a few photos.......

Chillin on the ice
bens birthday cake....that much ice cream cake definatly brought on ice cream shakes and feeling of nausea all round! its lynda, ian, ben, laura and brooke
ready for mission impossible with ian and laura, we play this pretty much every week and its amazing!
view from the hills at sunrise after our camp out. the ranch is hidden beneath that fog....
dress up dinner with Spencer and Yvonne....we pretty much rocked that one

changes....

so summer is finally over....its a good and bad thing.....good because im so tired and exhausted from the 11 weeks of intensity but bad because it means that all the amazing people i got to spend summer with have also gone!

so its abit quieter now around ranch, ive moved into my place for teh next 6 months. its called teh apartment and its up near the barn, i share it with 3 other lovely ladies, and im working mostly in the kitchen, but also the office one night a week, snack bar, and i will be doing promotion wokr for the ranch in schools and churchs and hostessing for groups that come in. so theres lots to do! today has been especially busy! we started in teh kitchen at 6am.....because theres 5 hockey teams in this weekend so we had 3 breakfasts to serve! its been a long day! but it ended well with a lovely trip to the cosmic bowl!!! where we bowled by black light, i even tried 5 pin bowling and its weird!

im getting used to the apartment being my new home, and went on a trip to ikea the other day to get the place organised. had much fun of course!!! and iv decided along with yvonne (the scot im living with) taht we should take advantage of living at the ranch and us ethe stuff we have around us....taht being said we went boating last night after finishing in teh kitchen an dthen sat on the hypo pond log and fished for teh evil fish thats lives in there....sadly to no avail....but fun all the same.

mum and dad are coming on tuesday for a few days. it will be greta to see them and show them around my home!! so they'll finally know what im talkinga bout when i describe thiings! then a few days after they leave im heading to new york city to meet them for a few mroe days...ahve a small accomodation problem at the momment in that i have no place to stay in new york for 1 night!!! so praying that will get worked out quickly!

thats about it for now!!!

camp is dangerous

so just quick little note, i have a lovely gash above my left eyebrow from a kyack paddle to the face on sunday night. we were doing a kyack race of sorts in the games on sunday night with campers and the kycak next to ours capsized and i caught the kyack paddle straight to the head. thought it was going to need stitches for a while, but luckily its holding togeter pretty well with just tape. so hopefully i wont get too much of a scar!

its been a while.....

hey there everyone in internet land....yes its been a long long time since ive made a good post. so i have a few minutes....so ive been busy beyond what i ecpected and im totally emotionally, mentally and physically tired, but tahts ok, cos im still loving it. the people are amazinga nd every week a new group of awesome kids come sin. ive spent the last 2 weeks running teh program at night which pretty much means i get to go crazy and have a whole bunch of fun running game sfor the kids. and i get to ride the golf cart around. i love it. been wokring snack bar or day camp during the day time, which has been making it tiring, but i wouldnt give up the program stuff for sleep so hey thats my call!

this week coming is teh last week of campf or summer and thats a very good thing, im back on counselling this week, and i have like 5 girls, cos theres only 14 campers so it'l be interesting. but it should be a great week, and then after summer we all head to wonderland as staff to just chill out. then ill be going up to cottage of one of teh families who work shere, and mum and dad come in a few weeks, then new york city just after that....and plus work at the ranch in amongst all that. it'll be a heaps slower pace by then which will be a nice change.

rigth now im sitting in teh coach house, chilling with some of the guys playing music and such when we really should be in bed, but this is much more fun. love it. made some amazing friend sthis summer and i cantw iat to go and visit them all afetr summer, i think its going to be a really good year ahead....

so im gonna get back to it....when i put photos on my computer ill add soem uup here so you can see a bit of life here. till then hope ur all well. sne dme letters cos i dont get enough mail!!!

busy!

hey everyone....so its been a while.....

been so so so crazy busy, and this is the busiest week yet. im programminag dn working snack bar so basically have zero free time.....infact pretty much have to go right now to run lunch....but just quickly- im having and aawesome time still, so much fun and great people. missing back home an dthe beach though!!! and esp the people!!!

gotta run...more soon!

this and that

hey everyone,
just a really really quick blog, its been hard to get time to go on the internet, but hopefully ill get mor etime soon. so basically been having agreat time, its father son camp this wesk so ive been on work crew and we've been cleaning the swimming pond an dthe hypo pond getting them ready for summer. its fun but hard work. pulling weeds all day from teh bottom of the pond. but hey we're girls working hard, and doing a good job. plus im wokring with amazing people so its fun. just had a massage - yeah hard life eh! they bring in professionals for fatehr son camp, so staff scam massages as well. its awesome! and been painting this morning. lots more work to do but still having lots of fun. getting a sweet tan, and going to see transformers....seen it twic ethis week, once for free and its awesome! this weekend im off to a few peoples houses to hang out aweay from ranch which should be nice before we get into the full swing of summer camps on sunday.

feeling a bit sick, and still got a bad chesty cough but slowly getting better. had dinner at the best resturant ever last saturday and il post about it later. but till then, hope your all well, miss you lots and hope to hear from you soon!

ps- also got a cell phone now so email me if you wnat the number!

fun times to boot

so ive been spending the last few days hanging out with Laura, her sister Julie, and yvonne teh scottsih chick. has been awesome just hanging out and having fun with them!

yesterday we got up very very early (in the 5am region) and drove out to london, ontario for lauras orientation for college which she starst in september. we dropped her off and then set off to set up the apartment her and julie will be sharing. and they employed the cheap foreign labour (yvonne and i!) and we built them a table! was fun, and we even met some of her neighbours, and got to know the apartment we wil be crashing in when we come to visit. we explored campus and the town abit and its really nice. we approve.

then today, we went down to lakeshore very early again for breakfast with some lovely ladies from ranch bethany and shannon. was so greta to see them both again and breakfast was amaizng. i was weirded out by the fact that the lake (lake ontario) is so large that it actually extends to the horiaon so it feels like your looking out at the ocean but its totally flat and doesnt smell like the sea!

after this lovely jaunt we headed to downtown toronoto to watch the toronoto blue jays play the colorado rockies in baseball! this was the first baseball game for both yvonne and i and was very exciting! there was a hilarous chillie race between 2 innings, and we got sunburnt!! we also decided to explore the statium which is massive!!! and found a kids club thing and ran arond the statium getting stamps so we could get a free baseball player bobble head. you were menat to be under 14 but apparently being forgeing works just as well! yvonne an di also joine dthe kids club for $10 each which got us a shirt,visor,sweat bands, dog tags and a memebrship card!!! soooo cool!!! so we are now officially jnr jays! we also got photso with the team mascot, ranodm people and police! good day all in all!

then after dinner we headed out to the drive-ins. this was everyone except mines first drive-in experience. so we were all excited. its didnt start till 9:45 cos its still light so late. so we piled into lauras an julies parents van and set up the back with cushions and blankets. was so much fun. yvonne and julie ended up on teh roof for most of it, and we got a sweet deal with $11 for 2 movies! what a bargain! had an amazing time and got home about 2:30am!

im still having a great time as you can tell! we all head up to ranch tomoro afternoon to start staff training at 6! so from here on out there may be less blogs
depeneidng on when i get free time and net acces...but keep checking in to see hwat sgoing on. hope your all well!!