OH CANADA!

This will be my very first blog post ever on a family blog! Some people say it will change my life, some say i'll quickly become addicted. I personally hope that both happens, although those kind of people are probably the kind that did well with myspace and personalizing their pages and all that junk. I personally did not do well with that and have already had multiple people attempt to help me make this blog worth looking at. A shout out to Randi for successfully getting the rainbow off the background that I somehow put on.  Why couldn't something cool have gotten stuck on there? I have been waiting patiently for a few weeks to be able to add something on here exciting, so here it is :)

Kallam and I just got back from a trip to see his familia up in the state of Washington. While we were there we took a trip to Canada! Some pictures look like we're having fun and some of them look like I didn't....both definitely happened. You'll see.

We started off the trip by missing the only ferry to canada that day due to people that wont be named :) So we stayed at a place called Discovery Harbor to wait for the next ferry in the morning. 

This picture is still technically in Washington but Kallam caught a pic of the bald eagle outside our hotel window. 

 FINALLY got on the ferry the next morning called the Coho. I have been on a ferry before without any issues, so I was not prepared for the adventure we were about to have. 

 This was me, happy, and just setting sail. I personally thanked my hair later for doing this during the picture. It was CRAZY windy. 

 "Look, Jack! I'm flying! I'm flying!"

 And....this was me 20 mins later. They finally gave me a LARGE bag after I filled up the first 3. The ride lasted an agonizing 90 mins! And luckily I had to look forward to taking the same ferry back the next day. 

 One of the first things we did was go to a castle! It was actually part of a university, and we had to pretend we were students(luckily we are the right age) in order to walk around inside. It had these amazing chandeliers and ballrooms everywhere. I'm still trying to convince Kallam that I need one of these....a castle that is.  

 Next was China Town. It is actually the 2nd oldest China Town, right after San Fransisco. We came home with a nice pack of chop sticks to practice with for our trip to China....someday.

 Every park and garden and campus that we went to had these AMAZING peacocks just walking around everywhere. Someday maybe i'll live in a place where I can go to college in a real castle and a peacock will walk me to class. 

 

 We stopped by the parliament building.

 We finally decided to spurge on a really famous set of gardens while we were there. You could walk around these gardens all day if you had the time. Sadly, I had that ferry to catch again. 

World.....meet poutine. Poutine, meet the world. This is our cousin Canada's comfort food, so we had to give it a go. It consists of fries, cheese curds and a special gravy. People RAVE about this stuff like its crack. It was good for like 2 mins until it cooled down to the point where we could feel more of the textures. The fried were soggier, the cheese was squeakier, and then it was just weird. But the burgers...excellent. They use almost like a bagel that is toasted and it keeps it all together much better than our wimpy bread. 

All in all, it was a trip we aren't likely to forget. I hope to not be that sea sick and car sick for a while.