Farewell Midwest, Hello Westcoast

This is a continuation from the last two posts of my trip. Farewell Wet Westcoast, Hello Midwest and Thanksgiving round #3.

Day 4 (Friday)
We (Kari, Woody and myself) saw planet 51 after their bowling league game. It was nice to watch people bowl who have a passion for it compared to someone like me who goes bowling once a year, if that.

Day 5 (Saturday)
Kari and I drove down to Kentucky and met up with one of her world of warcraft friends and we saw new moon and had dinner at a Big Boy.

Day 6 (Sunday)
Drove back to Indianapolis, hung out at the brother in-laws to watch the Colts game, but I was more focused on who was winning the Grey Cup (the Canadian football league version of the Superbowl) and since my team (BC Lions) wasn’t in it this year, I was cheering on Montreal and they won by a point, 28-27 against Saskatchewan.

Day 7 (Monday) On the way up to meet up with Kari’s mom (my other mom… can’t have to many of those) and one of Kari’s and my good friends for dinner. We took a detour and visited Kari’s late grandparents tombstones before the sun went down. Kari’s grandparents took me in as one of their own, when they first met me, boy do I miss them.

Day 8 (Tuesday) was a lazy day and made sure all my things that needed to be charged like cellphone, my nintendo ds and ipod touch where for my trip home. As well as all my clothes were washed (I like traveling with clean clothes not stinky clothes on the way home) and played tetris with my backpack getting everything to fit back in it. I dislike traveling with luggage when taking more then one flight. The whole thing of transferring your own luggage to your next gate is annoying so I travel with a backpack.

And today I head back home.. looking forward sleeping back in my own kingsize bed and sharing it with my four kitties.

I’ve taken over 1500 pictures on this trip… but have not had time to update my flickr account, will tackle that later on in the week when I’m back at home.

How was your last few days been??

Post on: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 am
Category: holidays
Tags: Indianapolis, online friends, Vancouver
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Paddle For Kids 2009 – Recap

First off I want to thank my dragon boat team, Gary and Meaghan for supporting me.

BC Childrens 11th Annual Paddle for Kids charity event happened on Sunday, 30 teams registered though only 24 teams took part in the event. The weather was nice, wasn’t to hot out either. H2O Geeks raised over $3441 dollars in 7 short weeks and were ranked in 6th spot as of Friday afternoon for most fund-raised, which is not bad if you ask me. In the end Paddle for Kids raised over $95,681 dollars that’s over half a million dollars for BC Childrens hospital in Paddle for kids lifespan.

Our team H2O Geeks could have arrived on site on Sunday never having a chance to be in a dragon boat and then race, for me that was not an option, I wanted this team to be on the water as much as possible, for one get use to the boats and to learn the stroke. Like the old saying goes “practice makes perfect”. All summer long we never had a chance to paddle with a full boat (of 20 paddlers) until race day. It was a great experiences for all. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »