Well, I've had a busy past week with lots of family stuff to do. Randy, my cousin from Vancouver came for a visit the past weekend. He came with the purpose of getting out and seeing Toronto and just getting to know his cousins and aunts and uncles in Toronto. Here's a quick summary of my week with Randy in Toronto.

On Sunday we took a "Long Lunch" in some small town called Warksworth, or something like that. It's an anual thing for this town where they set up a long table and cook up a bunch of food. Unfortunately it was raining that day, and we didn't partake in the long lunch and went to a diner instead. Oh well. On our way back, we stopped by at the Big Apple for some delicious apple pie. We had a big family dinner with all my aunts and uncles that night. Monday I had a bonus day at the beach playing beach volleyball with Allan. Got back and took Randy and my other cousins to Dave and Busters for dinner and games. Afterwards we got gelato. Tuesday we spent the day at Wonderland, where I forced Randy to go on all the rides. It was more than just peer pressure, I literally made him go on the rides. But, he didn't actually complain at all, and I think it was good for him. Wednesday all us cousins got together for a little bowling and dessert. A little disappointing because I didn't win at bowling, but I had some pretty stiff competition with my cousins. Thursday we didn't do much except play some tennis/basketball and head over to my cousins to play some games.

Friday I had to say goodbye to my cousin, because Allan and his friends (Jamie, Lotus, Vicky, and Colin) and I were headed to Ottawa for some white water rafting. The plan was to spend some time in Ottawa on Friday, stay over at the rafting place Friday night, raft for two days, and come back on Sunday night. Rafting was so much fun. On Saturday we did the 12 man boat which was a lot of fun, but I already did 12 man rafting before, so it wasn't anything too special. Sunday we got to try the 6 man boat. The 6 man boat was a lot more fun than the 12. It's just a lot bumpier and a bit tougher than the 12, and it's so much fun when the raft flips. It's just a mad scramble to get back into the raft, and it's not too dangerous so it's fine. There was one moment that was kind of scary when Allan fell out of the raft during one of the rapids. He was just going down stream, and he was just getting further and further away from the boat and it seemed like there was nothing we could do to catch him. Well, eventually the rapids slowed down, and another boat managed to pick him up, but the rapids are pretty strong, and at the moment it was actually kind of scary. It was a really fun and exhausting weekend though

Well, I just got back from my Vancouver road trip with Dwight. It was a fun trip, with lots to see driving across the states. The drive from Windsor to Seattle was about 40,000 km, and took us about 3.5 days to make the drive. It started off when I met Dwight in Windsor on Sunday. I met some of Dwight's friends, and we played a little poker, followed by a trip to the Windsor casino where I made a cool $40. Monday Dwight had to do some last minute packing and say some final good byes, but we still had some time to watch The Hills on MTV.

We took off early on Tuesday morning and crossed the border without a hitch. We made some stop offs along the way including the Corn Palace (some tourist trap where the outside of the palace is redecorated every year with corn husks), WallDrug (some tourist trap with a town that's supposed to be similar to the 1880's), Mt. Rushmore. The interesting thing was that there was a massive biker rally in South Dakota with an estimated 500,250 bikers attending. Everywhere along the interstate we saw bikers, and when we stopped in towns they were filled with bikes. Motels also had no vacancies because of the rally, and we had to set up tent at a KOA for one of the nights. We finally got to Seattle on Friday afternoon, where we met up with Rach. She gave us a tour of the Microsoft campus, pretty impressive. We met up with Vish and Justin for dinner and went out to a bar/lounge at night. Saturday we took a small tour of Seattle, and were on our way to Vancouver to meet up with my family for dinner. My uncle Albert and aunt Valerie took us out to dinner, and we went to the Night Market afterwards. the Night Market was pretty jokes. It was basically a whole bunch of Asians setting up little booths in a huge parking lot and just selling all this pirated/couterfeit stuff. Also, driving across the hick towns of the states, I was feeling like the only Asian around, and it was nice that I got to turn the tables on Dwight for a night. Sunday we got a chance to visit Stanley Park, and the UBC campus where we unpacked Dwight's stuff. Vancouver really seems like a nice place, I could really see myself living there. At night, my uncle and aunt took me to the Vancouver casino, where I ended up losing $40, evening me out from Windsor. I guess that's about it, not incredibly exciting, but it was fun and nice driving across the country.

I guess Dwight's starting a new career/life in Vancouver now. With the 3 hour time difference between Vancouver and Richmond Hill, I wonder what's going to happen to our Warcraft playing schedule? I guess we'll see.