Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1521

Tonight I will sleep in my own bed for the last time. The first leg of the journey begins tomorrow with a drive from Saskatoon to Calgary at an ungodly hour of the morning at the request of our chaufeur (thanks Adam!). Unfortunately I did not win the poker game last night to finance the trip, so I'll have to start dipping into the trip fund. After some watersliding fun the real journey will begin as we hop on the 30+ hour plane ride to Singapore. Now to begin packing....... read more

ITS 2 oclock on Thursday and I am leaving for the airport right now! AHHHHH Sooo stoked. Hopefully this works and I'll be able to put all my pics on here. So this is kind of a test. :) !!!!! AHHHH... read more

So it's the night before the big trip. I've just been visiting with my friend Adam and my family so far and the reality of this trip has really not set in yet. I'm almost sure that I'll wake up tomorrow and be back in Victoria. Aside from disbelief, there's definate anxiety. I know that my grandfather can't remember everything anymore and I know my family sees me as responsible for looking after him while I'm gone. But I'm not planning on limiting his activities. In fact, I see my main responsibiliy as making sure he rips it up while we're over there. If something bad happens I'll be there to help him out but otherwise I'm going as his friend. As someone who will respect him. I'm excited as well. I'm going to learn so ... read more

I have to admit that I felt a lack of enthusiam for this upcoming trip. Perhaps its because I've already been to Toronto, New York and Italy but there are always new adventures to be found in familiar territories. Albert and I went to the Royal Ontario Museum as it was free on fridays. There were decent roman, greek and egyptian collections but that seemed to be the highlight of the museum. I didn't see a lot of Canada's history (perhaps thats in another museum). One random thing I did learn, that I'll share to enhance your trivial knowledge, is that all people, at the end of the 1500s, ate with their fingers or with the knives that they carried as their personal possessions at all times (spoons were graciously provided by the host). It was ... read more

Well, before I head off for Europe, I have many loose ends to tie up. One being the need to renew my Canadian Passport. What a headache.. So it was off to Ottawa to apply for one. Normally I could just apply through the mail system, I realise this, but I lack organisation and as such left things to the last minute as usual. So I had to go to an office in person and apply for the rush service to get it before my flight. A 7am bus from Kingston to Ottawa, about 3 hours on the bus, and here I am in Ottawa. A city I don't know much about at all, so if nothing else this is good practice for me. It only took me 45 minutes to walk from the bus terminal ... read more