Road trip with Daddy Day 7&8

Well we are back home! Yesterday we were so exhausted we didn't get a hotel until 1am so I didnt Blog.



We started out early in the morning to head for Vernon, and FINALLY we saw all the animals we were wanting too! A group of big horns standing in the middle of the highway, a few deer on the sides of the highway, and a young bear standing on the side of the road with an ambulance. He looked like he'd been hit. poor thing.

We went to Frank slide, which was AMAZING! My photos don't do it justice! its a simply MASSIVE rock slide! Amazing history! We also hit on some Cemeteries around Frank and HillCrest, where the huge mining disaster was. There are simply awesome graveyards! Prairie Dogs are burrowing through the graves. HAHA!

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In the HillCrest Cemetery I had been walking around taking pictures (I got some GREAT ONES! Please look) I had been stepping on the Liner lids (the concrete tops) of some of them to squish into some areas for photos and then I went to step up on one and WUMP! it dented in as a I stepped on it - It was PLASTIC! Scared the SHIT OUT OF ME!!

I love the wooden Crosses!

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Canada takes a lot of tourism bad rap because people say the country isn't old enough to have a huge amount of interesting history to Explore - that's SO wrong! There is SO much! Frank Slide, HillCrest Mine, Drumheller Dinosaur bone beds, and all that awesome stuff! that was all just what we saw in a WEEK! Most of that in one day even! There is an amazing amount of stuff in BC and Alberta that we discovered.

Did you know that the Most complete T-rex Skull Comes from Crowsnest Pass? HA! its true! Called black beauty because the minerals made the fossil all black.

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So amazing!! I took so many photos...

We made it to Vernon and when we pulled up there was a deer in Temples front yard! HAHA! We stayed and chatted a while, Then we headed off. I guess we chatted longer than we thought, and soon realized that we were not going to make it far that night. we grabbed some burger king and tried to find a motel, but they were all either full, seedy or no one was there :B
The Motel was the worst of all of them, but we didnt sleep long and we headed home to Vancouver! we saw one deer today!

Well, I wish it wasnt over, but it is, and i'm back to work tomorrow.

Heres the map.

more...

and here is the last load of Photos.
(as of posting this, Picasa is still syncing pictures, there should be over 300 photos in this album)

There is a total of 2025 photos in my albums :p
Enjoy!

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Road trip with Daddy Day 6

Today was a little less eventful than most days this week but thats okay. daddy needed the break from driving and I ended up being rather sick so it worked out.
We (daddy, jeri, me and aunt sid) all went to the Temple Hill Cemetery in Raymond where daddy lived as a kid. I took several photos of graves from my pioneer family.

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i'll add captions with who these people are in the photos as soon as I get a reminder :p some of them i cant read because the sprinkler make them too low contrast.

Any named Weaver, or Jones in these pictures are my family - the original pioneers of canada :)

we also spent some time in Raymond itself and photographed several of the houses that daddy or some of the people from the cemetery photos lived in. Very neat. I love hearing the stories of daddy's adventures, like filling the bathtub with frogs, and jumping off roofs using a bed sheet as a parachute.

my favourite is falling down the well though :p
they were playing house, and daddy lept on top of a covered well saying "this is my bed!" and fell through the top of the well which ended up only being burlap covering it, and he was stuck in the well. Aunt sid Pulled him out and cried all the way home.

Cute <3

Kinda sick today. feel much better now. puked enough. BLEG!

sleepy. Early day tomorrow. Heading to Vernon in the morning, then home by Sunday afternoon.

not many pictures but enjoy them :D

road trip day 4 & 5

Haven't blogged in a couple days, but the photos are up
Day 4:
we went to dinosaur national park. first thing we did was flush out a cute rabbit! got some good pictures of him and the hoodoos.
We were a bit early so we had to wait for the little museum to open but that was cute and fun too :)

we went through vauxhall on the way to lethbridge, avoiding Brooks this time because brooks fails.
there were very large fiber glass potatoes in vauxhall.
about 25 kms from Taber we finally saw the antelope we'd been waiting for but it was only one and by the time i saw him he was behind a fence. LAME.
no pictures.
we got to Lethbridge and saw a house daddy lived in, his old school and other fun things.
we played down by a river, and then went to aunt Sid's house and then Cousin stephanies.
Good times.

