Video of men's 1000m in Sydney IDBF 1000m open gold link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixn2AjR1g-c IDBF 1000m open gold My pictures of the races are on my photobucket account - under erinthorsgard.. Erin Thorsgard Photobucket LINK: http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd104/erinthorsgard The races were a lot of fun. My team (premier women) got 4th in the 1000m and the 500m and 5th in the 200m. The mens and mixed team got a lot of medals, so combined with our results, we won the nation's cup! ... read more

Quadra Island and Comox Valley North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver Island By Blegs June 14th 2007 Erin & Dana QUADRA ISLAND We went to Quadra Island and camped at the We Wai Kai Campground on the Rebecca Spit south of Heriot Bay. It was a really nice campground. We kayaked in Scott and Juli's TOMCAT TANDEM in the waters of Drew Harbour. We walked into "town" and ate a mandatory salad at the Heriot Bay Inn. (They won't serve you a beer unless you order food.) In the morning we took the ferry to Campbell River. COMOX VALL... read more

Hot Springs and more bears! North America » Canada » British Columbia » Tofino By Blegs June 13th 2007 Erin & DanaOn Wednesday we went to the hot springs near Tofino and saw some more bears in the afternoon. From Tofino we drove to Sproat Lake and camped. In the morning we went to Quadra Island.... read more

Butchart Gardens and Victoria North America » Canada » British Columbia » Victoria By Blegs June 12th 2007 Erin & Dana After Dana's BBQ with Drew's family and my long day at the Rose Festival races, we headed out around 8pm for Canada. We crossed the border late and got into the ferry line around 2AM. We rested in the car a bit, then took the 6am ferry across to Swartz Bay. Our first stop was Butchart Gardens! It was really nice, we took lots of flower pictures. We spent the day in Victoria; had a really good lunch and smashed up some glassware at Pag... read more

Boulder to Ft Collins to Northwood, ND We visited Mike in Boulder on Saturday and watched some football games with him and his friends. After that, we went to Fort Collins to stay with the Sagstad family - Heidi and Eivind and Bjorn - for two nights. We did some shopping, had an accordion show, played playdough, and hung out at their new house. Bjorn has some fun games and songs that he's made up, so we played those with him. From Fort Collins we drove to North Dakota, stopping along the way at the World's only Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. Nothing other than hunting was going on in SD. We arrived in ND on Tuesday and left on Wednesday for Duluth. In Duluth we visited Kenrea and Mike, classmates of mine from NDSU. We ... read more