On Monday night I got to spend a wonderful evening with my sister and her children :) It was so nice to be with them. We ate some very strange, but good food my niece cooked and then went to a fabulous movie... The Fighter :) I highly recommend it! Wahlberg and Bale were awesome! I especially liked the perfect portrayal of an elephant in the room, the family dysfunction, and of course the fighting scenes were pretty good too (both boxing and domestic). Definitely a movie I will purchase and watch over and over. I can hardly wait until it comes out for rental.
The rest of the week at school was pretty good. I hung out with my group most nights and worked on a presentations. We seemed to work very well together and have a well balanced team. I look forward to the next 6 months of school. I look forward to the tools I will be taught, and most of all I look forward to implementing them into my projects here on Haida Gwaii.
So, after a wonderful week at school, my dear brother picked me up and we went to a very lovely cafe on the side of the road and had the MOST delicious carrot cake I have EVER had! It was a wonderful visit... short and sweet :) And off to the airport I went....
The NUMBER ONE answer people give If asked what was the most important thing you should pack when going on a trip out of the country... Survey Says.... passport. Hmmm... someone forgot to give my man the memo. After a few choice words in my mind, and a series of irritating phone calls, and 7 hours of sitting in the airport wondering what the heck we should do next... we booked a room through hotwire.com and decided to make the best of it. The reality is, it was Todd that hurt more than me.... He has to pay for the changes in tickets, but most of all, he had to miss watching the UFC fight live in Las Vegas. Thank God we found a cute little bar in Yale town with good food, and big TV screens :)
Sunday afternoon we left for what was probably our best vacation yet. Todd is actually one of my favorite persons to travel with. He lets me plan things and kinda just follows me along. Once in a while he throws in an activity he'd like to do, but for the most part we had a wonderful time! I convinced him he needed to ride a roller coaster, and he convinced me I needed to laugh at a Carrot Top show. Both were the highlights of our visit! We stayed at the Excalibur which was not the nicest hotel, but the price was right, and the room was decent. The picture to the left was the view from our room. If you look closely you can see the track from the roller coaster we rode at New York, New York. It was just so much fun!
Food of course was a main activity on this trip. We walked for miles and miles looking for good places to eat :) We found some really great restaurants like the Camelot at the Excalibur where we had what was probably the BEST steak we ever had! And the Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay was also way up there as one of favorites, however, you pretty much have to take out a loan to eat there!
One piece of advice I have for anyone going to Vegas... NEVER eat at the buffets :P We tried one the first time we went, and gave it another try this time, and what a waste of money! The food was, well, in the nicest way possible, I'd have to say... disgusting!
Good times, good times! Completely worth the 10 pounds I gained while I was gone :) So now what? Jillian Michaels 20 mins a day I suppose. We'll see. She says if it doesn't hurt, I don't want it bad enough.... Started last week.... going good so far.
Sunday afternoon we left for what was probably our best vacation yet. Todd is actually one of my favorite persons to travel with. He lets me plan things and kinda just follows me along. Once in a while he throws in an activity he'd like to do, but for the most part we had a wonderful time! I convinced him he needed to ride a roller coaster, and he convinced me I needed to laugh at a Carrot Top show. Both were the highlights of our visit! We stayed at the Excalibur which was not the nicest hotel, but the price was right, and the room was decent. The picture to the left was the view from our room. If you look closely you can see the track from the roller coaster we rode at New York, New York. It was just so much fun!
One piece of advice I have for anyone going to Vegas... NEVER eat at the buffets :P We tried one the first time we went, and gave it another try this time, and what a waste of money! The food was, well, in the nicest way possible, I'd have to say... disgusting!
Good times, good times! Completely worth the 10 pounds I gained while I was gone :) So now what? Jillian Michaels 20 mins a day I suppose. We'll see. She says if it doesn't hurt, I don't want it bad enough.... Started last week.... going good so far.
