AN AWESOME WEEK

its about time i got around to blogging! I've really had some good intentions, but i couldn't get photobucket to co-operate for the last couple of days, so short of throwing things around, i decided simply to walk away. that's right. be the bigger (wo)man.
ANYWAY - i promised a play by play with pics of my trip. This is why i love blogging. Nobody else really cares except me, and maybe you if you're reading this :) The biggest dilema for me is going to be figuring out which of my millions of pics to post here!

Tuesday was Valentines day, and being a group of single girls, we decided to celebrate in the most girly way possible - snowboarding followed by an evening of action movies with pizza and beer. I was too scared to take my daddy's camera up on the hill (good thing too... i did 2 really impressive and highly impactful (is that a word?) cartwheels (accidently) on the hill. The crazy thing is that it was like 2 degrees up in the mountains and there was not the tiniest sign of snow at Marlene's house, 5 minutes away. needless to say, there wasn't much powder, but it was AWESOME!! We even ran into Nate up on the hill - small world AGAIN! Unfortunately, we missed him somehow, so i'm just going to go back to NVan sometime i guess. Ahh, the sacrifices i'm willing to make :) This is my lift ticket - just to prove i was really there - i REALY wish i had the skill to get that sort of air, let alone co-ordinate 2 pieces of wood stuck to my feet ;) It was so weird to be going all afternoon in my shirt and spring coat - i think we should have winters like that in SK!

On wednesday i bribed Vangie to come with me to Gibsons - one of the most beautiful places in the entire world! These pics are from the ferry from Horseshoe bay. Man i could live my whole life there and be entirely happy! Isn't the snow-cover mountain touching ocean thing incredible!(yes, that's a happy expression. contrary to all popular oppinion, i am NOT stoned every time somebody takes a pic of me. that expression just happens!)
I went rather snappy happy at this point, but maybe i'll move on! These pics are of us looking over at Keats - you can see the long dock leading up the island - uggg, try running up that and then some very big hills to get to the main part of camp - makes me tired thinking about it. BEST place in the world for dock jumping at the right tide... my poor jeans went in there about 3 times! lol.
The expanse of water between where i am standing and keats is the closest place for us to come pick up groceries, etc - so we buy everything in Vancouver or Gibsons and boat it over to the island on a big barge or the "speed" boats... actually - not that speedy ;) Marlene and Corlea were nice enough to come pick us up in Horseshoe bay after Vangie and i wandered around the coastline all afternoon. They took us for supper at a sushi place - YUMMY!!!!!!!!! it was really good, but we were all feeling pretty sick. SOMEBODY neglected to tell us that we had to pay for the food that we didn't eat, adn we had a little ordering issue - ie: too much food, not enough space! But it was a really fun mean. we even had private entertainment by our own personal walruses. Very nice ones. but slightly crazy! How i miss them!!

Thursday was a nice quiet day. we hiked up to Cleaver dam, and stopped to look at the Salmon hatchery - pretty cool. Just gorgeous hiking thru the forrest. Another "i wish i had my camera here" moment. But never the less. i took mental pics. (as if that makes up for it!) The rest of the day i mostly hung out and msn'd.. Met Bradly Steyn for supper at Whitespot - ok, i take back "SMALL WORLD" - insert "TINY WORLD". its insane. We had a great time together, and i'm fully convinced that i REALLY REALLY REALLY want to go back to Keats this summer. i HAVE to figure out a way to make it work. Ugg. i wish life weren't so complicated! Marlene and i went out for coffee- which was fantastic - had a chance to catch up a little, and then hung out and chatted/watched tv/finished off Vangie's raspberry "juice". mmmm. prob explained why we both looked a little like this at 7 when we got up to catch the sea bus to surrey...
The trip home was pretty unevenful, albeit VERY long and gorgeous- like this place in Hell's Canyon. we left langley at about 10, hit Hindley at about 9:30 and stopped. It was a little bit of a sketchy motel, but at least it wasn't the saloon place next door. We ended up leaving the next morning (saturday)at about 8, to get to Ed in time for a little shopping and lunch. We were hoping ot catch up with friends, but it just didn't work out. we continued on our merry way, hitting edam at 6:15 for supper at Cindy's house. Finally home sweet home at 10.
Naturally, i wasn't home for long - went over to Indy's to watch "muskateer" with him and J. They took mean pics, but i could tell that they were happy to see me (even if it was just to torment me!) It was good to be home, even though i'd rather have stayed in Vancouver - maybe just transport people THERE... seems reasonable to me! YUCK! i hate goodbyes. but thank goodness for the ease of traveling 2000 miles in 1 day. pretty mindblowing when you compare it to the 3 yr treks of our ancestors.

Anyway - didn't get too much sleep this weekend, and i have to go to Allen early tomorrow morning so i should go get into my nice bed!