Whoops I was gonna post this in the "blog" but forgot, so here it is!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Van City
This past weekend my brother and I made the trek down to Vancouver to see Have Heart and Verse play. It originally started out as just being us two making the trip but all of our friends also decided to drive down and spend the weekend hanging in Van, and I was happy with that. In our car it was me, Connor and Steve, but Ramsay, Jessica, Sean, Joe and Dave also came down in seperate cars.
Me and Con split the driving on the way there (Steve drove for like 20 mins but claimed he was too tired to drive and just napped the whole time...weak) and I was the unlucky one who had to drive into Vancouver. We got stuck in traffic for about an hour and finally made it to my/Lennea's place around 6:30. Justen got to our place around the same time as us and after we dropped our shit off we headed to the show.
The show was rad, I was hyped to see Verse and Have Heart, but was bummed on the fact that not many people I knew showed up for it. I guess Vancouver isn't into those bands. Shits wack. Conrad and Tyler did show up though, I was down for seeing those guys again since I hadn't in a long time. Anyways, onto the show review! Bodyguard played first and it was actually kind of awkward. All off the kids just stood at the back and I just felt really odd being in that room. Circles played next and it was pretty decent, I'm not huge into that band but they put on a good live show. Verse was up third and their front man was hasslin everyone cause they were hidin in the back and he pretty much forced them to move up, which was good. They played a pretty good set but you could tell they weren't that hyped cause not many people were getting into them. Oh well though I enjoyed myself. Have Heart headlined the show and alot more people got into them than any of the other bands. I was super pumped on seeing them and me and Con were up front singin along the whole time. It was alot of fun and they played pretty much all the songs I wanted to hear.
After the show we all headed to Foundation for Nachos and we met up with Ramsay, Sean, Jess, Dave and Joe there. As always the Nachos were delicious. Everyone parted ways after the meal and once we got back to my place we just headed to bed.
Saturday we went downtown Van and got breakfast/lunch at Cafe Crepe. I got a 12 inch hot dog that had the gnarliest mustard ever. It pretty much destroyed my nasal cavity for life. My parents called a bit later to tell me that they were almost to my place with a bunch of furniture I had asked them to bring down so me and Lennea rushed back to my house to meet them. We had a super rough time getting the furniture down the stairs and into my house, namely the couch. I have no idea how we are getting that thing out of there once I move out. Once we got everything in and organized my parents told me that they were heading back to Vernon (I thought they were staying the night) and I was really happy with them for driving all that stuff down for me. Thanks mom and dad! They left and me and Lennea headed back downtown to watch my bro and his friends get SBF tattoos.
They all got tattoos on their wrist at Adernaline downtown. The tattoo was SBF in a font called "The pooper" riding a skateboard. After the tattoos were finished we headed to Alex's house for a party.
The party that night was pretty wild. Alex and his roomates rented out 13 bongo drums and tons of maracas and other instruments for it. So at any given time there was 10+ people playing music that sounded like it came out of Jumanji. I was having alot of fun at the party until buzz kill Lennea said she had to work and made us leave since she was the one driving.
On Sunday we hit up Metrotown for a bit, did some shopping and got lost trying to leave which caused us to be trapped in the mall for an extra hour. Finally we made it out and headed for home. Steve wimped out again on the driving and only drove to the toll booth before claiming he was too tired to drive. So I drove the rest of the way home.
The trip was alot of fun and I was super pumped to see Have Heart and hang with the buds all weekend. This week of work has been pretty good as well, the house we are painting has a pool so me, my bro and Michael have been takin some mid-day swims. Today I jumped from the roof of the house into the pool, it was pretty badass...and I hope Agi doesn't read this.
Anyways, thats it for now.
Thanks for reading about my life...bye!
Me and Con split the driving on the way there (Steve drove for like 20 mins but claimed he was too tired to drive and just napped the whole time...weak) and I was the unlucky one who had to drive into Vancouver. We got stuck in traffic for about an hour and finally made it to my/Lennea's place around 6:30. Justen got to our place around the same time as us and after we dropped our shit off we headed to the show.
The show was rad, I was hyped to see Verse and Have Heart, but was bummed on the fact that not many people I knew showed up for it. I guess Vancouver isn't into those bands. Shits wack. Conrad and Tyler did show up though, I was down for seeing those guys again since I hadn't in a long time. Anyways, onto the show review! Bodyguard played first and it was actually kind of awkward. All off the kids just stood at the back and I just felt really odd being in that room. Circles played next and it was pretty decent, I'm not huge into that band but they put on a good live show. Verse was up third and their front man was hasslin everyone cause they were hidin in the back and he pretty much forced them to move up, which was good. They played a pretty good set but you could tell they weren't that hyped cause not many people were getting into them. Oh well though I enjoyed myself. Have Heart headlined the show and alot more people got into them than any of the other bands. I was super pumped on seeing them and me and Con were up front singin along the whole time. It was alot of fun and they played pretty much all the songs I wanted to hear.
After the show we all headed to Foundation for Nachos and we met up with Ramsay, Sean, Jess, Dave and Joe there. As always the Nachos were delicious. Everyone parted ways after the meal and once we got back to my place we just headed to bed.
