Ambroise Paré, my high school.

Hello la fripouille!
Hope everybody is doing good in Canada ! Here, in Laval, I'm enjoying myself as a real tourist! I never leave without my camera and it turns out to be pretty funny wandering downtown with everbody staring at me in a suspicious way. They're not really use to be famous in Laval that's why...but I'll take care of that in this blog. It might be the only town in france that you'll know but at least you will remember this one :) That's a start!
Being a tourist is a difficult job (not kidding) especially with french people. I got in some trouble with one woman that was walking towards me as I was taking a picture of the castle with some back ground houses of Laval, I thought it was nice picture as she walked faster and stopped in front of me to ask me, with a very bad look in her face, if I'd dared putting her in that picture or if she'd dreamt...I almost said to her that I took that photo because of her to put it in facebook but instead I just replied that if she wanted me to erase it I will and then she kept on walking looking slightly upset. I should have told her that I came back from Canada, maybe she would have understand better :)
People watching is alsways something that I get into without even noticing and people don't like it when somebody is just staring at them (hum a stranger...) it makes you look very impolite.

This is a street heading to a market place and the houses are dated from the 13th centuries.

La perrine

Don't cross the way of the dogs' owner either because they're extremely sensitive about their animal! Take this warning seriously if you don't wanna get kick by the leash of a furious woman (women often more than men I noticed) because you said something wrong about her lovely pet! Apart from these little things happening here an there, Laval is rather quiet and small but there is still room to fit you all! Of course when you see pictures taken from a city in books or magazines they're rarely showing the ugly sides of it, only showing the prettiest of it...what's interesting can be also beautiful but then it varies on the public's interest. Thats a way to say that downtown is very small and going out from downtown may seem to you as if it could be anywhere.



I love going through there but it's also very narrow, better go in daylight



Western Safari Tour!

Disney...

Californian trip (suite)

That's the hand prints in LA

I'm not done!
So the Grand Canyon was for me the best part of the trip, mostly intense anyway.
Vegas came up next! We spent one night in Vegas walking out in the warm night or in limos for some of us. Yeah...you need to be 21 and rich, at least a little, if you wanna have fun in Vegas! We stayed at the Excalibur hotel, the one that looks like it came straight from the castle in a Disney movie. Vegas was mostly bright and made for entertainment so you spend your money doing something that you enjoyed. We 're done with Vegas! Let's go to the next destination, Yosomite. Yosomite we the last place we visited before turning back to San Francisco. We stayed there for three night, the longhest time. It's just gorgious there, we stayed in the valley but we'd go for hikes durind the day to see the water falls or make it up to these huuuge cliffs. One I remember was called "half dome" because it looked as if it was indeed cut in half and people die every year trying to climb that rock. You don't need to get a permit to climb, if you are tempted...

Yosomite...

The trip ended in San Francisco, after we've been going to the Golden Gate Bridge and and hanged out in Port 39, we had a talent show to present and it was really fun. There was some talents you would never expect to find else where, the bums touching was pretty good...haha^^

That's when we were going to Disneyland! (I love that picture :)

Californian trip !

Hey Canada !
As you already know I thought I'd start this blog all over again and in english this time ! Hopefully I'll have some exciting things happening this year so I'll get to write a bit ^^ But first I wanted to show bits and pieces of my trip to California so that you don't think I went somewhere else for two weeks and took vacations...I can tell you already this wasn't vacations! We cooked, we cleaned, we hiked for more than 10 hours, and we sometimes slept outside our tents to be ready to leave as soon as 4.30 in the morning ! Yeah...It was really hard! I suffered a lot indeed, even the candies weren't helping to get through. Even the hot tubs and pools weren't enough to relieve our soar legs. We've got blisters for everyone without exceptions and nobody to take care of our feet but ourselves! Can you imagine that?! This was, to the utter point, unbearable. Thus, if you really don't wanna do me a treat I reckon you should send me there again. I deserve it. I've been bad enough, didn't I :)
Ok, I get it you want me to give you more details than that... Let's start by the beginning when Henriette (the danish girl) and me arrived at the San Francisco airport. Once there we were both thinking "And...what's next?" and no one was apparently waiting for us in the airport as we simply thought...So we were lost to begin with... (that never usually happened to me). After some time spent to look around, see if someone looked as stupid as we felt on the moment, we got the idea to ask one of the worker there who was very kind and let us check our e-mails on his computer. So from there we now had a Hotel to go to by bus...so we caught the right bus to go to the Tree Hotel where our trip was suppose to start. We're Still in San Francisco! But now we're moving to LA, there is only stars there that's why we don't stay too long (only two nights), 'cause stars are boring, aren't they? The spent our first day in LA at the Universal Studios and in the Holywood St where we saw hands prints of famous people just by the Graham Theatre (I looked for you there...)

In U.S we did a train tour to see the different set that they had, where they play desperate housewives or the crash airplane of "The War of the Worlds". They'd also demonstrate to us were the effects we produce on screen such as car accidents or flooding in a street. The only problem with that one was the weather was perfect so we didn't really work out...

"Action !"

 Ah, I also forgot that a very cute banch of spunks sprayed in one tent (fortunately not mine) and that these friends had to throw out their sleeping bags and some of their belongings as well...I've never seen as many skunk as in Los Angeles, they must like sticking to celebrities... (don't be famous!) After our stay in LA, we headed south towards San Diego for two days. There
 we lied down on the sand and settle for the first time the volley ball's net! That's also when we got our first sun burns! Then, still in San Diego, we visited Sea world and had lots of fun, especially with the whales show when they'd splash you in the front rows. The sun got really hot as we left San Diego for Grand Canyon and crossed the mohabi desert. It's funny to get out of the air conditionned bus and feel the 50°'s air outside, so dry and so hot! Our bus broke down in the middle of that desert but luckily we weren't far from a mall where we stayed for hours. These pictures show you how it was once inside the Canyon :

We left at 5 am to see the sun rise in the canyon.

we must approach to 10 am when this picture's been taken.

At last, after 3 hours or more of hiking down, we finally got to the Colorado river. 1km is the height of the canyon if you're  going straight up.