Happy Australia Day!

Ahh....Australia Day..A Day to sit in your boat on the harbour and embrace the sunshine while thanking God for the finer things in life...
Like cutesey lil animals



Vegemite (MMmmm..going to go eat some right now..)

The TV shows....like "Scrubs" and "Kath and Kim"
(though it seems they're all Futurama/Simpson's/family guy fans here)

Not enough awesome Aussie things to be stoked for this Jan 26th??

How about the fact that God himself placed 17 of the TOP 22 MOST VENOMOUS SNAKES in Australia (Including the top 10)

Or the spiders that can kill you in less than 3 seconds....

Hmm..okay. Maybe that's not so awesome..

But we have GORGEOUS beaches and no sun-tan oil needed! (Also highest precent of skin cancer in the world.... :S)

We have tennis and cricket...No hockey, football, basketball....bobsleds....
(MMmmm Lleyton Hewitt...)

We have something amazing called Tim Tams..I suggest you order them in..
Chocolate wafers with chocolate goodness inside....

There is, however, one thing that may actually drive me back to the frozen wasteland which is Canada....

There is NOWHERE in Australia (besides SubWay) where you can get ranch dressing.

So it's official...

Im a lobster...

Im so burned now...hahaha. Today me and Dave and Dan (a friend) went to the Central Coast to a beach there...it was beautiful. Water was clear and turquoise...rip was huge (aka waves) sand was soo soft...and the sun...NO OZONE...need I say more?

Anyways..every part of me is burnned..but I love it. I don't even care at all. Sunscreen does almost nothing here.

ANYWAYS...after the beach we came home...showered etc..and then went to Hillsongs church...SO HUGE. It was an awesome service..really powerful.

Mike-I couldn't help but think about your reasoning about big churches...and church in general. This place puts Center Street to shame..makes it look like a matchbox. But it was awesome. Some thing about it made it feel smallish..and people were so aweosme and welcoming. I think that must be the key to having a great BIG church.

Tomorrow Dave and I head up the Blue Mountains... Im really stoked...even though I dont have a camera...besides the few pics left on my disposable..hahaha o deary.

Tea-time for me though..(dinner)..I have yet to eat this evening and am becoming a little faint.

Peace out
Word to yo' motha

So hot....

im over heating.....but I love it.
Got here safe and Dave picked me up...loved the plane ride and everything. it was a BLAST!!!
So far....I've been to a BEAUTIFUL beach, downtown Sydney, a little amusement park called Luna Park, a wildlife reserve...and of course both Dave's house and Steve Cooke's place!
I love it alot and (actually) am already sad at the thought of coming home.

Ill post more later...perhaps with pics...
but im tired and (more imoportantly) scorching hot...
(I love this country!!!)
bed....

Adios amigos

Well...it's been fun...

Goodbye Calgary!

This has been a greattime though..for sure...

From the killah squirels with Ashie


to the zoo...getting lost in the CANADA section with Jay while Mike and Ash...uhm...dissapeared i guess...


Jay's birthday...




....explicit pumpkin carving....






Gracie!


Sheesha-ing withmy mama...(the pics dont wanna work :( )

and many more that are not photo-documented :(
Like Kilks, ice blocking with Mike and Storm...shopping adventures...scary movies....watching Team America with Jay...earl's girl night...the mynt...getting lost with Davey on our way to Niks and getting scared by that big effing dog...Shannon being haunted...making cake with Ashley...and dancing....Tantra...Christmas and New Years with Jaka...watching the hockey game with my mum and her friend...
...and SO much more...

So here goes the sap..

thanks guys...Ihad so much fun here and I'm going to miss you all terribly. Keep in touch while I'm gone...and I'll see you all when I come back in July!

And don't get too jealous! Remember:

"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."

Henry J. Tillman

RIP Edward...

As you can see.....Edward my cyber hamster is no longer with us.

There was a tragic blender accident and, sadly, Edward perished.... but at least I could make Mike a nice smoothy...

Ms.Deserting-My-Country-For-A-Warmer-One

I think that this is a better name for me than the one Dave gave me this morning...which substituted "warmer" for "better"...
beacause I'm leaving THIS:

for THIS:

Anyways..

I leave on Sunday..it's Tuesday.Can you believe it? There were so many things I wanted to do while I was here that I never got the chance to do...like visit Edmonton..and see my sister in Lethbridge. But what can you do? Nothing I guess...besides go backin time and try again (if anyone invents a timetravel device, let me know...)
I wish also that I could have had more time with all of you here in Calgary...the times we did hang out were awesome...but I was always working! :(
It's a wierd thought knowing that this time next week I'll be getting patted down by customs agents in Sydney, Australia...

All nerves aside...I'm totally excited. But it's all not real to me yet. Not at all. Even though my bags are packed and I have no job...even still.

This really freaks me out...that I'm leaving for so long...and that as soon as I'm gone I can be deemed homeless...the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing afterwards scares me...but looking back at everything thats happened to get me this far...I know that God's going to take care of me. Something will work out and I know that what He has planned is WAY better than anything I could ever think of or plan on my own. There are just so many OPTIONS and places I could go!

All I know is I'm going to Australia in 5 days and will probably spend the first 10 days straight in my hot new bathing suit. On this beach... :)

ooooo man

it is 8 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes and 24 seconds until i leave to australia...
this means 2 things...

i need to see you Cow-Town people sooon because...i need to.

and 2...

im so nervous...(thats the second thing)

hmm any ideas?

does anyone know any REAL cures fopr insomnia?
or any ways to fall asleep OTHER than warm milk (which is nasty)

i would really love you forever if you helped me.

really