February 2012
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Riding along on my pushbike, honey.
Day 16: Marble Mountain + Hoi An on a bicycle.
Today we woke up super early to go to Marble mountain. Our hotel had an awesome buffet breakfast so we ate lots of that first then headed out in our car. The driver that took us there flipped out this sweet dvd player in the car, but then proceeded to play euro trash rave music accompanied by unsynced video clips of it. Blerggh. Luckily it was only...
Vinpearl!!
Day 14: Vinpearl land
Vinpearl yaaaay! Brendan told us about this one! It’s a big island across the ocean from Nha Trang called Vinpearl (also a chain of hotels). The worlds (or Asia’s at least) longest cable car takes you across the water to the island where you will find an amusement park and a water park. So great!! Only $15 for everything! It’s no Dreamworld but we did go...
Mud bath. Like pigs.
Day 13: Nha Trang! Mud.
We arrived in Nha Trang this morning and set off walking towards our hotel. We soon realised that the map was wrong as our hotel was not there. (There was a similarly named museum though!) So we got a taxi to our hotel and got organised, made friends with the reception girl, and went to the beach! The waves were really strong… Like super strong current so we didnt...
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Phnom Phnom Phnom!
Day 9: Exploring Phnom Penh
This morning Dave came out with us and he showed us this awesome bagel place for breakfast and they were sooooo good. We had cream cheese and sundried tomato. So phnom.
We went back to the riverside to get a letter from the bus company that croutons phone got stolen from, for travel insurance. And after much explaining and waiting we met with the owner of the...
When Communism goes too far.
Day 8: Genocide
It was so nice to sleep in this morning, we ended up leaving the house at about 11 and walked to the S-21 Genocide museum. We left Dave behind as he has been quite sick and thought maybe if he rested today he could come with us tomorrow.
It was only about a 15 minute walk and easy to find. Another hot day in Cambodia meant our morning showers had already almost lost their purpose...
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Day 7: Sicky island
So I didnt end up getting any sleep. I was up all night, vomitting almost every half hour. Blahh! By the time we were meant to be up getting ready for our boat trip I really thought I wasnt going to be able to go… I was so tired and still felt so sick.
I managed to take some sicky pills and keep them down and a few bites of bread and thought that I would regret it if I...
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Day 6- Po Po
So we arrived this morning to Sihanoukville with no phone of Croutons so after a shower at the hostel we were staying at and gooling what we needed for travel insurance, we walked back to the bus station to try and get a letter from the bus company. Of course, no one spoke English (besides what they needed to know to sell a bus ticket) so we were there trying to explain for like 10 minutes before...
January 2012
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Tuk tuk Mafia
Day two - Train to Cambodia
I am currently sitting in a rickety old carriage on the train to the Thai/Cambodia border. It’s raining and the sun is just about to rise behind the smoggy atmosphere making the sky appear a yellowish tinge. About an hour outside of Bangkok the white dirt stained buildings are gone and we now have visions of banana trees and small family homes. The train is...
Sweaty
Day 1: Bangkok!
We arrived in a darkened Bangkok at 5am, caught the train from the aiport for about $1.20 and then caught a local bus to our accommodation for about 40cents. At this point we were saturated. No, it wasn’t raining. It was humid sweat. We couldnt check into our hostel room yet so we took a shower and set out to explore Bangkok.
The receptionist at our hostel was lovely and...
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WELL
I’m sorry I never finished my Africa blogs haha but I did pretty well - documented what we did everyday for like 22 days. After the last one we pretty much just got on a bus and went to Kenya and then went home. Basically.
ANYWAY it’s 2012 now, and a new adventure is about to begin.
Crouton (my BFF, also known as Erin), and I are going to SOUTH EAST ASIA!
We leave in 5 days. We are...
December 2011
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List of Animals we saw in Africa!
