So we're pretty lazy about posting stuff...mostly cause it's hot and the internet is slow and in unairconditioned, stuffy closets.
We are in Agra, which is surprisingly nice. We just spent the evening drinking beers, eating and looking at the taj mahal, hundreds of kites, parrots, monkeys and trained pigeons all from a rooftop. Earlier today we visited Agra fort where the emperor once played board games on a huge floor using dancing girls as pieces. There were also lots of harem areas.
Before getting here we celebrated Dave's birthday in a $30 hotel room for 2 nights. Fancy us! The hotel also had a pool, a crazy rabbit, numerous adorable puppies, no other guests and a staff of about 70.
Earlier, in jodhpur we were again asked to be in a bollywood movie, twice! even told that it was a shahrukh khan film (which kim disputed because she's pretty sure he's not filming at the moment...) Regardless, we took all the requests as a sign (and had no other afternoon plans) and went. As soon as the guy from the movie came to pick us up at the hotel, kim knew it was a real deal because his badge was from YASH RAJ FILMS!!!!!!!! (this is a big deal apparently) Anyhow, it was a pretty big production. We got a big free lunch, sat outside in the scorching heat for a couple of hours with a lot of those weird types who travel to India, and then got to be in the film. in fact, we were the star extras of the day and even filmed a scene with the star. Our only regret was not getting a picture with him. So...look forward to Shaadi Mubarak this Diwali season, potentially featuring either dave's knee or kim's cleavage.
April 20, 2010
April 13, 2010
Three Countries, Two Days
Flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong was diverted to Taipei due to a medical emergency, so we added another country to the trip. I'm pretty sure I saw Taipei 101 while we were landing, or at least I will forever say I did. Becasue of that we missed our connection to Mumbai and were forced to live it up at the best airport hotel in the world 24 hours (a photo will come later which will make this funnyish). So, with our free day in Hong Kong we went into town and saw fish that were filleted but still had beating hearts and moving gills. Pretty appetizing. We also rode massive out door escelators and made all of our belongings smell like those steamed buns you get for dim sum.
We finally got to India at like 2am on Sunday.
Despite the fantastic wine and move selection, on 24 or so hours spent on Cathay Pacific I was disappointinly called sir only once (see last post).
I made up for this in my first hour in India where I was called sir about 27,000 times.
Also in our steriotypical first day we: visited Hindu shrines, were asked to pose for pictures with an indian family, were asked to be extras in a bollywood movie, were unexpectidly bindi'd, saw a man draging a woman by her hair into the middle of an intersection, saw some cows.
Now we're in Udaipur. Its HOT, but its like a dry hot soo. Opening the window in a taxi feels like you're putting your face up to a hairdryer.
kim sends her love.
photos when not lazy.
*Fun Fact: I always thought the wheel on the India flag it was a Karma wheel or something Hindu, but it is actually Ghandi's spinning wheel, and the idea of manual labour bringing people together.
We finally got to India at like 2am on Sunday.
Despite the fantastic wine and move selection, on 24 or so hours spent on Cathay Pacific I was disappointinly called sir only once (see last post).
I made up for this in my first hour in India where I was called sir about 27,000 times.
Also in our steriotypical first day we: visited Hindu shrines, were asked to pose for pictures with an indian family, were asked to be extras in a bollywood movie, were unexpectidly bindi'd, saw a man draging a woman by her hair into the middle of an intersection, saw some cows.
Now we're in Udaipur. Its HOT, but its like a dry hot soo. Opening the window in a taxi feels like you're putting your face up to a hairdryer.
kim sends her love.
photos when not lazy.
*Fun Fact: I always thought the wheel on the India flag it was a Karma wheel or something Hindu, but it is actually Ghandi's spinning wheel, and the idea of manual labour bringing people together.
April 6, 2010
homeless unemployed deedmontonized repackingfullnessless
Welcome to the post celebrating prefixes and suffixes.
So we have been in Vancouver for just about a week and are feeling almost recovered from moving, my !000% least favorite task in the universe. I guess I have moved about six times in the past 5 years, and while I try to own nothing, Kim somehow manages to collect more and more ikea goods.
Because we were moving everything one way from Edmonton to Kim's parents' basement, we determined the most affordable way to do this was for me to fly to Vancouver, drive Kim's father's suburban 13h back to Edmonton and then drive back to Vancouver a week later. Crossing the Rockies twice was in the span of a week and a bit was great, although listening to stories on cd passes the time much faster than stories on girlfriend. I kid. If you're ever inclined, the southern route, via banff and calgary, is way more entertaining than going on the yellowhead through jasper. Both routes feature a number of fine energy drink and Dorito establishments, however, only on the southern route did we almost hit a big horn sheep.
Speaking of which, I sawed these animals:
PEOPLE
MULE DEER
CATS !!
BIG HORN SHEEP!!!
(over kim's shoulder... the more impressive male one almost hit our car and I didn't want to risk getting rammed for a photo)
COWS!!!
Anyways, we now believe we have everything in order to fly out Thursday afternoon. We're flying to Mumbai via Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, for which I have very high expectations (I expect to be refered to as "sir" no less than 20 times over the 20 or so hours of flying - will keep you updated).
