A Spring Evening

A Spring Evening and some Swimming.

The Icy water swimmers, Christel, Jackie, and Sheyenne (Sorry I can't remember the spelling!)

Josh really having a wash with soap.

Taking the Test of our lives!

Best bunk reporters.

A lax day on the deck.

Our Radio room where we yell into the mic, "MAY DAY, MAY DAY!!!!"

"What the Binnacle!"

The wheel.

The entrance to the boys courtiers.

"DINNER TIME!"


More latter!

My sailing trip day 2

Part two, Day whatever...

And this is everyone on the steps of the Parliament buildings. I'm the tallest in the back.

Looking down the spreaders! I felt like King of the world up there!

This is the crews area. The first bed is Tristian's!

This was my first time up out of nine and I wasn't going back down for a good thirty minutes. As you can probably guess I liked it up there.

They didn't even know I was up here until I yelled at them.

This boat was half sunken but it was still floating!
Rowing ashore!

This otter fallowed us for a short while.

The lake we had our boat in had a little entrance to the sea, boy was it cool!

Then we found this huge log and took pic of it although I'm not sure why...What the Deck!

The rocky beaches.

I love this picture!

Sitting in the whiskers was very comfy.

Looking forward the bowsprit.

We caught up with the Swift and beat them back.

The Swift.

Nathan, Chris and Josh using the chimney as a heater. It was a great Idea and we didn't stink of smoke after for some reason.

The skylight!

My dream bedroom door.

This is the half way point from here on we were going back. :-(

Full speed ahead!

And here is my watch officer, Tristian Hedley.

This is the main sail.Late noon. We would stay on watches for four hours per day.

This ferry was really a lot closer than it looks!The Captain's deck house!


The boys Deck house or skylight.

Here is a video of the froward bow.

Frodo Bagens!


You should see him with his hood up at night!

Getting ready for the swim!

To be continued!

My Recent Sailing Trip Round Vancouver Island

You don't know how happy I am to be blogging again!

These Killer Whales were all over the Island...and some were in the oddest places. One was in side a rubble of a building!

Our Ferry!

Our gang!
The guy in the pillow is me buddy!and the dude next to him.....Actually everyone was pretty much my friend by the end of the trip!

About time they saw the camera!

By the ferry was all these cargo ships waiting to go back to the ocean.

.....Hold on I thought I saw this boat somewhere else...Ah never mind!

don't crack your neck looking at this picture.

Getting late, but that's when the party starts!

It was kinda windy so we thought that hidding was a good idea!

We all started laughing so hard when I mentioned wheres the cameras!
Then everyone pulled there cameras out and started snapping!

Example: Chris !!!!!

This is the purrdy boat the Pacific Swift. I sailed the bigger boat the Pacific Grace!

Hey this is supposed to be the Grace! Ah...whatever!

Captain's cabin windows.

Now this is my boat!hey do you see the rope bottom at the top of that white line we nearly broke those of when we ran a dock over!! Good times!!

Okay now the other way!

This is where the queen stays when ever she comes over to B.C.!

Notice the vines covering the building.

Now we all know John cook and his mirror image!
This was right beside the harbour and that's Nathan. Oh on the same day we saw a real killer Whale that was about as big as this little guy!

I thought this was a very patriotic garbage can!

Her Majesty the old Queen Victoria!

That statue on the top was made of solid gold.

This is the statue that the cadets guard every year for Remembrance Day.

And then we got on the boat...

...And we took picture.

This was our Kitchen.

This was my bed and I was number 7 as you can probably not see!

This is the boys bedroom and that's our table. You can't see my bed.

This is at the stern of the ship and it is the main crews courtiers.

And we weren't allowed in here, but I have my sources that let me get in here long enough to take a picture of the engines. I was in between these when I took the pic.


More later...

Yippy, Finaly Blogging!!!!

My Dads B-day
Yes I know all the way back in June But I was busy earning
money to go to Ethiopia to pick up my sisters.

Eating a Cass made birthday cake.

And being a Birthday typical guy eating right out of the ice cream tub.

Still eating the ice cream cake.

Then after Dinner and cake Austin had a treasure hunt. To get the clues Dad had to perform things with us. Like climbing trees to get to a bird house.

Yup, all thirteen feet of it.

Then we had to ride our bike 25 times around the sports court
and Dad did all this with a flat tire.

