Edmonton

I woke up yesterday and made breakfast....a piece of toast and half a bottle of wine...and 2 hours of 24.... lame..but hey, i had to start the first of my 5 days off somewhere. I soon reallized how quickly the time passed....it was now close to 2:00 pm and we where supposed to leave for Edmonton an hour ago....Kandy's alarm did'nt go off, and i was too busy watching my show to notice. I woke her up, then Amanda and Chris met us at the house. I think we left around 3:30. we made a couple stops on the way for fast food and gas in Airdrie...and the most important stop in Red Deer, for booz.... as soon as we got back in the car i started pooring the rum into my huge cup of coke before we hit the highway again...obviously, for some reason i had an extreme urge to indulge in as much liquor as possible today.

The rain started to come down in buckets as we where going through red deer and onto the highway, Kandice said the word fuck about 50 times in 30 minutes due to lack of visibility from the rain...and everytime we would pass a semi truck we could'nt see within 3 feet ahead of us. I started to relax after polishing off almost the whole drink and was at the point where everytime i reached for the cup...kandy would slap my hand and tell me ''NO''.
The clouds where looking awsome so i started taking pictures with my phone. There was thunder and lightning for a good hour and i was watching intently for a big flash...we where listening to Matt Good the whole way there... and Born to kill was playing, when right in the middle of the song at a pause moment a huge flash of lightning followed by a crash of thunder so loud that shook the entire car...it felt like it came from directly above us.....that was wicked. We started to come out of the storm and it cleared up as soon as we made our way through Edmonton.

Walking through the Klondike days carnival was the biggest Gong show i've ever seen.....i felt like i was walking through an episode of trailer park boys or something. So we picked up some evil mini doughnuts, dodged our way over to the Telus stage and had a good hour to kill before the show started. We bought some beer and sat on the bleechers for a bit...then the rain started again. Kandice and i ran back to the car for her coat...and when we came back there was a huge line up of people trying to get in. Kandy shoved her way to the front and told the guard that we where already in there and showed him our beer wristbands...the asshole was'nt going to let us...or anyone else in there. "We have beers and our friends are in there fuck face" she yelled. our only option at this point was to go to the other side over the fence...and so we did. we weren't the only ones doing this by the way. 10 minutes later the show started. finally...we ran up to the stage and i squeezed my way in to the front row.

The whole show was amazing!! Near Fantastica was the first song Avalanche, Advertizing on police cars, Blue skies over badlands and Apparitons where my favorites that he sang near the end. Allot of good stuff was played...i dont remember all of them...i was just soo ecxited to hear more then 2 of my favorites. Chris said of all the shows he had been to...this one was the best, i beleived him...it was a VERY good show!

Before we left Amanda and i went on one of the rides. we went for the one with the shortest line up. Just as the ride started...the fireworks went off...good timing.

I dont remember a whole hell of allot after that...i passed out in the back seat of the car. Amanda is my Hero... i think she got us home in that shit wheather in less than 2 hours...good job!

We are off to B.C. now, through Kananaskis. we're going to drive out as far as we can tonite and camp somewhere along the way...i don't care where we go...as long as we end up very far away from the city!