Been Awhile

I haven't written on this thing in awhile, I guess nothing to exciting has been going on but I figure I should try and write some stuff just so I don't forget everything I have been doing.

My bro, Steve and me all went painting last Thursday. It was the first time I had gone in a loooong time so I was kinda nervous about doing a shitty piece. Things turned out alright though and I was happy with what I came up with, I still got smoked by Con and Steve though (pics at bottom). That weekend we went out to Lumby on Saturday to watch Clayton in a skateboard comp. It was a good time, and Clayton did real well. He ended up getting 2nd place, props. Sunday we went out wakeboarding and I got shown up real bad by both my bro and Clayton, which sucked. We took Sid out for dinner at the blue heron that night for fathers day.

During the week I saw Cory and Kenzie since they were in town. I hadn't seen Cory in a long ass time so it was good to see my bud. We went to see Kung Fu Panda Friday which was awesome and I would recommend anyone reading this to go see it.

That's pretty much all I've been doing for the past couple weeks, it's been fun but I don't think it makes for very exciting blogs. Hopefully next time I will have some wilder/funnier stories for the 2 or 3 of you that read this.

Anyways, thanks for reading!

- Dan

(Mine is red)

Vanguard + Weekend

Thursday night me, my brother, Steve, Clayton and Sean all drove down to Kelowna to see Vanguard play with Crusades, Horizons and a new band from Calgary called Voices. Steve drove us down and we were all crammed in the back of his car. I am 100% convinced he could have moved his seat up to give us more room but he refused saying he was "too tall," that shit was annoying but whatever.

We got to the show and said Hi to all our Kelowna buds and ran into some out of towners that I hadn't seen in awhile. I saw Vango who is always a nice guy and Hunter who was goin on the "tour" (it is only like 3 dates) with Vanguard, it was good to see those dudes. The show was kinda last minute so there wasn't as many kids there as the last Kelowna show but it was a pretty decent turnout. Voices started it off and were pretty solid even though not many kids were getting into them, I'm guessing this is because no one had really heard them before. Crusades played second and played a solid set. People were gettin into them and moving around and Ramsay hit his head with the mic several times and started bleeding (very Ceremony-esque). Horizons played next and had another solid set, I am not even entirely sure who the actual "official" members of this band are. The last band to play was Vanguard and their set was alot of fun. People were moshing and singing along alot. I am liking Kelowna shows way more these days than a few years ago cause kids actually get into bands now.

On Friday, Lennea came up from Vancouver. She got in around 8ish and we gave Connor a pretty slick haircut when she got here. It was short on the sides and slicked right back on top with Brylcream, super greasy. That night we went to see "The Strangers" which is not a very good movie. I don't recommend seeing it.

Saturday was my cousin Jessica's wedding. So we all had to get dressed up and head out to Kelowna for the ceremony/reception. I usually don't enjoy weddings but I had fun at this one. I got to see all my family and some of them that I rarely see these days. The reception was a good time cause we got lots of free food, (although lots of it was gross "fancy" food) and my cousin Lance who I hadn't seen for 4 years was there gettin boozed and being really funny. My uncle Rick is also growing a sweet pony tail and a badass beard which was sweet to see.

That night we went to Clayton Lanoue's house for a party and a game of "Dog Pong." Dog Pong is a game that they invented that is like beer pong except you throw hot dogs into buns instead of balls into beer.

The rules were:
- If you landed your dog in a bun then the other team had to eat that hot dog.
- If the dog flew off the table and a member of the other team caught it in their mouth then the opposing team had to eat 2 dogs.
- You went until one teams buns were all gone and then the losing team had to eat all the other teams remaining hot dogs.

Our team was me, Clayton and Connor. We got worked really bad in the only game we played and all of us ended up having to eat 4 hot dogs each. I scored 2 dogs into the other team's buns and so did Connor, Clayton was held pointless and was the obvious weak link on the team. The rest of the party was a pretty good time, I saw Brittany Tegert who I hadn't seen in about a year and Ian was being his usual hilarious self and making everyone laugh.

That was pretty much everything exciting that happened this weekend. I was happy Lennea came up and I got to spend time with her. Next weekend I am heading to Van to see her and hopefully some friends as well.

Thanks for reading!

- Dan