Day 5:
we went to smitty's for breakfast then went to Magrath to see a little cemetary that might have held family graves, but didnt. there were prairie dogs all dipping in and out of holes in the graveyard. i pictured them nesting in the skulls.

we moved on to waterford park. a big national park. we went into a little village and right in someones front yard was a big horn sheep with huge curly horns sleeping in someones yard. OH on the way to the park a red fox with the puffiest tail ran in front of the van and bounded in the field! very cute!

we went up to Head smashed in Buffalo Jump too! We saw where the natives ran bison off the cliffs to hunt the huge herds. Very neat. the little museum in there is pretty neat too.

we drove around and saw a grizzly bear, a couple deer, and then we went to a bison paddock and there were many bison! i was really happy with all the photos I took.
On the way back we stopped at Fort McLeod and did a little walk through of the old fort. it was awesome!

Then we headed back to aunt Sid's and we talked with her for a while and had dinner.

Now its Day 6, but I'll try to do a real blog for day 6 later :B

PS: There is something we've been getting frequently - prairie paralysis. Its from driving more than 5 minutes through prairie. It is such boring landscape that your head just bobs and you fall asleep. Its scary!
Soon after Prairie Paralysis, if you are unfortunate enough, you get.... Prairie Madness. Symptoms include Hallucinations, and seeing wildlife where some should be but aren't.

Scary business!

Check the 2 days worth of photos!

Day 4 Photos
Day 5 Photos

Heres the map!
Head Smashed in Wasn't on the map :<

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Road trip with Daddy Day 3

Day 3.
The royal Tyrell museum was as big a thrill today as it was yesterday :)
i took a pile more photos of course.
After the Museum we stopped by Fossil World, a mini museum and at first it was a simple little museum with trinkets. One full size trex skull, and a femur from a sauropod, and a huge life sized trex sculpture, until you walk in its line of sight, and realize its animatronic! LOL! I'll upload the videos later :)

We were on our way to Dinosaur provincial Park but it closes at 4pm so we decided to take it easy today here in Brooks. They had a cute museum, and some little attractions.

We tried to get a motel, but they all needed credit cards to get rooms, which sucks. we ended up at a Ramada. we aren't into this ramada shit, we like motels. they're cheaper and more spacious.

Oh well, we're here for now.
Here are the photos :)

Alberta road trip day 3

Road trip with Daddy Day 2

Well day 2 has been a delight. We started off at 5:30am. I got up and got ready and we met daddy outside and we were off to denny's. Kitty and I had french toast.

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The drive was awesome! we went from Revelstoke along to Golden and into Banff all the way to Drumheller.

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We had a tough time getting some animal sightings but like day 1, we had an animal attempt suicide under the van. this time a chipmunk. but he lived... I think :B

The trees were very cute and round, I did a few sketches.
There was alot of dirty snow still on the ground, our ears were popping again going over the rockies, In the rocky mountain Trench.

We stopped and had to clean off the windows because of the bug splatter obscuring the view HAHA!

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the bumper still looks like this, only worse in most places. the bee is tragic.

We saw one herd of deer, and one solo deer. of course our photos suck. we saw one pronghorn as well, but it was a head in the grass. we are not 100%
i might have also seen a bear running in the distance :B

We made it to drumheller after tons of plains and prairie and hoodoo's. the museum was awesome :D we got 2 day passes so we are going back again tomorrow, then heading to dinosaur national park.

well, here it is so far!
Check out my photos!
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Road trip with Daddy Day 1

Day 1 of the trip. So far a delight! I've been jotting notes in my notebook the whole time. Tomorrow We are more than half way to Drumheller - Dinosaur land! We'll be in Alberta tomorrow!
Here is the trip so far!