Then jump on the tramp 30 times.

Then theres Cass being the nut that he is.

He also had to walk up and down the stairs 40 times.

Then finally after notes saying look up, look sideways, look at the window to find the notes he had he found something.(Here, I think I found something.)
Dad's Words.


And Finally the prize

A new $300 Golf Bag!!!

Sorry For The Delay

I'm sorry I haven't been on my blog for a long, but I will try to get it up to date.
So not much happened juring summer only went swimming twice. One when I was at work and then I got taken off the PS2 just as I got settled down.

So for A while I'll be doing Catch up!

They called it photograghy.

I had to!

I had to remember these moments!

I just had to!

Not the best looking face was on Caity's face jouring the sun's attack!

We lost many brave men to the sun's attack!

They will be in our hearts forever

We went for a walk around the lake and on the

way Caity would do the peace drivers and yell, "Hi or Honk if your happy." Some people waved,

honked, peaced back or just hung their heads out the window to look at the freaks hanging

with her because we didn't copy her actions!

And yes we were embarrassed out of our minds!

After a hot day walking Caity thought getting wet would be a good

way to cool off. It was unfortunate that Caity

wasn't aloud back in the house until her clothes dried off!

And later the kids wanted her to push them on the swing


Another night that they were still here we decided to play the game 'Trump.'

A game with lots of laughs because we weren't playing it right!!!

If you look closely you would notice that Caity was trying to dodge camera fire.

And Cass in gamers made.(Don't look at my cards or cash or whatever it is!)

Moving players...

Look at the determination to win in her face.

Making the win!

"Haa, I told you I'd win!"

Bryce allowed me to take "One" picture of him.(He deleted the rest)
Yes! I caught Samuel in mid motion

We had a war with Wacky Woman *Corrie* She gained her name after the fight we had.

We were simply trying to take a picture

of her so we could remember her by but she just wouldn't let us.

So she attacked in any way to get away

from the sight of the camera. And I mean attacked!

I didn't display some of the pictures since they were to harsh!
(Evil creature that she is)

Bouncing on the trampling!

Attacking Caity on the trampling.

I finally won Tsega, She runs to me for help!

!!!!!Yes!!!!!

But I always had Samuel loving me!

Talk about a lazy bunch of couch potato's!
"Tut, Tut"

Austin and Caity were bestest buddies while they were here.

But now the kids fight to sit beside me at meal times.

And They wish they were like me when they grow up!

Caity and I had a fight over her hair brush. And in the end I won as always.

There were many more pictures but every time I let

Caity hold the camera she would delete the pictures!

Sorry, but you could email Caity to Complain!

Getting rid of Colt, Going to the rodeo and a bit of a friends visit.

Yea, that's Colt, Going of to train some soldiers at the military

camp in Vernon B.C. to be the real deal!!!

He was flown in to camp in a F22 Raptor.

That's one of the new fighter jets if your not in to the plane mode like me!!!

The last minute of goofing off before he left.

(notice the legs)

Oh, that's my dream plane! I'm going to buy one and fly until I can afford

two all the way up till I get ten.

When we finished getting rid of Colt Mum thought a day at the (Pros Only) William's lake Stampede would be a nice touch to the end of the day.

Oh, Canada...

Don't you just love my camera, It has cropping capabilities!

All these pictures were taken from at least 70 feet away.

Father and Son.

Look at the grin on that guys face. Looks like he's having fun!

This guy got the full 8 seconds and a bit longer. I think he got the best.

Our friends friend was riding that horse and later got thrown into the fence

and went back to the pitts looking rather sad.

A bull rider.
Every kid that went in there with the cows got the new higher score until

they bet the record on the board.


This looks like it would be a fun sport!

It had me trilled!

This sport was soooo cool!!!
Tuck Wagon Racing.I think the best time for this race was 4.5 seconds.

Barrel racing!

Yahoo!!!

Nice catch Partner!


And then The Friends we recently made came to our house!

And Caity just stood there!

And still stood there!

And She tried to hide from the camera but I'm just to good for that!

I'm pretty sure that every picture I took of her she tried to escape from view

She tried to hide in the doorway but never made it in time!

(He, He, He)

Caity just had to take a picture of me since I took about a million pictures of her.
Peace and quiet for once!

Disaster Strikes...

This disaster will be continued after a sort break of about a Day!!!