We used to go on vacation and drive somewhere about once a month and then Sterling came about and it really changed our traveling habits. We could no longer go camp in the freezing weather in the middle of nowhere with nothing but our own whims for entertainment. Now Trevor and Myself have to work full-time and take care of Sterling the rest of the time. Not to mention that Trevor pretty much has NO vacation time what-so-ever....Kinda Lame.
We decided to go visit Rye and Kay in Rossland with the mistaken assumption that interior B.C. is always warmer....Yeah, not ao much. We missed balmy 15 degree Celsius weather in Calgary for the freezing -5 degree Celsius weather in Rossland. Brrrrrrr! So we had to change our original plan of hiking and mountain biking the whole weekend to other things like visit the Ainsworth Hotsprings and cuddle up and watch movies. Of course, Sterling had a great time because he is dog obsessed and he chased Lilly (Rye and Kay's little Chihuahua) around for hours on end. It was an endless fight between those two as Sterling wanted to play with him and she wanted to run away in terror which just resulted in Sterling crawling around for hours with Lilly trying to escape. I can't blame her because he did pull her ear within the first 10 minutes of playing with him and it only ended with her yelping and him screaming on the top of his lungs. Sterls best time was when Lilly was cold so she got into bed with him and cuddled him all night. Every time he woke up that night he would sigh and say 'puppy' and go back to sleep. That really made him a happy little camper.
We got a sneak peak of Ryan's new film Life Cycles. I must say, be prepared to be amazed. There has never been a extreme sports film this amazing and this different. It even will appeal to the masses that do not like sports films as the cinematography is just amazing and mind blowing. Can't wait until August to watch all that blu-ray goodness (oh yeah, the filming is so high res it makes for even more cinematic goodness). Yup, going to be a gooder.
We stopped at Kimberley, BC overnight on the way home. Get this....We arrived at 2pm to realize that this massive spring festival has just ended at 2pm. There were people riding bikes and doing tricks down the snow, there was a water puddle to see which skier could make it the farther before the carnage began and even a huge jump for people to take weird objects like couch and canoes and whatnot off of....DANGIT. Seriously, we missed the even by mere hours. This is the only memento we have of our time in Kimberley:
We have this tradition we started a few years ago that we were going to take pictures of ourselves by all the large and world's largest in Canada. See Kimberley's largest cuckoo clock. Apparently for 25 cents you can make it cuckoo but it was so cold we were much too lazy to run back to the car a couple blocks down. Here are some of the other roadside attractions .I know we have a weird goal and will drive miles out of the way for a lame pic. but these are so ghetto they have charm. We have driven hours out of our way on a trip in order to get such pictures, we are kind of lame that way:
New Westminster, BC's Tin Man
Salmo, BC's Penny
Sparwood, BC's Mining Truck
Medi Hat, AB's TeePee
I painted our Master bedroom yesterday! It only took me 5 months to get it done, but I am super happy with the colour. It is a really really light barely there gray. I am hoping the details and accessories in the room will add all the charm. I decided I am not showing the side tables and master bedroom until I have put it back together.
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