Hi from the North.
So we made it to Calgary. Mike's Uncle and Aunt have a HUGE house that is just...wow.
And that's just the house. Shall we go down the list of pets?
1 small Ball Python in the daughter's room.
1 big Bearded Dragon (named Newman) in the living room
2 large cats wandering
2 big furry dogs who have adopted me but still are leery of Mike
2 large parrots that AJ is fascinated with
Uncounted number of fish in a tank in the basement that I haven't taken a good look at yet.
6 nocturnal sugar monkey things. I forget what exactly they are but they sleep in pouches all day and at night they come out and climb all over their giant cage in the hall upstairs. They are very small though.
Somehow they have these pets and the house is clean, orderly, and doesn't smell like a zoo...
I need to find out this secret.
The drive SUCKED. Not cause AJ was cranky (thank god) since he had a library of dvdes and a brand new dvd player to keep him entertained. Just that everything was FLAT. So Mike and I did alot of chatting and refining a story I'm going to write, at least once I get all the notes transcribed onto the laptop.
Wackiness from the Road:
1. "Oh my God...THEY HAVE A BEST BUY! CIVILIZATION!"
Mind you that there was literally 100's of miles between towns. We passed alot of little ones and started noticing that the bigger ones had Best Buys. Hence, it wasn't civilization unless they had a Best Buy.
2. "Officer." Ala Hannah.
Shortly after hitting the border things went from Miles to Kilometers. We then realized we did not have any idea how fast we were suppose to go since we couldn't convert miles to kilometers off the top of our heads. Hence, whenever we saw a cop we'd start praying and going "Officer" when they let us go.
3. "It's a weed! It's a crop! It's...canola?"
Shortly into North Dakota and onto into Alberta, Mike and I kept seeing a bright yellow crop. We could not for the life of us figure out what the heck this crop was. Turns out it's canola, aka Canola Oil.
And that's just the house. Shall we go down the list of pets?
1 small Ball Python in the daughter's room.
1 big Bearded Dragon (named Newman) in the living room
2 large cats wandering
2 big furry dogs who have adopted me but still are leery of Mike
2 large parrots that AJ is fascinated with
Uncounted number of fish in a tank in the basement that I haven't taken a good look at yet.
6 nocturnal sugar monkey things. I forget what exactly they are but they sleep in pouches all day and at night they come out and climb all over their giant cage in the hall upstairs. They are very small though.
Somehow they have these pets and the house is clean, orderly, and doesn't smell like a zoo...
I need to find out this secret.
The drive SUCKED. Not cause AJ was cranky (thank god) since he had a library of dvdes and a brand new dvd player to keep him entertained. Just that everything was FLAT. So Mike and I did alot of chatting and refining a story I'm going to write, at least once I get all the notes transcribed onto the laptop.
Wackiness from the Road:
1. "Oh my God...THEY HAVE A BEST BUY! CIVILIZATION!"
Mind you that there was literally 100's of miles between towns. We passed alot of little ones and started noticing that the bigger ones had Best Buys. Hence, it wasn't civilization unless they had a Best Buy.
2. "Officer." Ala Hannah.
Shortly after hitting the border things went from Miles to Kilometers. We then realized we did not have any idea how fast we were suppose to go since we couldn't convert miles to kilometers off the top of our heads. Hence, whenever we saw a cop we'd start praying and going "Officer" when they let us go.
3. "It's a weed! It's a crop! It's...canola?"
Shortly into North Dakota and onto into Alberta, Mike and I kept seeing a bright yellow crop. We could not for the life of us figure out what the heck this crop was. Turns out it's canola, aka Canola Oil.