The past few days have been going around buying stuff to take with us. I got my phone unlocked so in the future I may post a string of 27 or so digits which may connect people to my pocket. Kim bought a pair of pants that cost $70. $70 !!
I mean she's only taking like 2 pairs for 3 mos. but really.
I plan to wear nothing but shorts and fancy knock-off software.
davis
So we have been in Vancouver for just about a week and are feeling almost recovered from moving, my !000% least favorite task in the universe. I guess I have moved about six times in the past 5 years, and while I try to own nothing, Kim somehow manages to collect more and more ikea goods.
Because we were moving everything one way from Edmonton to Kim's parents' basement, we determined the most affordable way to do this was for me to fly to Vancouver, drive Kim's father's suburban 13h back to Edmonton and then drive back to Vancouver a week later. Crossing the Rockies twice was in the span of a week and a bit was great, although listening to stories on cd passes the time much faster than stories on girlfriend. I kid. If you're ever inclined, the southern route, via banff and calgary, is way more entertaining than going on the yellowhead through jasper. Both routes feature a number of fine energy drink and Dorito establishments, however, only on the southern route did we almost hit a big horn sheep.
Speaking of which, I sawed these animals:
PEOPLE
MULE DEER
CATS !!
BIG HORN SHEEP!!!
(over kim's shoulder... the more impressive male one almost hit our car and I didn't want to risk getting rammed for a photo)
COWS!!!
Anyways, we now believe we have everything in order to fly out Thursday afternoon. We're flying to Mumbai via Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, for which I have very high expectations (I expect to be refered to as "sir" no less than 20 times over the 20 or so hours of flying - will keep you updated).
The past few days have been going around buying stuff to take with us. I got my phone unlocked so in the future I may post a string of 27 or so digits which may connect people to my pocket. Kim bought a pair of pants that cost $70. $70 !!
I mean she's only taking like 2 pairs for 3 mos. but really.
I plan to wear nothing but shorts and fancy knock-off software.
davis
March 12, 2010
Borders and Bicycles
Although we promised both our mothers we wouldn't go to the India-Pakistan border, I've been reading about trips from Amritsar to the official border ceremony in Wagah. Every description I've read about the ceremony mentions Monty Python because the ceremony looks like it was organized by the Ministry of Silly Walks. Appropriately, here is Michael Palin describing the ceremony:
While I am tempted to go see the border ceremony, I guarantee that I will not do this while in India:
So the title of this post doesn't actually make sense. I know motorcycles and bicycles are different things, but I like alliteration and cheesy/predictable travel blog post titles.
While I am tempted to go see the border ceremony, I guarantee that I will not do this while in India:
So the title of this post doesn't actually make sense. I know motorcycles and bicycles are different things, but I like alliteration and cheesy/predictable travel blog post titles.
March 10, 2010
And we're back!
After a four year break, the blog is back on! Dave is still handsome. Actually, because he's a guy he's probably considered more handsome now and will continue to do so as my appearance deteriorates. Lucky him.
While we have traveled since the last post, we haven't had another long sojourn with insane amounts of overnight travel. Until now that is! In exactly three weeks we will be leaving balmy Edmonton and, a week after that, will be heading to Mumbai. While we're pretty open ended about where we go between the flights we've booked, here is a map Dave made of the tentative plan:
View Chandni Chowk to China! (and Japan...) in a larger map
My goals for this trip include:
- stalking Shahrukh Khan.
- going to the filming locations of many Shahrukh Khan movies.
- doing my Shahrukh Khan impression at least once a day.
- annoying Dave (I think the previous three goals will help me achieve this).
In honour of this great plan, I give you my favourite Shahrukh Khan ad:
AND my favourite Shahrukh Khan YouTube tribute:
While we have traveled since the last post, we haven't had another long sojourn with insane amounts of overnight travel. Until now that is! In exactly three weeks we will be leaving balmy Edmonton and, a week after that, will be heading to Mumbai. While we're pretty open ended about where we go between the flights we've booked, here is a map Dave made of the tentative plan:
View Chandni Chowk to China! (and Japan...) in a larger map
My goals for this trip include:
- stalking Shahrukh Khan.
- going to the filming locations of many Shahrukh Khan movies.
- doing my Shahrukh Khan impression at least once a day.
- annoying Dave (I think the previous three goals will help me achieve this).
In honour of this great plan, I give you my favourite Shahrukh Khan ad:
AND my favourite Shahrukh Khan YouTube tribute:
June 27, 2006
Nastro Azzurro is a great italian beer
So we are in Rome now. We have been here for three days so far and we leave on thurday. Its been pretty good... except HOT. Like 45 degrees hot. We have needed a lot of cold showers just to cool off a bit... which is a good thing because the ENJOY PINK FLOYD Hostel has cold showers in abundance. You know... when i first realized that the name of this place was enjoy pink floyd... not just enjoy, it all made sense, because when i think of pink floyd's music i automatically think: poor plumbing. Yup, it has 4 showers. Two in the same room together (although only one has a curtain), one in a sepeatae bathroom, and one which was previously a hall closet, which someone stuck a glass door and some plasic tile on and called it a shower... oh but its cool cause they have a garbage bag blocking the lower half of the door so people just walking by cant totally see in (they can totally see in).
