So me and my dad went to the US on sunday. It was super duper fun.
I made dad pancakes for breakfast, then we each took a shower and it was off to the border.
The getting to the border was easy it was the waiting in line to go through US Customs.
The guy there was kind of a dink but whatever, his loss. We then continued on to Grand Forks.
Dad saw a Cabela's sign (a hunting outlet) and we ended up there first. We were in there for 3 hours! He bought a whole bunch of stuff. He found Hunter some new water toys at least. I found some funny chocolate bars. ie: Grizzly Bar, Majestic Buck, Dark Moose. It was pretty cool. Then I had to coax dad from Cabela's so that we could go to the mall where I wanted to shop. We had Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza for lunch it was very good. Finally we went to the mall so I could do a little shopping.
Once there I found a book store. I got two books. The Fallen series. I just finished the first one last night. Then dad got me some iron supplements and protein stuff because I'm a vegetarian and I need that kind of thing. I found a really sexy pair of high heels but dad was standing behind me and I didn't notice that he was directing the sales lady on what to say. He told me after and I was a tad pissed off. But I'm most likely going down when mom comes :) so hopefully i get them then! I even got Myles a tee shirt that says North Dakota!
Coming back across the border is where all the savings we made were no good. Appearently Canadian government is so greedy that we need to pay Canadian taxes on stuff we buy in the U.S. which i think is really stupid. Then they charge you a "Duty Fee" for going across the boarder. It's soooooo stupid!
I'm on my last book and I got to talk to Myles last night. He called me which was nice of him :) Hoping he'll call today as well. He says that he is thinking about sending me more books. What a sweet heart :) Hopefully I can also convince mom to bring Hunter with her when she comes to visit.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Altona, Manitoba
It's sunny here and very hot. The humidity is KILLER. But it's very beautiful with the numerous fields of wheat, canola and SUNFLOWERS!! I love sunflowers! They are so tall here and HUGE.
Me and Lynn, Norm (one of dad's friends from Ruskin)'s wife, went and took many beautiful pictures of sunflowers and the monarch butterflies around them. They are GORGEOUS! It is so fun. We took so many pictures.
Work was killer the last two days i actually went. The first day I had heat exhaustion so bad I ended up vomiting at Superstore in the parking lot in Winkler and all night in the trailer. It was terrible with a capital T. I didn't want to go work for Ruskin after that but dad gave me the 'Let down Parent' talk, so I agreed to try again. This time I did not get heat stroke instead a lot more happened. First I got Lost and was so frustrated I began to cry, also because I thought I hit a bird (thankfully I did not). Then I called dad and finally got to work, cussing the while way. Then I worked with the group at sight 68 pile counting. I had an allergic reaction to the sun, yes that's right I'm allergic to the sun. Hence my paleness. Then spiders began flying off the crane onto me and while I was attempting to rid of them all got several bites on my neck. That was fun, NOT! and now my neck is swollen and red and I have weird bumps on it where the bites are. Now I really don't want to work. But they won't need me until maybe next week, so at least I get a break.
Today I got to sleep in. It was the first good sleep I've had since I arrived. Lynn and I went to town to pick up groceries and do laundry. I picked up all the groceries except I still must remember dad's french vanilla creamer. We put the laundry in so that we could do everything and it would be ready when we arrived back at the laundromat. Then we came here to use the Internet and we are having a cup of coffee. We had Subway for lunch YUM.
Myles was choked when I told him I was leaving. He was so choked he wouldn't talk to me for a bit. He keeps giving me a hard time about this job, so it makes it even harder. I am going to miss him and I will most likely go with mom when she comes to visit and leaves again. Hopefully he is still home one of those days. I have talked to him on the phone since, which is good. He actually called a 2am (Winnipeg time, 12am BC time) to apologize for being so hard on me about it, which I thought was really sweet and I appreciated it too. He felt so bad for waking me up though I didn't mind because the train that goes past at 2:30 am would have woken me up anyways (the tracks are right behind our trailer). I miss him and I'm glad we are keeping in touch.
We did end up camping. Myles took me to bear lake. BEST CAMPING TRIP EVER! It was only one night but it was amazing! He even made breakfast for me for when I woke up. It was soooooo sweet. I love him.
I'll post those sunflower pictures when I can.
Me and Lynn, Norm (one of dad's friends from Ruskin)'s wife, went and took many beautiful pictures of sunflowers and the monarch butterflies around them. They are GORGEOUS! It is so fun. We took so many pictures.
Work was killer the last two days i actually went. The first day I had heat exhaustion so bad I ended up vomiting at Superstore in the parking lot in Winkler and all night in the trailer. It was terrible with a capital T. I didn't want to go work for Ruskin after that but dad gave me the 'Let down Parent' talk, so I agreed to try again. This time I did not get heat stroke instead a lot more happened. First I got Lost and was so frustrated I began to cry, also because I thought I hit a bird (thankfully I did not). Then I called dad and finally got to work, cussing the while way. Then I worked with the group at sight 68 pile counting. I had an allergic reaction to the sun, yes that's right I'm allergic to the sun. Hence my paleness. Then spiders began flying off the crane onto me and while I was attempting to rid of them all got several bites on my neck. That was fun, NOT! and now my neck is swollen and red and I have weird bumps on it where the bites are. Now I really don't want to work. But they won't need me until maybe next week, so at least I get a break.
Today I got to sleep in. It was the first good sleep I've had since I arrived. Lynn and I went to town to pick up groceries and do laundry. I picked up all the groceries except I still must remember dad's french vanilla creamer. We put the laundry in so that we could do everything and it would be ready when we arrived back at the laundromat. Then we came here to use the Internet and we are having a cup of coffee. We had Subway for lunch YUM.
Myles was choked when I told him I was leaving. He was so choked he wouldn't talk to me for a bit. He keeps giving me a hard time about this job, so it makes it even harder. I am going to miss him and I will most likely go with mom when she comes to visit and leaves again. Hopefully he is still home one of those days. I have talked to him on the phone since, which is good. He actually called a 2am (Winnipeg time, 12am BC time) to apologize for being so hard on me about it, which I thought was really sweet and I appreciated it too. He felt so bad for waking me up though I didn't mind because the train that goes past at 2:30 am would have woken me up anyways (the tracks are right behind our trailer). I miss him and I'm glad we are keeping in touch.
We did end up camping. Myles took me to bear lake. BEST CAMPING TRIP EVER! It was only one night but it was amazing! He even made breakfast for me for when I woke up. It was soooooo sweet. I love him.
I'll post those sunflower pictures when I can.
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