Photos of the excitement

The end of any year is always a busy time for me with vacationing. When August rolls around I’m almost gone crazy without taking any vacation days since last Christmas. Well I definitely made up for that, since I’ll be flying three places from August to December. I’m already excited for my vacation towards the end of next month. I’m also excited to see my brother and his family – especially my two younger nephews as I haven’t seen them since December 2008.

Back to yesterdays post where I spoke about taking snapshots of my auto car in all its glory. Before I even had my car bought I knew where I wanted to set up and take photos of it. I know it’s not very girly of me to set all that up, but this is my very first car. All mine. I’m still a bit excited over it all. So here are some of my favorite shots.

I posted some of these pics on the Mazda forums for Toronto and this photo above got a comment: “Ahhh! This baby is asking you for tints!!!” Which is so true. Tinted windows would like pretty nice on this car. Except right now, flights and vacations are more appealing to me right now.

Sunny sunset.

Mazda car ad, at the audi dealership.

lol I look like a lanky alien. I had no idea my arms were that long.

My desktop image at the moment. Don’t judge.

We got back from Muskoka last night and I was too tired lazy to crop and upload the photos. Here they are!

First wave of male 20-29, maybe females too I forget.

I didn’t get him coming out of the water or on the bike – I drove back to the hotel to check out before 11am – didn’t want to get dinged $25 for a late checkout.

Whoop there he goes again.

The run course was looped in a cross, and they had to do it out and back… TWICE. 13k’s of it. I’d definitely mis-count and I honestly thought the boyf miscounted because I was expecting him in at a certain time and I thought I saw him going out for his 3rd loop and I didn’t know whether or not to run after him since he was a way’s away from me since I was at the finish line. Thankfully, someone had his same tri-suit on AND an orange hat. How random, right?

Anyway it obviously wasn’t him and he made good time at his race. He ended up sprinting with another guy in his age group for the finish line. It was quite intense, and we had everyone screaming out for them both. So that was a nice end to the race, unfortunately even though they had the same time, they obviously had to give the higher ranking to someone, and it was the other guy.

Cooling off in the mist tent. Refreshing.

Did some errands, cooked supper, and blogged. Now it’s time for me to relax!

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Boy I’m tired….

Had a busy weekend indeed.

I was super nerdy and took my car out to snap some photos of it while it was all shined up. Because I knew the very next morning we’d be driving 300+kms to Muskoka and it’d be all bugged up on the front. The boyf had a triathlon up there so we got back not too long ago — I have to say I don’t think I’m a fan of driving 4 hours each way in less than 24 hours. Even though I wasn’t the one driving, I’m still pretty exhausted. I’ll post photos tomorrow some time. It was fun I even tweeted all day about it — go ahead and follow me! 

My top got a few compliments though! I ordered it off Etsy and I freakin love it.

Obviously.

Will post more tomorrow, I should probably get supper on the go…

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Officially pooped

I thought I blogged over the weekend, but that clearly was something I dreamed about and didn’t actually do. The weekend flew by incredibly fast, as does any other weekend — such a world wind. I think on Saturday morning I woke up stupidly early (8am is unheard of on a weekend for me) and did six loads of laundry and I don’t even remember what else because it just seemed so far long ago. Like two weekends ago. Does that ever happen to you? What, we had a weekend?

I had a bit of a debate over my waist belt that I was wearing that day. A lot of people thought the belt was out of place, should be larger and so on. But the woman working at the store AND my running buddy all agreed that it looked nice on me. It was laying on my natural waist, not up by my ribs. Because if it were on my ribs – I’d need a smaller belt. I don’t know. The boyf ended up really hating it. But I wore it regardless and felt wicked with it on.

Don’t forget you can enlarge the photos if you can’t see the medium-sized thumbnails.

Ow!

Funky angles.

You can see more of my outfit below in the pictures.

We headed out Saturday night to Toronto to meet up with a few friends who were having a delay/over night stop over at Toronto Airport.

(Us / Boyf driving / ICutOffHisFace. Oops.)

They were a bit late making the meet up so the Boyf and I headed to an incredible hindu temple (Shri Sharadamba Temple) that we saw off the highway.

Little me in front of big temple.

Crazy, right?

Polished marble. I stood on it, but then decided not do. Were we allowed? I don’t know…

What to do/What not to do.

Everything on this building was all carved in India, and shipped over then put together. Incredible, no?

Closeup of the side of the building. Intricate.

By the museum.

Look how huge it is, compared to me!

Sun’s setting! Time to go.

We were out pretty late since we hadn’t seen our friends for ages. But we couldn’t stay overnight as we had to drive back since the Boyf had a triathlon in the a.m.

Sunday was worse. Going to bed and getting 5 hours of sleep, waking up at 6:30am then heading out to the race site with Alfie and the boyf. At least it was a short race, so we were back in the car at around noon.

Triathlon transition

This was the only photo I got of my Boyf throughout the whole race. We were sort of rushed and I didn’t get a picture of the swim, or him in his wetsuit. Nor did I get a picture at all of him on the bike. I had everything set up. Alfie went wild at someone coming up behind him (he gets spooked easily) and then there goes the Boyf whizzing past me on his bike. Perfect timing.

At least I got a photo of him on the final run right before the finish line. Bib # was photoshopped out :)

Alfie was roasting. Check out that tongue on him!

When we arrived home, we napped. For a long time. Until it was time for me to find my way to the next city for my soccer game. Boyf gladly drove in front of me on the highway so I could find my way. Ended up scoring the first goal of the game and also winning 3-1. However I did get another injury (soccer makes me so injury prone!!). One of the defenders took me out pretty badly as she slid-tackled me. I’ve been applying this homeopathic cream that a team mate recommended called Arnika. Apparently it speeds up the healing process. I didn’t ice it last night like a fool, and woke up this morning and it still hurt just as bad.

Icing is so painful. I hate the cold. It numbed my whole leg. I slathered on the Arnika and now my leg is all rashy.

Crazy weekend. Sad it’s over lol. At least we’re done with Monday. Right?

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