anyways, we are back on a high pasta diet... although i guess thats cool here
dave
anyways, we are back on a high pasta diet... although i guess thats cool here
dave
June 22, 2006
Here are some pictures...we are lazy
so we are in florence right now. it is hot. in the past few days we saw venice and cinque terre. sort of hot and quite hot respectively. italian women and salami likewise. i guess we will look at proceless works of art here or something. we will also shower a lot. the last place we were at timed our showers which is good to save the planet but kind of bad because it really cuts down the amount of time i have in which to catch diseases on my feet.
now photos...
ok photos later...the computer is not agreeing with the camera. well...at least now we can go outside and have a relaxing night of horn honking or angry italians...either wy the world cup is awesome.
thinking of you constantly
dave
now photos...
ok photos later...the computer is not agreeing with the camera. well...at least now we can go outside and have a relaxing night of horn honking or angry italians...either wy the world cup is awesome.
thinking of you constantly
dave
June 18, 2006
Czech me out (more good news, bad news)
Well the past four days we have been in Prague... the florence of bohemia. It has been really good, although suprisingly the most touristy place we have been so far. Walking downtown you would see hordes of tour guides holding up brightly coloured unbrellas so their group could follow them. It was pretty chaotic when it started to rain yesterday.
And because Prague has been so much fun it is time for another insalment of Kim and Dave's Travel Blog GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS (inspired by Jughead Jones)
You drink a delicious pilsner at one of the many old beer halls around the city
GOOD NEWS: The cheque is much less than you would have expected
BAD NEWS: THE CZECH GUY who just wont stop talking about why crowns are better than euros.... Sure they are Murgi....
When you have to pay for the hotel....
GOOD NEWS: you have no cash, but you say to the guy 'Can I just give you a Cheque'
BAD NEWS: The guy at the hotel gets angry and tells you that the slave trade is nothing to joke about.
There is an important soccer match being broadcast on a large screen downtown....
GOOD NEWS: Your girlfriend agrees to check it out with you.
BAD NEWS: When your girlfriend comes out of the bathroom with a face covered in Red Blue and White paint you understand that she thought you meant Czech it out...
It has been a long few days for kim.... i seriously got hundreds of these
we go to italy today.
dave
And because Prague has been so much fun it is time for another insalment of Kim and Dave's Travel Blog GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS (inspired by Jughead Jones)
You drink a delicious pilsner at one of the many old beer halls around the city
GOOD NEWS: The cheque is much less than you would have expected
BAD NEWS: THE CZECH GUY who just wont stop talking about why crowns are better than euros.... Sure they are Murgi....
When you have to pay for the hotel....
GOOD NEWS: you have no cash, but you say to the guy 'Can I just give you a Cheque'
BAD NEWS: The guy at the hotel gets angry and tells you that the slave trade is nothing to joke about.
There is an important soccer match being broadcast on a large screen downtown....
GOOD NEWS: Your girlfriend agrees to check it out with you.
BAD NEWS: When your girlfriend comes out of the bathroom with a face covered in Red Blue and White paint you understand that she thought you meant Czech it out...
It has been a long few days for kim.... i seriously got hundreds of these
we go to italy today.
dave
June 14, 2006
GERMANY
Ok... well we have now been in germany for about a week. Little known fact... there is a soccer tourny going on here right now. You might not notice from all the drunken polish, brazilian and ukranian people... i mean come on we all know mark pahuta...(or if you dont trust me... that guy is ukranian)
My favourite thing about germany is that i look like i could be german, so most people assume that i speak german. Its pretty funny with the world cup because there have been a few times when tourists come up to me and ask something in german, and i know that just before they were looking in their phrase book, and practicing real good to say the phrase correctly... and when i saw "nien deutch" i can see the disappointment in their eyes.
Its also kind of funny how english is the medium that all the different drunken natinalities use to converse. Also in berlin the entrance to the fan area is right beside the new holocaust momorial. Now i dont know if tail gating there is kosher (seriously no pun intended....) but theres a lot of tailgating goin on.
Anyways we were first in Cologne which was fun. It was the day before the world cup started so there were a lot of people with noise makers just trying to restrain themselves. I mean deep down you could tell they just wanted to shout "ECUADOR" or something but if nobody shouts back they might just look dumb.... but the flag cape is alwas in style. Its really weird... fans move in packs and shout cheers at each other all day... its like a middle aged male only frosh week.
After Cologne we went and stayed with our relatives Michael and Silka in Bonn. They knew that we had been eating a lot of pasta, so michael showed us many types of bratwerst and his home made lemoncello. I never knew home made booze could taste so good. We stayed with them for three days, and then flew to Berlin, where we met my cousin Karl and his girlfriend Carolyn for the first time. Berlin has been amazing....
unfortunatly i am running out of time. kim had to spend the first 20 mins of the hour checking for American Idol updates.... blame her.
women
dave
My favourite thing about germany is that i look like i could be german, so most people assume that i speak german. Its pretty funny with the world cup because there have been a few times when tourists come up to me and ask something in german, and i know that just before they were looking in their phrase book, and practicing real good to say the phrase correctly... and when i saw "nien deutch" i can see the disappointment in their eyes.
