7 degrees

daniel, me and my new dark hair

i am in seattle. yay. i have seen my family, including of course my little daniel - see picture above. i flew into vancouver where mum, dad and daz picked me up from the airport. we had to hang around for a few hours to wait for some friends of dazza's who were getting a ride with us down to seattle. we were driving around vancouver, it was raining and cold, and i realised how little attention i was paying to place. is it because i have been there a few times now and it's no longer new and exciting or was it because i had been flying/in transit for the lat 24 hours and had only slept for 2 hours the night before i left? hmmm. yes, it's cold, kez and i have just been shopping and as dad dropped me at kez and hil's this morning, the temperature was 7 degrees. that's stupid. i swear i could feel my tan fading as we landed amoungst the cold, clouds and rain in vancouver. doh. i managed to stay awake till 8pm last night. i then slept for 13 hours. i was excited. i couldn't tell you the last time i slept for even 8 hours.

mum asked me if it was sad saying goodbye to everyone. i guess i wouldn't have called it sad. it was more weird. i think because i was so busy before leaving and daz had been over, it just kind of happened without any big sort of kafufful (not sure how to spell that). it was kind of weird saying goodbye to people. i mean, going away for 6 months, time will fly. and with email, etc, i think the world is so much smaller than it used to be. i know somethings will change while i'm away, but then there are also things that won't change at all. it's also kind of strange that i can just fly to the other side of the world and feel so at home. kez pointed out that seeing as technically at the moment i am homeless, mum and dad's is my home right now. if you've ever seen 'the castle', you'd understand when i say that mum and dad's place isn't just a house, it's a home. so that is funny that i leave my home (as in melbourne) and slip right into another one.

kez just asked if i was writing a novel, so i better stop, don't want to bore you. just make sure you tune in tomorrow for my next update.

oh and beth, jayne and annie - i'm wearing my new top today!!!