sooo, mmm, guess what?

I think you've probably realized that I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo!!!!!!! well, it's a mixed blessing on my part. XD

and here's something i wasn't expecting...while i was driving in the car...I ACTUALLY MISSED YOU ALL. I couldn't believe it. but it's good that I'm back in Sylvan so i have a chance to talk to you. I haven't checked anyone's blogs yet, so I'm still waaay behind. But, I'll give an update of what i did all week.

on Saturday we set out and about an hour out of Sylvan we got Crapped on by a bird that wasn't even in the sky. there was nothing up there and all of a sudden our windshield is COVERED. it was sooo gross, but sooo funny. so we went to a car wash and got it cleaned up then headed to Cremona. It was a random little town we found on the map of Alberta in my dad's car so we decided to drive to it...expecting it to be small hic-town in the prairies. It wasn't. it was actually very picturesque. it was on the side of a hill leading down into a little ravine that i think had a stream in the bottom. very pretty.

then we headed south to highway one and went to BC. it was a goooood long drive. ahha. we got stuck in Vernon, though. the town goes around a lake so all of it's main streets go in circles and we got stuck in one. ahhh. it was horrible. we went totally crazy by the end. and when we finally got OUT of Vernon we tried to find a campsite only the road we went on led BACK to Vernon. it was weird. weirdest thing I've ever seen. Or done.

But we ended up in a campsite in...somewhere west of Vernon. We made it to Vancouver Sunday afternoon and took the ferry to Schwarts Bay by Victoria. it was a good trip. Windy up top of the ferry, but good all the same. then we went to Sooke to see my brother Steve and his girlfriend and we camped there for one night then met up with my other brother and camped that night on a beach...sort of. we stayed in a campsite by the beach but we lit a big fire by the water and had supper down there. it was cool. Then we went to the Xavier Rudd concert in Victoria on Monday night. it was soooo great. loud, crazy, sweaty. allll good. I danced like a freaking maniac. ahaha. when i went to bathroom there was this huge line-up for the girls washroom so i started people sharing washrooms 'cause there was three urinals in the women's and three stalls in the men's. So yeah, i ended up helping to convince the security guy there to let girls into the guys and guys into the girls. it was cool.

oh yeah, before the concert we walked around Vic for a while and picked me up some mate. mm. one full kilogram of it. for ten bucks. sooo cheap. it's amazingly low priced. you can hardly even FIND it in Alberta let alone buy a kilo of it for ten bucks. it would have actually been only eight bucks but BC has PST as well as GST and it was two bucks a bag. So. but that doesn't matter because i got such cheap mate!! we found other bags in there the same size as these ones only they were 11 bucks apiece. it was laaame. good thing we bought this stuff. =D

anyways, after the concert we went back to Sooke and camped and then in the morning we headed out to Ucluelet with mah bro Geoff. on the way there me and Geoff jumped into a river and went through this little waterfall. It was freezing cold, though. then we stayed at the campground in Ukee and did some funky stuff around town.

first day we went on a hike around some bays and things. we started off on a trail and ended up clambering around over rocks and through caves and stuff. that was me my dad and my sisi.

next day me and Geoff surfed at Florencia Bay. I had to use his old wetsuit and John's surfboard 'cause i don't have my own stuff (why would i when i live in ALBERTA? XD) and that was cool. then we went back to Lisa's house in town (that's where Geoff spends a lot of his time) and chilled out with the cool people there.

on the final morning i went to Lisa's for breakfast and mate (looots of mate that morning) and i hung out on the deck for hours with Kirsty and Jerry and my brother. and after that we went to see my brother's house out in the forest. he lives in a hammock with a tarp over top of it. it's sooo cool. Then we walked a little further on to where this guy built an epic tree house and a winter house underneath it the some tree roots and a stump. it's super neat. Up at the top of the tree house (which is about sixty feet in the air) there's this huge fishing net that you jump into to get down to the ground. this thing is SIXTY FEET UP!!! and I jumped into it!! it was sooo cool. i wanted to do it again, but i couldn't because we spent about half an hour up in the tree arguing with my brother about who should go first because me and my sis were sooo scared of it. I ended up getting so pissed at Geoff for bugging me that i just THREW myself out of the tree house. then Geoff came and Corrinna was still so scared that she had to climb down the tree instead. ah well.

then we went back to Lisa's and i once again hung out on the deck with Kirsty, John, Jerry, Geoff and this girl named Ashley for a little bit. then Swamp Bear showed up and it was good to see him again. he's a super cool guy. we had to leave soon, though because Corrinna refused to go into that house and she was getting homesick so we drove to Parksville (still on the island) and stayed the night there. in the morning we took the ferry from Nanaimo to Vancouver then drove all night back to Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

On the way we picked up two hitchhikers. the first was a girl named Carly and her dog Bunny. She was cool but bunny was a little sketchy around new people. apparently he'd been abused before she got him, so he's not a big people fan. He seemed to like me at least. he only growled at me once and he actually walked over to me when we stopped for gas.

The second was a guy named Tom that we picked up at about eleven o'clock. he was pretty much a lifesaver for us 'cause he kept our dad awake while me and Corrinna slept. it was good. and neither hitcher seemed too scared of my dad's crazy driving either. he goes 130 km down the Fraser Canyon which is soooo curvy. but it's okay 'cause he's a really good driver.

then we ended up back in Sylvan at about nine in the morning. My dad had a nap and left and i sat down o the computer to write this 'cause it's rainy outside and i don't wanna go out. XD

But, I'll talk to all of you soon!!

Peace and Love!