Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

Back in the blogosphere

Sorry for the lack of blogging lately. To make this up to all of you I have put up some awesome pictures from Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand up for you.

It has been over a week since I have been home and I have enjoyed my time back. I can't really make a decision on what I am doing next until I get an idea of when my hernia surgery is going to be. I meet with my surgeon in 2 weeks and hopefully that will help clear up the fog surrounding my future.

The pictures are of:

1)Mike and I on the Booze Cruise

2)View from Waimai Canyon

3)Hawaiian Sunset

4)Me and the Opera House

5)Deanna and I at the Rugby game

More pics to come

Later

chris

Running Back To Saskatoon

Greetings from home.


Well I survived the marathon travelling day and I have made it home safe and sound.


My flights wern't actually that bad. I ended up having an emergeny row all to myself from Sydney all the way to Vancouver, so I got to stretch out and have lots of leg room. I watched 3 movies. 2 were really bad, those being A Good Year starring Russell Crowe and The Guardian starring Kevin Costener and Kutcher. The third was Night At The Museum which was pretty good. I am going to have to see it again, as you all know seeing a movie on a plane is not the best way to expereince a film. I also watched a Looney Tunes cartoon involving Speedy Gonzalez and Sylvester the Cat which I found hilarious.

The only real downside of the travelling was about 2 hours into my first flight my Ipod completely froze and I had no clue why or how to fix it. My first theory was that an electro-magnetic pulse had been set off some where over the Pacific and my Ipod was the only thing effected. I was very bitter that I did not have music for the trip, as I have said to many people I would not have made it through Europe without my Ipod.
Upon arriving home I learned that I just had to reset it which took about six seconds.

Now that I am home I have no clue what I am doing with my life. A decision will be made soon, keep checking the blog for more details.


Later
christopher

We Have The Sexy Time

Well the Honeymoon is over, well at least the part with me. I left Mike and Deanna last night. The three of us had a rockin' good time this past 6 days.

I flew into Auckland last night and spent the night in the Auckland airport. Those 8 hours went by slowly. I did manage to get some sleep, but I would wake up every half hour or so and realize I was in an airport. I also had some crazy dreams

New Zealand is a lot of fun. I highly recommend you all go. We spent the the past couple of days in the capital of Wellington. This is also the home of Peter Jackson and the filming location for many of the scenes in The Lord of The Rings.

Deanna and Myself's nerd factors have gone up drastically since yesterday when we took a Lord of The Rings tour. It was very informative and interesting. It was also a good way to see a lot of the countryside. It did however start to rain heavily during the tour which completely ruined Rivendell for me. Mike was going to come, but he had a tummy ache(I wish you could type sarcasm). Anyways I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your trip. Even though it will totally suck with out me.

In Under 48 hours I will be beginning the long process of getting home. I have been dreading this day. Not the coming home part, but rather the travelling for like 24 hours. 18 hours to Vancouver, 5 hour layover in Vancouver, and 3 hours from Vancouver to Saskatoon, brutal.

The next blog will be from Glorious nation of Canada

see ya real soon

cn

Beer + Rugby + An English Guy = Madness

Hello party people

So last night we went to a New Zealand rugby game at Eden Park. We decided that it would be prudent to do some pre-drinking because we figured stadium booze would be ridiculously expensive. So we drank some rum and then we went down to the hostel bar where we were entitled to a free beer and we drank the beer and because our bus wasn't there yet we had more beer.

We then hopped on the bus and went to the stadium, at the stadium we hooked up with an English chap nmaed Michael who was staying in the same dorm as me. Upon entering the stadium we discovered that beer was relatively cheap so we bought a bunch. English Michael explained the rules of rugby to us and I think we picked it up pretty quick.

The Blues(the hometown team) were playing the Lions from South Africa. I of course passionately cheared for the Blues. So much so that I lost my voice for a while today. Rugby is a fun sport to see live, lots of violence. We also met three Maori dudes who were sitting infront of us. They were good guys.

By the start of the second half I would say I was pretty drunk, so I bought more beer and we all got even more drunk. There are some good pics that I will post when I get home. The game ended and the Blues trounced the Lions in an impressive victory.

We got back to the hostel where again we were entitled to a free beer. So we decided to drink some more beers. Then English Michael decided we needed to some Jager bombs. So we did Jager bombs.

By the end of the night I was hitting on two Norwegian girls ands stumbling a bit. Mike was high fiving everyone who walked pass and Deanna was chatting up a storm with random people at the bar.

It was a pretty good night. Needless to say we are all a bit slow today and we havn't really done anything except sleep, eat and do laundry

We are off to Wellington tomorrow.

