Owned by the Sun

Ameel couldn't come! D'= Maybe some other time...there's still this weekend!

Friday: Got home from work @ 16:00-ish, ate a bit then packed and we were off to pick up Damien at 17:15. Drove to Calgary. Slept. Nothing really interesting.

Saturday: Woke up at 7:00, ate breakfast, out at 8:00-ish on the way to Lake Louise. During the last 30 min stretch my dad asked if I wanted to try highway driving for a bit; 'course I said yes. Unfortunately, 20 mins in road construction started for the next 28 km. It was 25 km to Lake Louise. Arghghg! Took an extra 45 mins to get there.

Once there, hike start! 5.5 km to the Teahouse! The first rocky, uphill stretch was pretty brutal, but once you get past that initial exhaustion feeling it's pretty smooth going. My dad owned us all in speed and endurance. Next was VJ, then me, then Damien. Although Damien and I only took 2 breaks while the other 2 were constantly waiting for us. I kept going to Beaumaris Lake after dinner for walks before this trip, so it wasn't too bad on my legs.

They added steel cord railings on the one-way cliff part! So much better, since the path there is practically made of large slabs of smooth rock. We didn't see any animals this time though....probably because it was mid-afternoon and blazing hot out. Other than that....there were mini-avalanches on the glaciers! It was on the mountain in front of us and happened about 4 times while we were up there. Unfortunately I didn't catch sight of any of it, but it was loud. Everyone was hoping that there would be a huge one so we could take videos hahaha.


Hurray for Damien for surviving his first major hiking trip! He was already exhausted earlier on but kept going. ^^ I'm very proud of you! It seemed like you were about to give up at the very end, but you were only about 10 meters from the Teahouse. =D We had some peachades there (lemonade but...with peaches?). Damien went for a cheese sandwich and I tried a scone with honey. Again. It still tasted bland. REDWALL YOUR DESCRIPTION OF SCONES ARE OVERRATED. The people who worked there were all very young women. I was surprised because they don't actually leave and live there for some time. I can't remember how long though, we had asked a waitress last time we were here. But yes, there's no internet or signal for phones so hmm.

After the refreshment, dad noticed another path that leads to "The 6 glacier vantage point." Or something like that. 1.3 km. Alright sure. The path keeps going uphill, but at a very slight incline so it wasn't very difficult. After about 1 km though, it turns to straight shale and was very difficult to climb. About 100 meters from the end of the trail we turned around; it was very, very steep at this point, and full of loose rocks, so it wasn't worth it. We were able to get a telephone signal up there though.

Damage count? Sore legs: VJ and Damien. Sunburns: EJ, VJ, Dad. Where's my mom in all this? She can't walk long distances in rocky terrain anymore, so she was browsing at the hotel and generally just chilling out. On the way back we stopped at a town called Cochrane. The icecream store Mackay's there is famous apparently. I went for strawberry and jagerbomb. Mmm.

That's about it. Went home on Sunday. Then I went over to Damien's after unpacking to watch a movie. He rented all the "apocalyptic" ones. "Knowing", "The Happening", "The Day After Tomorrow", and "I am Legend." My shoulders were killing me though. I wore a tanktop...so I have a tanktop tan line....gurhghg.

I'll upload pics later on. We stopped taking them early on though. Not really picture-taking people. :P

Public Enemies!

Went to watch Public Enemies Sunday (July 19th) with VJ and the bf. Kinda funny actually cuz Viet was the inviter but he didn't have a ride and it was a dreary rainy day, so he opted out, and Ameel was busy; so our 5-man party turned to a 3-man, but it's all good! I think he did want to watch it though so =/ Movie wasn't too bad, I didn't quite like the ending and thought there were some loopholes, but it was entertaining at least. Shootouts are always good, and the character John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp) was great.

In other news...I cancelled my WoW subscription today. Just now actually :P Think I've moved to Starcraft Dx Thanks to the co-workers, haha. I'm really itching for a shiny, cool, new desktop too. One of the work mates recently custom built one for gaming and whoo. /drool. Dual screens would be kick ass. A larger screen, at least 19'' or above, for the games, and a 15'', maybe 17'' for hw and reading. Big white blanks on the side of bigger screens hurt. I've been spending a lot lately though...and going to spend a lot more. Guess the plan for now is to look for parts and once I've saved enough, I'll get the system. Or just have my template and upgrade/update it till I decide to get it. Meh.

