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Its 2009 and I didn’t make any “official” new years resolutions.  But I do have a lot of plans, goals and other deliciousness in store.  First off I want to thank everyone for an amazing year.  There are many, MANY people to thank on a personal and professional level.  So here goes!

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my family for their continued source of support and encouragement in my life.  I’d like to thank Sean and Natasha for being amazing people and role models in my life, you guys rock!  Thank you to Gabrielle Touchette, who not only is a close friend but also an amazing photographer who I spend way too much time talking about photography with (just kidding, you know I love it!), and who actually happens to be a former bride of mine!  I’d like to thank to Lauralee B. who is like my second mom, you have the best advice!  Thank you to Cory Aronec for teaching me pretty much everything I know!  Thanks to Amanda O. for your awesome blog and someone to chat to every night I teach (when I think about you…).  Many thanks to Patty Boge from Off The Page Photography for your amazing advice.  Thank you to Jake and Jess from Kamp Photography for just being you and super cool at it, I appreciate all the advice you have given! ( I can say Rocktographers properly now, I have been practicing!).  Thanks to all my friends for letting me be myself and STILL being my friends!  You guys are too much fun, and really weird :P  Oh boy I hope I haven’t forgotten anyone!

Okay, so if I didn’t thank you, email me and I’ll make sure to add you in another post:)  So, my new years unofficial resolutions are as follows:

1. -Be a kinder, more caring person
2. -Excercise at least twice a week
3. -Have a salad at least twice a week
4. -Hug people more
5. -Use more exclamation points in my post!!!
6. -Learn French

I realize this could be put into 3 separate posts but how would that make it a mega post then?  See, I’m a thinker!

Montreal!  Montreal was amazing, and if you haven’t noticed by now, I don’t do segways, I just go!  See, that was a segway in a…nevermind.  At any rate, Montreal was very beautiful and the first thing I noticed was they had HILLS!  I know, I know, it doesn’t seem like a big deal but I haven’t seen hills like that in years.  I had to walk up a hill and down a hill all the time.  It makes Winnipeg seem so much easier to walk around, just go straight!  And the weather, boy howdy!  The weather was beautiful.  I remember one day the weather was 0 degrees!  I believe that was boxing day :)  I know I could ramble on for paragraphs but how about I just show you some photos already!

[caption id="attachment_185" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Notre Dame Cathedral"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_186" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Some cool looking building"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_187" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="This was a hallway leading to the Subway. "][/caption] [caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Waiting for the Subway"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_189" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Portrait of V."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_190" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Always on the move."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_191" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="I don't know what this was, but it was in Montreals Convention Centre."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_192" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="sweetness"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_193" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Did I mention this was in a mall?"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_194" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="It was dark in the Notre Dame Cathedral"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_195" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="But it sure was beautiful"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_196" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Luckily we were seated right behind a big POLE!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_197" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="This was just outside the Canadian National Gallery in Ottawa"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_198" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Back in Montreal"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_199" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Really cool looking water!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_200" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Part of a Casino"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_201" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Bricks of Gold"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_202" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Not bricks of Gold"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_203" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="I love all glass buildings"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_204" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Love the light"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_205" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="McGill Univerisity. I know a guy who knows a guy who goes there."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_206" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption=":)"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_207" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="This was inspired by someone I know"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_208" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Montreal has spirally staircases"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_209" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="No one drives there."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_210" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="What is a Lambarghini doing in Montreal in the WINTER???"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_211" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ok I admit it... I was secretly in Mexico! haha, just kidding, but man I LOVE hummus!"][/caption]

This year is already starting off in high gear.  Stay tuned next week for a special annoucement from me and my super cool friend Gabrielle Touchette.  And if that’s not enough, I was just published in PrairieView School of Photography’s New 2009 Brochure! Make sure the check out the last page, thats where my photo is!

Yesterday was was launch day!  Veronica (forever known as Ronnie) and I headed to the airport and right before we picked up Ronnie to head to the airport she called to let me know that the flight had been delayed.

We were supposed to depart at 5:05 pm but only took off at around 7:30 pm.  That wasn’t too bad.  BUT, while we were waiting at gate “P” as instructed via our boarding tickets Ronnie realized that for whatever reason our actual gate letter had been changed to “S” but NO ONE told us!  Sheesh.   So then finally we are waiting at the right gate and Ronnie with her sly words managed to get both of us seats beside each other.  Thank was nice of the attendant and we courteously thanked him for it!

So we fly.  All is good, we watch “ghost town” or something like that.  It was with Ricky Gervais, you know the one.  Any who, we land and all is well.  We taxi the runway onto a waiting area because all the terminals are full of other planes and we have to wait our turn.  So we wait.  And wait.  And wait. For an hour, sitting in the hot, cramped small airplane.

We finally get off!  We head towards the luggage where we wait for ohhhh, about another hour as our luggage doesn’t come.  Then I noticed that on another luggage line and isn’t marked with our flight number that some luggage is coming through.  Sure enough, our luggage had been going around the luggage belt on a totally different line and the one we were looking on was only for a Vancouver flight (but it was marked for Winnipeg and Vancouver).  As we grab our stuff and head for a taxi the annoucement comes on that our luggage (Winnipeg flight) is on the other belt after we already found it.  Thanks guy, appreciate the help.

At this point Ronnie and I are in a pissy mood because we were soo excited to get to Montreal but with all the rollercoaster emotions of having to wait I left us a bit exhausted.  We get to our hostel, which by the way is fantastic and head to bed.  Snoring on an epic level occurs from what I think is a mountain lion in my dorm room, head phones on and iTouch full blast I head to bed.

All in all the sleep was really good.  We just had an afternoon of exploration and Montreal is SOOOO amazing.  I am in love with this city.  I can’t show you pictures until I get back but I promise you this city is amazing.  Its amazingness makes up for what is a typical flight with good ol’ Air Canada.

But, I don’t want this to be a downer, Montreal is so beautiful.  We had breakfast at this amazing Crepery and it was divine.  I have never had a crepe so big and so delicious.  The people are incredibly helpful, sweet, lovely, and they all can speak english which is a bonus for us.

Goodbye for now!

Denley