drive out to Banff just to take pictures. I am going to start getting back into black and white, I have tracked down the only darkroom in the city and we are going to start going there when we have some time/money. I hear it's not cheap, but Lindsay and I both miss it so much!

The last week of camp for me was a blur. We went back to NYC on Monday, it was hotter than I could imagine, but the drive to NYC and back went relatively smoothly. We pimped it out in a stylish minivan.

This trip to NYC was the funnest I think. We went to Central Park and chilled on the grass like we were the coolest people in the world. It was awesome. There's a coach store right by there where we saw, and breifly stalked Kelly Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos. One of the most beautiful men I have ever seen. I thought Bella was going to lose it she was in such awe. He's a bit short though. We also saw Nick Lachey's girlfriend in front of MTV in Times Square. It was one star-studded day!

It was pretty cool, our shopping mission was to hit up Urban Outfitters, which took us to Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Soho. It was pretty cool. We went for sushi in this tiny hole in the wall place that was amazingly good. Best sushi I've ever had - and I'm from Vancouver!

As I said, our drive home went smoothly, we were all beat and left with plenty of time, and didn't get lost (first time) so we got back to camp early enough to hang out before curfew.

The next week was kind of hectic, color war broke, which for those who don't know, is a huge camp tradition that involves clues throughout the week, and extravagent fireworks, shows, etc. leading up to a olympic-style week of camp madness. However, it broke on Wednesday night and I left on Thursday morning, so I missed it.

Jenny drove me to the bus in Honesdale, and I took it to NYC port authority, where I had to transfer to get to Newark, and more specifically the airport. My bus driver was effing around with me I think, he told me that if I went inside and pushed the big red button, that I couldn't miss, someone would come and get my bags and take me to the bus. There was no red button. I did, however, find 3 big black security guards who thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard. When I finally trekked out to the bus, my arm was all bruised from my big hockey bag. It sucked. It was bruised for like a week. Anyways.

When I got to the airport, I tried to drop my bags off at security, and the guy that took them gave me a lecture on not leaving my bags unattended. He told me that I didn't want some psychopath taking it or putting things in it. He proceeded to tell me how he just got out of the asylum and all I could do was laugh, I was that freaked out. He started to laugh and told me to lighten up, apparently it was make fun of Melanie day, as everyone I came across was playing around with me. It was pretty funny.

The flight was late due to heat lightning in upstate New York, but made it to Seattle in time to rip all the way up to Vancouver and make the last ferry home. It was a long journey but so nice to see that West Coast ocean.