Challenge 7: Drink a new cocktail!

Last weekend was spent in lovely Whistler where I got to do some snowboarding (although short lived do to a nasty stack and consequent whiplash), as well as some dining, drinking and hockey watching! This is my lovely Canadian buddy Meaghan and a delicious Mai Tai! Cheersies!

Megs, Me & Mai Tai deliciousness!

Challenge 1: Meet Nikkie!

Question 1 - What is your name?
Nicole Kaylin Ruud

Question 2 - What is your favourite song?
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leopard (that is the one from all time, others shift in and out)

Question 3 - What is your Pet Peeve?
People treating other people like they are less than themselves.... due to social status or profession.

Question 4 - Who would you be in an alternate universe?
I would either be a 60's hippy.... OR.... like a maiden/lady that lived back in the days of king arthur type thing.

Nikkie is my very good friend from work and we have many laughs together. She is also an uber-talented musician and all round awesome lady :)

Nikster & Me!

Nikkie, Bianca & Me - out and about for B's Birthday!

New Challenges!

1. Interview with one of your new Canadian friends (include picture): Q1. Name; Q2. Favourite song; Q3. Pet peeve; Q4. Who would you be in an alternate universe?
2. Post lyrics/link to the song that has embodied the spirit of your trip so far and explain why
3. Picture of a Canadian Burger
4. Meet a  stranger, briefly document the meeting. Must include name, picture if possible.
5. Photograph a canadian product that you can't buy in australia and has a humourous/dirty name
6. Practical joke on Alexis George and document it
7. Drink a new cocktail (not the one you had last cocktail challenge). Include Photo evidence.
8. Photograph one of your 'family dinners' and post the recipe
9. Photograph your workplace
10. Write a limmerick about your suburb and what you like about it.

Challenge 2: Park Art

I picked up this leaf from a nearby park at the start of Autumn, just when the leaves started turning a beautiful red/orange colour and falling from the trees. So... I named this artwork "The beginning of the fall". Enjoy!

Challenge 4: Photography tour of my apartment!

This is the view as you walk through the front door - kitchen!

Turn to the right, and... there is the bathroom

The view of the kitchen from the lounge room. Note the lovely flowers care of my wonderful family!

Lounge room + my bedroom doorway (+ Dad's banjo waiting to go home to Oz)

View of the kitchen/lounge room from the front door.... are you starting to sense our unit is very small???

My favourite thing in the unit - the kitchen light switch. Retro!

My bedroom! This dresser is an antique and only cost me $60 - bargain!

Ikea bed.... $10 second hand (mattress not included because that would be gross)!

The lounge room!

View from my bedroom... very exciting.

Challenge 6: Take a trip....

So, technically I was meant to take a bus or train trip, but the truth is, the only place I go on a  bus is to work.... and I don't catch trains except to other parts of town.... and it's pretty hard to take any kind of interesting photos! Therefore, I'm adapting this challenge. This weekend I took a car ride with 4 of my buddies here - Jake, Christen, Lex & Shiloh and we drove to Hells Gate, BC (the narrowest point of the Fraser River), around 2.5 hours away from Vancouver. It was pretty cool and lots of fun! On the way back we stopped at Shiloh's family farm to visit the cows. Here are come of the sneaky photos I took out the window on the way there...

Pretty Canadian Mountains

Waterfall ahead!

"Everyone hold your breath in the tunnel... ready, set... go!"

Mount Baker - a huge mountain in the USA that can be seen from Vancouver!

Challenge 5: Photograph a piece of Canadian street art (graffiti)

This guy does amazing street art downtown as a way to make money. It's different everyday!