The Boy In The Boonies

A Spring Evening

2009-04-12T15:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-11T14:49:00.000-07:00

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!!!!

2008-09-21T17:05:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-21T16:58:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-07-18T22:16:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-07-17T21:21:00.000-07:00

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!!!

A bit of touring never did nobody no harm...

2008-07-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

We went to these sand formations that were called Hoodoos.

Weird name! Your telling me!Look at Us mum! We can pose for the Camera.
Except Cass, he couldn't be in age order.*sarcasm* Look how big those suckers are!!

!!!Woe!!!

So much Mud!

Cass and I found a path in a crevice.

Almost there!

Finally, exploring the cave.

Look at that hike. That black mase in the left side

of the picture was a group of hikers.

Mums zoom on her camera helped take the picture back a bits.

Look at Cass compared to that hoodoo!

(In size wise of course)

When I remember the name of the mine that we went to I will post it.

So here's some pictures of the mine!

The tour guide gave us a ride in a mine cart!

The side of the mine.

We had to walk up that!

The climb to the top of the mine was a headache.

All 80 feet of it! And with Briton on my back to boot!

Austin running up ahead as usual.

he never learns!

The miners hung their clothes from the roof!

Apparently the mine has a ghost because they saw clothes fly off the hooks on the

roof and the doors fly open when there was no wind!

(Spooky)

I wouldn't have been aloud to work in the mine because my head is taller

than the shower heads!

The Miners

The Eleven Bridges of Wayne

Each bridge was 1 kilometer a part.

...One...

...Two...

...Three...

...Four...

...Five...

...Six...

...Seven...

...Eight...

...Nine...

...Ten...

...And the last Eleven!!!

Finally, I'm all bridged out!!!

Going Swimming?

2008-07-04T22:03:00.000-07:00

Me and my bro just chillaxin!!!

Briton," I think I will come in later"!

Can you blame him the water was cold!!!

Sweat, look at me caught in mid air!
COOL!

Wasn't that Fun!
A few tries and they always trust me!

Hey, I can't help it they love me!

Next!

Look at me on the ball!

Mum said to let him try to swim!

Its Amazing that he still trusts me!

Coop attempting the big jump all of 2-3 feet.

Wait for a bit more......

.....Please?

The Homey Life at Corries.....And abit of Heritage at Fort Steele

2008-07-04T16:46:00.000-07:00

Starting the day with... Chips and Craft Dinner?

Wacky Woman attempting to escape from the camera!

And Ding Bat(Caity) teaching Briton the piano!

Brycey Boy giving out rides to my bros!

This is Cooper hanging laundry.

THE LITTLE HELPER

Briton Got friendlier than Cooper to the Sady.(the dog)

Cassidy was walking the horse that Corrie owned.

After we had left, this horse along with Caity was in a horse show.

The two of them won FIVE RIBBONS!!!!

Great job Cait!!!

Then we went to a lake, made a fire, 4x4ed up a ATV trail, got

separated, and nearly got killed by our parents!!!

The next day we went to Fort Steele.

(Cranbrooks heritage park)

A great picture of our friends and us.

Lucky Austin got his own steam roller.

Then we visited the black smith.

Look at that maniac! you can bet he won't be

getting his licence anytime soon.

The kids went gold panning and were rather lucky!

Cooper found some gold later in the car.And then the worst time of the trip....

...leaving.We did NOT show any pic of us leaving

because we were all crying.

(except me)

Poor kid... he had to sit in that chair for over 8 hours!

This is just abit of the country side that we

saw coming back from Cranbrook.

Pretty nice huh! Come see the realtor for further details!!

Reptile World!

2008-07-04T14:43:00.001-07:00

We woke up in the morning and Briton and Cooper

were all over the bed! Odd Huh? We were going to Reptile world and going to

visit the worlds largest dinosaur

Look at those rosy cheeks! What excitement!

Did I mention that the snake is a river boa

Austin the snake lover(No probe!)

Cass did not want to hold the snake because

It was ew!!!

Then there was me! The snake was so light!

After we when to the largest Dino in the world!!

The structure was 85 feet tall and was four times taller than the real Ts

There was 168 steps to climb.

Hey, someones got a big mouth!

And Bad Breath!!!

Going back down!

The whole thing was made of concrete!

getting in stile on the foot!

Back 2 the Past

2008-07-04T13:53:00.000-07:00

Okey, back to the trip! We were going to Corries house so on the way we stopped at a castle\hotel. My Mum used to work there as a chamber maid!

I just love the mountains especially the rockys.

This is the town of Banff! pretty nice huh? look at the view!

And the best... The Banff Springs Hotel! Very purdy if you ask me!

That's the lobby!
This is the view from the parking lot.Isn't it amazing!

The king with his subjects!

And this is just an ordinary hallway expensive.

US! (Hey, what can I say?)

Then we went to the largest hot spring in the world.

