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    I had a great birthday this year, and though I am a bit late posting about it, I will now. My friends Anwyn and Charlotte (her blog) came and we celebrated by going downtown and getting sushi from our lovely local sushi store 'Matsu sushi' (This sounds like an advertisement) I think I might have gotten Charlotte hooked on sushi-sorry not sorry. Anyway, these are some pictures of what I got for my birthday and some of what we did (unfortunately I neglected to take any pictures whilst downtown as I am a lazy ass, but I'm sure these will do).

The top box thing is my new beautiful tape player from Anwyn and inside is the mixtape her and Charlotte made.

 Me wearing shirt and bow from Charlotte and my new Nikon (gosh it's magnificent) from me, my parents and my grandparents. (Thanks to them for helping me afford it)

Lovely new tapes (Bottom three from Anwyn, top a combined effort from Anwyn and Charlotte)

Our leftover sushi. 

      I also got some buttons, sparkly nail polish, a spatula (???why???) and some pretty purdy yellow spotted tights.

New rats!

       I recently got two new baby rats, and since I haven't blogged in a while due to school and the fact that I still don't have a good camera so I have to keep borrowing my mum's, I though I'd show you. Their names are Nico (albino) and Hazel (black). I went with my friend Talia and bought these little girls from PJ's pets. It's  ironic that I wanted such fancy rats (dumbo hooded) and I ended up with a white and black pair of normal ones. (Who are very sweet but not particularly interesting-looking appart from the red eyes on Nico and Hazel's white belly.) Anyway, I'll probably make another post soon.

Catching up on what Happened in September

   So yea. We went to a beautiful place called Montreal and stayed with one of my parents' french friends from Vancouver. TRY SAYING THAT THREE TIMES FAST.   The architecture was amazing, I think the first and second pictures demonstrate that. The next picture is of the little shop. Well that's what it was called, but man, it wasn't that little. Pictures number 3 and 6 are of it, and my face in number 3. :P
Number 4 is at the house we were staying in, it was great! A billion little doodads everywhere, it was so cool just looking at it. Number 5 is while we were walking around in a park near the biodome, number 7 was inside it. The rest of the pictures are just my backyard.
PS. Like my new blog design?

Ottawa

I went to Ottawa a couple of days ago. I stayed with my uncle Doug, aunt Evelyn, and my cousins Felix and Gabriel. We went to the museum of natural history and looked at the exhibits for ocean life, birds and minerals. We had a lovely time even though I consumed about six pieces of yummy cheesecake. Here are some pictures for you. I took the pictures on my ipod, so they are pretty craptacular.

My whale stamp. If I had to get a tattoo (which I have no intention to do), then this would be it.

Stairway to heaven. Kind of. 

Puffin. Yes. A puffin.

Bird show. I felt bad for all those dead birds. Thinking 

that people are putting carcasses on display kind of grosses me out.

This bird is male. Can you believe that? 

I way 23 ducks.

and 1833 hummingbirds.

Bubble rock. I thought it looked pretty darn cool.

The building from the outside.

I spent around fifteen minutes trying to get a decent photo of this fish with my crappy Ipod Camera.

A Rainy Day

I am extremely behind in blogging lately {I lost my camera} and I am going to do a lot of posts in one day because I just found it. This post is actually dated in late june.  

 The dots in these pictures are raindrops. They look really cool in photos.

The Gilmour Street Garage Sale

Every year Gilmour, a street that my friend lives on, hosts a GIGANTUSAURUS garage sale. Yay for them! Garage sales are epic. Especially for me, because they tend to sell vintage fashion and cool antique stuff, such as records, that I absolutely love. I was there with my friends Augusta, Charlotte, Anwyn and Maggie. Charlotte, Anwyn and Augusta were playing some music to make some cash, while me and Maggie walked around seeking out wonderful things in the garage sale. Here are some beautiful pictures.

 Owl stuffies!

Drums and Chorlottes family's garage sale.

Photo fail of my loot, Aka; Three singles (The Beatles and the Police),  Union Jack beany bear, nail polish, hub, vintagey-looking shirt, briefcase and suitcase.

Try the strange juice!+Bob Dylan's birthday

Went downtown with Anwyn after the garage sale. We went into our downtown '60s pop culture store, Fab, to get prints. The guy who works there {I think his name is John, or the much more awesome title 'fab guy'} After talking to fab guy and looking in his shop we headed down to Min's, our local asian food store, and bought lunch which was, by the way, spring rolls and strange-looking good-tasting strawberry-flavored Alo Vera juice. Then we had a photo shoot with the juice and later headed back to my house, where we watched a spandex-clad David Bowie hold a small child in the movie 'Labourinth'.  

Anwyn models the strange juice.

Close up, the strange juice looked quite interesting.

On Sunday, me, Anwyn, and her two brothers, Rhys and Theo celebrated Bob Dylan's Birthday by eating cake and watching Concert for Bangladesh for the millionth time. Theo watched us make the chocolate zucchini cake very closely. {Theo is 4 years old}

Theo, intoxicated by cake icing.

Washago, the small town near Orillia that you probably haven't heard of

I went to my Nana's house last weekend. She lives in Washago, an extremely small town {by extremely, I mean you can walk through every street in their downtown in five minutes} that is mostly inhabited by cottage-dwellers and squirrels. I went up on the long weekend, stayed in Washago for two days and then headed to Orillia, Washago's more known neighbor. {Also the home of my grandparents}. We went up to celebrate my Nana's birthday and see my Aunt and Uncle, Richard and Ann, and their two sons, Ming and Kai. Ming and Kai are both roughly around my age. While in Washago we had our first swim of the year=really really freaking cold, several journeys to the nearby candy shop to blow all our money on candy bars, and hours of ukulele playing. In Orillia we went to the lake and had a swim and ice cream before heading back home.

Monkey bars in a park where we walked with my grandpa.

Just thought this picture was interesting.

My cousin singing with his new awesome orange ukulele.

Adventures in Ottawa

I went to see my uncle Doug and his family in Ottawa last saturday. I like Ottawa. The architecture is so pretty, and the downtown is really cool. We went to a record shop and a music store walking the dog, and I got 'Sgt. Pepper' on vinyl. Guess what I found in the sleeve other than the record? A vintage fanfare Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper cutouts' page from the sixties. SO COOL! I won't cut it out, though. I might frame it. Guess what my uncle has? A mandolin! I can play three chords on it now. Mandolins are fun.

I look really funny in this pic.

This was the music store.

Huge tree! I didn't know they could get so big!

This photo is sideways, but look at that house! 

So cool.

The bounty of inside-the-sleeve!

P.S Guess who charged their camera?

Earworm for today is:

I can tell that we are gonna be friends by the white stripes