Portland, Wally world and NYC

so after San Fran i few up to Portland to spend a few days with my lovely american family the Torkelsens. it was really nice just to chill out for a few days and to spend time with Darla after the rush of so long. on thursday i headed up to Walla Walla university where most of the Big Lake staff attend. it was so great to see everyone as I didn't get to say goodbye to many people with the rush evacuation from Camp. we had heaps of fun catching up and i'm so glad that i made the effort to go up there. Now i'm chilling out in NYC with Ash Lyon from RYLA. she is being so lovely in putting me up and showing me around. today was my first day in New York. Ash and I slept in an then went to a cute little cafe called Alice's tea cup for brunch after a coffee stop at starbucks. before heading into times square for some shopping and then back to the apartment to get ready to head out to broadway to see Mary Poppins with one of Ash's work friends Tara who was just lovely. the show was AMAZING. loved it SO much. and then we headed out for dinner at supershake. i love the area that Ash lives in- if you have ever seen 'You've got Mail' then you will know where i am staying right now. :D so tomorrow we are heading out again to do fabulous fun things and i am so excited! I will post some photos soon! :)

BLYC photos!

PUC - St Helena - San Francisco

well the last few days have been quite lovely. as most of my trip has been! after LA, Jason and I caught the train north and spent a few days at his grandparents house near PUC (Pacific Union College) where Jason went to school. which was cool to see after hearing so many stories. we also went to St Helena, i will have to put up some pictures soon, it was such a gorgeous town! we visited a beautiful winery and had a look in all the little cute stores before going home to have dinner with one of his old teachers and his grandparents (who were away while we were there unfortunately, but kindly let us stay in their house!) next door neighbours who were just lovely! we had a divine puerto rican style mexican dinner, it was SO good. then the next morning they drove us to Vallejo where we caught the ferry to pier 39- Fishermans warf in San Francisco! :D i have now seen Alcatraz, and the golden gate bridge! :) we spent a lovely arvo checking out pier 39- so much to see! before heading to the airport, Jason fly's out home tomorrow, leaving me all alone. :( so i'll spend the day checking out San Fran by myself before heading back up to portland by train. pray for safe travels for both of us- i have a 18+ hour train ride to look forwards to!
well i hope you enjoyed the pics, there will be more coming soon when i finally desize them so that they will upload! :)

San Francisco! :D

Photo time! :) images from fun times in Portland and LA :)

LA- Disneyland, parkour, surfing USA

Well it's my last day in LA. Been here for a very fun week now. Spent most of the time here out with Erin at Loma Linda area. It was so good to see her again after all this time. On Wednesday night we drove out past Hollywood an went to a Parkour gym that Jason has been dreaming about for a long time. It was good fun an Jason an a few of the guys at the gym gave us our first lesson! It was alot of fun so I may have to find somewhere at home to keep learning. :) I found the trick stuff the most fun however! Friday was Disneyland day, Erin has to work unfortunately but Bry joined Cora, Jason an I for the day. We had so much fun, despite Pirates ride being closed (our collective favorite ride) Saturday Erin an I had some lovely girl time alone when Cora an Jason hit up Laguna beach with Billy, another Big Lake person from 06 an Jason's old roomie at college. We finished the day by heading to a Hens of one of Erins old college buddies, it was lovely to finally meet these girls that I had heard so much about an seen in photos an some even talked too on skype occasionally. They were all so lovely. Sunday Billy took the four of us an his friend Jarrat to the beach where they took us surfin, it wasn't the best surf, but it was still alot of fun despite the cold! That night we hit up Laguna for some gelato after our delicious Mexican dinner. I'm in live with that town, I could spend hours there going through all the art galleries! Yesterday Cora left us for home, an so Jason an I are staying with Bry for two nights before heading up to San Franscisco an PUC where he went to college. Last night we stopped by Bry's boy KC work for some drinks an a chat before hitting up a movie in the grove. Now were chilling out at the grove again while Bry has an audition then we are going to spend the arvo chilling before Merton up with KC at Santa Monica pier for dinner an drinks. Tomorrow morning we train up to San Fran. So pray for safe travels an someone to pick us up! So excited to explore San Fran! :) it's going to be amazing. Much love to you all. X

Fires, evacuation, so starts the travel portion!

