KJ Zach and Stan the van

Sorry its been a while friends, but as it stands many of our days have been the same these last few weeks and an average day looks a little like this: 4:20am First alarm goes off, KJ rolls over and hits snooze 4:29 am Second alarm goes off, KJ rolls over and hits snooze 4:38 Third alarm goes off, KJ rolls over and hits snooze. 4:45 KJ hits zach and says “we really need to get up” A quick mad rush ensues as we go pee (in disgusting bathrooms - more to follow), fill up our water bottles and walk to the orchard (in the dark - as the orchard is on a hill, we can actually see all the lights still on in Kelowna). We pick cherries from about 5 until anywhere between 11 and ... read more

To begin where we left off: After adding the guest writers log in the cute little cafe, we were pretty much exhausted and spent the rest of the arvo lying around reading on the beach. The next day we met some of the guys from our lesson and all hired surfboards, wetsuits and little booties. The water was pretty cold and i wondered if they just wear wetsuits all year round (our instructor said she goes out in the middle of winter in -2 degrees..crazy). So we spent pretty much the whole day surfing and were managing to improve and catch some of the bigger waves. By the end of the day we were pretty exhausted and my arms felt like they were at least growing some muscles (yeah right). We returned the boards (thank goodness ... read more

After spending our first night in Victoria in, where else but Walmart, we decided to head down town and take a look around. After having some difficulties finding free parking, we gave up and paid a whole $2 an hour for parking. We walked around downtown for a while going into a whole bunch of bookstores, pawn shops, CD shops and cute little boutique stores. Then, being a Sunday we found some markets (only a tiny strip but better than nothing) and looked at all the crafty stuff (so cultured we are). We had a quick bite to eat and a stall from the markets before continuing our journey into china town. Fun fact: Victoria’s china town is the oldest in Canada. Anywho so we continued on and went into an old school record store where ... read more

We left Christina Lake on Saturday and had a pretty big driving day. We stopped at a few little towns along the way including Grand Forks where there was a giant seniors liquidation sale. We managed to snare a few bargains like a Frisbee for a buck (yay activities) and a badminton set (sans net) for $2. We also decided to splurge on lunch - we had passed a sign saying Cheryls pies - I immediately conjured up images of a delicious bakery contatining meat pies. Of course how wrong I was - being in Canada and all, it was of course fruit pies. So instead we shared a turkey panini and had a slice of rhubarb and strawberry pie. Whilst it was delicious, it was slightly disappointing after just wanting a good ole Mrs Macs. ... read more

Happy birthday..to me! So the departure of stan the van was off to a slight delay. The boys (zach and ben) did a bit of home mechanics and decided they would replace the rotors themselves. All seemed ready to go when we deccided we should test it out and make sure it had been done right, low and behold the brakes now did not seem to really stop the car, merely slow it down..problem. we then took it to good ole canadian tyre to get hte problem figured out and $567 later, we now have a new brake system - kinda important but still a blow to the budget. We also discovered the wicked 5 CD stacker stereo doesnt work along with ole Stan being able to start about 50% of the time.. We finally ended ... read more