We started off around 11am, and headed to Mums so mum and dad could visit, and the Trip just from Vancouver to Surrey was the worst part! HAHA! WE had the hardest time getting on the Patullo Bridge! ROAR. I hate that bridge.
Anyways, we were on our way. The views along the drive are absolutely stunning, and its awesome how the scenery changes as you travel into the interior more.
Planes twice flew down pretty close to us to land in a air strip beside the road HAHA!



There was a funny man in an old car with driving gloves and a hat LOL!


On the Freeway to Hope a Coyote ran so close to the van in front of us we almost killed it! His tail was bigger than his whole body HA! Gave us quite a scare.
Chillawack is Loaded with cows. We stopped in Hope at a gas station for the bathroom and more coke.
We were on the Freeway that is actually the old Carriboo Gold Rush trail. Its really Neat. Daddy told us a little story of taking his mum to Barkersville, which is a historic town that was left in its original state after the gold rush and now people dress up in Clothes of the time and its a tourist place. Anyways, sometime in the 60's I think, Dad took his mum there and they went into the little courthouse where they had pretend trials and pull people from the audience, and they pulled Dads mum and threw her in Jail and it too 20$ to release her HAHA!

There were some funny signs on the way:


OM LOL?

There were many trees all dead and brown from being ravaged by pine beetles. It was a tragic sight for sure. Otherwise green hill sides only spotted with Green.


We went to Hells Gate... Yes its in Canada.

it's actually a big canyon with a tram. we didnt go on the tram, but we just played around there. I gathered some grasses to pres in my book for later use in encaustics.


There were a pile of dead alkaline likes that looked all icy at first but then you realize its poisonous scum madness.


There were a few little nasty cow farms mixed into the otherwise green and lush happy cow farms. see this, its almost torture for those cows to be stuck in these brown pens beside a huge lush green field.



There were many Ginseng farms as well. you can tell them from the black Mesh


Amazing Scenery :D


So we are now in Revelstoke, in the canyon Motor Inn :)


Its a nice little place with a kitchenette :D
Tomorrow, we are off again :D

Alarm set for 5:30AM :D

Road Trip With Daddy

So tomorrow morning we are leaving for our Road Trip with Daddy :)
I'm Very excited :)
We went to Kates today to drop off the keys to the apartment, and got the shavings for the bunnys cage so its cleaned now. should be fine until we get back, we put puppy training Pads around the litter box in case of "accidents" that are probably vengance pees. LOL!!!
Fucking Stormy, Man.


Anyhoo, Gotta get up in the morning to clean the house because I'm too exhausted now, and gotta pack up everything tomorrow and tonight. Thats right, I've had these plans for a month and have not yet packed. You like that?
I bought a couple little sketchbooks, and a set of pastels for the trip to do some colour sketches and such. I'm also bringing my laptop mainly to dump my photos onto as they pile up but If the hotels have Wifi I can check my emails and shit.
I'm excited for stock HA! OMG I'm going to have SO many photos, its going to be scary. LOL

I'll have fun, And hopefully Photo blog along the way :)

Naked Men in the city

Well... Almost naked. He did have his underwear full of holes on, I'll give him that.

The story is, we are just leaving Stanley Park after a long time at the aquarium, and there is a pond that usually houses many geese and ducks, and is loaded with delightful pond scum, and goose poo. Technically its probably a very rich habitat for wildlife but for humanity, its generally a scum pond that's nice to look at. to this guy, it was a water fountain, bathtub, and swimming pool.

Pictures or it didn't happen right?

Here he is! Not only did he walk around in it, and wade over to the ducks and disturb them, but then he proceeded to go to the gungy bank of it, swirl some silt around, and DRINK it... Ya man, real Smart.

