The Week's Recap

Well, It’s been a fairly eventful week!

Last weekend, Brett and I headed out to Jasper to do some hiking and camping for a night. We arrived in Jasper and found our great campsite, except for all of the mosquitoes. It was a walk-in site for tenting, so it wasn’t crowded at all and it backed onto a path leading straight to a river bed. After setting up camp, we were off to the Valley of the Five Lakes, a 9km hike just south of Jasper townsite. It was a perfect afternoon to go, with it being sunny, but never too hot that we were uncomfortable. After hotdogs, an epic card game of War, an uncomfortable sleep and pancakes made on the fire, we headed back towards Edmonton and more specifically, showers.

Upon returning from camping, I was filled with anticipation for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be waiting at my door. I was ready to sequester myself away and finish it as soon as possible. However, the only thing I returned to was a message from Amazon saying that they had shipped my book on Sunday. I went a little cooky during the week as my friends all finished it before I had even received my copy, but then Wednesday came and at long last, it was mine. My own… My precioussssss…..

Ahem… anyway….

24 hours and 400 pages later, my mind was starting to fry and I decided that it would be good for me to put it down for a while. So when Brett suggested heading to Capital Ex, I thought “perfect!” However, before I went to bed on Friday, it was totally finished.

Anyway, that brings me to Capital Ex, CapEx, K-Days, CapE, Capitex, whatever you feel like calling it. It’s close to the same old thing it’s ever been, but here are the rules I have gathered for myself over the years, with a new addition this year:


1) Watch the people. You have no clue how many unattractive people live in Edmonton until you attend this thing. I even contemplated starting a tally of how many people I saw that I couldn’t tell what sex they actually were.
2)Watch the fashion. I saw everything from see-through pants, to fanny packs, to hordes of sluttily-dressed teenagers.
3)The games are always a rip-off. Who wants a 4 foot tall stuffed spiderman that smells like carnie, anyway?
4)*NEW* Anything can be deep fried. Just because it can, doesn’t mean that it should. The deep fried coke seemed nothing more than deep fried dough with coke poured on top. Cheesecake is rich and good on its own. Why deep fry it? That’s my main question with this trend: Why?

Anyway, that’s all for this week, folks. I’ll see you on the flip side!