Money spending! Shopping, events, CAMPING and HIKING. Campground costs? Every weekend starting now till the end of August. Sweet. The last 2 weeks are unplanned for now.....a fishing trip would be awesome for that, but fishing = licenses and paperwork crap.

Up for this weekend, Lake Louise hiking trip with the family + bf + Ameel. No one has an idea of just how much me and sis have been wanting this. Except maybe Damien. Sorry if we've annoyed you! Haha. But you'll see why, you'll see why :P Hopefully sis won't have another dangerous incident this time.

Man....we were heading back after reaching the Teahouse at the top of the trail. It took us 3+ hours? for the entire trail. Anyways, we were on this very small dirt path on the side of a cliff. Right below us was Lake Louise. No railing. Apparently though, you can go on the trail on a horse. Our group ran right into the horse group. And some retarded lady was sitting on her horse laughing, clapping her hands <-- NOT holding the reins. So her horse was just roaming and doing it's own thing, and when we rounded the corner into them, it panicked a lil and starting weaving and hesitating and all that.

Unfotunately, there's only enough space for hiking traffic going single file both ways. That lady's horse got between 2 people; someone was inching by with their stomach flat on the cliff wall, and my sis was lucky enough to be on the other side of the horse, where the cliff drops to the lake below. With no railing. Kinda a freaky moment but good thing VJ's thin, agile, and athletic. She somehow squeezed past without falling or getting stepped on. Yikes.

Lets hope that doesn't happen a second time. I do wish, however, that we see wild mountain goats again! :D

EJ = really excited.

Tick. Tock.

Lonnnnnggg day at work today. Laptop, laptop, laptop. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Plenty of downtime too, just to make the seconds tick by slower. Gah.

The spoiler my dad bought for our white Lexus was painted and ready for pickup today. Spent a good hour and a half putting it on since it had to be perfect :P My sister and I used 1/3 of that time practising our hapkido while my dad drilled holes and remeasured. Yay for unwasted downtime! That's the way to go. Now all we need are roof racks...mmm.

Hrmm. WoW is getting boring. To the point where I've started playing my warrior again. Not sure how long I'll be going with that. No one to play with, takes ages to do something.....hm. New game? Maybe. Currently I'm half playing RS2 as well, while working on "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" on the NDS and replaying FFX on the PS3....I know, I game too much. Should probably read....I keep buying books I plan on reading but I haven't touched any of them....plus Ameel has suggested a ton for me.

I guess there's also Warhammer. That doesn't count as playing another game right? I only plan on collecting some figures for the fun of it. They look so awesome. I spent an entire day looking through the Games Workshop products and ended up with a 2 page list of potential figures to buy. I'm a nerd. But seriously. Look at >> this <<. Sooo good looking. Damien bought it, can't wait to see how it turns out once he paints it! Thanks for getting me sucked into this! ^^ Ameel bought some too, and it caught my sister's attention as well......but models = $$$. Lots. Lots lots.

Mmm what to buy though....the Warhammer figures? Clothes? New phone? I've wanted a PSP for some time now too. That counts towards gaming though so no no I guess. Maybe ;D Oh, and then there's the Fringe Festival, Heritage Days, Animethon, and K-days. Yes, K-days. Correct me and I punch you in the face :D And yes I might go for once....it's been....7....8 years since I last went...? A little disappointed that I won't be able to make it to Heritage Days or Animethon though. Hello camping trips! But maybe I can convince my parents to sneak back on Sundays early and catch the last hours of those events.

We shall see!

Creation!

Alright, so Vivian finally convinced me to start up this "blogging" thing. As an incentive, she set up the entire page for me; all I had to do was pick a template...of which she had samples already chosen as well, haha. I suppose I shall try to twiddle with the layout and whatnot sometime and learn a few things. So! That being said, if anything gets ugly, that's me screwing it up :P
Thanks so much Viv! :D <3

Now that intro stuff's done....Andi comes home today! 9 pm and still nothing though =/ Where are you?! I'm waiting for my new BRA....

....and I just realized that there is no underline here. What is this?! Bold, italics, UNDERLINE.

Test test underline dammit. There we go. Silly for not having a button for it though. Off to mess around some more with this...