Canada!

So I just got back from my two-day trip to Canada! Hurray! It was really fun and I got to see my aunt, my cousins, and their little schnauzer Molly.

I went there in this minivan, packed next to a couple of sticky children (sticky children directed at my brother and his friend). They talked and talked and talked and wouldn't stop talking. And to make it worse, they started chewing watermelon gum in the car, filling it with this choking stink. It was HORRIBLE because I got carsick from the unbeatable watermelon-car reek, the high-pitched chirping of crow-like children, and being strapped and choked to my icky brother by a seatbelt that would pop me if it got a smidge tighter, and not to mention that the driver was hitting 70 on the freeway and wouldn't let me open a window 'cause it was loud, but you know what would be worse than the loud rush of wind? The stink of puke.

It was so bad that I had an entire run-on sentence for it.

Now for the positives: I went to this water park (Water Mania) that was AWESOME. They had this shallow-ish pool, and while I was wrestling this pool toy (looked like a life-saver, but blue, extremely buoyant, and squishy, like a balloon) I get hit in the face by a wave. I mean, unexpected, right? Like, how many times in my life can I say I was hit in the face by a wave while strangling an inflatable pool ring? It was great; the waves hit up to three feet above normal water level. When I finally climbed atop my pool ring, like this guy here:

The pool ring looked kinda like this, but with handles for young child hands and no head cushion. Image obtained from http://www.toysplash.com/images/products/131377_L.jpg 

the BIGGEST WAVE rolled under me and sent the pool ring a couple inches into the air! It was so cool...but then the wave pool ended and I got bored. So two guys that came along showed me the waterslide which inevitabley was awesome. Like, you climb up four flights of stairs barefoot and freezing just to find this red tube with a couple spurts of water jetting out, right? Then you sit down, not expecting much, and then WHAM! You're sliding up and down and your feet dangle over the edge when you turn and then suddenly you're on your back and struggling and SPLASH! You hit the pool now you want to go again! PURE AWESOMENESS.

Also we went biking for like 5 kms on a trail. My fingers almost fell off.