Edmonton Beverly Crest Travelodge

... take a mum for grauntted. Cooking and washing up yourself, when your tierd is very hard. Havent even had to wash any clothes yet. Had first training session monday whih was a shock with the ground being very hard. The altitude also took affect which made the fitness very hard. After with many scrapes and grazes we realized how hard it was going to be over here. We had the first night of full sleep then showing that the jet lag was losing effect slowly.<br>

... I went to another restaurant on Whyte Ave. with her boyfriend Matt and his friend Randy, this time to a mexican place called Julio's. We went so that I could try one of their "bulldogs," which is basically a margarita with a Corona turned upside-down in it. I had a pina colada version called "bichon frise" and it was delicious! My kiwi friend Tracey came to meet us at the restaurant, and we all went to Hudson's, a downtown pub, to watch the hockey game. Although ...

So, the day has finally come. Today we leave for Edmonton International Airport to catch our flight from Edmonton to Toronto. We then have a 4 hour layover until our big Trans-Atlantic flight. One good thing is all the times seem to line up good. We leave ...

We're booked!! I can hardly breath I am so excited. And nervous. We leave Edmonton for Damascus on August 21th. We are in Syria for 9 days. We leave for Amman, Jordon on the 30th and join up with our first group here on the 31st. On to the ancient cities of Petra and Little Petra, Wadi Rum and Nuweiba. Then off to Mt. Sinai where we will climb it in the morning before the +50 temperatures and check out the place where Moses got the 10 ...

... 11-12 Lyon-Nice (Train) Aug 13 Nice Aug 14-15 Nice-Rome (Overnight Train) Aug 16-17 Rome Aug 18-21 Rome-Edmonton (Plane) Aug 22 Total: 44 days! So, that's the current plan. Finding a balance between seeing enough and spending enough time in each destination was difficult. I'm leaving out places like Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, but there's only so much that I can do in one span of time. If all goes well, I'll do another trip ...

... California fusion-faves Ozomatli and Michael Franti/Spearhead, but the act that sticks with me most is Bill Bourne. A local Canadian, Bourne struck me at first as something of a joke, with his beard-and-top-hat Leon Russell-like dinosaur demeanor and old-fashioned folk yodels, but damn if they didn&#8217;t stay with me to this day, part of that same genre that Neil Young cops in &#8220;Four Strong ...

... the damage to the front of the Sienna when we got up in the morning. It drove OK last night and there was no apparent damage to the underbody. The fairing around the bumper shows some breaks in the grill work. If this costs as much as we think it will to fix we may just leave it as is. Rory is concerned that it may lead to early onset heapness on a late model Toyota. Chere says if you can't see it until ...

... ahead. We took the next exit we came to and took the long backroads for about 30 minutes til we reached the Greyhound station. WEM was so incredible, i am so happy that i was able to visit there. It really did go beyond my expectations and i did have a good idea of what the mall would be like having seen it on the tv show "Getaway" before. It has been the highlight of my Alberta holiday thats for sure.

... it deserved a chop to make sure the ends stay healthy. Spent the rest of the day plugging away at work stuff and trying to decide whether or not to go to Z-Trip, a mashup DJ. I have no idea what Mashup is so at the last minute I got myself together and made my way downtown. I wore my new purple skirt that I bought ...

... building for the Legislature. We then headed to Whyte Street and had dinner and a bit of a look around there. We had planned to stay in Edmonton but again decided to head a bit further back, and stayed in Edson again, in the same room! We heard on the radio that it was -11 degrees, the coldest I have been in - the car windows were icing up - on the inside! Monday we woke up and it was snowing again, and the car had even more snow on it! We headed up to Jasper for some brunch ...