Articles under Tag : Outtings
Watch out Vulcan
I once again have failed myself and fallen behind on my posts. Don’t worry I can assure you I’ve already given myself a mental beating. And for those ten of you who read my blog on a consist basis, I’m sorry and I love you.
Anyways, on with the good stuff.
A few weekends ago I wasn’t feeling so great and was in a BLAH mood. So me and Mr. Stebe hopped into the car with the intention of going out to find sticks so I could build a lattice for my pea’s to grow (more on this later 
) Needless to say, we never found any sticks because we magically found outselves driving out across the prairie towards the little town of Vulcan.
Now Vulcan is a little town situated exactly in Middle of Nowhere, Alberta, and as you can tell it has a somewhat famous name. Vulcan is the center stage for a yearly Trekkie event called Spock Days, and we just so happened to decide to take our drive on the weekend that it was occuring. Sadly by the time we arrived in the late afternoon on Sunday most of the hardcore fan’s had left. Highly disappointing, I know. We did some quick running around and took some photo’s of the landmarks, sadly no one dressed in full on costume was around so it’s just us and our geeky mugs. In fairness though there was some guy in the tourist information center – which is really neat by the way – with a lizard sitting on his shoulder like it was perfectly normal to bring your lizard to the trekkie convention and walk around with it. That’s cool though, whatever floats his boat. I wonder if he thought it was like his little alien or something though? Lord only knows.
On with the geekiry
Captain Jean Luc-Picard of the USS Enterprise is all I can hear in my head, ala : http://picard.ytmnd.com/
There were plaques in each language underneath the Ship, Vulcan looks pretty but I bet you’d get one bitch of a hand cramp writing it.
Vrrrrooooooooom.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am. And yes, that is the ever so charming Brit that lives in my house, aka Stebe.
I only know who one of these people are, I fail at Trekkie.
On a side note, this year the little itty bitty town of Vulcan petitioned to have the priemier of the new Star Trek in their town, and they almost got it with the help of some very important people. More info here :
Vulcan hopes to beam in premiere of Star Trek movie
Th-th-th-that’s all folks
<3 Chelly
Banff!
So me and Steve decided last night to haul ourselves out of bed early today and take a roadtrip up to Banff; the weather was miserable but we had a blast. The last time we were in Banff was when he was here visiting in 2003. It’s a shame we don’t go more often since it’s so beautiful.
Hallo thar! The hair colour is an accident; no I don't want to talk about it.
Because the weather was kind of blah the mountains were dipping in and out of the mist, we got lucky and it cleared up a bit on the drive from Banff to Lake Louise and we got some lovely shots. On the way home it got pretty gloomy again, so I’ve posted these in chronological order so you can see the change. P.S – I love gloom.
Back when me and Steve were just gaffers we drove up to the top of the Banff hot-springs and took a photo of ourselves together. We lost that photo some time ago and we both hate ourselves for it because its a lovely photo. So we climbed our older, bigger asses up there today and took another photo for the sake of having one. I’m not going to share that photo now (Steve won’t let me) I just felt like telling a story. There is this lovely pond on the side of the road on the walk up from the car so I’ll show you that instead.
These are in no paticular order, I just think they’re pretty.
We ate while we were up at the lake; they had benches overlooking the water so we sat back and tucked into our sandwiches. Bad.Plan. I was like the wildlife attractor as soon as my sandwich came out of its baggie.
First it was this little bugger :
Thats my leg, and that is a squirrel. I love animals a lot, but wild animals freak me out a bit when in close proximity. This poor bloody squirrel just wanted some of my sandwich that I wasn’t willing to give up; the poor thing made the mistake of jumping onto my leg and I promptly lost my shit and freaked out. This photo is of him jumping off my leg. Good lord, I think I needed a tranq after that.
Then the birds showed up. Not in a massive group mind you just one at a time.
This dude was cool, he just chilled on this rock and let us take his picture. He’s good in my books, and he’s fluffy and cute. His brother however jumped off the rock and started hopping towards me, at which point I lost my shit and started to freak out. He had a big beak. Beaks could be painful. I don’t want a squirrel on my lap much less a bird and I’m fairly certain the bird understood my message because he stopped moving at a rapid pace towards me. Thank jesus.
Anyways, that was our adventure today. By the way, it’s June Fifth and its snowing outside.
What.The.Hell.
Peace <3