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 :)