Splashing Bats at Waterfall

Here is a video of our mate Phil slpashing bats at a small cave we visited.

The road trip continues to Australia!

Darcey and Nicholas are keeping the road trip alive!!

Danny won’t be coming along this time because he is in Ottawa working for the government but he plans on going to Australia next year sometime.

On January 26th, 2009 Darcey and Nicholas will be leaving for Australia.  It’s going to be a heck of a long flight but they will make an overnight stop in Dubai where they will spend a few hours visiting.  Their work visa is good for a year but there is no fixed return date at the moment.  Who knows when it will end.

Game 3 tonight!

Last night we slept at a Super 8 in St-Cloud, Minnesota. With the tax, our room cost us 72$. That includes a free continental breakfast and free jus whenever you want. Danny was all over the free jus. He filled up his water bottle twice! Today he wants to fill up a 4L jug so we can bring it with us in the truck. Not sure if he will do it. Our continental breakfast was good. We had French toast and snagged some doughnuts for today’s drive. We’re a couple hours away from St-Paul, Minnesota where we will watch the Minnesota Wild play the Vancouver Canucks. Hopefully the Canucks will win! 

Darcey

Guest Blogger

Hello everyone, I am Danny and Darcey’s brother Paul. I am also Nick’s cousin. I thought since the boys are awaiting the arrival of their high speed modem and aren’t able to blog I would contribute to the site. This week I was one of many people that made the trip to Sudbury to visit Danny during his quick-spur-of-the-moment visit to Sudbury. When I say quick-spur-of-the-moment I mean Danny didn’t even pack his razor. Danny has been quite popular receiving visits on Sunday from mom, Monday from dad & Gisele and Tuesday from me. Kendra, I am sorry we took away from your Danny time…

Yesterday I woke up shortly after 3:30 am. I tossed and turned in bed trying to sleep in until at least 5:45 am but my mind wandered off about work and countless things that I needed to get done. Instead I got out of bed and got some work done before heading off. At 5 am I showered and got ready. At 5:25 am I stumbled into Tim Hortons, picked up a coffee and a couple of bacon & egg muffins. At 5:33 am I filled up at Esso and was on my way. I didn’t realize it stayed dark so late in the morning. That could be because I don’t usually wake up that early. This is what it looked like at 7:14 am close to Gogama. (that’s the only picture I took all day…grr)

Pot holes, bumpy roads and congested traffic is what reminded me why I dislike Sudbury as I arrived at 8:50 am. I killed half an hour at Walmart as I waited for the mall Future Shop to open. I did a bit of Christmas shopping before I met up with Danny and Kendra for lunch at Swish Chalet. It was nice to see Danny again since I won’t be able to make it to Whistler at Christmas. After lunch we did more shopping at Costco and Future Shop. I dropped by Cambrian College to get a sweat shirt because mine got stolen back when I was in college almost 5 years ago… Kendra bought a wicked cool Olympus 790WS camera that is waterproof up to 10 feet, shockproof @ 5 feet, and freezable to -10 Celsius. Not to mention face detection and image stabilization. It’s way cool. I went to say hi to my good friend Steph at 4:50 pm before leaving to go back home shortly after 5 pm.

Sudbury got hit with snow just after noon yesterday which made it difficult for Sudburians to drive. It seems like everyone forgot how to drive in snow as it took over an hour to get to Chelmsford. Before I got to the Watershed fatigue set in and I started dozing off. Luckily I made it to the watershed and had a 15 minute power nap before going in and buying a Pepsi. The rest of the drive was fine, the Pepsi kicked in and after 4 and a half hours I was home.

I hope Danny has more time when he comes back in February. Maybe we can go snowmobiling!

memo

Dear valued readers,

It has come to our attention that we have unwillingly failed to specify in the previous post that Jojo is only our new roommate while we are in Calgary because she is in fact Steph’s.

Our apologies,

The Crew

no pictures till tomorrow

we still have to post more Las Vegas pictures as well as Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon pictures but since the internet is slow, it’s late and we need our rest for our 10hr drive to salt lake city, Utah tomorrow, we will upload them tomorrow hopefully.

Best regards and sorry for the inconvenience,

The management.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… and is maybe written on the next post

We’re having too much fun in Vegas and trying to do and see everything in the little time that we have so our website will not be updated till tomorrow or the day after in Utah.

The boys

Visit Alcatraz in SF and go to a Waterpark in SJ

visit San Jose, California and sleep in San Francisco, California

visit Great Falls, Montana and drive back to Calgary, Alberta, Canada