Well i know it has been awhile aince my last post. But things at camp just got so busy!! I can't believe how fast 3 months flew past!!! Time sure does fly when you are having fun!! I miss everyone from camp so freaking much!! They were all amazingly awesome ppl an fortunately my travel plans mean that I will get to see most of them at least once more before I leave the states! But let me tell you- what a summer! If you remember correctly the first week of camp was cancelled due to too much snow, well last sat we got evacuated from camp due to a fire being less than 2 miles away from us. So that was fun! Haha was in the middle of our sat programme an we get told- get out! So we all ran back to our cabins, chucked everything in bags an then cars, then I had to drive someone's car out to the netting place by myself, get a lift back in then load 14 horses an help drive them out! With fire'ys all lining up with their pitchforks over their shoulders looking the world like the 7 dwarfs I couldn't help but laugh! So these last few days instead of being at camp Jason an I have been staying at his best friends parents house, they have been so lovely 2 us! An today the traveling adventure starts as we leave for LA today! :D I'm very excited, an altho these last few days have been lovely to chill out an relax I miss camp so freaking much!! It's so weird not having 100's of ppl around all the time!! Not 2 mention not working with horses every single day as I have been for the last 3 months!! Tho I am enjoying beig clean an not smelling for the first time in 3 months 2!!

So at 9:35 ish this evening I will be arriving in LA to spend some LONG awaited tome with one Erin Abston (my bestie from BLYC last time, it has been 4 years since we have seen each other so I am SO freaking excited!) an Bry from Perth. It is going to be amazing! So please keep Jason, Cora an I in your prayers for safe travels as we fly out today an go an explore LA. Things on the list of stuff to do are Disneyland of course! Surfing an hanging out at the beach, going to a Parkour gym for Jason, an general fun, if I'm lucky I can hope some dancing!!

Well that's all I have time for. I should get up an get mo if as there is alot to do between now an leaving! Some more pics will be coming soon! :)

the end is come and gone and near all at once

so camps are over, the normal ordinary summer camps that is, yesterday we had our staff retreat, which was amazing amounts of fun- we hit up jump sky high, an place the trampolines and foam pits and dodge ball trampoline courts- well i'm sure you get the point, it was alot of fun, we were all doing flips into the foam pit. then after a lovely picnic lunch at someones beautiful house where they had 10 kittens that everyone was running around after we hit a wings and waves, and indoor water park. it was pretty fun, the hot tub was amazing, and the wave pool and one or two of the slides was pretty fun so we were there for a few hours before all heading to taco bell for dinner where half the staff have no left us to do other things for the rest of the summer. :( was so sad to say goodbye to some of them not knowing when i am going to see them again! fortunately most go to walla walla where i am planning on visiting as part of my travels. so now we are having our day off, me Bee, Alyssa and Jason are hitting up Eugene for some chill time at Bee's house and shopping, its nice to go somewhere different other than Bend, even though i do love Sisters and Bend alot. so tomorrow we start bonus weeks, so 3 more weeks left of camp. there are quite a few people staying for the first week but then i think quite alot more people are leaving. :( week three we only have 4 people in the corral which is going to be interesting with 21 horses to look after. fortunately 3 of us are old hands and Jason who is joining us knows what he is doing, but after having 8 people to look after the 21 horses its going to be quite different!

i have started planning my trip for the rest of the time that i am allowed to stay in the states, which is pretty exciting!!! then off to see Larissa in England. its going to be very hard to leave here though, i have made so many amazing friends here again.

so heres to the last 7 weeks that i have in the States- how time flies!