Home Sweet Home

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It was great to come back home. See all my friends and family I had not seen for over a year.
Arriving home I was suprised that my parents had not touched my room, it felt so good to sleep in my bed again.

Over the first week I spent a lot of time on the river with friends. Floating down Vedder river with tubes, dingies and case loads of beer over a 4 hour time span is the most relaxing enjoyable thing ever! I spent a couple nights in downtown Vancouver with more friends visiting some pubs and clubs. Went down south across the border with family to watch the Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees baseball game. Headed to Vancouver Island over a weekend to visit even more family as we toured Victoria, dipped in my cousin's pool, chilled out on the patio and went cliff diving into a river. I also spent a day up in Kelowna with friends and visited some additional family in Vernon.

One of the biggest events was my annual Bumper Boat Beer Keg Party with Karaoke, although I did not put it on last year, nor will I next year, it has happened the 3 previous years in a row though. A massive 50 plus people came, mostly my high school grad class, some friends from BCIT and a few family members. I had two kegs of beer totaling about 250 pints of beer, bar-bq, and karaoke which I even got up a few times with.

I totally had a blast home, and can't wait to go back again for a few weeks in a couple years. I have to thank my mom for basically giving me her car and cell phone (mobile) while I was home, I even changed her voice mail to my own.

Thanks eveyone for an awesome time, see you in a while!

PS. Come to Sydney!

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Photos

Beers, Tubes and Rivers
Enjoying an ice cold Molson Canadian beer while floating down the Vedder river in beautiful plus 30 degree weather.

Sunset over Vancouver Island
A beautiful sunset over Vancouver Island.

Play Ball!
Safeco baseball field, the Seattle Mariners hosting the New York Yankees. The Yanks slaughtered the Mariners.

Wade
My buddy Wade who now lives on Vancouver Island. This was his turn to cliff jump.

Swing!
A New York Yankee taking a swing.

Bumper Boat Crew
The staff of 2006, from left to right: Ty, Spencer, Rick, Jordy, Meeres and my dad, Hank. All whom were pretty drunk at the bumper boat party.

Sis & Cuz
Me with my sister-in-law, Cindy and my cousin, Melissa who took a ferry to come to my bumper boat party.

Rolling down the river
My buddies Dev and Rene on the Vedder river.

River Riders
One of the teams of river riding beer drinkers.

Ahhhh!!!
My cousin Howard throws his son Cole across their pool out on Vancouver Island.

Here comes Jake
Jake making his way down the river.

Look out below!
Jake taking a jump off a train bridge during our trek down Vedder river.

Log Jam
While I was holding on to this log for my life and trying to escape the rapids of the river from crushing me in this log jam, I some how managed to take a shot of Jake trying to rip my tube free, he even had to use his teeth at one point.

Lift Those Legs
Im not exactly sure what they were trying to do here. Nadine, Reeves, Dev and Jake.

Me and the Marine
Myself and my buddy Reeves, who is a U.S. Marine based in Japan right now. He just happened to be home for a week, luckily while I was here.

Cliff Jumping
A shot of myself taking a plunge off a cliff out on Vancouver Island.

Floating Along
Myself, Reeves and Shiela. Not sure what those two are laughing or yelling about. I think I was getting too drunk to notice what was going on.

Mt. Baker
Mt. Baker from the ferry on the way to Vancouver Island.

Karaoke
Sheila, Tara and Steph at the Bumper Boat Party.

Spaceball!
Some poor drunk getting tossed around on the Spaceball.
At the Bumper Boat Party.

My Bedroom
My bedroom which looks the same as about 10 years ago.

Comments

[Reeves]

Cool pics.
When are you going to send me a few copies of those pics of us floating down the river? I'm glad I got a chance to see you while I was back home. Take it easy. Reeves.

[Hawkshaw Help]

Penner Help!
It may be nothing but a two-story town, but Van is nothing without you penner (especially when you fight hot waitresses and still get their number - you stud). We all missed you alot, especially meeres - so we had to cage him up (pics to come shortly) to prevent him from spreading his demon seed. See you in a year (Sydney?). And you better have a f*ckin beard for me you lazy ass. Smile like you used to, Hulkshaw Smash!!!!