Inherently Lonely: banff!!! (2?)

(1) we started off at the hot springs- if you're going to go, go in the morning cause once noon rolls around lots of people start showing up- if you go in the morning, everyone's coming while you're going :) so we left and ate food in the car (strawberries, grapes, a slice of pickle, a small pita pocket, a couple things of lettuce (this is the third time i'm writing this because the first time i used the arrow key.... UGH!!!) because we're not supposed to eat meat today. we went to starbucks for coffee/snacks on the way back mom saw a bear. "look at the bear! it's big! sandra, go, i'll take a picture of you!" "okay! BEAR FIVE! (2)" (small kid with father) "look'it!" (father, deadpan) "yes. it's a bear." while me and mom pose for another picture. went to car but decided to walk through "central park". yeah, not that one, the one in banff. huge rock with kids climbing/all around it. tore away from dad's restraining arms and climbed up it (3). i'm cookie. ate bear paw (4)- tastes like hershey bar but... worse. but now i'm officially canadian. river running though banff ends in falls- sign saying "danger falls ahead" which is punny (cause the pointy stick person is 'falling' of the 'falls'. warning sign (5) makes me very very, oh so happy.

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we kept walking in central park and i started playing with the camera, taking a bunch of pictures of myself and (6) was one i liked :P my parents were started to get annoyed with me though, cause i was kinda really hyper. there was also a black lab that had a stick in his mouth as long as he was and it kept hitting the rocks and stuff- the dog looked so happy with himself :P we started heading back and dad wanted to go see the falls so we went to go see the falls and sat on a bench. i took pictures and annoyed everyone until mom took the camera away from me but i did manage to get (7) before that happened. and i saw a really cool cloud that looked kinda like a goblin (8)... i think i've watched too much buffy :P this old(er) guy started a snowball fight with his family and i think he played baseball or something cause he was awesome. then there english people showed up and were right in front of us and were talking, which was awesome cause they're accents were so cool. then the one kid slipped and fell into the ice and got his "trousers" entirely wet and he got a good cheer from the crowd to- it was hilarious.

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dad decided he wanted to go up the gondalia so up we went while mom (who said it wasn't her thing) stayed at the bottom. we were really high up (9) and some nice dude asked if we wanted him to take a picture of the two of us, which was really nice of him (10). then i started taking pictures of myself again (11). i think i took 100 pictures up there? mom asked me to document it well :P on the way down i made a video (it took 7:17 minutes to go top to bottom... we had to share a car with this asian dad and his kid... the kid was giggling for a little while and i was laughing cause it was so weird and random). we went to lake... miswesagee? something like that. it was really really windy (12) but really nice and mountain-y. i started fooling around with the camera again (13). then i realized my sunglasses were really reflect-y so i started trying to get a good shot of them (14). i took a lot of these... mom was not impressed :P but she did agree to take one final picture of me on the rocks!! (15) then we came home, watched the game (flames... wow, really?)/showered/tea'd it up/they turned in early cause they're lame. granted, we did wake up at 7 (ugh, i went to sleep like... 2?) but it was all in all a fun yet tiring day.

ended up with 209 pictures or something like that. i shouldn't be allowed near a camera...

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