WONDERLAND

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Friday 22 November 2013

Final Goodbyes

I also didn’t write anything at the time about my last night in my diary but it was such a bittersweet night.

Christy and Chelsea took me to the Devil wears Prada concert.
It was such a sick show.

During The Ghost inside set, the lead singer Jonathan (who I’ve met before mahehe) got super deep and was talking about dreams and how you never stop. That just got all of us crying!

I will miss these girls so much!!!! But I know that I will see them again! Always will be some of my best friends!

It’s the hardest part of living and travelling to other places, you become so close to the people you meet. But what amazing memoires I have here with these girls!

JUST THE BEST MEMORIES OF MY LIFE haha

After the concert in the car outside my house we just reminisced and I just cried haha

Christy being such a beautiful soul prayed at in the car thanking God for our friendship.

So sad think about this night ahhhh

LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM

I got home at like midnight and had to leave for the airport at 4:30am and I still hadn’t packed lol

I was so busy that week, just seeing everyone and I pretty much worked right to the end!

No regrets haha

ALL NIGHTER, but the saddest all nighter of my life

I packed my bags and just threw everything else out!

I love Canada so much, I know I say it all the time but I am grateful. Canada is seriously stunning and I could have had no friends here and still be happy! But living here with the people I’ve met has really made this place home.

Goodbye Canada, thanks for the goodtimes  x


Colorado here I come!!



Tuesday 19 November 2013

Farewell 1


In my last days before leaving Canada I go too busy to write, and of course you always think you'll come back and fill in the blanks.. But you never do.

But lucky photos tell a thousand words ;)

These people became my family while living in Canada, When I first met everyone single of these people I would have never thought that they would become such a big part of my life here! I love how different we all are and how me living here brought us all together. Some of the hardest goodbyes I swear! love all their bloody guts xx

Ps. I smashed Jerica in bowling and everyone needs to know about it mahhaha




Sunday 10 November 2013

Picture perfect Mountains

There is something amazing how fresh places can make you feel so alive; so grateful for life and life’s gifts.

“It’s a great day to be alive”- Christy

Christy’s words set a theme for today, but how true her words are.

We finally went to the mountains!

FINALLY

We’ve talked so much about going to Canmore together!

I thought I loved Banff but mate Canmore killed it today, way less touristy

Oh it was so beautiful; like picture do not do it justice, but I did try!!!

Took so many picciess

Us girls all met at Zumiez at 10am this morning so we could open and set up the store for the 16 year olds who will be running the show today while we go explore the mountains lol

Seee yaaa Zumz

The drive was really cute, Roadtrip with the best girls

Once we arrived we met up with Christy’s friend Tanner who lives Canmore.

We went to his house first

HOLY HIPPY

So cool man

Hammocks, Bob Marley posters and tie-dye everywhere

And so many bongs lol

Welcome to the mountains eh?



He lives in this huge house with so many roomies from all over the world

The mountains were legit outside the door, all around you

Everywhere you look

What the perfect.

We all got lunch at this cute café, Pesto, chicken and apple wraps.
Don’t doubt the apple, it was amazing.



Walking back to the car that’s when I first realized that my shoes suck, zero grip.

In fact they had a pretty shinny soul, so on any floor they would be slippery but in the icy snow….

And Huston we have a problem!

But it added to the adventure hahaha
I think I did fall over like 68 times today though hahaha ohh the best stories.

Tanner the tourist guide for the day took us to some wicked places that only locals would know about!

He first place he took us was the best

Like words cant even!!!

It was magical, so freaking Canadian

AHHHH THE BEST



Once at the top of the mountain all of us were sharing positive advice and inspirational quotes.

SO cheesy it hurts; but seriously such a perfect moment that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

This is what I love about the mountains, they speak to you soul. Makes you reflect on life and the importance of you.

If I were in charge of building churches, they would all be on top of mountains.
Or just in really beautiful places.

After we embraced the view it was time to get down. If I thought getting up was hard, omg getting down was insane hahahaha
In the end I just gave in, let my self just slide down like I was doing some funky shoe-skiing thing hahaha

Tanner thought I was the funniest person on the planet

Haha not going to lie, I was being pretty funny trying to get down haha
He kept telling me to come live here, well it’s kinda late hombre…kinda leave your beautiful country next week!

Our next stop was the AMAZING LAKE.. but we didn’t stop at it just yet, we kept driving

Unknown adventure

We kept exploring the wilderness; we drove and drove through think layers of deep green pine trees. So twilight.

So much untouched pure white snow around us! MAGIC.

We hit the end of know where and got out to embrace the perfectness,
If I wasn’t in love with Canada already, I would have just fell in love!

Christly turned evil and tacked me/destroyed me in the snow!! Chelsea also got taken down!!
It was so fun BUT so cold, like zero feeling to my face!

After our snow fight the mountains began to speak to us so we danced for them.

Perfect moments.


We got real weird, and it was only fitting that we did our African dance we do at work. That dance kind of brought us together and now we are dancing together in the middle of the mountains.

I love these girls so much!! They are my soul sisters, we were meant to meet each other! I learn so much them everyday, and grow hugely from their energy.

Christy and Chelsea will be a lot of what I miss about Canada.

After tanner was finished drawing in the snow haha we went and saw the lake

THAT LAKE



I am seriously so blessed to have seen such beauty with my own eyes. Will always remain so grateful!!

Since we all work at a skate store together we had to go see the local skate store in Canmore! The guy who was working got a lot more chatter once we told him we work at Zumiez in Calgary. Hahaha man we pretty much sold him on Stance socks, since we were all wearing them! haha

Hire us please

This store was sooo cool though, like really neat and clean.
Only had the best things, unlike Zumiez which always has way too much stock and so much random crap with cats on it hahha

Nahh the cat shirts are cool.

