On july 26th/27th suze and i with other people from the Y headed to calgary to volunteer at one of the casinos. as a rule in alberta all the casinos have to donate money to charities and in return the charity sends volunteers to work there. i signed up ages ago for it and when the time came i kinda wished i hadnt. i had to work a full day on the sunday then head to calgary after work. we had no idea wot we were doing. when u eventually arrived and checked in the ...

MOUNT RUNDLE HIKE At 7:30am on july 21st 7 oreoites left the safety of the Y to embark on the 10 hour hike up a 9600ft mountain. we were all pretty hyped up about doing it so the first little bit of the trail felt like a peace of cake then it started to get steeper and steeper and we had to stop to catch our breath i dont know how many times. the first 90 mins was tough it was one big long trail with quite a few ups and downs and i know if i'd been doing it on ...

Had quite an eventful time since my last blog. saw ice age 3 at the movies last tueday it was so so. started my fitness thingy and walked to bow falls which looks awesome in the summer but so many tour buses go down that way so it always busy. on the wed i decided to go for a hike which i hadnt done in a while so i did the spray river loop on my own it was nice to have some peace and quiet. on the way though i heard some noises in the bush and all of a sudden a h...

went round to suzes on monday night and had a junk food session and a double bill of ryan reynolds. watched blade trinity and the recent amytiville horror both awesome! tuesday night is movie night so this week we saw public enemies with johnny depp i loved it suze wasnt too impressed but come on johnny depp...u cant really go wrong!!! friday i decided to finally get my butt in gear and hand out some cv's try find a 2nd job to get some more pennies for my travels...

STAMPEDE 09 Didnt really know wot to expect from the stampede and was relying on suze to show me around. nadia and flo picked me up at 8am and after a 2hr drive we got to calgary dumped the car and headed on the seatrain to the stampede grounds. first stop was of course the army tents to get my picture taken with some hot men in uniform i was the only one who got my pic taken with them and who played on the tank and torpeodo think they were too embarrassed not m...