HOP @ Cedarpoint 2009

2nd last day in Edmonton! @ Edmonton, Canada

2009-07-30T23:58:37.000Z

Well have almost everything ready! Tomorrow one more day of work and then off to Ohio!

Last day before the trip @ Edmonton, Canada

2009-07-31T15:33:46.000Z

Well preparations are coming to a wrap. Tomorrow morning my mom and I start our trip!

I'll try to post pictures along the way!

Now, to everyone in the guild, don't forget I want to hear about Ulduar getting cleared!!

Ahh look at the mess before we have to go!! Time to start cleaning!

First day!! @ Helena, United States, Montana

2009-08-01T22:00:10.000Z

Hello!!! We made it all the way down to Helena, MT (~960km roughly).

The trip down was actually much faster than I thought it would be. Of course we had a bit of fun on the way, we stopped in Red Deer about 1.5hrs into the trip to buy a memory card for my moms digital camera, however once we put it in the camera low and behold it didn't work. So we had to go return it and buy a new one, this time it worked!!

Then in Lethbrige (Our last stop in Canada to gas), after we gassed up we couldn't find my cell phone so ... we had to stop quickly at another gas station to find it .. it fell between the seats. THEN not 2 minutes after we left that gas station .. I coudln't find my sun glasses ... SO, we had to stop again ... they were in the back seat ... *sigh*

Anyway so after that we finally hit the road again till the border .. of course in all our luck ... we got stuck in the freakin' slow line at the border .. 45 freakin' minutes of waiting for a handful of cars to get through ... while the other line was just breazin' through .. anyway, good thing was it only took us about 1.5 min to get through the border (its a funny story ask me in Sandusky).

Anyway then we hit Montana ... ummm we'll talk about the first few hours in Montana. Wait its pretty simple .. it was a freakin' straight road with nothign on the left and nothign on the right till AFTER we got past great falls, THEN it finally got a bit interesting! :) It was a nice drive between Great Falls and Helena! Alca took pictures, will post them later.

We found a nice hotel in Helena (in the only part of the city ... that looks new) and its very nice actually (will post pictures later).

So now its time to play Wow!

And We're Off! @ Helena, United States, Montana

2009-08-02T09:28:15.000Z

I have no idea where we are going today! :) But hopefully wherever we end up has high speed internet :D

Caving and Billings @ Billings, United States, Montana

2009-08-02T22:06:15.000Z

Woot, so we arrived in Billings, MT at about 8:00pm tonight. We checked into the C'mon Inn. Anyway I love how this place is laid out its freakin' awesome, I"m sitting on my deck right now over looking the centre area (I'll post pictures) All I can say is, if I was to ever go here with a group of friends this is the place i would stay. But enough of the Hotel. We got our camera problems worked out today .. can you imagine we wanted to take pictures before leaving Helena and both our digital camera's batteries were dead. Nothing like preperation lol.

Anway, so our plan today was to go to Yellowstone National Park and spend a couple of hours sight seeing there. But we didn't go there instead, we stopped at some caves (I have no idea what they are called, but I'll look them up) and went for 2hr cave tour instead. It was honestly a lot of fun (we took pictures will post later lol) So that is pretty much all we did today lol, Had some ice cream, went to the caves and drove to billings. Today was prettty mild, only about 5 hours of driving nothing big.

So, after the caving we got to Billings and checked in. We went to Outback from supper, I had a 7oz Victoria's steak, it was very good , no complaints!! But now I'm tired and about to log into wow!

Day 3: RAPID CITY @ Rapid City, United States, South Dakota

2009-08-03T22:05:15.000Z

The morning started off in Billings where Herciana and Spitsnot paid and unexpected but pleasent visit to us at our hotel :)

Let me tell you lol there is nothing funnier then having your hotel room ring and the receptionist saying "We have a gentleman down by recpetion who says he knows you from playing World of Warcraft" hehe that was so cool

Props to Herciana for finding us at the hotel based off of the little information you had to go off of and especially not knowing our names lol.

THANK YOU FOR LUNCH AT FUDDRUCKERS (sp?). The burger was awesome and thanks for getting us on the right way to Rapid City! If on our way back we pass through Billings again we'll ring ya up :D

Old Chicago is awesome! @ Sioux Falls, United States, South Dakota

2009-08-04T22:34:11.000Z

We're staying in Sioux Falls this evening. It's a pretty nice place, well at least the area we are staying in. We went to Old Chicago for supper omg it was amazing!! I dunno who else has had a chance to go, but I would recommend it!!

