I'm going there to take more photos because it has been there for, oh, I don't know, probably 50 years. It was last used in 1992, and now they've decided they're taking it down in May! So I'm heading out to get as many memories as possible because there is something about rundown old buildings that is just so appealing to me. It's beautiful.
Today we ALL had to wake up early just so we could get the girls choir to their performance at 8:40. Then we had to stay there until about 1:00 so they could do their clinic. Finally, we left to go the Old Spaghetti Factory. Upon boarding the Love Bus, I saw Landon looking quite ... uhm, manly? in Sarah's mom's shirt.
I am not a huge fan of the Spaghetti Factory ... or restaurant pasta in general. Pastas in restaurants are either undercooked, overcooked, or seriously lacking in flavour. This particular time, it was lacking in flavour and I think was a tad undercooked. We had about an hour to wander around afterwards, and I went to the drugstore and found some fun things. These fake nails were only $2 per (hopefully they work okay, if not I think I should have some better glue at home), and these are the COOLEST cards I have ever seen! The queens are the best. They are Bicycle brand, and they're called "Tragic Royalty."
We went straight back to the Centre after that hour was over, so the jazz kids could do some workshops. The rest of seriously had nothing to do all day, but wait around in the Centre. At least I had some cards now! Actually we were playing with my Nightmare cards ... well, now I had TWO decks.
At 6:00 the orchestra played. We were the ONLY strings group in the whole festival. I'm not sure if that's really cool, or kind of embarrassing in a way, haha. And when we went out there to the audience, which was pretty much only our school, we were greeted like we were a rock band or something, because they were all yelling and making such noise, already it is not your typical orchestra concert. I felt we did really really well in our performance. We don't have clinic til tomorrow, so I guess we won't find out how we did til then. And, being the only strings group, they don't even have anyone there who knows about strings. Should be ... interesting.
Next we had a "student social" thing. All the schools were invited to a little dance kind of thing, so we went and we were the only school there for the first hour ... Finally when another school showed up, they kept to themselves a lot. Last year when our school went a festival in Toronto, there were so many people to meet at the dance and it was so much fun! But this time, it was very different. Also, we had a live band playing, and they covered two of the five bands that should never be covered. Those bands are: No Doubt, Heart, Queen, Michael Jackson, and the Police. The nerve!!
Our school left early ... blah, I was having fun turning love songs into hardcore mosh pits. They wanted us to go to a jazz concert, which turned out to be really fun. I personally love jazz. Unfortunately halfway through, I got a huge headache and every sound they made hit me in the forehead and shoved my brain out my ears and I had to sit outside for a bit. I'm hoping it's just because I'm tired. I'm so glad that we are leaving tomorrow.
So we went to the theatre again this morning so the jazz choir could perform. We had nothing to do during the jazz workshop/clinic so we found a little coffee shop/juice bar and had some muffins and bagels and tea. Inside that building, we found an atomic clock!
We had to Google what an atomic clock was ... I still don't quite understand, but apparently it is the most accurate measurement of time ever.
We found the condom machine in the bathroom to be absolutely hilarious and I just had to buy one!
The first photo says "In four daring neon colours" and the second says "4 delicious scents." Strawberry, banana, vanilla, spearmint ... I got vanilla. It smelled terrible.
Some silly pictures of me and the friends that like to play with my hair.
After the clinic we ventured out into the snow to do some shopping. Look at all the delicious little treasures I found!
We went for supper at Chili's and overflowed our booth with the lot of us. This is the closest I was able to get to a picture of everyone.
I went to the hot tub for the last time this evening (if I go tomorrow night I will have to pack a wet swim suit ... YUCK). Someone was having their bachelor party so there were so many drunk old men and I guess I'm pretty hot or something because I got hit on in the most disgusting ways ...
Our strings teacher came to our room to give us instructions for tomorrow and lunch money. She also showed off the pretty bruised foot which she received yesterday when she rolled her ankle.
Well, I should head 'er to bed because we're supposed to be on the bus by 7:40 tomorrow and we're all getting pretty tired by now.
It had all just melted back home, too! As much as I LOVE snow, I'm kind of ready for it to be summer ... At least it's pretty warm today!
My roommates are kind of silly ... they used a LOT of soap in the dishwasher and there was a huge mess to clean up.
I didn't get a picture of it AFTER they had opened the door, but there were bubbles EVERYWHERE. We had to do a lot of scooping, transferring the bubbles to the bathtub to send them off down the drain and what not ... some girls just lack commonsense, I guess. I wonder how much soap they DID put in, because there was seriously a LOT of bubbles.
Anyway, here is the bear that stands just outside the hotel lobby. I made friends with him.
We started the day with a choir performance. Oh my gosh, the adjudicator was so cute! He was most likely gay (well, OBVIOUSLY gay) and he said stuff to us like, "You guys were just so delicious," and, "You're hot and you know it!" He didn't really have anything bad to say about our group either. He just gave us some tips on musicality. Our conductor likes to make sure we are very precise with our diction and intonation, but she doesn't really get us into the music ... does that make sense?
This is a mountain outside the centre where we were performing. Breanna and I could see a face in it.
There was also a bust of Bela Bartok inside the centre. I always laugh about Bartok because the name Bartok always sounded like a Pokemon to me. Apparently he was NOT a Pokemon, because this bust looks pretty much human.