But working here would be the dream, instead of looking out to the mall you get to look out to the mountains and the lake.

This is what dreams are made of

We all got pretty hungry by this point; we also didn’t know how long we were going to stay? But Tanner is a chef here in Canmore, Fancy boy. So he was going to cook us a Sunday family dinner! We all went to shops to buy ingredients for chicken parmies. Christy bought fancy wine, so I knew that we weren’t going home tonight hahaha oh goodness

We all met Tanners roommates while tanner was cooking for us. Such hippies, the best though.

Tanner has this Australian roommate that the girls were frothing hard over…especially Chelsea! She is going to be in trouble when she comes to Aus!
This Aussie guy was such a tool hahahah like dero as, like never never would I ever. But we still got alone since we are both Australian.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE



Dinner was amazing! I was very impressed with Tanners cooking, very fancy!
We all got so full so we cut up all our left over chicken and put it on a plate for Tanners roomie Forest!
Forest was the cutest person I’ve even met hahaahha he was so funny it hurt! He’s British and while we were all dancing he says

“Oh the dog just slurped the spaghetti right out of the bowl” OMG with his accent it was so funny hahhahhahaha like still laughing about it while I’m writing this!!

We dance and laughed for so long in this house, the best time.

JD the French Canadian roommate from Quebec was be so flirty flirty..
I thought he was very attractive, like homeless hippy with his French accent but then I met the other French roommate Richard!!

Oh. My. Gosh.

Why don’t I live here?

Richard was legit a modern day Capitan Jack Sparrow! So freaking hot!! He had long hair with like beads in it? And tight jeans on with boots, tattoos everywhere and this leather vest that he pulled off so well hahaha

Such a babe

When we went for this mid-night hike up the mountains to this amazing night view of Canmore and flipping captain Jack Sparrow/Richard was climbing the mountain skipping In his boots with a bottle of whiskey in his hand singing his head off!!

Who even are you!?

When JD and Richard were speaking French to each other I was gone… way to attracted to them

I love you Qubec

After our hike on the way home, Christy was doing mad donuts in the snow hahhaha Canmore brought out the wild child in Christy!

Rip me.

But I was so happy when we actually got home alive haha

I was sooo tired, I just fell asleep with Chelsea listening to Captain Richard singing and playing the guitar till 5am


Best day/Night in Canmore ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Saturday 9 November 2013

All things CANADIAN

Buenos Dias!!

What a day

My last Saturday in Canada

WHAT.

I must admit it was a good one!

Last night everyone came over since we were going to go out after we had the best family dinner but everyone including myself was so tired that we all ending up staying in and having the best sleepover haha

Lol Jaz and I got all ready for nothing, but no regrets at all

So since everyone slept over last night I woke up wicked early to Chris getting up to go to work. Just loves me then leaves me

Totally jokinggggg maheheh

But once he got up everyone was just awake even though we all stayed up so late talking and telling the most hilarious stories.

ALSO JOEL is so damn sneaky.

While I was just about to fall asleep, I feel his lips on my face

NO SNEAKY KISSES PLEASE

I turned over hahahha

Love him but nooooo

Can’t ruin our bestfriendship

Anyways once we were all awake I was craving bacon and eggs so bad, but I haven’t done shopping in forever since I’m trying to use up all my food..

I guess we have so we had to go out for Brekkie

Which is the best.

Jerica didn’t come though because she is on some serious physo diet

There’s no breakfast in the world like a Denny’s Brekkie

Last one for me for a while :’(

But didn’t disappoint, always hits the spot!

I had I pretty busy day planned today, one of my roommates Ali got married today and her reception was tonight but two hours away in Carson

Which is cool because I wanted to see Carson

But last minute once I was already glammed up for a wedding Jerica and Chris bailed because the roads where so snowy or whatever

SAD that means I probs won’t see Ali before I leave

But since we weren’t going to the wedding, I still didn’t want to waste this last Saturday night so I need everyone not to be lame and get keen for the Canadian night of their lives haha

After I legit texted that to everyone I was talking to Jerica on the couch and then just fell asleep.. Mid-sentence lol

I woke up to Chris touching my face

Ohhhhhh HI

But when I woke up I had the most genius idea, What is more Canadian than the Hockey???

Jerica looked it up and Calgary we’re playing tonight!

WOOOOO HOCKEYYYY

So I’ve only even been to the hockey once before in my life, in Colorado actually and I cant really remember loving it with all my heart but when in Canada eh?

Something about the vibes at live sport

I’d even go to a Cricket game if it live haha

Good Atmosphere, good people

We got Jared to meet us their as well! Perfect group

Chris decided that I was really hungry which was actually quite true, and took me to get Poutine!

Now Poutine is the most Canadian dish, which they are very proud of it as well but i've been saving to try it the whole time I’ve been here

Not going to lie…very over rated haha it’s legit just hot chips and gravy with chunks of cheese thought out it.

Like super yum, but the hype was way to high, sozzz guys

But Chris got some fancy one with chunks of meat through it and his was really good!!

Once we were walking to the hockey it started snowing!! Ahh way to perfect!

The universe is definitely on our side tonight!

The Hockey was so fun; the boys were explaining the rules to me the whole time, which was really nice of them.

Intense game ladies and gentlemen, it even went into over time! :O

Calgary lost though, but I didn’t actually mind haha

Also made the big screen tonight with Jared dancing

SO PROUD haha

The best Canadian Saturday

MOUNTAINS TOMORROW


x x