Its also kind of funny how english is the medium that all the different drunken natinalities use to converse. Also in berlin the entrance to the fan area is right beside the new holocaust momorial. Now i dont know if tail gating there is kosher (seriously no pun intended....) but theres a lot of tailgating goin on.
Anyways we were first in Cologne which was fun. It was the day before the world cup started so there were a lot of people with noise makers just trying to restrain themselves. I mean deep down you could tell they just wanted to shout "ECUADOR" or something but if nobody shouts back they might just look dumb.... but the flag cape is alwas in style. Its really weird... fans move in packs and shout cheers at each other all day... its like a middle aged male only frosh week.
After Cologne we went and stayed with our relatives Michael and Silka in Bonn. They knew that we had been eating a lot of pasta, so michael showed us many types of bratwerst and his home made lemoncello. I never knew home made booze could taste so good. We stayed with them for three days, and then flew to Berlin, where we met my cousin Karl and his girlfriend Carolyn for the first time. Berlin has been amazing....
unfortunatly i am running out of time. kim had to spend the first 20 mins of the hour checking for American Idol updates.... blame her.
women
dave
June 7, 2006
oberburgermeister
Well we spent a good week in paris. we saw everything. Dave officially has a new favourite painting. its called the mona lisa. its really cool cause shes kind of smiling and you dont know why but later on you find out its cause she knew jesus had a kid.
now were in strasbourg...still on annoying french keyboards.....
yesterday we saw some of daves family across the river in germany. it was a lot like crossing the bridge from costa rica to panama again...except this bridge didnt have large gaps and on the other side everyone spoke german...i dont get that language...dont know how were going to do for the next week
anyways the visit was amazing and we had the first hot non pasta meal since arriving in europe
tomorrow we go to cologne for some sausage and sauerkraut...kim cant wait...she keeps talking about how her father used to make sausage
anyways heres some pictures from europe so far...first chance to get some up
now were in strasbourg...still on annoying french keyboards.....
yesterday we saw some of daves family across the river in germany. it was a lot like crossing the bridge from costa rica to panama again...except this bridge didnt have large gaps and on the other side everyone spoke german...i dont get that language...dont know how were going to do for the next week
anyways the visit was amazing and we had the first hot non pasta meal since arriving in europe
tomorrow we go to cologne for some sausage and sauerkraut...kim cant wait...she keeps talking about how her father used to make sausage
anyways heres some pictures from europe so far...first chance to get some up
June 2, 2006
THREE REASONS WHY DAVE WAS A HERO TONIGHT
#1- Whilst walking he saw the cops coming and quickly alerted all pee-ers about it
#2 when he got on a bus he saw that the person before him had left a fanny pack aboard the bus. Right away he took it to the driver who opened it to shoz it ha a digital camera....Dave was happy it was not a bomb like the driver thought........
#3 while crossing the street a lady dropped the leash for her yorkshire terrier. Dave and Kim saw the dog and waited for it to folloz the lady. it did not. Eventually Dave grabbed the leash and the dog and ran across the seine yelling to the lady who had no idea that she had forgotten about her dog two blocks ago.
-kim fell asleep crying about the dog and how it would have stood on the corner for a week...
yorkies suck
rags excluded
dave
#2 when he got on a bus he saw that the person before him had left a fanny pack aboard the bus. Right away he took it to the driver who opened it to shoz it ha a digital camera....Dave was happy it was not a bomb like the driver thought........
#3 while crossing the street a lady dropped the leash for her yorkshire terrier. Dave and Kim saw the dog and waited for it to folloz the lady. it did not. Eventually Dave grabbed the leash and the dog and ran across the seine yelling to the lady who had no idea that she had forgotten about her dog two blocks ago.
-kim fell asleep crying about the dog and how it would have stood on the corner for a week...
yorkies suck
rags excluded
dave
Crazy..... I mean 2 months ago i played a costa rican football game.... and yesterday i saw the Notre Dame.....
So we are in paris now for a week and their key boards are weird so i may keep this short. We are staying at this really nice ladys house in a great part of town. she watches a lot of pets. kim hardly ever wants to leave. Since being here we have seen a lot of sites... and eaten a lot of bread.... and cheese... like its the meat beans and rice of europe.
Getting here was fun. we took a 345 bus to the airport and then a plane, so we figured we would sleep in the bus... unfortunatly they had to wax the terminal floor so they kicked us out at 1130 so we sat outside... also spanish drunks LOVE kim... they came over to us and started telling us their life stories in catalonian... we told one we were from toronto and he spent the next hour naming north american cities he knew... with breaks where he would say " no cerveza " and shake his arms violently.
we have spent a lot of time in paris seeing priceless works of art. We saw the lovre... man people really like that da vinci code movie... at the two paintings from it there were massive lines... also a LOT of people taking pictures of every single piece.... like not even looking but just picture, picture, picture...
but my favourite art gallery people have to be the video camera type... they some times take 3 mins of ofe painting... sot like it moves but just so they can look at it later... or the ones who do running commentary... which is awesome in a museum... just talking about the painting or the room they are in. In one of the Napoleon III rooms one guy said to the camera " all you need is a flat screen TV and it would be perfect..." He then smiled, self asured that he was hillarious. Kim and i both felt warm inside.
