Categories: travel
Date: 13 May 2008 22:19:21
Two blog posts in a week, wow I am on a roll.. Hmm, maybe not. But everything's relative. Anyway, I'm just saying hello and I'm ok. Pretty much. This may have something to do with the fact I have one day of work left, then a holiday :) To Canada for a couple of weeks with the parents :D This amazing trip was booked over a year ago now (I think, it feels like a long time) and after holding out for a while 'in case I got a job' (so we'd know something about the best time/holidays etc) we went for it. And then I got a job. Well, not quite that soon, but anyway. They have to let me go, even mid-newting, cos its booked! Hoorah!
So, we're flying on Thursday, to Toronto, and then getting on a little (but rather impressive sounding) train that takes us all the way into Jasper, Alberta, where we then spend some time looking round, and going on trips up to pretty lakes and walking on glaciers and so on. Then we go on a bit further west and into a couple of other national parks before ending up in Vancouver for a couple of days. So when people have said where in Canada are you going, there's not really a short answer!
I'm actually looking forward to it now. Which hadn't happened up untill an hour or so when I started packing.. before then it didn't quite seem real, all it was was a time when I wasn't working. I've been too busy and shattered to think about it more than that. But now its starting to be real. I've got my stuff (more or less) packed. And found my passport. And when I finish work tomorrow I get to drive home. It will be lovely to see my parents and get to spend some actual time with them when we're not all really busy, which we don't get a lot of these days.
The only downside is due to my new job starting part way through the holiday year, I only have enough days for this holiday, and not really anything else. I've managed to swing a day off for Chris' graduation :) but we had to cancel our trip to Scotland which was a shame. But I don't think there's any danger of us not managing to get up there sometime. The more places I see, the longer the list of places I want to see seems to get. Maybe its easier to say where I don't want to go. That wouldn't take long!
Well, I might manage to pop in sometime while I'm away, but if not, I'll see you in June!