Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1318

Premier Article du blog Et oui, ceci est le décompte avant mon départ. Je stresse et je stresse avant de partir. Mes valises sont (Presque) toutes faites avec des vêtements sérieux d'institutrice. Mes 'nouvelles' valises que j'ai reçues pour noël, mon nouveau portable (en fait c'est un échange de mon autre avec celui que ma mère avait en trop) et mon nouvelle appareil photo numérique. J'ai hâte de partir et en même temps j'ai peur. Je crois que c'est pour ça que je n'ai pas envie de finir mes bagages ... Alors jours 10 avant mon départ le 8 de Janvier et 2 jour avant mes 20 ans .... Il est temps que je devienne sérieuse XD Amour Paix et Joie Marie-Louise First article in this blog. Yep, this is the last 10 days here before ... read more

I awoke to the realization that this is my last day of work in Canada for quite some time... this in itself has made this my favourite work day to date! Today my cubicle felt more spacious...the sounds of photocopiers and printers where like music to my ears...and the dust coming off the 30 year old client files spread around my desk, was like that of a warm ocean mist. In less then one weeks time i will be on a flight out of this great city, onto destinations I have been looking forward to seeing for many many years. My first stop will be Hong Kong, then New Zealand to work and party down, after which comes Australia and then who knows?! Since there is little else to report at this time I will end ... read more

Escape From Edmonton Edmonton "Maul" + Boxing Day Sales = Bad Idea! We really would have loved to spend a day at the water park and it might have been a good idea too in hindsight as we had quite a time trying to locate accomodation in Jasper! But the trick with the waterpark is that it has an early bird special that is more a "mid-day" special ideally engineered to force families to spend an extra night in Edmonton to get great value. If you rock up between 12noon and 4pm it's only $11...before or after that time entry is nearly $40...big difference! So we cut our losses and scarpered...next stop Jasper. Never use cruise control in cold environments! Driving to Jasper from Edmonton is very uneventful. Wayne got a bit of a shock when ... read more

Hello Hello, Well its just like fairyland here, the most magical place. The village is huge full of shops restaurants and hotels. We all skied yesterday and wore ourselves out. Nathan is going well on the snowboard. Greg and i had arest day today and Nathan and Sarah went off and skied all day. We have a great room, its a suite so is much bigger than we have had in the past - there is a kitchen and also a dinner table. We also have our own washing machine and dryer !!!!!!!!!!! Today I was able to wash and cook us a nice meal I really enjoyed it When we arrived the drive up was like a scene from Narnia,the mountains were snowcapped and also the trees. We have a fire in our room and ... read more

I would have thought that driving to West Edmonton Mall...that the Destination would be the predominant subject of this blog...but it was the journey! We had heard about a massive weather storm moving up through the states and it was hot on our heels. The Plan The basic schedule of events for the day was to simply drive up to Edmonton via Calgary (to pick up a new GPS unit) and hopefully get to Edmonton by about 2pm so Lauren could have some quality waterpark time. The Reality We woke up to a fresh dump of powder snow in Kananaskis. Fortunately, it only made things look pretty and didn't affect driving traction at all...so it was pretty much full speed ahead into Calgary. We used Wayne's GPS to drive TomTom so that we could find GPS ... read more