I cant get enough of that lake!!!!

seattle with a kehler is cool!

Anglea looks pretty with the flowers at pikes place:)

The cheescake kicked my ass.But it was soooo good.

Me and Angela wishing we had enough money to buy these beautiful noth face jackets for a few minutes.

On September 15th and 16th, me and Angela headed down to Seattle to hang out for the day and for her to catch her flight to Virginia in the morning.I wont see her for over a year,its ridiculous.....but needs to be done. SHE LOOOVVVEEES her lover.

Getting across the border was interesting.We waited in very hot line up for almost an hour and when we were almost to the front a border dude came out with his 6 month old lab which i guess was their drug sniffer dog.They decided to search my vehicle.You know us untrusting young canadian girls................

Angela didnt really like the way the guy talked to us.He was like turn off your car, get out and stand in the dirt.

allllll righty.

obviously their doggie didnt find anything and we were good to go and the guy that was at the border booth let us through no problem.Its just always funny how even though you know you are innocent, somehow they seem to make you feel like you did in fact do something terribly wrong.welcome to america...................

Everything went well.Saw mama mia.girls, i recomend.I also had my first hostel experience.Its kind of weird there.Everyone is in their own little worlds. I felt so much more alert and uncomfortable than everyone else.I guess one would learn how to make their space bubble alot smaller when travelling.Also surprised with the age groups.I had a man that had to be in his late 70s eating breakfast next to me in the morning.Most of the travellers were in their 20s though.The only thing that sucked was that it was soooo hot in there and the bedroom window was on the side of an alley and there were all sorts of things going on in that alley all night.Construction was also just half a block up so needless to say, my sleep sucked.Also woke up with the worst cramps i have had yet this year.I felt ok by about 2 though.

in conclusion, Angela kicks ass, sucks that she left but we had a very awesome couple of days together:)

'hey,ill do this guy in the ass right now for $20!' -crazy seattle bum

World class chainsaw carving competition 2008

' How'd he do that?'

Well, he had a log and took away everything that wasnt a bear.haw haw haw.

'Is that made out of plastic? it must be plastic.'

uhm.........................................yes..............

Chainsaw carving competition was sooo great this year. Awesome carvers from all over the place and amzing glory for my FAJA. 3rd PLACE!!!!!woohoo.Now he prounces around and is all proud of himself saying'im a world class carver carla didnt you know that?' just kidding.well, not really.The wood ofcourse was a little bit mickey mouse but besides that,everything went really smoothly.

I guess that wasnt really an adventure....but i still had to post these photos.so proud.

soon to come:

CARLA SWOPE WITH A CHAINSAW.....probably a small one.

no adventures

so thats the trail ,hey?

its cool to look at when your not in the storm

this rainbow made my day:)

what the...........oh crap

what happened to this that looked so beautiful 5 minutes earlier!!!

hey well this is the first entry and i dont really have much to say for myself.Work is probably as dramatic as it could possibly get. And after having a whole 2 days off out of 22 work days, i guess you could say work is 'messing with my chi' But i can write about my last adventure!!

This right here was the most peaceful dead hummingbird that i found right in the middle of the trail.

Me Ross and Cayden decided to do a two nighter up mount hope with plans to hike up mount hope one day and make it up wells peak the next.Saturday night we load up and get into my car that appaently turned into a 4*4 over night,We only had to walk about an hour up the boring logging road to our first site which was nest to a small waterfall.Caydens so cute, on top of carrying his 20 lb. bag(for a 11 year old thats heavy) he surprised me and ross with a beer:)
We walked to the nexted spot in the morning which was basically at the top of the road where you branch off and start hiking.ehm,ross failed to mention that its a 75% bushwack trail.its totally overgrown and not used very often at all.well, im sure lots by bears with the amount of crap i saw.Everything was fine except getting soakin wet from the dew on everything.Than we get over the first hump and descend to where we need to get to the mount hope highest peak.This absolutley massive black cloud comes out from the middle of nowhere and within minutes we were being hailed on.It was something we had to laugh about.Once it cleared up we were like im not turning around!!!! but you could see the yucky clouds that were sitting on the top of the mountain that we needed to get through.Then...it clears up...allright.cool. Then we get up to this puddle of a lake with only about 30 more minutes of climbing with a scramble at the top and it starts snowing and raining sideways.Cayden is in jeans and a hoodie and i was in shorts.I said you know what....... my pride is not getting in the way here.im ok if we turn around.especially if there isnt anything to see at the top because its one big dense cloud.So we turned around.hehe,i had one good slip but i held onto that tree for my dear life! its all good.As we get back to the spot where it was hailing on the way up, we look up to the top of mount hope and-oh look-clear blue sky.talk about bad luck,i said to ross dont worry about it because if we decided to have wated it out up top, it just would have stayed rainy anyways.
We caught a double rainbow on the way back.Was the brightest and closest i had ever been to a rainow. i said that just made my day!!! ive been told before that im easy to please
It was a very long day anyways,.8 hours of hiking.
My knees made it!!!!!!woohoo...
with help of my dear friend ibuprophen.
I actually wasnt even that sore the next day until we had to walk downhill for a couple hours.It probably also helped that i ate really well.I read that rice and fish are both helpers to heal pulled muscles.
I stayed up and looked at the amazing stars-nothing like being in the mountains.
So we wake up in the morning with a full ten hour sleep-nice- and we look towards wells and even at 1130 it was so foggy you couldnt even see the bottom trail head.bushwacking in the fog?no thanks.

chocolate birdy surprise.