We had a Blast at the Aquarium. The birds in Flight were awesome, I didn't get many good pictures of the "flight" part but the actual birds were really close sometimes and I got good photos of them on the perches, taking off and landing.

WOOT it was awesome. 400 photos later, and my stock account is going to be pretty flooded soon ;p

Some cute monkeys and turtles too :)

I'll do that tomorrow. For now, I'm going to make some encaustic Medium so I can do the Encaustic 101 for Alysia :)

Stay tuned for that on my Experimental Guru Blog. Should be great :D

Long Weekend

So, our new(ish) boss Ann is pretty awesome! Shes fair and she's not likely to let you get away with something , which I like. She brought cookies today haha! She also managed to give all the full timers an actual 3 day weekend! so I get Saturday, Sunday & monday off! so awesome :D

Tomorrow I plan on doing more encaustics (a mentioned in a blog on Animated Guru), and hopefully create something with a little more pizzaz than the one I did. i wish I had an iron, I'd like to smooth things out more. I'll have to see if I can make one HAHA! I really like the effects that encaustics gives though... MOAR!

Sunday we're going to the aquarium for the birds of prey in flight exhibit that's going on right now. Many photos to add to the stock account for sure :)

Monday I haven't decided XD
for now, I'm going to go play mario Kart on my wii.

HAHA funny story about pavlova

So, yesterday we met my mum at the Quay in North Van because she was there in the hotel. We had a bit of Dinner then I suggested getting our favourite treat, Pavlova! Mum said, No she already tried, the guy said they were all out of Pavlova singles, but they had a log. we don't like the logs so much, so he said come back tomorrow.

So we were sad and mum rarely gets them, but Kitty said why don't I try to get some since i get them quite often there. Mum was very skeptical. so I did it, I went and tried. I went over to the pavlova place and I asked for them, and he was like "you don't want a log?" and i said no I wanted singles if he had them. He said "was your mum just here?" I said "sorry? What?" and he said "nevermind"... LOL ;) then he proceeded to pull out the pavlovas from the back, and pile extra strawberries on them for me! HA! Kitty said to mum that I wouldn't be taking so long if I wasn't getting them so she popped around, saw me and ran back to mum "Omg shes paying!" Mums all like "WTF?" Then i marched up to them pavlovas in hand XD Mum was just stunned "how'd you do that?!?!" I was like " he put extra strawberries on them for us too"

It was awesome XD

Stock Photos and Videos

So we went to Stanley Park last weekend and I took a lot of stock photos and videos. Mostly relating to Special Effects Classical Animation type reference for the videos and stuff. I think some of it turned out pretty good. I got my standard Seagull and Squirrels with attitudes photos. There were also a few eagles roaming around that sneaked their way into some photos of trees.

heres a preview of some of the photos :



you can see the rest at our stock account on deviantART - Gurukitty

Now, anyways. I was so grateful to be able to do my laundry today! HAHA! it was getting a little bit desperate. i hate the idea of doing laundry but once its done its like "oh ya, that wasn't so bad". I'd do it all the time if i had insuite. I hate going downstairs to do it. Pisses me off to have to leave the house to do it. LOL. I don't know why.

I'm gunna post an animated guru blog starting off some character bios, and do the dishes today too.

The wii has been terribly addictive, but mum gets it for the next 2 weeks so I might get something done. LOL

Anyways, uploading the video footage now so be sure to check it out later. gunna go tackle dishes then start posting my bios on my characters. Those wil lBe on Animated Guru, so be sure to check it out :)

Scout :D

I'm an artician scout :D

I got my membership package to the Aquarium today, along with a letter from the Aquarium saying that they declared my whale that I adopted, Seaforth, Officially dead, and got me to pick a new whale :< I picked a young fella named Current. They'll send me a new certificate, but I cant bear the idea of taking out my old certificate :( he might be dead, but That doesnt mean he needs demoting.

Very sad...

but I am going to the aquarium on Sunday with Kitty, Jam, and a few others and I'll pick up my annual pass :)