Stinky Feet

Well, it's official. I am a BC resident once again. The trip out was a lot of fun. I left town on Monday night at about......ok wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. First on Monday morning I got back to town from spending the night out at my mom's house. When I got home my friend Chris came over and we loaded up my futon and a few boxes to take to good will. When we got to the good will building I noticed that in the box of goodies I was carrying there was a lone sock. So I took it out. (You can't give a lone sock to charity...that's like saying I was too lazy to throw out my garbage and gave it to you to sort out). What did I do with the sock you ask? Well, I didn't throw it out. It became the maskcot of my journey. I tied it to the bar that connects the traillor to the hitch. I didn't name it though, it was just the sock maskcot. Awesomeness! After dropping those few items off we went out for breakfast and then went back to my place to start packing up the rest of my house. It took until 5:30 in the evening to finish packing and there is still a car load of stuff that wasn't able to be packed. My mom took it back to her house and she'll keep it there for me for now. haha. The ironic thing is the stuff that didn't come with me this time is the stuff I just took with me the last time I was here. Weird eh.
After my car was all packed, which was a challenge in itself. We had to take the roof off because my back door is stuck closed. Then we packed it all up and then put the roof back on. But we had to sit on the roof just so that it would close. Lot's of fun, let me tell you. Anyways, after I went over to my friend Jeremy's house. Then I went over to Ruth's house. I crashed there for a couple of hours and then I hit the road. It was about 12:30 when I left town. I pulled over at about 3:30 in the morning to sleep a little more. When I woke up I started driving but my eyes were being all weird so I pulled over again and went to sleep. When I woke up it was 8:30am. So I got back on the road and set off. I'm usually really talkative when I'm travelling. I like to talk to the people who pump my gas and anyone else who might make the mistake of giving me any kind of eye contact. But this day I was really just quiet. Except everyone seemed to want to talk to me. I was like is this opposite day or what? When I finally got to RedCliff I tried to figure out where my friend Mike was. I was suppose to pick him up. I told him that I hope he packed light. When he saw my car he was like, you weren't kidding. Nope I sure wasn't. Poor guy had to ride in my car with the passenger seat right up to the front, kitty litter on the floor so his feet were in it, Stuff packed behind the chair he was in kept getting knocked into his head because my kitty who was really angry that he took her seat was kicking it into his head. (She's a brat, I have no idea where she gets it from). And he had to hold his bag in his lap. It was a really tight fit but it was only like that for about 3 hours. Once we got to Calgary we stayed at my friend Miguel's house. But that's for another posting. There's a lot more to come and I'm going to take some pictures of the unpacking process just so you can get a little bit of an idea of what's it's been like. :) Until next time....Peace Out.