Saturday we went downtown Van and got breakfast/lunch at Cafe Crepe. I got a 12 inch hot dog that had the gnarliest mustard ever. It pretty much destroyed my nasal cavity for life. My parents called a bit later to tell me that they were almost to my place with a bunch of furniture I had asked them to bring down so me and Lennea rushed back to my house to meet them. We had a super rough time getting the furniture down the stairs and into my house, namely the couch. I have no idea how we are getting that thing out of there once I move out. Once we got everything in and organized my parents told me that they were heading back to Vernon (I thought they were staying the night) and I was really happy with them for driving all that stuff down for me. Thanks mom and dad! They left and me and Lennea headed back downtown to watch my bro and his friends get SBF tattoos.
They all got tattoos on their wrist at Adernaline downtown. The tattoo was SBF in a font called "The pooper" riding a skateboard. After the tattoos were finished we headed to Alex's house for a party.
The party that night was pretty wild. Alex and his roomates rented out 13 bongo drums and tons of maracas and other instruments for it. So at any given time there was 10+ people playing music that sounded like it came out of Jumanji. I was having alot of fun at the party until buzz kill Lennea said she had to work and made us leave since she was the one driving.
On Sunday we hit up Metrotown for a bit, did some shopping and got lost trying to leave which caused us to be trapped in the mall for an extra hour. Finally we made it out and headed for home. Steve wimped out again on the driving and only drove to the toll booth before claiming he was too tired to drive. So I drove the rest of the way home.
The trip was alot of fun and I was super pumped to see Have Heart and hang with the buds all weekend. This week of work has been pretty good as well, the house we are painting has a pool so me, my bro and Michael have been takin some mid-day swims. Today I jumped from the roof of the house into the pool, it was pretty badass...and I hope Agi doesn't read this.
Anyways, thats it for now.
Thanks for reading about my life...bye!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Canada Day Weekend
Lennea and her friends came up from Vancouver on Friday to party at Funtastics this weekend. When they got to Vernon we headed to the beach with my brother and his friends. All us Vernon boys enjoyed the water and Lennea and her friends sat in the hot sun while wearing black sweaters, weird. We went to see Wall-e later that night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There was barely any dialogue in the movie but Pixar still managed to make it really funny and entertaining. I would def recommend going and checking it out.
Saturday me, Lennea, my bro, Sean, Ryan and Jess all went to the beach together. We swam for a bit and played a game of soccer. Me and Con got worked by Sean and Jess and didn't even get a goal (I later found out that both of them played Rep soccer). Later that night we headed up to Funtastics to party and watch Kim Mitchell (I don't know who he is either). Lennea and her friends all got shittered and partied hard. Lennea fell down and barely remembered the night. It was fun to see a bunch of people up there that I hadn't seen in a loooong ass time. We got home pretty late and Lennea's friend Andrea got in a big argument with Ryan Baker, which was both funny, annoying and awkward. Ryan ended up going home as a result.
Lennea and her friend's left on Sunday and I headed over to Sean Cromies house for a BBQ. It was a good time except the hot dog I ate was not sittin stellar and made me feel sick for the rest of the day. Later on me and my friends all headed up to Funtastics again to watch BC/DC (AC/DC cover band). I had fun again and people were going wild for BC/DC which I thought was hilarious because seriously...they are a cover band. Vernon is hick. The highlights of that night was the mosh pit during BC/DC and super drunk Steve getting super into it and two-stepping to them. Hilarious. Some dude also got beat up because he tried to attack Sean and apparently Connor busted the dudes nose.
The weekend was super fun and I really enjoyed seeing people up at Funtastics but so far this week has sucked. Were painting a house out in Armstrong so I have to get up super early and drive out there so I can work on a roof in the blazing heat. So bogus. Tuesday night was fun though, I went out to Kelowna with some people to watch the Canada day fireworks which were good and I'm sure blew the Vernon ones outta the water.
I am really looking forward to this weekend when I head to Van to see Have Heart and Verse and start moving my stuff into my place there. Maybe I will write about that once I get home.
Thanks again for reading...if anyone even is.
- Dan
Saturday me, Lennea, my bro, Sean, Ryan and Jess all went to the beach together. We swam for a bit and played a game of soccer. Me and Con got worked by Sean and Jess and didn't even get a goal (I later found out that both of them played Rep soccer). Later that night we headed up to Funtastics to party and watch Kim Mitchell (I don't know who he is either). Lennea and her friends all got shittered and partied hard. Lennea fell down and barely remembered the night. It was fun to see a bunch of people up there that I hadn't seen in a loooong ass time. We got home pretty late and Lennea's friend Andrea got in a big argument with Ryan Baker, which was both funny, annoying and awkward. Ryan ended up going home as a result.
Lennea and her friend's left on Sunday and I headed over to Sean Cromies house for a BBQ. It was a good time except the hot dog I ate was not sittin stellar and made me feel sick for the rest of the day. Later on me and my friends all headed up to Funtastics again to watch BC/DC (AC/DC cover band). I had fun again and people were going wild for BC/DC which I thought was hilarious because seriously...they are a cover band. Vernon is hick. The highlights of that night was the mosh pit during BC/DC and super drunk Steve getting super into it and two-stepping to them. Hilarious. Some dude also got beat up because he tried to attack Sean and apparently Connor busted the dudes nose.
The weekend was super fun and I really enjoyed seeing people up at Funtastics but so far this week has sucked. Were painting a house out in Armstrong so I have to get up super early and drive out there so I can work on a roof in the blazing heat. So bogus. Tuesday night was fun though, I went out to Kelowna with some people to watch the Canada day fireworks which were good and I'm sure blew the Vernon ones outta the water.
I am really looking forward to this weekend when I head to Van to see Have Heart and Verse and start moving my stuff into my place there. Maybe I will write about that once I get home.
Thanks again for reading...if anyone even is.
- Dan
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