Nope, not dead. In fact, I'm uploading lots more pictures from my Europe trip onto my facebook. I think once I actually sift through them all, I'll be able to put things into place and make a far more accurate report about all the amazing things I did and saw ^_^ The Gallery is public and I'm up to the pictures from Chitiveccia, which means all my pictures from Rome are next and Rome was insane because it was just so overwhelming. I didn't what to and to not take pictures of! So, here's the gallery~

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31520&id=1048977412&l=4527ee9494

Okay, so by just posting my previous entry helped boost me out of my denial. So, here's my first, of many, posts about the trip of dreams.

Part 1: Ontario and travel

So it has to start when I reached Ontario. I got there at about 1:00 in the morning, so nothing too eventful. The next morning, the 17th of July, I met Eric's sister Natalie and her two boys Alex (4 yours old) and Victor (1 year old). I also, of course, met Eric's mother, Mieke, who has to be the most gracious, sweet, and charming woman I've ever met. Eric's father had already headed out to France, so I wouldn't met him until we got there. This was a Thursday, and Eric took me around to see the beautiful suburb of Burlington. I slept in late due to weird hours and jet lag. In the evening we had a simple dinner and I tried to get to know the boys. Eric and I also tried to plan out our excursions for the cruise, and Mieke told me a lot about Le Brusc and gave me a great map of the area in France we were staying.

Friday we also slept in late, went out for Lunch, talked more about the cruise and excursions with Mieke. That night Eric and I went out to dinner with Winnie and Adrian to an awesome Japanese resturant called Iron Chef. It was super delicious. After dinner all three of them humored me and we all went to see the new Harry Potter movie which I desperately wanted to see before heading out to Europe. It was so much fun, I hadn't seen Winnie since AX '06, so it was great hanging out with her and Adrian again. And OMG her engagement ring is so gorgeous!

Saturday was the big day. Eric's oldest sister, Caroline, and her husband Brian arrived at the house, as well as his mother's brothers' Case and Rick, and their wives's, Mimi to Case, and Janet to Rick. Case and Mimi's son David and his friend Alex arrived the night before, but we didn't meet them until Saturday. I'm being super specific with Eric's family because it is HUGE, and I want to make this so detailed to be understandable and put significance to the names. After lots of greeting, lunch, and some briefing on the trip by Mieke (Eric's mom) who had everything arranged down to a "T", we all were off to the airport!

Not much can be said about the airport and flight. It was just over 6 hours from Ontario to Amsterdam thanks to the trade winds. Once in Amsterdam, we made our way through the massive airport to our gate for our flight to Marseilles. We left Ontario at about 13:00 and arrived in Amsterdam around 6:00. Our flight to Marseilles was quick but as we landed the views were breathtaking. In the EU, once you go through customs in one country, you can fly to any other country in the EU without having to go through customs. So when we landed in Marseilles, it was a quick de-plane. We then waited for the huge party of Smitts (Eric's mother's family) to arrive.

Because Eric's family was such a huge part, and perhaps my favorite part, of this trip, I'm going to be explaining them a lot. So, to get some things clear, the Smitts are Eric's mother's (Mieke) family. They're all from the Netherlands, but moved to Australia. 4 of Mieke's 5 brothers were on this trip, Mieke is the only girl. Of the two brother's I had met at this point, Case and Rick, both had moved to Canada. Rick, the youngest, and his wife Janet, live about an hour and a half north-ish of Burlington, Ontario. Mieke's brother Case and his family, Mimi and their two sons, of which only one (David) came on the trip, are from Quebec City. Eric's sister Natalie and her family live in Vancouver. Eric's oldest sister Caroline and her husband Brian live in another suburb of Ontario. All of Eric's father's (Marc) family live in France, so I hadn't met any of them at this point. His family is huge, and nearly all of them were a huge part of the whole trip, so trying to differentiate each person to make you all understand the grand nature of this trip is important to me, because, like I said, it was all of them that really made this trip out of this world for me.

I'll continue the escapade in the next entry. But, of course, I have some pictures to share!
( Departure and Arrival )

Okay, part II will be driving from Marseilles to Le Brusc and my first day in the French Riviera.

I've been back for over a month and I've been in total denial about going through anything.

For that reason I have no thoughts or pictures to really post yet. They're still filed away in my mind, which is completely blown away. I'm also a total bleeding vagina about not going to both SDCC and D*C, and hate you bastards who did both. My brother went to SDCC and was given a Battlestar Galactica Props catalog from the auctions. It's very nice. Everything Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer wore is significantly more of a fortune than anything Mary McDonald wore. I find this humoring.

See, proof of my denial: I talk about nerdy things when I went to Europe for 2 weeks.

I'm off to France!

So basically all today consisted of taking lots of planes, killing time and my laptop's battery. I left for the San Diego airport at 9:30am and arrived in Toronto at 12:00 am.

Nothing eventful happened on the flights. What's awesome though is I get to hang out with Winnie on Friday! I am really really looking forward to that's since I haven't seen her since like 2005.

Once I got here we went over the excursions Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines hold during this cruise and have chosen the ones we think we're going to do. But tomorrow/later today we will all work it out and book them for sure. The one we're pretty 100% on is the Athens tour and Archaeological museum trip. Once it's booked I'll tell you guys about it.

No pictures yet seeing is how it was all airports today. But yay! On Saturday I'll be in Europe! I just hope I get to see Harry Potter before I go XD;;;

Two more days until I leave for my super surreal Europe trip!!! *-*

So recently my mom had had enough with our local news paper and canceled her subscription. As a result, I've been getting sales calls from them "trying to win back our patronage".

Best way to put off a sales call:
"I'm sorry, we're no longer interested in receiving your paper due to the severe and constant misrepresentation of City employee's salary and benefit."

Poor woman had no idea what to say.

Farrah Fawcett died today too. And I have to say, I care juuuuuust slightly more about her death than Micheal Jackson's.

It baffles me that people are freaking out about that, well, freak dying when this country, and the world, is in a 10 foot pile of shit.

Maybe it's a nice distraction for those people who've lost their jobs because wallstreet assraped our country. Seems stupid to me.

Anyway, have a picture of me in a cute pink dress! ( DUCKLIPS! )

I hate life so much right now.

I'm just happy I get the most awesome clients when doing commissions.

just fuck everything else.

Folding freashly washed tulle is whatever higher power you believe in's way of tortureing garment makers.

OMG please to never fold cleanly washed tulle again.