After the choir's adjudication we watched the jazz band perform, then stuffed 100 people into the little hot springs, then went to a concert featuring some choral groups from Vancouver. I thought it was silly that they put the hot springs right in between everything because my eyebrows could have melted off! Do you see the potential danger? The choirs were very good though, and we had a good time.
Also, we christened the purple bus "the Love Bus" today.
We left bright and early this morning (7:00) to head out for the Rocky Mountain Music Festival. In order to be on time, I woke up at 5:30 (I'm pretty clumsy so I had to make sure I remembered everything). You just wish YOU looked this good at 6AM!
Our bus was half an hour late, but I had to forgive the driver because 1) he looks like he could be a biker ... or maybe a pro-wrestler and 2) our bus was bright purple!
So yeah, this whole day was spent travelling via the beautiful purple bus. We arrived at our destination an hour early despite the bus being so late to pick us up, so we had time to do some grocery shopping (breakfast was not provided, and I DID forget something - I had to get some razors). The condos we are staying at are so adorable, they're like little cabins.
There are eight of us in here, and four beds. Delena and I are sleeping on the hide-a-bed. There is also a "naturally-heated hot pool" here. It started to rain but I wanted to go check it out anyway! So I got on my swimsuit and walked there like this:
After a nice long soak, it was time for bed. And I leave you with an epic view of the mountains.
Me and Alex just hung out at my house for a bit. Maigyn wanted us to come to a little shindig thinger at my church, so we went to pick up Lana and go to it. Unfortunately, she forgot to let us know that we had to pay to get in, so we ended up just turning around and going right back home. Ah well. We hadn't had supper anyway, so we came back to my house to eat some quasedillas. We played so many card games all evening. We even played extreme Spoons where we played on my kitchen table and placed the spoons at the top of the slides at the playground about six or seven houses down from mine. Lana took a video of it, but it is taking a very long time to upload, so for now, no video for us =(
After the hot hot day, these ominous clouds appeared.
I should be heading to bed pretty quick. I have to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow morning because my orchestra is going on a trip and we leave at 7:00. I have to make sure I have everything! I won't be able to update at all on the trip, but I am bringing my paper journal so I can record everything and I'll update all five missed days when I get back. Good night! See you next week!
Today was 30 degrees! It was GORGEOUS! And 30 degrees is CRAZY for April. Usually it doesn't get this hot until the middle of June!
The above picture actually has a pretty funny story behind it. Today is 4/20, or 'National Drug Bust Day.' It's pretty much just a made up holiday where everyone gets together in the park to smoke weed in order to mock the police. Personally, I think it's ridiculous. Anywho, Lana and I wanted to walk through the park after school just to look at the ridiculous stoners, and we stopped in the shade of a tree to wait for my dad to come and pick us up. A large group of people walked past carrying a ridiculous amount of colourful balloons, and two of them, who seemed to be pretty much trippin', said she liked my look and wanted me to pose with the balloons.
We also took a look at this cairn, and Lana remembered that there was a time capsule in it. Turns out they're opening it on
When we got home, we did a popsicle run to No Frills because it was just so unbearably HOT. Then Alex and Becky came over, and the plan was to sit outside and play cards, but it was just so HOT we had to come inside and watch the Office for a while until it cooled off a bit. Once it did we played some cards and walked to Subway for supper. Becky and Lana had to go home after a bit and Alex and I watched the Birdcage. And, when I got out of the shower and the bathroom window was open, I could hear so many coyotes howling, and that's cool. I also realized, I'm pretty good at describing the days events in one quick paragraph.
I'm worried I might be getting a tan!! I don't like tans ... I like to keep my nice, pale, goth vampire complexion.
I'm usually not very slobbish, but I have been keeping myself busy and tiring myself out, so my room got kind of ... messy ...
So as soon as I got home from school I got to cleaning it up. I had to stop after a while though, because we had delicious ribs for supper! I like ribs because I'm a CARNIVORE. Then I cleaned a bit more, but had to stop AGAIN because I was invited to my friend Maigyn's house. My room is not as clean as I would like it, but at least it's liveable in now.
So I went to Maigyn's house, and Sarah, Ange, Camille, Becky, and Lana (who is my BFF&E (and if you don't know, that stands for Best Friend Forever and Ever)) were there as well. Lana and I showed them our favourite music video which makes us laugh EVERY TIME. Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck. He is one of my favourite rappers because of all his superawesome energy. Maigyn then proceeded to show us some weird videos of her being a pussy while getting her tattoo. Quite entertaining, actually.
When it was time to go home, I ended up being the taxi for Sarah, Becky and Lana because I'm the only one who bothered to get their drivers so far ... at least Lana has her learners. She's the only one out of the lot. It wasn't so bad though, I just blasted Lordi and did some headbanging to vent my 'anger'.
 | Here we have the televison addiction, portrayed by Jen. I think it must have been SO hot inside that TV. |
 | HEEEEERE'S JOHNNY! |
 | Miss Hailey, the workaholic. NO FUN ALL BUSINESS ALL THE TIME |
 | Becky represents an addiction to texting, and I thought her hair and makeup looked so Dita Von Teese-ish and pretty. |
 | I'm afraid that my memory fails and I forget this person's name ... but she was addicted to working out. |
 | This is Alexis, the shopaholic. Her hair was like Scary Spice. |
 | I want to say her name was Samantha ... or at least I'm SURE it started with an S. Oh no I'm terrible! She had a caffeine addiction. She was also the makeup artist. |
 | I love the CD belt! This is Allison and she was addicted to music. |