Later
cb

Well Shock Me Shock Me

Hey party people

Well to my surprise Mike and Deanna decided to jet off from Fiji and come to Auckland and come spend a couple extra days with yours truly. I read this on there blog yesterday, but I didn't know when they were coming, so I went about my day of exploring Auckland harbour and then I decided to go back to my room and have a power nap, as I was fading asleep I see someone burst through the door and try to slap my knee...Mike Larson. So we hung out all yesterday night and today we took a ferry to Devenport and explored over there. Tonight is the big night though, we are going to go see some New Zealand rugby action. I predict a riot(started by Mike and I ).

We also have tomorrow and most of Monday together. Monday night Mike and Deanna take an overnight bus to Wellington while I fly so we'll be seperated for like 12 hours. It's awesome to have people around who I know.

I'm home in a week.


later

nelson

Z-LAND

Greetings from Auckland



I got here yesterday afternoon, I found my hostel, no problem. I flew an Argentinian airline over here, everything was in Spanish I was confused, but it was cheap so who cares.

I don't think a week is going to be enough to do everything this country has to offer. There is so much stuff to do, I'm overwhelmed. One thing I am for sure doing is going to a Rugby game on Saturday. I'm going to get super drunk and rowdy.

I think I am going to go explore downtown Auckland today. There is a giant tower here, the biggest in the southern hemisphere.

Well I'm going to go fight a kiwi.


Warmest regards

Nelson

My Dad Is Tougher Then Your Dad

Well my dad had knee replacement surgery today. I got a email from my sister and she told me that everything went well. Apparently Billy is in a little bit of pain because this is the first time in 30 years that his knee is actually fully straightened, the tendond arn't use to being so stretched out. During the surgery the doctors also discovered that Billy had a torn ligament from his initial knee injury 30 years ago. So my dad had been walking, golfing, curling and doing many other activities for the past 30 years with a torn ligament. 30 years ago when Billy injured his knee playing football the doctors told him it was just a strain. Upon hearing this my dad said "stupid doctors" And people wondered why I never played football. I like my knees.

The good news is that Billy will be out of the hospital by the weekend and he is suppose to rehab for 6-8 weeks, but anyone who has spent any significant amount of time with my dad knows that he is a stuborn man and as my sister says he will probably try to go back to work in 2 weeks, luckily I will be home by then and I will enforce the rules of rehab.

I don't know if I have mentioned at all in past blogs, but I'm off to New Zealand tomorrow.

Look out Kiwi's, the leader of Christifanity is coming to spread the gospel of the world's greatest unorganized religion

later
cbn

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Tiger

I am back in Sydney. I am going to relax and take it easy here for a couple of days then as you all know Z-land.

My trip up the coast was a success. I checked out Byron Bay which is a very cool spot. I did not get to Australia zoo, I did a little investigating and I found out it is very erpensive to get in. And what's the point of going if I have no chance of meeting the Croc Hunter(Stupid Stingray). I am going to go check out a zoo here in Sydney tomorrow.

My flight yesterday was the most turbulent flight of my life it seemed like every 2 minutes we would hit a patch of turbulence. It was crazy. During the worst part of the turbulence "Shook Me All Night Long" by ACDC came on my Ipod, I had to laugh.

Yesterday at the Brisbane airport I was "randomly"(they were totally racially profiling me)selected to be tested for explosive material. They wave this thing that looks like a glue gun all over your body and your carry on items. No explosive material was found. I did have a nice chat with the guy administering the test. He called Canadians "the good North Americans"


That's it for today.

Sincerely

nelson

Hot As Balls!

As my title suggests Australia is as hot as balls. For those who don't know I often describes many random things as being either as hot or cold as balls. Just one of those weird things I'm known for I guess.

It is kind of hard to get motivation to do things down here because of the heat. I could go out and do some exploring, or I could stay in the air conditioned hostel or the really air conditioned mall next door.

Last night was a bit crazy. I day drank(not much, a few beers) and this made me rather tired so I decided to have an early night(10:30pm) At about 11 my 3 new roomamtes came in. They are loud, young party girls from Vancouver(Well one was actually born in Saskatoon, when she asked me where in Canada I was from and I told her Saskatoon she got very excited, and one is actually a gay guy). As I said they were loud. They had just landed in Australia and they decided to fight jetlag and go party. 5 years ago I could have fought jetlag as well. I felt like the oldest 25 year old in Australia. One of the girls came back like an hour later and passed out, while the other two very loudly got home at like 6am. They woke up around the same time I did, 11am(yes I got over 12 hours of sleep, shutup) And to no ones surprise they were still a little hammered. Testament to the fact they were still hammered was the 2 spilt beers and the stepping on and explosion of a giant bag of Doritos. I just laid in bed with a grin on my face as they drunkinly cleaned up and I realized how happy I was that I wasn't a dumb 20 year old any more.

Later friends and family, I miss you all very much and I can't wait to get home

chris


P.S.

I don't want it to sound like I am not having a good time, because I am. Some days are just long and hot