Helloo! I�m back and I�m here and I�m typing and WOW�hello. I�m a bt hyper. I�ve been feeling pretty down and I just typed a whole load about it, realised I just needed to cheer up and so here I am. Cheered. *is cheery*.
Canada has given me so much to think about�it was absolutely amazing. Everyone is so friendly, the countyside and city are both beautiful, there�s so much to do�yes, I want to emmigrate. I want to visit there in winter FIRST but I do want to live there. Just think, sunbathing and hot weather in the summer, and snow boarding and log fires in the winter. I like my simplistic view on life! Ha ha.
We didn�t really do a lot, just mainly shopping and more shopping�and the trip to Niagara (which I�ve been misspelling as �Niagra� because I really thought it was spelt like Viagra�)�and more shopping�and visiting the beach and�shopping :o) oh, and an amazing camping trip to Algonquin park. I wasn�t too keen on sleeping on the floor, or all the spiders who swarmed over our tent in the middle of the night, but it was so beautiful and peaceful that I could forget those things. We just chilled out and did nothing for a few days�I got through almost all of the book I took with me (which I found very difficult and confusing to read at first�but it was brilliant as I got into it and I LOVED it�I kiss Aldous Huxley. Mwa.) and I also did a lot of talking with Jane (my Mom�s friend who we stayed with) about where my life is going and what I want to do etc etc. I hate talks like that but it was okay and actually helped me get a few things in perspective. Yes, an MA will be hard, and expensive, and most likely not get me anywhere�but right now I feel like I�m not going anywhere and doing something like this is going to motivate me. I really want to do it and that�s the reason I should go for it. So, as long as I get in (and I�m still hoping hoping hoping that my crappy support essay will be looked at with sympathetic eyes) then I�m going to go for it and other such cliches, and actually get a good MA (unlike my semi-good BA) and be pleased with myself for once. No slacking. Once again, ha ha. And we had a campfire, and toasted marshmallows. It was good :o)
But yes�aside from camping, marshmallows and heartfelt talks�the highlight of my holiday (and maybe Mom�s and Steph�s too) was Niagara. It was stunning. Words just fail me all over the place when I try and talk about it. The whole trip was wonderful�we started off in a tiny tour bus from Toronto (t t t�hee hee heeeeeee) at 9am - 24 people from england, germany, south africa, america, canada and there was Al our tour guide. He was ace! When he found out Auntie Jane was canadian he said �A native canadian! How�s it going Eh?��oh how we laughed :o)
First of all we drove up to the whirlpool lookout point and dropped everyone off who wasn�t going on the helicopters, and then we all we on to the helicopter takeoff point. I don�t really like flying so I was a bit worried�just a bit�especially when I noticed that they take off, pirouette for the camera and then zoom off out of sight, returning later and landing in the same, zoom-to-earth style. I think I may have had a little panic�but�we climbed aboard, strapped in, took off�and I loved it! It was so smoooooooth and lovely, and I wasn�t even scared of the height once I had my camera fixed to my eye (and I took some damn fine pictures if I don�t mind saying). I could have flown around taking pictures all day :o) it�s totally unreal�I still can�t believe that I�ve seen Niagara with my own eyes, let alone flown over it in a fucking helicopter! So, after our helicopter ride (wooooo!) we took the bus to Table Rock, where we could stand next to the top of the falls and watch them thunder away just feet from our�feet! Then we went for lunch in the penthouse resturant of a hotel (amazing food, amazing view�just�amazing!!! I have NO WORDS) and scoffed ourselves silly before going for a boat ride on the maid in the mist. This HUGE boat (which takes about 150 people I�m sure�maybe more) takes you right into the horseshoe where you end up in a rainstorm of mist. Al challenged us to go on the top deck and not wear the raincoats (Alton Towers style) provided. So we decided to take him up on it and it was just (sighs and reaches for the only word available) amazing. It was a boiling hot day and the mist was literally like a cool shower so I shrieked and jumped around a bit, laughing like an idiot - but Mom and Steph did a little bit too so it wasn�t so bad :o) I had so much fun�I had to ring Matt as soon as I could to tell him all about it (I think I rang up about �30 worth of calls to him on my mobile while I was there�bad me�)
Canada is amazing�go there! Seriously, it�s such a pretty country. I had �Don�t fence me in� running through my head the whle time we were driving around (and �Venus� every time I shaved my legs�DAMN ADVERTS!), especially in the RV :o) how strange my brain is. Occasionally I spotted lonely little shacks in the woods, surrounded by rusty pick-ups and farm machinery. It was very �House of a 1000 Corpses��I wanted to get a photo of one but we always drove past too quickly. I missed photos of about a million school buses too *cries*
Okay�I�m going on lots�so, I�m going to go and make a coffee with my new cheap amazing coffee machine (that is so easy to use and clean! I�m so happy!) and try and become a published author *rolls around laughing* so that I can get a job in a publishing house (hopes hopes hopes)
Mwa Eh?
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