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Ok, so I got back from Canada yesterday, and I'm finally un-lazy enough to update about it (with pictures at the bottom if you don't want to read it all.).
We started loading the bus right after school on Wednesday. I grabbed Brad's guitar so I could play it on the bus and stuff, but everyone on the bus started throwing shit at me cuz they are stupid, so I stopped. We got through customs in about a minute, which was nice. Then we got to the ferry terminal about half an hour past the border. We had to wait a while so I whipped out my guitar and went outside by the water to play.
We got on the ferry when it got there, and that was pretty interesting. We hung out with Aaron and Adam for a little bit, then went to get food, and we got Allie to take a straight shot of espresso like it was a shot of whiskey. She couldn't handle the caffeine very well and started to like sit there with her hands shaking, then we got her some water and took her outside for some air, where she almost threw up. I got a pretty picture of the sunset while we were out there. Once we got to our hotel in Victoria nothing much happened.
The next day was the fun day. We didn't have to actually do anything, so most of the day was spent sight seeing and walking around town. We went to the Parliament Buildings, which are very pretty, went inside them and got some pictures and then walked around town. We went to the mall there, it was pretty cool in there. I got 2 new cds from some record store in town somewhere for only 10 bucks each, Talking Heads - Speaking In Tounges, and the New York Dolls, and that one was untitled. I don't know where it was cuz after we walked out of it we realized we were going the wrong way and were lost. We walked around a little more, and I realized I had lost 20 bucks and was down to about 20 left for the next 2 days. I was gonna try to make some money down at the water front by playing my guitar (there were people doing that and other stuff all over town), but I realized I didn't really know enough songs to do it. We got back to the hotel and went swimming with Allie, Joe and a few other people. That night we had a small party type thing in our room. We had about 10-12 people in there, Me, Chris, Adam, Aaron, Emily, Emily, Katie, Katie, Tim, Orella, Bret, and maybe some others, can't remember. We got the 2 Emily's to start fighting/wrestling on the bed, and all the guys sat and watched them. We even video taped it. Then the guys hung out while the girls were out on the balcany and played NCAA Football 2005.
The next day we actually had to play. (Play music? IN BAND?!?!?! Crazy talk...) We played at an elementary school, and sucked horribly, and then at a highschool in the area. The second we got to the highschool everyone realized that EVERYbody there was super hot. I love Canada. That night in the hotel room we had Tim Katie and Katie some to our room at like 3ish, and we went around taking the tape off everyones doors (to see if we had been out of our rooms) and then we went and made like a wall of tape in front of Mr. Condrans door. The next day when he woke up a bunch of people were outside in the hall to see his response. He thought it was hilarious. Before we left that day we had a bag of 12 hotdog buns that we decided to hide around the room for the maids to find. It was really funny. We hid them like everywhere we could think of, lamps, the coffee pot, in a light fixture in the bathroom, under a chair cushion, in the bible in the drawer. We left a note that said "Sorry for the hotdog buns, there are 12 in all. Good luck. -The Guys From room 612" and we left them somewhere around 10 bucks so we weren't total assholes about it. The ride home was pretty uneventful. We got through customs in like under 5 minutes, which is really sad.
Ok, time for pictures.
Me at the water by the ferry terminal playing the guitar.
The sunset on the ferry ride.
The Parliament Buildings are really awesome.
Part of the inside of the Parliament Buildings.
The ceiling of the main part of the Parliament.
A guy doing an amazing chalk drawing on the sidewalk for money of the picture on the left