Anyways got to go booze some cheap wine while the boozin's cheap
dave/kimberly
Getting here was fun. we took a 345 bus to the airport and then a plane, so we figured we would sleep in the bus... unfortunatly they had to wax the terminal floor so they kicked us out at 1130 so we sat outside... also spanish drunks LOVE kim... they came over to us and started telling us their life stories in catalonian... we told one we were from toronto and he spent the next hour naming north american cities he knew... with breaks where he would say " no cerveza " and shake his arms violently.
we have spent a lot of time in paris seeing priceless works of art. We saw the lovre... man people really like that da vinci code movie... at the two paintings from it there were massive lines... also a LOT of people taking pictures of every single piece.... like not even looking but just picture, picture, picture...
but my favourite art gallery people have to be the video camera type... they some times take 3 mins of ofe painting... sot like it moves but just so they can look at it later... or the ones who do running commentary... which is awesome in a museum... just talking about the painting or the room they are in. In one of the Napoleon III rooms one guy said to the camera " all you need is a flat screen TV and it would be perfect..." He then smiled, self asured that he was hillarious. Kim and i both felt warm inside.
Anyways got to go booze some cheap wine while the boozin's cheap
dave/kimberly
May 29, 2006
its not ugly....its just flat out gaudi (kim roles her eyes...jajajajaja)
Well we have been in spain for about a week now and things have been amazing. It was kind of weird because in a lot of ways it is similar, for example people speak the same language.... alothough in spain everyone seems to understand what we say instead of getting the one person in the store who speaks english to help us. This made Madrid AMAZING. The people were so nice and the city was amazing. When we arrived in barcelona it was the same thing... until we realized that people here dont speak spanish... they speak catolinian.. which is different
anyways no time to talk.. only like 10 mins left at internet cafe... fly to paris tomorow... talk more there
anyways no time to talk.. only like 10 mins left at internet cafe... fly to paris tomorow... talk more there
May 25, 2006
10 things i love about europe
1. flushing toilet paper
i'll be honest when i first got here i didnt even need it but i flushed a peice aynyways... just out of 5 months of spite.... TAKE THAT COSTA RICA.... WOOOOOOOO
2. I aint no gringo no more
Yup...now I'm just a dumb loud american
3. olives
sure missed those. man they got good olives here
4. people understand me when i speak spanish
turns out in costa rica they just pretended they didn't. you know the whole time i knew i was fluent but people didn't treat me like i was. now people treat me like the bilingual person i am...or they just recognize what i'm pointing at...
5. priceless works of art
i asked how much they're worth and someone said they're priceless...which brings me to a new section of this blog called "GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS" (taken from a judhead jones comic book)
good news - youre tired and you find a bench to sit on at the modern art museum
bad news - the bench was the art
good news - you intelligently tell your girlfriend that you think the sculpture of the sleeping man is hideous
bad news - the sleeping man is a sleeping security guard who wakes upon hearing your insult
good news - you need to go to go to the bathroom and you find a urinal conveniently placed on the wall of the gallery
bad news....good news actually...you appopriately expressed your opinion about the piece. you too are an artist.
6. chorizo
thats some good salami
7. don quixote
he's everywhere! can't get enough of that mad monk!
8. wine is cheap...
wine is cheap...
wine is cheap...
9. the women....just KIDDING kim....i love you!...(but seriously...the women!)
10. the sun DOESN'T set at 6pm...who knew that the day didn't only last from only 6am to 6pm!
Peace,
Dave plus Kim (who typed the parts without spelling mistakes)
DAVE IS AWSOME
i'll be honest when i first got here i didnt even need it but i flushed a peice aynyways... just out of 5 months of spite.... TAKE THAT COSTA RICA.... WOOOOOOOO
2. I aint no gringo no more
Yup...now I'm just a dumb loud american
3. olives
sure missed those. man they got good olives here
4. people understand me when i speak spanish
turns out in costa rica they just pretended they didn't. you know the whole time i knew i was fluent but people didn't treat me like i was. now people treat me like the bilingual person i am...or they just recognize what i'm pointing at...
5. priceless works of art
i asked how much they're worth and someone said they're priceless...which brings me to a new section of this blog called "GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS" (taken from a judhead jones comic book)
good news - youre tired and you find a bench to sit on at the modern art museum
bad news - the bench was the art
good news - you intelligently tell your girlfriend that you think the sculpture of the sleeping man is hideous
bad news - the sleeping man is a sleeping security guard who wakes upon hearing your insult
good news - you need to go to go to the bathroom and you find a urinal conveniently placed on the wall of the gallery
bad news....good news actually...you appopriately expressed your opinion about the piece. you too are an artist.
6. chorizo
thats some good salami
7. don quixote
he's everywhere! can't get enough of that mad monk!
8. wine is cheap...
wine is cheap...
wine is cheap...
9. the women....just KIDDING kim....i love you!...(but seriously...the women!)
10. the sun DOESN'T set at 6pm...who knew that the day didn't only last from only 6am to 6pm!
