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'This is Brother Bear reporting in. Not sure ...[Static, hiss, static]... much more...[Fizzle]...sun I can take...[Line goes dead.].'

Alright. Where to begin?

Well, I'm on vacation from work right now. My first day, I hooked up with Mike and Maryanne in Blackfalds, where I spent the night. I only have Hardings' cell number, so I've been texting him every day. I might be driving him crazy by now!
After a night of sleeping in Red Deer, we took off at 5:30am for B.C.! The mountains, although not as tall and as scary as I keep imagining them to be, are seemingly growing wider and wider the more I visit. For hours we passed through mountains, until we hit Kelowna, where the huge hills here are mini mountains of their own. I love the valley region!

I bought a necklace in a town called Golden (I think) on our way out here. I bought a 'Totem Stone', and it's basically a polished rocks with an engraving of a bear claw in it. I love it! I paid 8 bucks for it. Aren't I the tourist?...

My first day in B.C., I stayed at Grams' place. Mike and I shared a room. I didn't have an air bed set up yet, and after a long, hot day of meeting everyone and unpacking, I crashed for bed at 7:30pm, where I slept on the carpet. The sliding door was open, letting in the warm, evening breeze. Every day out here, I've been sleeping in, no later than 10am.
Maryanne is staying at her mothers' place out her. It seems that with hte nursing shortage in B.C., where a loto f people come to retire, Maryannes' mum doesn't have anyone to look after her. So, Mike and I are going to be loading a U-Haul trailer back with us to Alberta, and Maryanne will be taking her mums' car with her mum back home, where her mum will move in with them.

My first official full day in Kelowna, we went down to the beach. Me being a foreign tourist, I stood out like a sore thumb, me and my pale skin. I was determined to fit in~! O_o
Aunt Laura AND Trish are out here. Trishs' kids are: Leo, who is 4, and Max, who is 8. Max is, surprisingly, just like Rene and Nathan when they were kids... >_>
I wrestled with the kids and their friends at the beach, went swimming, spun kids around by their arms, taught them how to do hand-stands... Thankfully I successfully wore them out by bed time.

Mike and I then spent the night at Gramps' place, where he lives with his girlfriend. Both are doing okay, but Gramps has a cataract forming over some old scar tissue on one of his eyes, so he's going to go blind in that one eye.
Mike and I got our own rooms there, and, I was incredibly thankful for that fact. I had much, err, built up TENSION to resolve. [David Micheal! Don't write THAT down! ~_~]

The day after, Gramps took Mike and I, along with Trish and her two boys, in Trishs' car down to his Yacht Club. We passed many wineries and vineyards along the way. Kelowna is huge, spread out as it is.
We boarded his yacht, and after I shoved them off, hopped aboard and we set sail (well, we didn't use the sails at all actually. Just the out-board engine.).
We had a good time. I took my shirt off, to focus tanning my front. I faced the sun, lay on my back, etc., to just do my front. Well, my back cooked... ~_~ Dad calls me Lobster Boy. Grr...
We stopped at a cove for a picnic, where I got to do some real hiking, with no hiking trails. Wearing just hsorts and shoes, my legs got all scratched up, but I loved it! We had our Subway subs down by the shore. Max cried a little, because I didn't take him for a hike. [Rolls my eyes...]
We set back out, and passed a little island called Rattlesnake Island. We told the kids that the snakes would jump out and get us all! Heh heh. I took some video footage of us passing it.

After sailing, Mike and I went to Gramps' for supper, where we got served lime chicken and cabbage roll stuffing, followed by dessert. Wow. We went back to Grams' for the night, where I slept my sun-burnt body on the now-inflated air bed for me. I slept in until 10am this morning.

Today, we have to repair Grams and Lauras' deck with new plywood. Later this week, we'll be replacing some flood-damaged tiling and flooring in Gramps' basement.
We'll also go see Great Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Willy, who is now staying with her at her place. He's not doing so good anymore, so he moved in with her.
Grams and her boy-toy live upstairs, next to Laura. On the bottom level, Lauras' old ex lives in one, and a co-worker lives where Willy used to live in the fourth place.

Laura said I could update my blog, so I am. >_<

K, well, I'll sneak onto my e-mail really quickly, then I have to go be a handy-man. Later ya all!