Dyanna L

I want to go to the Calgary Stampede

I want to tour McGill University

I have totally been here several times. This is lame. Don’t freak out. I dated a guy on the Island and went over every other weekend for a few months. I saw his van, his bedroom, and the ferry. No Victoria – my stupidity for not asking to see the city – ah but young bunny like love. Boy toy gets the title of loser for not taking me out to show me a good time IN HIS BEAUTIFUL CITY – didn’t know the jewel of where he lived. I

So year later! SHhh, don’t freak out. I meet my mom in Victoria to visit with her and her friends before she came to the mainland with me. We were there 3 days. One very brief car tour. No parliament buildings, no sight seeing, no pictures of me on a beach, no whale watching! NOTHING! Oh wait, I took a picture of a maple leaf at UVIC. I think that was the only pic I took the whole time.

I suck at travelling I think. Both of those times were so not my fault though damnit!

Mom and I ended up alone for Spring Break one year. We did the usual Spring cleaning in like 2.5 minutes and then decided to go on a girls only road trip. Beautiful drive, I would totally do it again! I was pretty young so I don’t remember much about the trip. It seems to me that Terrace was small but beautiful and I think it was close enough that we drove to Prince Rupert or something for FISH. Damn the fish. At least she got fresh stuff on that trip!

Once lived there for a year. Didn’t like it – it was flat, not very welcoming. Then again I was just a kid. Later in life had a friend who moved there. Went to visit. The drive from Thunder Bay to Sudbury (12 hours) was gorgeous and LONG. Sudbury. Well it was hot and humid. The air was so thick you could cut it with a knife. I hit the cite right at end of season sales and spent so much money I almost had to ship stuff home cause it wouldn’t fit in my car. For a long time that was the best shopping I had had in a long time but in retrospect I think it was just because that was the most money I had ever spent.

Every time I go I hit Science North – love Science North.

Of course – cannot forget the Big Nickel! Sudbury has one of Canada’s largest nickel mines and it is still going strong. I think there is one in Labrador that is exceeding expectations but it is new so it’s not a historical landmark for Canada like Sudbury and the Big Nickel is.

Has a big French speaking community so if you need to practice – it’s a good place to start.

I have family there so I will definately go back again, but for the family not the city. Sudbury is otherwise boring.

Mom likes it cause there is a Red Lobster – no where near a body of water that produces lobster though. How fresh could this lobster possibly be? I never considered this before. I shall have to suggest that next time she drags me the non seafood eater to that insane place.

I have lived here twice as well, soon to be a third time. Home is where mah mom is. Thunder Bay is WAY behind the rest of the world. If you want a flashback I highly recommend visiting. If you totally hated the 80’s – don’t. Lots of snow and freezing cold in the winter and the rest of the months are millions and millions of bugs and of course – pot holes and road work. I’m not kidding about the bugs – it’s like a veil of bugs everywhere you go. BUT there is beautiful Lake Superior and the Sleeping Giant, amehtyst mines, bush, camping, and more bugs. Not recommended in summer if you are allergic to bug spray – and if you go in the winter you are a total sucker for punishment.

I have lived here twice. Not a place that gets better with it’s age or with my own. I thought I was coming home and I guess I got the wrong home. I love Abbotsford because it is in a beautiful bowl surrounded by some awesome Mountains. I lived on the top of Townline hill once and Mount Baker was all you could see at the top of the hill, out my bedroom window and out my kitchen window. I always thought of the mountains as coming home because I saw it on the way there. FYI, turns out home is where my family is – no longer within in view of Baker. Also visible from most parts of Abbotsford is Sumas mountaing and a gazillion others I can’t remember the names of. The Sumas flats are a gorgeous place to drive through because it feels like youa re driving right to the base of a mountain…although you usually get bored before you get there. Abbotsford is a good place to be if you are a dedicated Christian and that is all you want to do with you life. Otherwise I highly recommend choosing a different city in teh Valley to live in.

North America was first populated by migration over a land mass that is call Beringa but no longer exists. What is there now is the Bering Strait. I am madly in love with history, specifically Canadian history and this is part of where it starts. It amazes me that there was a land bridge there and I just want to be in or near that piece of history. Also, I once watched a documentary about attempts to put a man made bridge over the straight. THAT amazes me even more. People who migrated by foot over a land bridge have evolved to recreate what was once there so that we can trave from one continent to the next with out leaving the ground or having to go to sea. I love it!