Bad Day

It’s been a day and a half already and it’s only 1:30 in the afternoon. Seriously does Saturday mean everyone can be rude day? Where do I start? How about when I woke up. Awesomeness, I’m still alive let’s get on with the day. Following that I got a phone call from my sister. So stinkin’ awesome. I always have fun talking to her. So far you’re thinking you’re having a good day Michelle why are you freakin’. Well hold on a second and I’ll get to it. So I leave the house (first mistake) and take my abswing thing to a pawnshop. It’s an exercise equipment thingy, whatever. So I walk into the store and tell the guy at the counter (which I know but he doesn’t know that I know him) about it and ask if I can sell it to him. Ok, I was looking for maybe 5 or 10 dollars for the stinkin’ thing, but he looked at me and rudely said no way. I was like, oh that’s fine thanks anyway and I left. I don’t know who peed in his corn flakes this morning but seriously. Arrh. So then I took my old game cube to the micro play in town and told the guy I was talking with Tyler and he said to bring err on down. Well when I got there I had forgotten one of the controllers so I went all the way home and got it. When I got back I found out that the guy couldn’t take it because Tyler wasn’t there. (Why couldn’t you tell me that before I made a trip across town and back????) So I left. There was a young girl in the parking lot so I just gave her my ab swing thing. I was like, do you want this??? Then I gave it to her. I was so frustrated. So I went and got my oil changed. Let’s just say that before they even started I told them that I wanted a new air filter and I don’t want them to yell at me for how dirty my oil is. When he took out the air filter he said let’s see how bad it is...he shook it a bit and he looked up at me and said, yep you’re right you’ll need a new one. haha. That was funny. Then the guy underneath said to the other guy that the oil was really dirty and I think he was going to talk to me but the person said, yep she warned us. So he didn’t. And dad if you’re reading this don’t yell at me. I think I did well on my own for beating myself up and plus I did get it changed right? That should count for some points. Whatever. So I talked to the guy before (Another person who has no idea what he’s talking about) and asked him the price it would be. Ok, I had enough on me. Well, when the bill came it was 20 dollars more. (Only because my car takes a special air filter). I was so ticked off. He could have said something. So I had to make another trip across town and back to get the extra 20 dollars that I owed them. When I got close to home I was about to pull into my back lane when a car came racing down it. I was on the main street and you would think that he would have just stayed a ways back to let me in. Nope that didn’t happen. What a jerk. Let’s just say that when I got into my house I was freakin’ mad. I’m afraid to go to work. What will the customers be like? Or better yet, maybe I should be a waitress who knows nothing. What if I were to go to a table and when they asked me the special say, oh I don’t know. Or when they ask if they could have a drink replay “No Way”. Seriously people, it’s your job to know things that pertain to your job! Frustrating day to say the least. I’m kind of tempted to be a lazy/stupid waitress...it would kind of be fun...don’t cha think??

Camping Pictures

Do you know how to annoy a van full of youth? I do. The supplies you’ll need are as follows: A tape deck(not a cd player, that’s too advanced), speakers(doesn’t matter what kind they are as long as they work), and a tape. It has to be a certain tape though. Psalty the singing songbook is the best. And you should try to keep it to theme. I, kept it to the camping theme and brought along my Psalty We’re going camping now tape. And yes we played it. Not only are the songs annoying but they get stuck in one’s head. Nothing made me smile more than hearing one of the kids singing “We’re going Camping now we’re on our way. We’re going to climb up a mountain and run and jump and play. And as we hike along we’re going to sing....” You get it. Every time I would start to sing it I would get the dirtiest looks, or a slug to the arm. It was totally worth it. Take a look at these camping pictures, I hope you enjoy them. Peace Out!

