Vancouver, Whitehorse, Dawson

After flying from Vegas to LA and LA to Vancouver, I missed my last leg, Vancouver to Whitehorse BUT it gave me 2 extra nights with Doug! YAY! Cost me almost 400 dollars for a new flight, but, it was worth it!

Finally it gave us a chance to watch "Black Swan".  Those who know me, know that I'm a pretty optimistic person in life BUT when it comes to movies, I choose to be pessimistic. I've been disappointed too many times when someone has said "Oh this film is Uh-Mazing!  You GOTTA see it!" So "Black Swan", watched it and.........."It's UH-Mazing! You Gotta See it".  Apparently it has been getting very extreme raves from I didn't like it at all to I love it!  Watch it, get back to me and I'll tell you why it's so great.  Natalie Portman was very deserving when it came to the Oscar.  Well played ole Nat!

So after two extra glorious nights, I ended up in Whitehorse and into the arms of my old soul pal Emilie Fortin.  We worked together last summer at The Klondike Rib and Salmon and became bossum buddies right off the bat.

Whitehorse was spent running around doing errands, lunch at Burnt Toast (the hottest new restaurant in Whitehorse which I would give the Prawn Thai Salad a 4 out of 10) a beer at the 98 with Becky (the 98 is an old hole in the wall bar that weird enough is very cozy) and dinner at sanchez with Tara (roommate from last summer) Hickman (college buddy and soul sister for life) Ambre (dear sweet friend) and Becky joined us again.   Finished off the night with Emilie and two charming homosexual males drinking wine talking India and showtunes.

Now I'm in Dawson with Helen working on some choreography for the show and getting used to the slow pace of Dawson.  (Slow for now until the town fills up for the summer, work begins and life as we know it is AWESOME!)

Highlights of the past few days include: Watching "Dinner with Shmucks" with Helen and re-creating my burrito bowl.  YUh-meeee!!

≈  Get used to seeing many pictures of food this summer!  I think I need to work on my food presentation as this kinda looks like I enjoyed it then threw it back up into the bowl! HA

Vegas!!!

What a whirlwind this last week has been! I left Saskatoon on Thursday April 14th with Mom and Dad taking me to the airport.  Moms comment on the trip was "I thought we were done with this"  (This being taking me to the airport, with many a luggage in tow, to ship me off yet again)

Arrived in Vegas and into the arms of my love.  We ventured to Freemont St. to downtown Vegas known as the old Vegas.  We spent our first three nights at the Golden Nugget which is one of the oldest hotels in Vegas.  Friday morning was spent finding me the brightest running shoes possible.  I ended up with two pair, one fushia and one bright blue.

And then the time finally came for Doug and I to FINALLY go see Celine Dion.  Our tickets for Celine were bought even before the flights and hotel were booked.  The show opened and I had tears in my eyes.  Here voice IS amazing.  But then I sat and waited patiently for the dancers to enter.  I waited, and waited and waited and finally Doug says to me "It's not like they are hiding them in the back".  She had NO dancers!  I was SOO disappointed.

Oh well, we've got our Sintara Dance with Me for the next night.  It was going to be ok.  We spent another day shopping around, enjoying the beautiful weather and eating at the Chipotle Mexican Grille for the second time.  (Anyone going to vegas that likes Mexican, hit up the burrito bowl, its magical)  Finally the time came for us to go to the show. I study the program.  Many of the dancers have performed in Celine's previous show "A New Day", in Twyla Tharp's "Movin Out" (amazing Billy Joel musical) or both.  I'm stoked.  We are 6 rows back smack in the middle.  I'm super excited!  The curtains open and the general manager steps out to tell us due to a black out the show will not go on this evening.  Are you f*%#in kidding me!!!! I sat in shock for about 5 minutes before I realized that life needed to go on.  Oh well, better luck next time VEGAS! Geez!  We walked all the way home from the strip to downtown and almost made up for it by having a red tiger roll at RED SUSHI.  (shrimp tempura, spicy, tuna and avacado, DEEE-Licious!)

Day Three of vegas.  Doug went on priceline.com the night before and we gambled for a new hotel.  (Only gambling we did in vegas besides Doug on 2 slots waiting for me outside the ladies room)  We got the PH hotel. What the heck is the PH?  OOOOH Planet Hollywood.  Ok.  Westgate towers.  Pretty nifty.  More comfy bed and funky little mall attached where we enjoyed RED Mango frozen yogurt.  Pomegranate to be exact.  Guess we only eat at places that start with Red???? It was our last night to see a show so we opted for "Absynthe" which was suggested by a woman with a New York accent infront of us waiting for Sinatra.  "Oh you just gotta see Absynthe, it's fabulous"  And it was.  I mix between burlesque and cirque.  Funny, sexy, thrilling, great.  We left feeling as if our wounds had healed from the last two nights of shows.

Over all I give Vegas about a 7 out of 10.  Favourite parts: The bellagio fountain.  The food (burrito bowl, red tiger roll (both of which we had twice) binnions cafe, Forever 21, the absynthe show,  the weather and of course being with Doug.

Next stop. Vancouver (after missing my flight, oops!)