The Sutton Place Hotel Edmonton

... terrible time hauling the food up. Nylon rope doesn't run over tree branches very well, but it does remove skin effectively. By now the Canadian mosquitoes were out in full cry. They don't actually remove skin, although I have been told that they get so thick that they kill caribou. They weren't that bad but there is something about that whine that makes it impossible for me to think at all, and I nearly had a nervous breakdown. Eventually the food was off the ...

So I finished my last couple days of work and had a few days off to prepare for my trip to Peru! I threw a mini going away/bbq for a couple people just so that we could hang out and say goodbye (or hello) to everyone before I leave for 25 days. We were up to our usual antics... learning the choreography to the Wondergirls "nobody" and karaoking to Jason Mraz´s "I´m Yours" Pretty darn sweet ...

... the city of Vegreville, Alberta. We are an hour from Edmonton, We are going to stop at the Edmonton Mall, just to see it and also to Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. Probably won't get too many miles today but we are ready for a break away from riding and driving. There are alot of trains here. /Very beautiful country. We are 1/2 way to the Alaska boarder! More later!

... unique Molson brewery.  Then to the Legislative buildings on the other side of town.  I took many different photos of the outside of the buildings and the grounds but tomorrow I will go inside and get a insider tour.  After checking out the legislative buildings I saw the Muttary Conservatory, a couple of pyramids in the distance and crossed over High end bridge back to the hostel.  My other blog, hostel characters takes over from this point.

... booked out. Luckily basketball was cancelled that night because of really heavy snow, so everyone was able to come. My host family, Corry, Barry, Kaitlyn and Kian were also there. We all ate and mucked around and took tonnes of photos. They gave me two volleyballs which they had all signed as well as teachers and everyone. As well as a scrapbook album which they'd made with heaps of photos from over the year, and a few people had also had a picture ...

... school. Then back to a normal class again but of course I didn't do any work. It was so sad saying goodbye to everyone, but there were quite a few people who I knew I would see again anyway which was nice. I was talking to a teacher who organises the Year Book and she was talking about how I can get someone to send me one. Then she realised that my picture in it would be different from everyone ...

Let this be the beginning, sitting in a cubicle, working away, looking at Taiwan through google earth and the photos of Taiwan on the wall. Still waiting got approval from my boss. Counting down the days till I go to Taiwan and surprise my girlfriend Sarah(you'll hear more about her soon enough).

... everyone know that it wouldn't be happening, but instead I was having a going away supper in a few nights time. Instead that Saturday night Lexi let a few of us over to her house. It was really nice, it was just Dana, Abby, Theoren, Lexi and Me. We mucked around for ages, just having fun, making food, playing table tennis, watching movies, and Lexi and I had a late night (about 3am!) stoll on the frozen lake. We walked out a fair ...

Charlotte and Terry's daughter Shannon took me to Edmonton for a while during the summer holidays for a change. Edmonton is the biggest city near Cold Lake, so there was much more happening there. So I stayed with Shannon and her 1 year old daughter Brooklyn. Marvin, Shannon's fiance, was in Afghanistan with the army, and I haven't met him yet. I was in Edmonton for about a month. We went to lots of different malls ...