Earlier in the day we left Rapid City ... and went to Mt. Rushmore. It was a pretty neat thing to see, its amazing how long it took to do and how many people worked on it. They had a military plane fly over while we were there, not sure if that is normal or not but it was pretty cool. Of course it bike week here so there is nothing but Harley's on the road and all the towns!!!

we stopped at Wall Drug .. we just had too .. after see oh I dunno about 1 billion sighs along the interstate we just had to stop lol. AND then the interstate got bad, there was soooo much road construction we spent 1/2 the trip on a one lane highway, then Thunder called and asked me where we were, and I said I really don't know lol. I'm not sure if all the states are like this, or its just along the interstate, but there is no signs tell you were you are , or what is coming up until you about 1 mile away. Oh well :P

Now time to shower! And no no pictures of me showering :) But I will post some in the morning :)

In Madison, WI @ Madison, United States, Wisconsin

2009-08-05T23:11:14.000Z

Woot day 5 comes to an end. I wanted to post some pictures from the day before shot on my mom's camera .. but its in the car and i'm way to lazy to run down and get it :D

So we got to Madison around I dunno 8pm ... then we spent the next 3 hours lost :D I love GPS that leads you around the city in circles!!

So we checked into on hotel ... The Edgewater .. and checked out ... and now we're at the The Highland club ... much much better :) And tomorrow we should be in Ohio!!!!!! Should be fun :D We're going to bug Vonjo .. and see if we wants to take us in :P

I'll post more pictures tomorrow night when we get the other camera.

Holy Toledo! @ Toledo, United States, Ohio

2009-08-06T22:26:19.000Z

We're here!! We are now only an hour away from our destination!!

We're at the comfort suites in perrysberg? just outside of toledo :D

The trip today at best was boring and long ... so against all advice we drove through Chicago ... yawn ... interstate was more like the crawlstate :P We spent over 2 hours crawling through Chicago :(

I'll post pictures soon :D Just got out of the jacuzzi :D Went fancy tonight lol

We're here! @ Marblehead, United States, Ohio

2009-08-07T13:57:15.000Z

Well we made it!

Now finally time to relax!!!!!!

Back on the road again! @ Gaylord, United States, Michigan

2009-08-10T19:52:36.000Z

And we're off!!! The weekend is over and now it is time to head back home :( I had a lot of fun with everyone that could make it, and tonight is a pretty depressing night heading back home. So thank you Snor & Dad for coming to cedarpoint, the rain sucked in the morning but the afternoon was amazing!! Yes we conquered the Top Trill Dragster! :) Thank Vonjo and Aiala for catching me in the swimming pool as you pulled up to the house :D Thank you Virii and Barbar for waiting patiently at the house while Aiala, Alca, Vonjo and myself were eating :D Thank you Lighter and Anth for keeping us up late hours our first and last nights there :D Next time we play munchkins I'm going to win!! :D

For everyone that couldn't make it, hopefully our next together you will all get a chance to join :D I'm going to try to post some pictures now lol from a little bit earlier in the trip :D

Then off to bed, we're trying to make the trip back home a bit quicker then trip down, I miss my WoW!!!

Ok I'm posting some pictures from earlier in the trip :) I'll try to get the Get to together pics up ASAP!!

Getting closer! @ Duluth, United States, Minnesota

2009-08-11T21:18:58.000Z

Tonight we've stopped just outside of Guluth, MN. I checked we are now roughly 1600km (around 16 hours) away from Edmonton :D

If I get the energy to get the the cable from the bag, I'll post the pictures from Sandusky :D

Almost there! @ Minot, United States, North Dakota

2009-08-12T22:30:41.000Z

We'll we're almost back home, if everything goes well, we should be in Edmonton tomorrow evening.

A couple of funny things happened today though, first it 100F outside, not to shabby for being in the middle of North Dakota lol, lets just say it was warm.

Second, on the way we passed a, are you ready for this one? EDMONTON TRANSIT SYSTEM bus ... yes that is correct the buses we use in Edmonton for public transit was on the highway in North Dakota .. seriously, I was baffled! But it gets better. So we arive in the town/city we are staying in, Minot I think, anyway, there are no hotel rooms available (of course) so we find a bread and breakfast to stay out ... low and behold they are having a wedding reception here ... and out of all places ... the groom is from Edson, Alberta which just happens to be the town I grew up in and there were some very familar faces there... Not to mention at least 1 person that knew me and my mom .. and Vortex ... talk about a small world and the chances of that happening.

:)

We're Back! @ Edmonton, Canada

2009-08-13T21:27:56.000Z

Well the trip is over and we're back in Edmonton! Instead of typing out all that happened, I'll just tell you guys on Vent, it is so much easier! However the rest of the pictures will be posted here :)

Edmonton, Canada @ Edmonton, Canada

2009-08-15T16:51:41.000Z