Camping Trip Part 2

Alrighty, I left you off at the part where we were sitting in the van for a while before we even took off to our first camping destination. Once we got the van a rollin’ we headed towards Kenora. Which is just on the other side of the Ontario/Manitoba border. It was beautiful there. I have to say though my focus was more on my project(Cross Stitching) than on the view. The van ride was beautifully sung about by our dear friend Joe. Seriously I almost peed my pants from laughing so hard. Ok, I did pee my pants, but whatever...just kidding people, I do have my bladder control still intact except for that one time in Bible College, but we won’t go there.
We stopped for a late lunch in Portage at the Mc of the Dee’s. I laughed so hard when Joe asked if they still had free smiles. The girl said no. Then Joe slammed down his hands on the counter and said, “Well, see if I come back here again”. It made the girl give him a free smile. I wonder if she noticed that...haha.
When we arrived at the camp site we set up our tent. That was so much fun...I haven’t been “real” camping since I was about 11. I mean the whole tent bit. I was ready to get down and dirty. After we set up our tents we headed across the highway to purchase some beverages for dinner. (Also the washroom was across the highway...that’s right there would be no in the middle of the night pee for me....hee hee). When we got back to the camp site Scott made us some of the best bbq burgers ever!
After dinner we played a game with a ball. I don’t think it had a name, so I will name it “Throw the ball and bounce it off the fence” game. And if you went to catch the ball and missed you had to run and touch the fence before someone else could catch the ball and hit the fence. If they hit the fence with the ball before you were able to touch it you got a point. The person with the least amount of points at the end of the game won. It was actually a lot of fun.
After the game was over we all just sat around and talked.
The next morning we headed towards deeper Ontario. When we got to our next destination we set up our tents right away. Then we went for a walk down to the lake. We played on the playground for a while. The boys all got on the merry go round and were spinning really fast. I think I got motion sickness just from watching them. I played it safe and stayed on the swings. We then headed back to our campsite and just relaxed for quite a while.
Nicky and I did a lot of movie quoting. Our favorite to quote from was Bio Dome. I recommend that you watch it if you haven’t yet. (I’m writing about this trip about a month after it happened so please forgive me if I’ve left out some details...for those of you who weren’t there you won’t even notice if I’ve missed something so just forget you read this footnote).
The next day we woke up and had our breakfast. Sometimes the fire was created by using funny things. Such as, you ask? Pudding snacks. haha. Don’t worry pudding lovers, we ate the pudding first. But let me tell you, there is nothing like waking up to the smell of burning plastic first thing in the am. YUM! I have to say though, the cooking on this trip was exceptional. (Not even kidding).
We did a lot of relaxing and oh yeah, we went for a nice walk the first morning we were there. It was so beautiful there. It reminded me of nothing I’ve ever seen before... so really I can’t say it reminded me of something when there is nothing to compare it to. So yes people, I used the wrong word choice there. Cross out the “remind” and oh, whatever, it was really nice there ok.
The weekend was so full of relaxing and fun times. We went swimming one day. The water was awesome. You could see the bottom. I did a handstand in the water and when I went down I smacked my head into the floor of the lake. That hurt enough for me to call it quits for the day. I had a bit of a headache for the rest of the trip but it just reminded me of how much fun I was having. haha.
The Saturday we headed into Sioux Lookout to check out the town from which my friend Dave comes from. We went for ice cream and then went out to Dave’s parents’ house. It was amazing. I’d have to say though the Tonka Toys totally ruled over everything there. They were awesome. There was even a mixer truck! How amazing is that!?! So cool. The guys had a lot of fun with the paddle boat and the sauna room.
His parents even fed us while we were there. Yummy burgers once again. While we were eating them they had the TV on and that’s how we learnt that there was a Tornado warning for where we were camping. AWESOME!!! For everyone who knows me I’m freakin’ scared of storms. However, since we had that flood in Brandon last year, I’d have to say that I am not so afraid any more. Anyways, off topic, we were wondering if we should go back to our camp site. But the adventurous campers that we are we thought, why not. So off we went. When we were half way back one of the guys remembered he hadn’t closed his tent window. As soon as we got back to the camp site he ran and checked out the damage. Yep, soaked. Everything soaked. And the vent on the one side of the girls tent was open so a couple of things got wet in there. And the second boys tent, things were soaked in there too. So some ok, most of the people went to dry their stuff. Dave, Nicky and I all stayed back at the camp site. We had so much fun and indirectly met Dave’s brother. That was funny. We were sitting at the picnic table just talking when someone’s car alarm went off. Suddenly we heard a bunch of yelling, “Turn that **** off”. Then it turned off. (Dave hung his head and replied, “That’s my brother”. Then the car alarm went off again just a minute later, followed by Dave’s brother yelling “You have 5 seconds to turn that off”. Then he started counting down. It was so funny. What a good time. The wind died down and when everyone got back from drying their stuff we all sat under the tarps and hung out. (This is what you are suppose to do when you’re in a Tornado warning situation. Sit out in the open...totally safe). Afterwards we went to bed and the next morning was our last morning camping. It was a bitter sweet. I missed my bed, but I could handle the flat air mattress that Pastor Ruth and I were sharing..haha. One of the guys said to me, Michelle, we are camping you don’t need two pillows. In which I replied, I cut down pretty good I think, I usually sleep with 6 pillows. We all had so much fun. I loved every minute. Then we headed home. Joe entertained us on the trip back again with his awesome singing and playing of the guitar. At one point he had his pillow over his face while playing and singing. It was mildly muffled but still really funny. That was the end of our awesome camping trip. I recommend it for anyone who just needs to relax and have a great time.

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