Aha! So Thanksgiving weekend has already come! It comes so fast every year. I don't feel I've been away nearly long enough to want to come home or to even deserve to come home. I remember thinking about people away at University and thinking that it must be so long for them waiting for Thanksgiving. The Turkey sale has been all that's been going on. Although initially it was pretty exciting, that excitement easily wares off. Like, it was fun for the whole hour that I was shopping and other than that it's just been a week worth of getting home late, being exhausted, piles of dishes etc. and I'm not even the one working, it just kind of runs off at home. There was a week there where I wished that I had written about, it was a fab week; two hikes, party, good food and so much more but I don't have nearly enough energy right now to write about all of that. I watched the kids all day today..from waking up to going to bed and everything in between, including: birthday party, pumpkin pie, soccer and Saturday night Disco on Mountain FM. I am surprisingly a constant energy source today, but am fading right now and a warm bed and book sound great. We're invited to friend's for Thanksgiving dinner so I guess that's the plan. Next week and weekend should be another one of those high's that sucks to come down from. The plan is Tofino( surfing, camping, with church people) - Victoria-Seattle. And I've never been on the island, so it's always exciting to go to a new place. hmmm, I think that warm mug of milk is calling though,
Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey Hey!
So I'll admit that I've been busy enough to not have enough time to write as much as I'd like on this. Hiking and Church have been my faves so far. I've found this ski team to start training with, might be going to a training camp at Silver Star in Nov. I need to walk home though before it gets dark...and I have dinner waiting for me. I"m hoping to get on tonight to update this thing in detail though!
Adios

Not much news...

Sept. 11/09 (that is for you Meaghan)
aha.
This week has pretty much been school and nothing really has happened since the last post.
I forgot my lunch and my rollerskis today, fortunately got my rollerskis dropped off though.
Alas, it is a beautiful, sunny, cloudless day out and I should be out paddling. But water or not this weather still tempts me....

p.s. a large amount of the food in that grocery store is all organic and natural.
Beat that Sobeys.

aww

Gah! I have been slacking. Nothing about rollerskiing (Callaghan, Valley Trail), nothing about Mom leaving, nothing at all.
So labour day weekend was def different. No Bay, no boats, no sun..
It poured all weekend so I sat on the couch for one day.
Church and Grand piano playing all afternoon. (which just so happened that I left my rain coat there....still haven't found it)
Vancouver on Labour Day.
Ikea was great, it's alway's fun shopping. Oh!..before that, Galileo's on the way down was excellent. I experienced my first London Fog. It was amazing. (consists of ealr grey tea with foamed milk and vanilla)
Whole Foods. My new favourit store. It is in fact a grocery store but it is thee grocery store, to end all grocery stores. The wall of cheese, ahhh every cheese, from everywhere in every size, smell...
The CHOCOLATE!!!! So much, big giant chunks everywhere, every size, every shade..
A wall of yogurt flavours.
Every kind of sausage imaginable.
A wall of tea.
An aisle of granola, cereals, nuts, wheats, pastas,
Fresh mad pizza and lunch.
The desserts, the BROWNIES (one of which I enjoyed while eating lunch by myself today)
The bread.
Food is so amazing and I am so thankful for chocolate, especially dark chocolate. I don't understand how it could possibly be so good.

That was yesterday and it was amazing.
Today not so much.
Tomorrow I have an awesome salad for lunch, things are looking up.
Hope you're not too hungary now.

I've had some pretty radical days here in Whistler/Pemberton. After all though, school did start today. We were only in classes until 10:30, so it wasn't much of a day and I'm thinking that (actually what the janitor from Pemberton Secondary-I just agree) it was pretty much a head count, paperwork, stuff like that. So for homeroom I tried to be social and sat down at a table with a girl already sitting there and guess what? Christina befriended me, surprisingly enough. I got invited to their gr.12 shindig/all night party etc. Christina text me but obviously, being me, I just got it (10:33) so I replied and said no. No biggie though, I'm just glad that I got invited to their party…that's pretty big for me lol. We'll see how tomorrow goes, see if I really feel strongly about switching to Pemberton Secondary. Starting at a new high school is crazy, I think way tougher University. This whole deal, this is crazy. Crazier than I ever could've imagined, mostly because I just didn't think of the logistics (I think I just like this word, I don’t know if it's really what I'm getting at, what I mean is the everyday stuff, living just being, the big stuff, what I actually thought about will be easy.) So here's to another day at this potentially -temporary, crazy-adventure, high-school-junk/drama/madness, and to everything in between…or something.

Arrival day in Pemberton. We were anticipating not even arriving in Pemberton tonight and expecting to stay in Kamloops or Cache Creek. We ended up making excellent time though and because of the car trouble (oil cap not being closed oil spitting out everywhere, all over the engine, potentially causing an engine fire which had to get engine shampoo for and get it thoroughly rinsed off at the garage) we didn't even get out of Banff until 10. We ended up arriving in Pemberton around 8. Not bad, Not bad. And we survived Highway 99. The CRAZIEST drive of your life, the most intense and most adventure I think I've ever had. It is quite surreal though. When flying you get to be in this sort of time warp on the plane, which for me has meant that I'm going to be somewhere very far away. This time it's like so gradual and you're still in your car it's like it's actually real, which I guess is good for living circumstances. It's actually hit me that this trip is done and I actually am doing this crazy plan of mine, of staying out here and going to school. It's actually happening.
What a year this is going to be…I hope all good and nothing sketch happens. My room is pretty sick though…I really can’t complain about anything in this life.