Journal #3

Dear Journal,
Today we went on two walks!!! First we walked to the Blackomb ski lift! And for the second we walked to the Whistler ski lift. So we walked about 3 miles altogether. I got some GREAT pictures. Oh! I almost forgot to mention that we went swimming in the pool! Amanda and I went from the pool to the hot tub to the pool etc. We also wnt to see the movie Wall-e! That was a GREAT movie.... With Eve and of course the main character Wall-e.

We had a good dinner of Tuna Sandwiches and Fried Rice! We watched 30:00 of hula dancing and we danced along too but it was more like shaking you hips REALLY fast! Well I have to go now...

Sincerely,
Sarah

Whistler

Today we are about to go on a walk. (This is not one of my journal entries). So we can see the town and take some nice pictures. We are also going to go to the Market and maybe buy some nice stuff...

Well I have to go get ready...


Sincerely,
Sarah

Journal #2

Dear Journal,
We are on the road right now but we are past the border that separates Canada from the United States! My grandparents said that at the border the line usually takes and hour to get through and this is their 11th time coming in Canada. When we got to the border there wasn't a line at all...
Seriously there was a line of zero. We got through in about 2 minutes!!! YAY!

I just figured out how to use a calling card phone..... WOW! There is A LOT of numbers to type! But we are using our parents calling card sooooo, I kinda had to, and I don't think that Amanda could operate the thing...

Well anyway, right now we are on the mountain that Whistler is on... We are about 55 minutes away from Whistler... We just went through the city of Squamish, where part of the 2010 Olympics will be held. There will also be Olympics in Whistler! When we watch the winter Olympics of 2010 we can say like, "Oh I was there" , or "I saw that!" Wow I have been writing and stopping and writing and stopping etc. for almost 2 hours now!

I think I should stop now so I can look at the mountains... Did I mention that we are in the Rockies? (Rockie Mountains). Well It's true, Whistler is in the Rockies... I just figured that ourt about when I started writing...

Sincerely,
Sarah

Canada

Ok we are now in Canada as you might of heard. But I will be on the computer every so often and I will be typing my journal entries as I go! Ok well I am going to start one right here.





8/8/08


Dear Journal,

Today my mom drove us to Eugene to meet my grandparents for lunch. My dad couldn't come because he was working and he can't take a 5 hour break... We left the mall with our grandparents to go to Target. We met my mom there to buy Amanda a car seat because we forgot to bring one with us... (The van that we came in has built in car seats so we didn't worry about that until we got to Eugene.

So my grandparents drove Amanda and I to Portland and we are spending the night there! In the morning we want to head out around 8:00 AM so that we can reach the border in the afternoon.

We are supposed to reach the border around 3:00 and from the border it will take us about 3 hours to get to Whistler. We will be staying in a condo on the second floor! The bathroom Amanda and I are sharing has a shower with 2 shower heads so we don't have to fight over who gets the water for so long while the other one waits shivering.

Well I will write more tomorrow when we get there.

Sincerely,

Sarah

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Omigosh!!!

Omigosh I almost forgot to post the pictures from when we were at Indian Mary!! I only have a few but I might post more of them...

Up above is my dad waving to us while leaving the boat ramp and going on a ride down the river!!!
This is Amanda, Dad, and I at the OK Corral while we were getting ready to get back on the Hellgate boats!!!

This is my cousin Dusty, Amanda, and I playing frisby golf!!! It was not the best game in the world......

This is Mom, Amanda, and I infront of the OK Corral! The second little area from the right is where we ate!


This is me and Amanda infront of a beautiful waterfall at the OK Corral.

Day at the Beach

On the water there was some pelicans, in the end there ended up to be about 12 of them!!! At first my mom thought they were Blue Herons' but when she got a better look at them they were really pelicans. There was a lot of people there taking pictures of them!

A Crab washed up on the beach... I don't know why I took a picture of it but it was kind of cool. If you look close enough (not that hard to find) there is kind of a crack in the middle of the shell because I picked it up and then I dropped it... Not because it was alive only because it was really gross.

This is my dog Lilly, at the beach. As you can see she is liking her nose and I took the picture just in time!!! Isn't she cute??? We didn't take my other dog Tabby because every time we put her in the car and she notices that we haven't been packing up our trailer she thinks that we are taking her to the vet.

If you can't tell from the picture (which I doubt you can) we were at Sunset Beach!!!

Park City, Utah

My grandma and grandpa are getting back from Utah tomorrow!!! Check my grandpa's blog at thatscott.blogspot.com to see what they have been up to!

Pictures

My mom hasn't e-mailed me the pictures of the Rouge River so I can't post them with this post.





Something happenpend on the river that I never thought would happen. My mom and I fell out in the class 2 rapids. There was at least 4 of them that we had to swim through. Luckily my dad was in front of us so he could catch us. He pulled me in after the rapids and my mom held onto the boat. Finally we got to shore!!! My cousin Dylan who was in his own raft got the boat my mom and I were in and he also got the paddle. And he rapidly paddled to the shore with them. My other cousin Dusty caught the seat and paddled to shore too.


I almost forgot to say that there was another set of rapids right after a few meters of calm water that's why Dylan paddled rapidly. After all of that happened I went down the rest of the river with my dad in my mom's boat and my mom went down with my dad's stronger boat.





Of course my sister wasn't there because she is not in the story above. She was with our aunt and uncle (Dylan and Dusty's parents) back at camp learning how to skip rocks. When we got to the boat ramp at Indian Mary Amanda didn't seem to care whatsoever. She said "Well I learned how to skip rocks!!" That's all I have to say right now. I will post some pictures when my mom e-mails them to me.

Leaving for Indian Mary

We are just now getting ready to leave for Indian Mary which runs alongside the Rouge River! While we are camping there we will be rafting a lot. And it's not just Amanda my parents and I, my aunt, uncle, and two cousins are coming too! Well I have to get ready to go! I plan to post some pictures after we get back!
-Sarah
P.S. We will be gone from today (13th) till the 22nd of this month.