Tomorrow's the big day!

Tomorrow morning at 7 am local time, 1pm in Germany and 10am on Vancouver Island, I will be boarding my flight to Calgary and then onwards to Victoria. It feels like I have been waiting for this forever, however it has only really been just shy of two months! I am very excited about this adventure and ready, at least I think so, for it. So here I go on an adventure. I so psyched that I can share it with you no matter where you are!

Golf, Kroc Center, Outlet mall and Tony's

So every time we have come back to Canada for our summer holiday, when in Michigan, the adult boys always went golfing. This time Micah , Carson and I went along. My first time real golfing and I didn't even do too bad. The next day was Thursday. This day the guys (Carson, Micah, Uncle George, Dad and I) all crammed into our little Chevi Impala. We drove three hours to grand rapids where we boys spent all day swimming, rock climbing and playing video games in the center. We then met up with the women to eat at an excellent buffet restaurant, The Golden Corral. Friday was our last real shopping day. We went to a large outlet mall; with shops like Levi's, Nike, Reebok. We spent all day in the mall... It was a long shopping spree. After we were done we went to a restaurant called Tony's. This is a restaurant where what you order is for four people NOT ONE! I did not finish. But just to explain the size of food. Dad's omelette was made with a full dozen eggs, that is a lot. After rolling out of the restaurant we drove home and found out that for breakfast today, we are going to the Golden Corral.

Grandma.

My grandma is here! She was really sick 2 years ago but she came down to spend the week end with all her kids, grand kids and great grand kids.

When in America do as the Americans do...

At my aunt's house in Michigan, USA (the last time we were here, 4 years ago) we shot a 12 gauge shotgun and a 22 caliber rifle. This time my cousin Gary brought along a few guns from his collection. Including what I would like to call a ristol, a gun that looks like a long pistol but fires rifle ammo. Quite the gun. We also fired a magnum handgun, NOT THE SAME SIZE AS DIRTY HARRY'S, but I now have a new found respect for guys that can actually shoot handguns. Also there was a double barrel shotgun which we noticed a wee bit later was loaded with extra strength shells and those at 12 gauge packed a punch. With four shotguns at the ready we then started shooting clay pigeons, which is a lot harder then one would think. All in all a fun and loud day.

Burgers and Baseball

Today for lunch we ate Burgers, Hotdogs, potato salad, noodle salad and lots of deserts. Not long after lunch I was called and told we were playing catch, which turned into a full game of baseball. AWESOME!

Blacklight golfing and bowling.

On Monday we all, Micah, Mom, Dad, Daniel and Bhreagh (second shout-out)  Grandma and Grandpa and I all went to an indodor blacklight mini golfing place which was quite cool. However before I get a head of myself, on the way to the mini golf place Daniel driving just in front of us decided to hit a dead skunk which when re-hit sprayed it stench all into our car (disgusting). There were two teams, the spring-chickens and the dino-golfers. I can only speak for my own team but we had great fun. After this was finished we went to the bowling alley palasad. Which on Mondays had 1$ games, we played two, the second of which was much better. Then we rushed over to Swiss Chalet, where Micah and Daniel decided would be an excellent spot for a spitball battle. I apologize for the lack of photos this time around. Right now I am in Michigan , USA with my mother's family. Today I went with my cousin, Carson, and Micah to a driving range where once we got there realized we only had right handed clubs and Micah and I both bat left so we looked like floundering fish. Pictures will be coming soon of this part of my trip. Next week we will be at the Kroc center in grand rapids, hopefully many pictures from that.

1 Week in Canada

Sorry this is so late!

So I am now one week into my holiday here. Some days have been busy and great while others the "hangout" days have been less great. Micah arrived on Thursday in London Ontario at 11pm, after a great day in Toronto including dinner at Moxie's (the steakhouse and grill equivalent to hooters) with my parents session mates (their friends that trained with them at the training college) it was a fun night. Friday we started off with a slow morning but by noon uncle Ron and aunt Judi had arrived and the boys went out to play catch. The day ended with grandma and grandpa; mom and dad; Micah and I going to a London Majors' baseball game. It was a great game and the four boys in front of us added to the entertainment along with the guy just behind yelling things at the opposing team such as "you're as slow as when you played" (directed at the 1st base coach), "You're limping, now you're limping" (at the opposing batter who pulled his muscle sprinting) and finally "how did that feel ump?" (Directed at the first base umpire who got hit by a ball). Saturday not much happened, we went to a thrift store, I didn't find anything, in the evening Micah and I went to watch The Wolverine. Today we went to Woodstock Ontario corps and visited Bill and Sue O'Neil ate burgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob and pie. Fun day.