Goats
Chickens
Cows
Donkeys
Elephants
Lions
Hippos
Monkeys
Baboons
Impala
Milliipedes
Zebra
Giraffe
Buffalo
Camels
Water buck
Wild female lion
Wildabeast
Hyena
Mongoose
Lion cubs
Dik dik
Pollylps
Leopard
Bat eared foxes
Hilux locks
Wart hogs
Rhinocerous
Flamingo
Hedgehog
Giant snail
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Zernzchiberr
Day 16: It was raining again today which was pretty sad… But the beach was still gorgeous! I’ll have to go back when its not rain season. We got a free buffet breakfast which was awesome.. Skinny pancakes are quite popular in Africa and they put nutella or honey on them. Mmmmmm We did a snorkelling trip today, on the same dowa as the sunset cruise so that was cool… It was the...
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November 2011
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Everyday i'm husslin'
Day 12:
Today we had a lovely 11 hour drive to Iringa. Mostly boring but we drove through a national park and some some girraffe and Impala which was cool! The place we stayed in Iringa was an old farmhouse on the out skirts of the city up kind of high so it was even a little cooler for a nice change! Steph and I decided to upgrade from the tents to a room because it was only $10 each. It was...
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Day 5: Victoria Falls and the Devil's Pool.
We had our first nights sleep on camp in a tent aaand I think ive finally gotten over jet lag! Woo! It’s a pretty good set up. We have our own tent for the whole trip and we all get sleeping pads too so its not too bad.
We had booked our trip to Livingstone island for 9am so we got a ride to this beautiful hotel where the boat took off from. It was called the Royal Livingstone and it is...
Livingstone, I presume...
Day 4: Livingstone!
We arrived in Livingstone today, a very small town with dirt roads but we are at quite a swanky campsite with a nice bar area and pool!
We arrived and found out we could book activities through this lady above the bar so we went up and booked something right away… The lion Walk!!
They have a program that is trying to breed more lions because there was a 90% species...
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Sawubona! (Hello in the Zulu language)
Day 3: Okay so I had typed out a huge blog post and then accidentally closed the app and it deleted. From now on I will write it in my notes app which saves automatically to avoid this intense rage from losing half an hours worth of writing. Sigh.
Well! It was an absolutely
amazing day. Lungi our guide picked us up from our backpackers and drove us to his home in Soweto (the slum area). It was...
October 2011
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AFRICA
Hello all!
Well I leave to the mystical continent of Africa in around 12 days.
It is definitely a place I have wanted to visit for a long time. When I was a chubby preteen in Canada I would race home from the bus stop, load a bowl full of two-bite brownies, oreos and cheetos and run downstairs to catch the last 10 minutes of the World Vision show before Sabrina the Teenage Witch came on. I used...
WOOPS
Wayyy too long. I haven’t really done anything exciting though. Let me look at my facebook photos to remind me of what i’ve done since last…
oh dang. i’ve been to LADY GAGA. now that was an amazing trip.
The concert.. was the best show i’ve ever seen in my life. I will definitely be attending any future Gaga shows without haste. I can’t even describe why it...
August 2010
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blog schmog
woops.
haven’t updated this in a whiiiiile.
okay here is a list of things i have done since last time from most recent to… what i remember from a month ago.
1. went camping at beaver lake. twas amaaaazing. but cold. we kayaked on the lake and went for a hike and played drinkyy monopoly. and froze. but we had fun :)
2. went near revelstoke and did the zip line (photos on facebook)....
July 2010
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waaaahhhh
tried wakeboarding again yesterday!! and I didn’t get up again… but i’m SOO close. EEP next time i’m sure i will get up! :)
it was fun though. it’s finally sunny here a lot more often. so ice cream store is SOO busy. it’s crazy. I quite like it though. and ive been going swimming in the lake and going to the beach. it’s been funnnnn
haven’t worked...
June 2010
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will power.
Yo yo yo!
Hokay. So it’s been a while since my last blog. WOOPS.
I’ve been working at the ice cream store! yeee i’m picking up everything super fast and they are really impressed with me.
It’s SOOO hard to resist all the food though. But I surprisingly haven’t really eaten anything yet! I’ve tried a few flavours of malted milkshakes and thats about it. oh and...