ThanksGiving....(Canadian)

Just had a crazy long weekend. It started friday night with Kelsey putting on a fashion show for her shop Sitka at the Fortune Sound Club(Big Deal). Yours truly helped by participating in said show. It was rather nerve racking, but really fun. New experiences everyday. Pictures of the show will surface soon. Saturday "morning"(noon)  was followed up with a trip to Steveston Village with Kelsey and her mom, which is an old cannery row, wharf, and fisherman's market. We followed that up with a trip to the B.C. Lions game (Canadian football), which was super fun. Sunday, Thanksgiving breakfast with Kelsey's mom and hike around Lighthouse Park in North Van. Monday was my first paid day of working in about two months. Did a job for TOMS footwear raising awareness sight loss in third world countries. Had Thanksgiving dinner at Kelsey's dad's house Monday night....phew. Killer weekend.

Sitka Fashion Show.

"Models".

Steveston.

 Steveston Fish Market. Fish straight off the boat.

 

 Every cow had a white stripe down the middle. Fishing village with cows....kind of weird.  

 B.C. Lions Football.

Kels and mom. :)

Thanksgiving breakfast at kelsey's mom's house.

 Lighthouse Park.

 North Van to the left, Stanley Park and Downtown Vancouver middle.

 Kelsey's mom's place. I was messing with a new pano app on my phone. Pretty cool.

 Downtown Van.

 Work with Kelsey and our friend Karen. Kits Beach.

 Karen. Granville Island.

 English Bay.

 Convention Center and Olympic Torch.

Karen and Kelsey. English Bay.

STICK X POKES

Stick and Pokes I've done for my friends as well as ones I've done on myself. Stick and poke tattoo: essentially you take....Sharp pointy thing(i.e. sewing needle, tattoo needle), India ink OR tattoo ink, a thousand little precise stabs to your skin and you get a life long memory. :)

 

 

 

The first I'd ever done on someone else. Kevin.

 

Kevin.

Rico. "Diamond by Diamond"

 

 

 

Kat.

 

    I did the Compass as well as the upsidedown cross on myself.

Anchor for Louie T.

 

Rose I did on myself. (2.5 hours in the ditch of my arm)

 

Skateboard/Snowboard. Eric. This one was sweet to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



North Van Hiking

I'm trying real hard to get recovered as quick as possible while still being mindful of my injury. Been walking with Kelsey daily as well as doing physio regularly and I've jogged a couple of times for a short distance, which is rad. Went hiking yesterday somewhere up in North Van. Feels good to be active again.

 

 

Post hike reward.

 



SPRING X GLACIER EDIT

 

Got lucky enough to have some friends catch some of my tricks on film....

 

Vimeo: -SPRING X GLACIER EDIT-

 

 

 

Tofino 2.0

OK.....Finally got Blogger to coroporate. So I went on a five day adventure to Tofino, which is on the west coast of Vancouver Island(Google it if you would like). Its one of the only places to surf in B.C. and not quite what you would picture when you thought of Canada. It was so beautiful and we got extremely lucky with the weather! 

 

 Cox Bay. Craig and Cory essentially surfed here everyday.

 

Cox Bay. 

Cox Bay.

 

I mentioned to a local I wanted to camp on the beach(illegal) and he reccomened a spot not far from our legal campground. We checked it out before the sun came down.

So at eleven at night, I went on a solo mission to trek back to the beach under the cover of the night. This is what it looked like when I woke up.

 

 My rad camp spot.

 

The beach where the campground was.

 

We did a thirty minute hike on an illegal trail that led down to a secluded beach. Panoramas are below....Radar Beach. Awesome.

 

 Long Beach...a nice nightly hangout.

 

 Craig and Cory. Long Beach.

 

 Craig.

 

Chaka.

 

Ailsa, Cory, Craig. Long Beach.

 

First glance at Radar Beach.

 

 A full view of Radar Beach...So cool.

 

 After Tofino, I hitched back up to Whistler with Craig and did the tourist thing of going to the top of Whistler Mountain with Pat.

 

The city of Whistler below.

 

 

Tofino Bound

 

 

 

Weekends Hey...

On a whim, me and Kelsey shot down to Washington for the weekend. Left Vancouver late, got to Deception point on Whidbey Island just off of the coast even later, got the last campsite, forgot the air-matress valve, left the site without paying even later, drove to a small quite cove, parked the car, star gazed in camp chairs, slept in the car, woke up at 7 am to a still quite cove, checked out Deception Point and then headed to Seattle. Walked up and down Seattle and eventually met up with some old co-workers from Nordstrom San Diego, one being my good friend Taylor Bowan. Did some late night eating/drinking, and stayed the night at Taylor's apt in the heart of downtown. Finally...stopped in at Trader Joe's to buy copious amounts of inexpensive groceries and Two Buck Chuck on the way home. #RECOVERING

 

Far left arrow denotes pictures from the bridge. Right arrow denotes sleep spot. 

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