Peace,
Dave plus Kim (who typed the parts without spelling mistakes)
DAVE IS AWSOME
May 22, 2006
the only things we havent eaten are the rest of the coffee, salt and sugar... gonna be a great lunch
Well this is our last day here, and the past 24 hours have been full of last minute stuff to get ready...
actually thats a lie. for the past two weeks kim has been writing list after list of things to do, and it got to the point on thursday that we had nothing left to do before leaving. NOTHING. It was kind of strange having no tasks to complete. We felt lost and aimless. So, first we saw da vinci code, and the sad thing is i am not sure if the yelling teenagers and the crying baby in the theatre ruined anything. The next day we bought a screw to fix our laundry machine, even though we probably didnt have to, and then went to the mall. It was free comic book day, so we waited in line for an hour to get a free comic book. It sort of felt like a waste of time but i thought 'what else are we gonna do.' Kim was actually kind of upset that the line took her away from her new hobby: trying to figure out the combination of her parents luggage lock. She couldn't remember it, and she thought there were only 10,000 possibilities, so why not just go through. She figured she would hit it eventually. By early this morning she was at 9800, and was feeling pretty low. I asked her if she had checked 9999, and she said she had. So, she just kept on trucking until she got to the end with no luck. Before she started again at 0001 i asked her if she had checked 0000. she said of course (idiot) and went to check it again. it was 0000. Well, i guess the upside is that it kept her mind distracted and not talking about the last time she went to europe (by the way if you ever see her ask her if they ever took extra pastries from a hotel, and made it both their breakfast AND their lunch.... ohhh she's so bad...)
So, in leaving Costa Rica i leave you with my favourite bust of all.
I love it because it looks exactly like "the watcher" from marvel comic books. It is actually this guy who helped develop penicillin from snake venom or something, but the bust sits on a 10 foot stand and is then looking down with these empty eyes on everyone going past.... watching...
speaking of which we woke up at 430 this morning and the only thing on TV was 90210... it was the episode when brenda and donna returned home after a summer in paris... it made me thing of all of you
also brandon started dating this girl but totally dumped her cause she kept on making racist jokes. i really learned something.
love dave and his lovely girlfriend kim
actually thats a lie. for the past two weeks kim has been writing list after list of things to do, and it got to the point on thursday that we had nothing left to do before leaving. NOTHING. It was kind of strange having no tasks to complete. We felt lost and aimless. So, first we saw da vinci code, and the sad thing is i am not sure if the yelling teenagers and the crying baby in the theatre ruined anything. The next day we bought a screw to fix our laundry machine, even though we probably didnt have to, and then went to the mall. It was free comic book day, so we waited in line for an hour to get a free comic book. It sort of felt like a waste of time but i thought 'what else are we gonna do.' Kim was actually kind of upset that the line took her away from her new hobby: trying to figure out the combination of her parents luggage lock. She couldn't remember it, and she thought there were only 10,000 possibilities, so why not just go through. She figured she would hit it eventually. By early this morning she was at 9800, and was feeling pretty low. I asked her if she had checked 9999, and she said she had. So, she just kept on trucking until she got to the end with no luck. Before she started again at 0001 i asked her if she had checked 0000. she said of course (idiot) and went to check it again. it was 0000. Well, i guess the upside is that it kept her mind distracted and not talking about the last time she went to europe (by the way if you ever see her ask her if they ever took extra pastries from a hotel, and made it both their breakfast AND their lunch.... ohhh she's so bad...)
So, in leaving Costa Rica i leave you with my favourite bust of all.
I love it because it looks exactly like "the watcher" from marvel comic books. It is actually this guy who helped develop penicillin from snake venom or something, but the bust sits on a 10 foot stand and is then looking down with these empty eyes on everyone going past.... watching...
speaking of which we woke up at 430 this morning and the only thing on TV was 90210... it was the episode when brenda and donna returned home after a summer in paris... it made me thing of all of you
also brandon started dating this girl but totally dumped her cause she kept on making racist jokes. i really learned something.
love dave and his lovely girlfriend kim
May 20, 2006
I can't to get off this rock...and when I say rock I mean isthmus
Well Costa Rica is starting to get old, so on Monday we are flying to Europe, specifically Madrid. From there we are going to go around spain, then go to france and then germany.... well really i could give you an hour by hour breakdown of what we are doing (got to love traveling with a girl who likes to plan...) but i am too lazy right now. Mostly we are seeing everything and doing anything you are supposed to do. I expect to return home with great memories and even greater friends. No but like seriously for real...we both brought tim hortons travel mugs to to help make this happen.... its like putting up a real canadian flag..... lol
So right now we are trying desperatly to eat all the food we have. So far this week we have polished off a bag and a half of beans and a pretty big bag of rice. Only one bag of beans, a bag of brown sugar and about eight packets of soup left to go. Its going to be a fun night.
Anyways, Monday at 4:30 our time we head off... its a 12 hour flight. I cant wait to finally get some quality time with my girlfriend.
Be wellness today for you all now....and the future
So right now we are trying desperatly to eat all the food we have. So far this week we have polished off a bag and a half of beans and a pretty big bag of rice. Only one bag of beans, a bag of brown sugar and about eight packets of soup left to go. Its going to be a fun night.
