Hey all, I know I've been MIA for a while... I guess I've just been having too much fun to stop and write about it! Well what can I say, Alberta was awesome! We spent most of our time in Edmonton, but also got to go to Calgary for a few days as well. We stayed with a family in Calgary who has been on Hero Holiday trips before and who's oldest daughter wants to do this program next year. They were so nice and acommodating to us! Their daughter came with us to our show and watched as we set up the stage and did sound check and stuff to see how all the behind the scenes stuff works. Her whole family came to watch our show and they all loved it! Her mom told me that our stories made her cry! That night we got to go out with a friend who took us to play laser tag! It was such a nice break! On the Thanksgiving weekend we drove back to Edmonton and got to spend all day Saturday at the mall! We went shopping, skating, and in the amusement park! It was soooooo much fun! I know this might sound funny, but all of the girls on the team have stuffed animals with them, and I didn't bring one, because I haven't been attached to one since I was little! So my friend Brittany thought that I needed one, so we found a Build-A-Bear Workshop in the mall and made me a bear :) We also bought him a pirate outfit since we named our team "Team Pirate" and we made him our mascot! I named him Captain Jack.... please don't make fun of me! haha :)
While we were in Edmonton we stayed with an amazing family who have three young kids. They live in Sherwood park just outside of Edmonton. We stayed there for six nights altogether! They were so kind to us and even made us a Thanksgiving dinner! It was really fun to play with their kids, they were so cute! They also had a dog just like mine, only younger so I got to play with him and take him for walks. The family was big into hunting so most of the meat we ate there was wild meet. We ate lots of venison, and some moose and elk as well! I thought it was delicious, some of the girls did not want to know what they were eating though haha .
This Friday that just passed, we stayed with one of the girl's sisters in Edmonton and her and her boyfriend took us out to dinner on them. It was really fun to have a nice formal dinner for once! The next day we were up at 6am to hop on the bus for a 12+ hour drive to Penticton BC (the town of the newly weds and nearly deads as they say!).
Because I was so tired, I slept the first two hours on the bus (yay) and I woke up at the right time, because we were just coming in sight of the mountains! Jessi was driving at that time and I spent the next 8 hours up at the front of the bus sitting beside her with my camera taking pictures and listening to some good old classic country music together (in our headphones of course, because half of the team strongly dislikes country music!). It was the best roadtrip yet! We had such a fun time! We stopped for food in Jasper, gooooorrrrgeous town! I forgot how much I love Alberta and BC! I haven't been here since I was in grade six so I'm just blown away at how beautiful it all is! I ran my camera battery dry because I used it so much!! Even though we took the much flatter route, our bus was not happy to be climbing so many hills .... With all the weight of our gear in the back of the bus, we were travelling about 40km/h for the last 2 and a half hours of the drive ... our bus hated it!
Let me tell you, the long drive was totally worth it! We're staying at one of our teamates (Brittany's) house in Penticton and she lives on top of a mountain that overlooks the city. It is so beautiful here! The town is surrounded by mountains. She told us that when she was little, she used to dream of what was on the other side of those mountains! She said she always felt closterfobic lol.
A few of us went to a church called Cheers this morning. It reminded me of the Summit because it was mostly young couples and had a little cafe in it as well. The service was really good! I enjoyed the worship and the pastor had a really good message! After lunch, we got to go explore the town! We climbed up a mountain to the "Penticton sign" ... literally the word Penticton made with white rocks on the side of the mountain. It's huge! The city is build around a lake and you can see the sign on the other side of the lake. The view from the mountain was magnificent! We all stood up top and yelled across the lake and listened to our echo like little kids! :P After that, we went to the pier downtown to take pictures. It was hilarious because Johnny wore this horse mask that we have on the bus from filming some of our videos and we walked down to the boardwalk with a big speaker blasting music and dancing! There weren't many people around but the few people who were around thought we were so funny. We walked by a restaurant and 4 of the staff came out front and started clapping as we were walking by dancing. We've made jokes about making people wear the mask in public but never thought anybody actually would. We took some pictures and put a video up on facebook so y'all can check that out. We spent the rest of the night in the hot tub and having a bonfire! Good old team bonding time :)
So that's all folks! I hope I haven't forgotten too much. I'll try not to go so long next time without an update I promise!
Two shows in Penticton tomorrow so I'll talk to you later!
Hope all is well back home and every where else!
Cheers from BC.
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