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Driving up the Sea To Sky Highway up to Squamish. CANADA IS AWESOME AND AMAZING.

Rose and Rob planned an awesome BBQ for last Saturday. They really had everything, delicious homemade hamburgers with tons of toppings including guacamole, delicious kebabs with TWO kinds of halloumi, and a variety of drinks including freshly blended lime margaritas! Rob rigged up a blender to a battery that could be charged from a solar panel. SO NERDY.


My burger. Om nom nom.

Me blending up a margarita (for everyone else, I’M NEVER DRINKING AGAIN).

Also check out that view!! It was a great location and the most perfect day for a BBQ.

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What a wonderful weekend. Friday afternoon/evening we had my class party and went downtown. I’ll write about that some other time. Saturday morning Scott and I drove up to Squamish in our rental car, and arrived at Murrin Provincial Park just in time for a wicked BBQ, which I will also write about in another post.

I have never been outdoor rock climbing before so everything was new. I was worried I was going to be as horrible at climbing as I was at Christmas when Rose took me in Ottawa, but either it was easier, or I was better, because I did actually make it to the top of three different walls. GO ME!

We did a few climbs at one area, then moved to a much farther away area, then camped overnight at a free camping spot north of Squamish, and then played on another mountain (Cheakamus) on Sunday morning before driving back on Sunday afternoon to clean up our pig-sty apartment and prepare for first day of work/Edmonton.

Rose being a belay slave. There were a bunch of n00bs so her and Rob did A LOT of belaying for us. THANKS GUYS.

Scott climbing a crack. He’s kind of scared of heights so that was kind of a major accomplishment. He did good this weekend. He climbed to the top of three or four walls!!

Me climbing.

That little kid is only 6 years old! She has been climbing since she was 3. O_O

More me climbing.

Scott looks funny.

Rose and Rob both up on the wall. Rob’s leg looks deformed!!!!

OK so I’m still not very good at climbing. At this point I didn’t know what to do so I just heaved myself on to this ledge bit and was now lying on my stomach. SMOOTH MOVES KATRINA.

Jen and I sitting around at the bottom resting and psyching ourselves up for the next climb.

Some spectacular views this weekend.

Rob’s friend Dustin hiked up this big hill and got soooo high up!! You can just barely make him out, he’s that tiny speck at the top!

This is the picture that Dustin took of us. You can see Scott standing at the top. Rose and Rob climbed this wall, and Scott and I hiked up. SO HIGH!!

They sure look relaxed for being that high up in the air suspended by a couple ropes.

Rose let me take her harness so I could rappel down. She’s so nice. This picture is her teaching me how to use the rappel thingy.

The worst part of it was moving from sitting on the rock above the anchor to hanging below it. Very awkward.

Rappeling is a way better way of getting down!!

Oh yeah, good place to relax. Woooo BC!

Ah, and if that was not enough pictures to satisfy you, you can see more in my Facebook album! Click HERE for that.

I still don’t feel the OH MY GOD I LOVE ROCK CLIMBING feeling, but I definitely did see the appeal more this time than last. I think I still would prefer to hurl myself DOWN things to get my thrills.

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TO BLOG:

  • class party
  • luxury bbq
  • outdoor rock climbing
  • camping
  • first day of work

I had an epic weekend!! So much fun. I can’t wait to blog about it all but I took over 200 hundred pictures and that is going to take another day to sort out, and I’m gonna have to split it up into a couple posts.

For now I can tell you that my first day of work was good! We got a big tour of the department, met lots of people, saw a bunch of patients, and got introduced to the fifty million programs they use on the computers. We spend two weeks on each on a different camera, shadowing whoever is scheduled to work on that camera. We had a bit of extra time today so I got to have a bone scan (no injection obviously). That might seem a bit silly but it was interesting to see how the patients might feel when they come in and hear all the strange noises and get a big block camera put 1 cm away from the tip of their nose by a total stranger.

Okeedoke. All for now, I want to go to bed early tonight. More tomorrow!!

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I wrote one more exam this morning and have another this afternoon. I just thought I’d post now because I am getting kind of giddy about this weekend and need to get it out of my system. PERMA GRIN!!!

I think I’m gonna be having another class party tomorrow after our last exam. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to because I thought we were leaving for camping on Friday night, but now we’ve decided to leave Saturday morning instead so I can DO IT ALL. I don’t have time to make a cake or anything fancy but it will be very good to hang out with our class one last time before we all leave for our summer placements all over the place.

I am very excited for camping. I haven’t been camping in a tent in ages!! Maybe since Australia before I bought my van I guess but that didn’t even really feel like camping because I was actually LIVING out of the camp ground. Or the white water rafting trip with Natasha, Rosemarie and Sarah Swan!? Or maybe the last was the night at Corkstown with Catty and all her friends? AHHH WHATEVER I LOVE CAMPING.

We’ll also be doing some rock climbing and games playing and stuffing our face with camp foods. We’re bringing smores stuff of course and I want to make toasted subs in the fire. I’M SO EXCITED!! I’ll try to take lots of pictures.

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It’s raining. I’m not going to complain about it though because we had FIFTEEN straight days of sunny warm dry weather here in Vancouver. Man it has been nice lately. Studying outside, walking to school again, not wearing a jacket…. so nice.

Hopefully it doesn’t go back to 10°C and rainy until the last week of August like last year.

I still have five exams to go, but they are less stressful ones thankfully. Last week sucked.

I liked this pretty blue bird we had on our balcony. Scott identified it as a Stellar Jay, British Columbia’s provincial bird (thanks internet). I like his mohawk!

Homemade chicken banh mi and potato wedges for dinner last night. Delicious. Love the crunch of the pickled carrots and daikon.


Scott is going to Edmonton for work soon. He’ll be gone for 9 days! I’m gonna be so loner-ly. Although maybe his trip is around the same time as Rob leaves so Rosemarie and I can hang out and be loner-ly together.