Anyways, Monday at 4:30 our time we head off... its a 12 hour flight. I cant wait to finally get some quality time with my girlfriend.
Be wellness today for you all now....and the future
May 15, 2006
More adaquite things about san jose
#7. The way people answer the phone.
Very few people here speak english... well at least way fewer than you would expect from a country with such a strong tourist base. But, regardless of this whenever people answer the phone they say "hello." not "buenos," or even some mispernounced form of "HOLA," but a full on english hello. This makes booking hotels kind of decieving.
#8 Jokes on the Bus
A lot of buses have those red light signs that flash different messages as you are driving on the bus. Sometimes they have news, other times a count down to the millenium (in english which i appreciate) and other times jokes. I dont understand a word of the jokes, but the part that is hillarious is that after the punch line they all say "jajajajajaja." Ok, i know that J is the H sound in spanish... but none the less its pretty funny to picture people in a group all saying jajajaja after a joke.
#9 Empanadas
Cant go wrong with an empanada.
Very few people here speak english... well at least way fewer than you would expect from a country with such a strong tourist base. But, regardless of this whenever people answer the phone they say "hello." not "buenos," or even some mispernounced form of "HOLA," but a full on english hello. This makes booking hotels kind of decieving.
#8 Jokes on the Bus
A lot of buses have those red light signs that flash different messages as you are driving on the bus. Sometimes they have news, other times a count down to the millenium (in english which i appreciate) and other times jokes. I dont understand a word of the jokes, but the part that is hillarious is that after the punch line they all say "jajajajajaja." Ok, i know that J is the H sound in spanish... but none the less its pretty funny to picture people in a group all saying jajajaja after a joke.
#9 Empanadas
Cant go wrong with an empanada.
May 13, 2006
We went white water rafting... that really sums the whole entry up... read on only to kill time
So, we went white water rafting yesterday. It was fun. We saw 3 toucans... mostly the small ones but it was cool. On the trip is was just the two of us and two guides. One guide spoke perfect english and was from costa rica. The other, Octavian who controled our boat, could only say "Forwards," "Backwards," "Right," "Left," "Lets Go!," "Get Down" and "High Five" -which he always did by putting his paddle in the air for us to hit... its really more of a high paddle, but who am i to judge. I plan to write a song in which the only lyrics will be his english vocabulary. It was kind of funny becuse he was a Quebecer....
no.... not one of those bagel baking, tortierre eatin people from canada, but there is actually a native group here called Quebecers. He was really excited when he found out we were canadian, but then not as much when we said we weren't from quebec.
it didn't matter.... he didnt speak french anyways...
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this is a waterfall we stopped and hiked to/swam in... it was beautiful... like everything else in this stupid country...
only 8 days till europe
love
Dave
Ps. this blog entry is dedicated to our moms... HAPPY MOTHERS DAY...
PPSS. the photo is dedicated to octavian who is looking way tougher than us by not wearing a life jacket or helmet and standing on the waterfall... ah zut.
no.... not one of those bagel baking, tortierre eatin people from canada, but there is actually a native group here called Quebecers. He was really excited when he found out we were canadian, but then not as much when we said we weren't from quebec.
it didn't matter.... he didnt speak french anyways...
.
this is a waterfall we stopped and hiked to/swam in... it was beautiful... like everything else in this stupid country...only 8 days till europe
love
Dave
Ps. this blog entry is dedicated to our moms... HAPPY MOTHERS DAY...
PPSS. the photo is dedicated to octavian who is looking way tougher than us by not wearing a life jacket or helmet and standing on the waterfall... ah zut.
May 10, 2006
Things I love about Costa Rica (cont)
#5- Addresses
When I first got here I thought getting around would be easy because every city in Costa Rica has streets all divided on the same system of Calles and Avenidas, with even numbers on one side of central and odds on the other. The only problem with this though is that there are no street signs ANYWHERE. So even with the best map, you can never find your way without landmarks. So people in CR have dispenced with the names of streets entirely, and everything here is 100m from some landmark. So directions to places are only "100m south of the Subaru dealership", or even more logically, 100m south of the old subaru dealership. Its no problem if you dont know where the old subaru dealership was, because..... what the hell do you mean you dont know where the old subaru was... it was back where subaru was before where it is now...... the old one.... yes... OBVIOUSLY its the overgrown empty concrete lot covered in spray paint......
idiot.
#5 The Pile of Trash on our street
In most of Costa Rica garbage day is the day that you set your garbage on fire. At one hotel we were staying at we saw an employee early in the morning take all the garbage from the hotel in to the middle of a field, get some gas and dry palm franz, set the whole thing on fire..... and then go back inside, cause the only thing better than a burning pile of trash, is an unattended burning pile of trash. Also those fumes can kill ya.
San Jose, however, is one of the few places in the country with regular garbage service. The garbage at our appartment is picked up like twice a week, which makes the pile on our street that much more odd. It is this 3m long pile of all sorts of different types of trash thrown across the entire sidewalk. About every two weeks somebody from the city comes and cleans it up so you can walk on the sidewalk again, but then in a matter of days it is back again. Not only does this make no sense because of the regular garbage pick up in SJ, but it is also on the side walk beside an old abandoned building with nothing in it. It's not like it's a company trying to put out their trash or something.... but just people not wanting to throw stuff in the regular pick up and decided tha this is the place it will go... nope they want to put some gas on it and burn it themselves. I guess you can get country folk in the city... but you cant get the joy of burning trash out of the folk.....
its really kind of quaint when you think about it....
before you realize that you just stepped in a chicken carcass...
