Home For Christmas: Part 3

The Chrysalis Inn & Spa

During my days at home after the holiday season, my mum, myself, and two of our friends went out for drinks together. We went to the Chrysalis Inn & Spa to have appetizers and drinks at Keenan's at the Pier.  The sunset was absolutely beautiful, and the food was really tasty. It was good to catch up with our friends, since I get to come home so rarely. 

Home For Christmas: Part 2

Sunset along the way.

For Christmas Eve, we went down to Issaquah to visit my dad's brother's family. This year, my aunt decided to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for Christmas! Since we didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving this year, we figured that it would be nice to have that style of dinner before the year was through. She cooked a turkey from scratch, as well as multiple side dishes to go along with it. We provided some yams that were cooked by my youngest brother!  

Home For Christmas: Part 1

Winter Festival Lights in Downtown Kelowna 

In the last few days of my exams, I went downtown to see the Christmas lights display. It was a lot smaller than I expected, but was pretty nonetheless. 

Me holding a baby kangaroo!

For the next part of our Sunday Expedition we went to the Kangaroo Creek Farm in Winfield, BC. It's a privately owned farm that breeds and houses kangaroos (wallaroos specifically), wallabies, emus, capybaras, peacocks, fancy chickens, goats, parrots, and pot bellied pigs. In the picture above you can see me holding a kangaroo joey. He was all nestled in his blanket pouch and then he fell asleep in my arms! 

Lazy Sunday Part 1: The Jammery and Friendly Horses!

Amazing Belgian Waffles!

Today Ricki and I went our favourite breakfast & brunch place: The Jammery. This restaurant serves all day breakfast and lunch, as well producing it's own jams, jellies, and chutneys. There's a fun window in the gift shop that allows you to look in and watch the fruit spreads - and even the occasional pie - being made! My favourite breakfast to get is the Belgian Waffles. They come with a delicious clotted cream and blueberry maple syrup!

Pumpkin Carving with Ricki!

Fall has finally come to Kelowna! The trees are turning burnt oranges and reds, and the temperatures are starting to drop. This weekend Ricki and I went to dinner, went diving through Walmart crates of pumpkins, and then carved said pumpkins! 

Campus in the Fall

Back to School!

So it's time to go back to school. I'm entering my 4th year at UBC and just started at a new job. I work at our campus pub now...which gets just as crazy as you think it does! For the first month of school I'll be working three jobs: the pub, the campus bookstore, and at the American Eagle in the local mall. Luckily this insane schedule won't last too long, and I'll have enough money to be able to relax for the rest of the semester. I always like to work as much as I can during the summers and beginning of the school year, because it's when my class work load is minimal. I would rather have a more relaxed final exam period than a relaxed start to the semester! 

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