Vacation: Day trip to Drumheller

We went to the Tyrrell museum in Drumheller in... July? Man I can remember things eh? This was my favourite picture from the day trip. Because Tom and I are DORKS!

Seven Month Ago I Went On Vacation

Whelp... Life gets busy. So my goal for life until the New Year is to blog the important moments of 2013. While it is still 2013.

In March I took of to Liverpool to visit my guy. Long distance relationships are tough, but Tom and I make sure we don't go too long without seeing each other. I had also never met his folks. It was awesome! There were some special places he really wanted to show me.

The Albert Dock in downtown Liverpool: I actually went here three years ago. Before Tom and I were together. It was interesting looking around with someone from the city, and not with my tourist friends. He told me some of the stories he knew and we strolled the cobblestone sidewalks.

Ormskirk: This is a teeny town that has a street market certain days of the week. We went early and had some breakfast in a cafe. Then we walked around the market, and up some of the streets to see the cathedral. This couple in front just fit in so well so I had to snap a picture of the back of them. I'm a creeper I know.

Crosby Beach: it was so flippin col, but we had to make two trips here. It's just lovely. There is a huge art instillation of these Iron Men that you can only see when the tide goes out. We went once to see them appear and another time to see them disappear. Oh and we got ice cream. We are hardcore like that!

It was so dear to me to see where my love came from. Liverpool now feels a bit like a hometown to me. I saw it through his eyes. Can't wait to go back!

 

Vacation: Grassi Lakes

I'm sure you might be sick of me talking about vacation. Especially since it's been two months since all this went down. It doesn't seem like it. It seems just yesterday that Tom was here and the summer was in full swing. Now that it is fall, and I live in Calgary we've had snow. So maybe I'm trying to extend the summer a bit. Anywho, Tom and I took a day trip with our pal Krista. She was our other amigo in Spain. It was the first time that all three of us have been together on this side of the Atlantic. We took off to Canmore for some light shopping, Mexican food (Tom had his first Margarita), and then decided to go to the mountain. Krista had been to a place called Grassi Lakes near Canmore, but wasn't sure how to get there. So we went on an adventure. We ended up driving up and down the mountain on an unpaved road (Go Krista). When we got to the bottom we finally saw the turn off for Grassi Lakes. To get to them though we had to hike up said mountain again. Being always dignified I trekked up the mountain in flats (TOMS to be precise) and may have wined the whole way up. It was beautiful at the top and fully worth it. There are several small bits of beautiful water, a rock face complete with the occasional climber, and cave paintings (though not like the ones you see in the textbooks).So honestly I want to go back when there is nicer weather and with hiking boots! Oh, and fully making it worth it is seeing a British person hamming it up on a mountain:

Vacation: Stampeders Game

I know these were taken so long ago but I had to post them for memory sake. I have managed to find one of the only British guys to love our version of football. Mind you that before me he didn't even look at the CFL. Well we got amazing tickets to a Stamps game, and it happened to be a first CFL game for both of us. The game was not all that great, and we did lose, but it was a fun first for both of us. Oh and we got the following cute picture out of it (which is Tom being sad we lost):

Vacation: Studious Dates

So I decided that Tom needed to see my old stompin' ground: UofC. We did a saunter around campus. I spent 5 years there: the span of my two degrees. The campus has been going through some renos lately and looks so different from when I went there (it's only been a year). It's still got its '88 Olympic charm but with shiny new buildings popping up everywhere. It was so lovely out we splayed out on the grass under the prairie chicken (which is a statue that's supposed to look like book pages turning). After that we headed over to Kilkennys for a drink and some wing night fun with some of my oldest friends!

Vacation: Lake Louise & Moraine Lake

If you're from Alberta, Lake Louise is... well... meh. It's a tourist spot. I took Tom there (as well as Banff) to say he's been. He was impressed. I won't lie. He snapped pictures like mad. I really has to switch my mindset from grumpy Albertan to tourist.

What really knocked his socks off (or I like to think it did) was Moraine Lake. He was a bit biased as I said it was my favourite place EVER. What I like about it is a you don't have to fight through a wall of people for a picture. There is the perfect un-paved walk around the lake with plenty of places to pause and go ooooooooo. So I think to myself: this is perfect. This is what peace is. And I can breathe.

Vacation: Horseshoe Canyon

MAN I LOVE MY PROVINCE! Just thought I'd send out a holla' to how lovely Alberta is. Most people cry about the snow and whatever, but areas like this make up for it! If you're a dork and want to know more here is a Wiki link: Horseshoe Canyon Alberta. Well Tom and I have two wonderful friends, Kara and Peter, who took us on an adventure a few weeks ago out to this lovely place.The Badlands are a neat hidden treat in an area that's so famous for the Rocky Mountains.

Vacation: Shakespeare In The Park

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 4, Scene 1

 TITANIA
 76   My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
 77   Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Well I am not enamoured with an ass. On the contrary I've just had a lovely two weeks with the lovely Mr.Tom. I'm going to do posts on his visits as I want to reminisce as long as I can. One of our cute date nights was Calgary's Shakespeare In The Park. We spread out the blanket, ate cookies, and laughed along with the others. I do love me some Shakespeare, and these guys did it right. Tom and I were so impressed and want to go back next year for sure!

Vacation: How Happy Am I?

Vacation: Oh Canada

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a Person on a Plane! It's TOM! That's right! This cutie is landing in Calgary in less than 24 hours. I CANNOT WAIT!