Blog #6

Spring Break is a time to get out of the city and have a fantastic time with family or friends. Not everyone has the opportunity to travel to a new country during their spring break. A few years ago I was lucky enough to fly to Hawaii with my family and friends for two weeks. Every family is different on vacation, some like to lie by the pool and have no prior commitments to worry about. Other families like my own enjoy an action packed day where you never stop moving. I always know I have had a great day when my head hits the pillow and I instantly fall asleep. This trip to Hawaii was unbelievable I was able to surf and scuba dive for the first time. My first time surfing was amazing we were at a very secluded beach on the side of the island. My first wave ever I was able to get up on my feet and let the wave carrying me along surfing is unlike many sports because you do not have total control over what is happening. It was an amazing day one I will never forget spending with my family and friends. However the most memorable experience on that trip was scuba diving with my father. Neither of us had ever dove before but we were both eager to learn and see the under water creatures. One thing that was shocking to me was how heavy the oxygen tank was, I couldn`t stand up strait with the tank on my back. It was a twenty-foot resort dive and a wavy day but while under the water you never would have guessed it was a wavy day.  Our diving instructor had an incredible under water camera that took amazing still photography. While under water we got to see turtles and schools of fish passing by. Another creature we encountered was a very small octopus that we were able to hold and take photos with. Finally just before our dive finished we came across an eel hiding beneath a rock. This experience was something incredible and I highly suggest that everyone once in there life goes scuba diving.  

Blog #5

A new year is a new start and way to go. On New Years day there will be many quotes posted on any social media site as people scroll through the hundreds of quotes or pictures that are posted, they get the idea that it is a new start. Many talk about how you’re turning the page and writing a new story. But really it just went from Thursday to Friday and anything that happened last year was not forgotten. Most people around the world as the calendar turns they make a plan to change their lifestyle such as working out more or eating healthier. Personal I think new years resolutions only work for certain individuals. People who truly want a change in their life they will make it happen. That’s why people need to make realistic choices when the construct these new year resolution lists. For the majority of people their resolutions often don`t come into play. I mean losing 40 pounds is a great goal but how many times have you said your going to lose the weight and never actually do. Everybody knows someone that has set goals and never actually achieved them. For me personal I work months at a time and pick small goals that could help me reach the over all one in the future. Making a plan to drink more water and less pop is a realistic plan and not going to be too much of a challenge to accomplish. Even though for most resolutions do not work for some individuals it can for others that’s how they get things done. Even writing something down can make it more real. Either way resolutions don`t work for everyone and an individual really needs to think ahead and be honest with themselves it will work for them or not.

Blog #4

Every Christmas sense I can remember my family and I have gone to my grandparents’ house in Saskatchewan. Every year the weather is completely different some we have been snowed in and were not able to go home. Other years there was barely any snow on the ground. This year in particular though was unbelievable cold. We drove nine hours to their house so that we had to ability to bring all our Christmas gifts and our two dogs along. Can you imagine having two large breed dogs in the car it never goes completely as planned. They always seem to end up in the seats beside you. When we finally had arrived at their home and walked inside, the whole house had an aroma of Christmas baking. A few days had gone by with lots of catching up on past events and talking about our life over the past few months. Of course my grandma asks me the same questions every year starting of with “do you have a boyfriend” and as always I answer with the same response no. The past few years though my grandmother has been getting really forgetful asking us question three or four times a night. For my brother that’s no problem that means he gets offered four beers in a matter of four hours. I mean how can you not love that being new to the drinking world. Christmas eve dinner rolls around and everyone try’s to help my grandma out with cooking but end up getting kicked out of the kitchen. She cooks it her way by making the turkey almost uneatable because it taste like rubber however with enough gravy and cranberry sauce it always seems to turn out just fine. We pull our Christmas crackers and find out what cheep gift and color of paper crown we received this year. Then finished off our meals feeling more stuffed then any other day of the year and making our way to the living room ending the night reminiscing about the past and watching our favourite Christmas movies together as a family.      