The pool behind us was full of hot water

A Friend Or Two

2008-06-24T21:30:00.000-07:00

Courtney's car all busted up after a 4x4 trip up a ATV trail!!

Great Job Court!!(evil grin) I even heard that recently that she blew her

transmission on her car!!!

Brit and Samuel
Say? Someone looks cold.

from this day till we got home Cooper was sick.
Then theres Cait giving rides out.

"Oh, So Helpful Branflake" doing the kitchen chore with Caity!

O O
^
\__/

(smiley Face)

A Little Bit of our Life

2008-06-18T15:48:00.000-07:00

Our friendly neighborhood dog. The neighbor used

to train attack and Guard dogs. As you can see Colt is in Defencive mode!

My buds From Military Camp

Me and B

And Austin at our city park Creek
My Four younger Bros: Coop, Brit, Austin, Cass.

Now for a Day at Home

2008-06-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Well today Mum decided to paint Mesay and Gadise's bedroom and patch it up as well.

I will take more pictures of the Girls Room once it is finished.

And Austin decided to look at Caity's Blog.

Briton helping Mum Putty the walls

The boys crossing the driveway.

"Always look both ways before crossing the driveway".
Their fort is scene in the back.

Mom was taking a quick brake while the paint dried

to e-mail some friends. Those are not mums every day clothes,

they're just her paint uniform.

I think Cooper was being the mechanic and fixing Austin's bike.

Well, their just playing on the sports court.

And Austin decided to get me back for taking his picture earlier, So he took a picture of me.

Briton liked my dinner so much that he had Three Servings!!!

Day 4 We went to the Heritage Park

2008-06-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

A bit more pictures about our trip.

This time we went to the Heritage Park

Waiting for the train.
Aboard the train.
There's the wheel

30 feet but still not high enough for me

although Caity shut her eyes each time.

Yea, were watching you

Something wrong with that?

Super Coop

And the totally Born to be Cool Brit

The Dudes on the Swings.

What?

Something wrong with a picture, Wonder Woman?

I slowed up so I didn't have to go to the class

Ha!

Austin later told me that he thought that the horse might have bitten him

But he petted it anyway. That's so Austin!

And we took a quick stop a Holland.

Me and the Boys

Yo! Austin, the ride hasn't started yet!

Back at the Hotel

2008-06-14T22:16:00.000-07:00

Well we went to the pool. Slide is more like it. The older kids went to the pool

nearly twice a day!Yea, hard to believe! But what could we say? It was fun!

Yea thats us!
And this is Briton having to much fun !
Briton and Bryce, The Slide Partners
And thats Caity and Cooper drowning.

Rescue servises!!!

Cooper saved

Well Austin hated the slide anyway! He was always a nervous wreck

But with Caity he usally was alright I think!?

Day 3, We Went to the Zoo

2008-06-11T21:30:00.000-07:00

Off To The Zoo

The ants go marching two by two...

Austin being the totally cool kid that he is.

And these are just some of the animals we saw when we were there.

Lions, Tigers and Giraffes oh my...

Look mummy its dumbo!

(I heard a little girl say this to her Mum.)

No fair, I tried and I tried and she chose Cass over me to be nice too.

But I won Samuel by wrestling with him.

But if I even went five feet away from Tsega she would run to Caity or Corrie crying.

Then everyone (except me) went for a ride in a train around the Zoo.

And as soon as he saw all the Lades...

...he tried to impress them.

And of coarse Mum was impressed and took a photo.

admiring the fishys

Briton as cute as ever stuffing his face with chips.

Yummy

Tsega's man of the hour.

Then after a hard day of walking we went back to the hotel and....

you can wait!(grin)

Day 2, The Visit to the Mall

2008-06-11T09:50:00.000-07:00

Our parents wanted to do some shopping for the

girls' clothes.

So we kids had to tag along.

Tsega and Briton

the perfect pear

After hours of shopping the little guys

became tired

Crimanals these days. This little girl was caught shoplifting a makeup store.

What is this world coming to.

When we left we asked the maid to give a bit more shampoo and soap

We came home and found that our maid did what we asked and a bit more.

Day 1, A Family of Friends in Calgary

2008-06-07T21:26:00.000-07:00

Hi, Dane here.

These are some of the moments you can enjoy of me and my

brothers while we are on the trip with our friends.

This is the boys and I getting the suitcases in the hotel.

And as you can see, it was just raining.

We stayed in the Delta Hotel in Calgary.

Very classy!

That's Cooper for you, just enjoying the ride.

30 minutes after meeting our friends

we went swimming with them.

As you can see, Caity is getting along with Briton.

Everyone's clearing the way for Austin's

jump into the water.

On the side is Samual. Caity is holding Tsega,

and Bryce is in the water.

Now we're done swimming and we're

headed up to the rooms.

We went over to Corrie's room and ate pizza.