Well I have left the ridiculous cold of Canada, but not without a huge amount of sadness, I have made so many amazing friends during my travels, I'm going to miss them all, but hopefully I'll get to catch up with them all again.
But first things first, my last few weeks in Canada. Had a couple of major events, the first was Aussie day, this was definatly an experience. Given we were along time behind time wise everyone in banff thought it appropriate to celebrate both on the australian 26th, and the canadian 26th. Kat, Jen, Dan, Sarah and myself arrived up in banff nice and early on the 25th, and went snowboarding/skiing at Lake Louise. This was a first for me, hadn't snowboarded there before, it was pretty icy, but I had probably my best day on the hill, was brimming with confidence, letting myself go on the blue runs, awesome. There wasn't as many jumps on the normal hills there, but got some awesome speed. Well I thought it was :D That night we headed out for a few drinks, its a bit hazy in spots, but a good night was had by all. Next morning we headed out to get some food for the afternoon festivities, while at safeway (coles) Darcy, a friend from calgary won a 26" LCD HD Tv, so cool. From there I managed to find a bottle of Bundy on sale, and the festivities began. We headed to Riannah's place (sorry if thats not the right spelling). Almost everyone had some sort of Aussie merchandise on. Some took it to the extreme, going from mild mannered liftee by night/australia day they became Captain OZ *insert super hero music here*. The boys had also set up a small snowboarding park in the backyard, the back yard being roughly4m x5m in size... but they had boxes and a jump in from the patio. The rest of the details of the night shall remain locked away in the vault of the less sober...
Before I talk about the parts of my farewell party I do remember I would like to make quick mention of a wings place we went to. This place is crazy, it had 40 different types of wings, yep 40. How nuts is that. Some of the flavours included Orange and Ginger, Pineapple curry, Cajun, Caribbean, and heaps more. They also do the same number of flavours in chicken balls. Apparently there is more of the chicken used over here than at home, and they also have wierd chickens :O.
On the 31st I had my farewell party. We started at Murphs, a pub near our place, some of did eventually move onto cowboys which is the bit I don't remember, so can't really tell you what happened there. At murphs I was surprised to see a few people turn up who I definatly wasn't expecting. A few couriers who I had only spoken to in passing if at all turned up, and wished me all the best in my travels. I also had some from work arrive, and then alot of other people I've met along the way.
Finally the day when I was scheduled to head home arrived. I was sad and happy at the same time. I had a couple of things to sort out, change my coin, close the bank account, and send a couple of jackets home. I managed to save $40 on the cost of sending the jackets home, by stuffing them into a plastic bag. I was a little concerned my bags weight would be too high, but I was only a kilo over, so was let through. Kat, Jen, Dan and Sarah all came out to the airport to see me off, I'm going to miss them all heaps, they have been my family in Canada. We all had a finaly drink and dinner at the airport, before I went through security, and prepared to board my plane. There were a couple of tears, and hugs all round. I have no doubt I'll be seeing each of them again.
The flight was good, I had 3 seats to myself, but was still unable to get more than a couple of hours sleep. So I've been having issues in london. Oh well. I'll update one last time before I close off the Canada Blog. So keep checking back here.
Narco out eh.
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