The Back Roads

I can't believe I'm only getting around to this now, but I wanted to share some photos from a weekend back in June that was spent driving around a lot. This actually gives you a pretty good idea of the area where I lived in my mid-late teens. Gorgeous, though I never appreciated it while living there. Figures.

Remind me to clean the van windows next time, yikes.

currently listening to: "Army of Me" by Björk

Nuit Blanche 2013: Part I

These are a little late, but better late than never right? On October 5th we headed down to Scotia Bank's annual Nuit Blanche and got rained out. It was fun. We didn't get home until 6am. We didn't see a whole heck of a lot of art. We took silly pictures. We got soaked and frozen. We ate Subway subs while sitting on a ledge at the former Big Bop at 4am, lamenting the fact that none of us got a chance to go before it closed. I think that may have actually been the highlight of the night for me, but I'm weird like that. Before all that I managed to snag a few decent shots though :

I think that last shot is my favourite of the night, I just love those colours. I'm breaking this up into two posts because holy plethora of photos batman! I really didn't think I snapped that many. Look for Part II soon!

Bradford Bunch

A couple weeks ago I went up to Bradford to see Tay and her fiancee Jamie. I had no idea their apartment was a mini zoo(!), and I'm extremely jealous. Okay slight exaggeration. But hey, when your rental doesn't allow pets, two ferrets, two dogs, a hedgehog and a kitten may as well be a zoo. Have I mentioned I'm jealous? I'm jealous. (Our goal is to find a pet friendly place as our next home but that's a story for another time.)

Besides staying up to ridiculous hours sitting on the kitchen floor drinking water, eating oranges, and talking (we're hardcore), I managed to snap some pictures with Tay actually in them. I may as well have captured a unicorn for how rare an occurrence that is, no joke. It was nice to finally meet Jamie since there's been at least two failed attempts at that already, and the whole last minute trip was much needed since I hadn't been having the best week, ending with a pretty rotten weekend. I mean besides seeing old friends, how could a house of animals not cheer me up right? Especially when I was woken up by a tiny dog jumping on my face, haha!

As for today, I get to see my family, and we've still got to finish making the food for our get-together. Hope all you Canucks are having an awesome Thanksgiving, and to the rest of you guys, have an awesome Monday!