We were actually lucky this week and caught a rare glimpse of the pile actually on fire (obviously unattended). Usually we just see the trash stinking and carbon encrusted... some days you thank god you had your camera.
When I first got here I thought getting around would be easy because every city in Costa Rica has streets all divided on the same system of Calles and Avenidas, with even numbers on one side of central and odds on the other. The only problem with this though is that there are no street signs ANYWHERE. So even with the best map, you can never find your way without landmarks. So people in CR have dispenced with the names of streets entirely, and everything here is 100m from some landmark. So directions to places are only "100m south of the Subaru dealership", or even more logically, 100m south of the old subaru dealership. Its no problem if you dont know where the old subaru dealership was, because..... what the hell do you mean you dont know where the old subaru was... it was back where subaru was before where it is now...... the old one.... yes... OBVIOUSLY its the overgrown empty concrete lot covered in spray paint......
idiot.
#5 The Pile of Trash on our street
In most of Costa Rica garbage day is the day that you set your garbage on fire. At one hotel we were staying at we saw an employee early in the morning take all the garbage from the hotel in to the middle of a field, get some gas and dry palm franz, set the whole thing on fire..... and then go back inside, cause the only thing better than a burning pile of trash, is an unattended burning pile of trash. Also those fumes can kill ya.
San Jose, however, is one of the few places in the country with regular garbage service. The garbage at our appartment is picked up like twice a week, which makes the pile on our street that much more odd. It is this 3m long pile of all sorts of different types of trash thrown across the entire sidewalk. About every two weeks somebody from the city comes and cleans it up so you can walk on the sidewalk again, but then in a matter of days it is back again. Not only does this make no sense because of the regular garbage pick up in SJ, but it is also on the side walk beside an old abandoned building with nothing in it. It's not like it's a company trying to put out their trash or something.... but just people not wanting to throw stuff in the regular pick up and decided tha this is the place it will go... nope they want to put some gas on it and burn it themselves. I guess you can get country folk in the city... but you cant get the joy of burning trash out of the folk.....
its really kind of quaint when you think about it....
before you realize that you just stepped in a chicken carcass...
We were actually lucky this week and caught a rare glimpse of the pile actually on fire (obviously unattended). Usually we just see the trash stinking and carbon encrusted... some days you thank god you had your camera.
May 3, 2006
Turtles...
So this weekend we went to Tortuguero, a national park in the north east of CR. It was crazy. Our expectations going there were kind of low, but wow... it was good. The place is pretty remote, so we had to first take a 2 hour bus ride from SJ and then another hour bus from this small town into this HUGE banana plantation (you weren't allowed to take pictures in the plantation for some reason. i think they didnt want their competitors to know that they wrap their bananas in blue plastic bags... shhhh) and then another 2 hour boat ride through these little rivers until you got to the island. It was a lot like Bastimentos, the place where we went in Panama because there we no cars and just little dirt paths connecting everything in the village. Also cause it had europeans. Bloody euros get around. So we found this nice place on the ocean and didnt do much our first night, mostly because you cant swim in the ocean because it is apparently full of sharks there. 
The second day we rented a canoe for 12 bucks for the day and went paddling by ourselves all around the little rivers and canals in the park. It was crazy. We only saw two other groups of people all day. Alligators, however, we saw several groups of. Unfortunatly we only saw small ones, none of the big ones that jump into boats and eat 90 pound girlfriends. I could have been such a hero. But i guess its a good thing considering we were paddling a canoe and totally alone. We also saw monkeys, otters, tonnes of turtles and other wild stuff. It was hands down one of the coolest things we have done since we've been here.
Anyways... knowing we couldnt top that day and because, besides going on tours, there wasn't a huge amount more to do, so we headed home on Sunday. There is a whole long story talking about our bus ride home, but we have to go see scary movie iv, so i will just leave this picture now, and tell the story in person when i see you later. But oh... its a goodie...
daveandkim
ps. i think shaq is going to get an oscar for this role
The second day we rented a canoe for 12 bucks for the day and went paddling by ourselves all around the little rivers and canals in the park. It was crazy. We only saw two other groups of people all day. Alligators, however, we saw several groups of. Unfortunatly we only saw small ones, none of the big ones that jump into boats and eat 90 pound girlfriends. I could have been such a hero. But i guess its a good thing considering we were paddling a canoe and totally alone. We also saw monkeys, otters, tonnes of turtles and other wild stuff. It was hands down one of the coolest things we have done since we've been here.
Anyways... knowing we couldnt top that day and because, besides going on tours, there wasn't a huge amount more to do, so we headed home on Sunday. There is a whole long story talking about our bus ride home, but we have to go see scary movie iv, so i will just leave this picture now, and tell the story in person when i see you later. But oh... its a goodie...
daveandkim
ps. i think shaq is going to get an oscar for this role
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