Towering
Yay, today was fun! Nate and I went to the Calgary Tower and then to an indoor botanical garden/mall that was tucked away within the depths of downtown. It was super cool. Have some grainy iPod Calgary Tower pics, because I suck at remembering to bring my actual camera and also suck at taking good pictures in general.
Nate’s feet, my feet, and the ground far below us:
So much flatter than Moscow, haha:
And bigger:
It never even occurred to me to take a picture of us (not just our feet) in the Tower as well, but I’m the worst photographer ever, so what’re ya gonna do.
My anaconda don’t want buns unless y—oh I screwed it up.
Nate and I are going to CrossIron Mills this afternoon. From what he’s told me, it’s this huge, elaborate mall just outside of the main city.
My tiny little dilemma, though, is this: should I count it as one of my “Canadian Mall” installments? I mean, technically I’m not walking to it, which is the whole reason for my “Canadian Mall” series in the first place, but I looked at its location on Google Maps and I’m pretty sure there’s no way I could ever actually get there on foot. It’s a ways outside of the city, and given Calgary’s mercurial attitude toward sidewalks, there’s probably not a walkable path (also, I think the only way to legitimately get there is on the highway).
So yeah.
BUT ANYWAY. Fun weekend ahead! I’m excited.
Woo!
Today was fun. :)
Bad Senator! No Biscuit!
First, a sincere “thank you” to all who are serving or who have served; it is Memorial Day, of course. Though I’m not sure if the annual service in East City Park actually happened this year or not…you’d think a newspaper would mention that upcoming, wouldn’t you?
Well, it is Moscow, so what’s to be expected?
So Rob and I drove out to this completely random park called Rotary Park today out by (“by” is a relative term, we drove around for like 15 minutes to find the freaking place) the Plant Science Farm on the highway leading to Troy. It has a swing set, a volleyball court, and a trail that, in its process of looping back to the same freaking place it starts from, leads one through the 9 levels of hell for trees. This is what we gathered the punishments for each level were (note: all punishments, save level 7, occur in tidy little piles):
Level 1: dead and burnt trees
Level 2: dead and burnt trees
Level 3: dead and burnt trees and some rocks
Level 4: dead and burnt trees and some more rocks
Level 5: dead and burnt trees
Level 6: dead and burnt trees
Level 7: pretty flowers
Level 8: dead and burnt trees
Level 9: dead and burnt trees
Oh, and when I die, I want the inscription “She Sucked It Up and Died” on my tombstone.
Long story.
Woah, freaky
Woah, that was creepy as hell.
Rob and I went out to Idler’s Rest today (no perversion, sorry all) around 8 or so, and stayed there for about four hours. It was all good until all the cars left and it got really, really dark. I don’t know if you’ve ever been out to Idler’s Rest, but it’s this protected park about five miles out from the edge of town, and people basically go there, park their cars in this little gravel driveway thingy, and hike. Well, we stayed in the car, but man, let me tell you, when it got dark and the moon came out, it was FREAKING CREEPY.
Somebody was out there. It honestly felt like there was somebody outside the car. I haven’t been that freaked out in a long time, and the creeped-out feeling stayed even after I got back home. I’m going to check the news tomorrow to see if anything bad happened (or happens) tonight, because I swear to god someone was out there.
And this is coming from me, a person who doesn’t usually get creeped out in the dark. But wow, we were both kinda scared.
On the bright side, though, we had a nice long conversation regarding the free will vs. determinism debate. I know he’ll disagree, but I think I had a couple good points for my side. I only wish I’d tape-recorded our conversation, ‘cause it was awesome.
Yay.
Subject? Why SHOULD I?
Yay, second date with Rob!
It was fun. It probably would have been more fun if we didn’t live in Moscow, but hey, what’re you going to do?
I really don’t have anything that would be of interest to you readers today, I’m sorry.
How’s this for entertainment: I’m not wearing any pants right now (please note the date has ended, by the way)!
Hahaha, wow, holy crap…
So tonight Rob and I went on our little date at 7 (makes sense if you’ve been following my blogs). Okay, let me rephrase that. Last night Rob and I went on a date. I say “last night” because I’m typing this up at 8 AM or so on Sunday.
Why, you ask?
Haha. Well, because the date just ended.
It was a good 13 hours. For all of you who aren’t Rob fans, I must say…he really is very nice. Quite a romantic, actually. And no, in cause you’re wondering (you perverts), we didn’t do anything like that. We stayed up all night in the U of I Library fishbowl and just hung out.
Um…so yeah.
We’re going to go out again.
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