Blog #3

#751 – Big crowds enjoying big fireworks 

It was New Years Eve and my family and I were staying up at Panorama Mountain Village with two other families. We had been up on the mountain for about five days skiing every minute we could and enjoying the unimaginable amounts of powder that the hill had this year. The other families I have known for all of my life and grew up with their kids. This New Years Eve was different though my two friends and I were asked to do the torch light parade. The parade was an old tradition where they would pick a handful of people to ski down the mountain one after another, holding torches above their heads. After watching this every year there was no way we would ever turn down this unforgettable opportunity. We skied that morning and got about six or so of our favorite runs done on the front side of the mountain. Then went in for lunch at the summit hut which is a small place at the top of the mountain where you will eat the best burgers you have ever tasted and have amazing hot chocolate. Afterwards we hit the mountain first off skiing Heli High on the backside. Finished off the day by making sure we had tried new runs on the hill. Everyone went back to their places on the mountain and got ready for our big dinner in the main hall of panorama. We all met up and ate the big buffet present and stuffed our faces with food. Then danced until 11. Then my friends and I got ready in our skiing clothes and took the chair lift up to the top of the hill. Everyone got in a line one after another then out torches were lit. Then we followed each other down the mountain in a zigzag form as the whole panorama village looked up at us. Once we where half why down the hill the clock struck twelve and the fireworks started. I grabbed my friends and we watched the sky light up with all different colors, and this night couldn`t have been any better.

Blog #3

#751 – Big crowds enjoying big fireworks

It was New Years Eve and my family and I were staying up at Panorama Mountain Village with two other families. We had been up on the mountain for about five days skiing every minute we could and enjoying the unimaginable amounts of powder that the hill had this year. The other families I have known for all of my life and grew up with their kids. This New Years Eve was different though my two friends and I were asked to do the torch light parade. The parade was an old tradition where they would pick a handful of people to ski down the mountain one after another, holding torches above their heads. After watching this every year there was no way we would ever turn down this unforgettable opportunity. We skied that morning and got about six or so of our favorite runs done on the front side of the mountain. Then went in for lunch at the summit hut which is a small place at the top of the mountain where you will eat the best burgers you have ever tasted and have amazing hot chocolate. Afterwards we hit the mountain first off skiing Heli High on the backside. Finished off the day by making sure we had tried new runs on the hill. Everyone went back to their places on the mountain and got ready for our big dinner in the main hall of panorama. We all met up and ate the big buffet present and stuffed our faces with food. Then danced until 11. Then my friends and I got ready in our skiing clothes and took the chair lift up to the top of the hill. Everyone got in a line one after another then out torches were lit. Then we followed each other down the mountain in a zigzag form as the whole panorama village looked up at us. Once we where half why down the hill the clock struck twelve and the fireworks started. I grabbed my friends and we watched the sky light up with all different colors, and this night couldn`t have been any better

Blog #2

Savanna King

October 6, 2014

My friend and I had been home since school finished on Friday and all we had done was talk about our ridiculous amounts of homework and the latest gossip going around the school. It was midnight and we just now decided to have dinner; therefore being typical teenagers we didn`t feel like making any real food so we got out the recipe for our favorite microwaveable cake. We mixed the ingredients leaving the kitchen in a more horrific state then we had ever seen. We needed a topping for our cake so I had cut up fresh strawberries trying to make this meal somewhat healthy, as my friend mixed the whipped cream. She poured the liquid whipped cream in the mixing bowl and put in double the amount of icing sugar we needed and set the mixer on high. The icing sugar then started to fly out of the bowl making the whole room look like a winter wonderland and we danced around the room having the time of our life laughing like nobody was watching. Together we cut and iced our cake leaving the kitchen the way it was and going to the basement to watch our favorite movie psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.  As we drank our multiple cans of Pepsi and ate our food the night started to get crazier every minute. I looked around the room at the empty chip and candy bags along with the cans of pop and the mess we had created and started to laugh un controllably. Obviously my friend joined in and we would try to stop laughing but everything we did and everything around us was funnier then we could ever imagine. I had started taking photos of random things around the room and making funny faces and sending them to my friend we laughed and sent photos back and forth to one another for 60 minutes strait. Although we were only feet apart from one another every new photo we revised made you laugh hysterically. My face was covered in tears and my stomach felt like someone had just punched me from laughing so hard it was totally worth the memories we have from that unforgettable night.