September 25th: Crystal City-Calgary 21 hours of busing fun

Don't be fooled. Crystal city is home to 75 people. The festival is over and we're hanging out in a park until the bus comes. Sunshine, grass, blankets.. we both feel like we're just getting started on this trip.. I took the comfiest nap on the grass after eating some noodles.. yum..

Written on the bus:
We spent our time in the park today .. We slept for a while in the sunshine (we both needed a long sleep because the night was so cold last night we didn't get any rest at all) We played on the playground and ate at a chinese restaurant.. It got dark and cold around 8 so sarah and i played music then fake highland danced to keep warm until the bus came at 9. Our bus driver was great.. he smoked, and we were the only 2 people on this huge greyhound bus so he said we could smoke on the bus if we promised not to tell -- he let us because if we did it, he could do it too. which brings me to my next point: sarah and i are going completely smoke-free as of today. I was never a huge smoker to begin with.. i had a couple every once in a while.. but no more! that's the important part.. sarah and i are done, and we threw out the rest of our tobacco and rollies today..

We had a 3 hour stop-over in Brandon before the bus to calgary came. it was VERY sketchy.. there had been 3 deaths recently due to stabbings.. the driver dripped us off at a hotel where we'd be safe until 2am.. we got to the hotel and there were like 8 men just hanging out in front dressed like gang-members.. the woman at the front desk said we wouldn't be the safest sitting in the lobby, but there was a pub in back and that it was kareoke night (cant spell that word for the life of me)... so she held our bags behind the desk and we went. When we got there the people were still sort of sketchy, but were very nice. One woman was very drunk and kept turning around and gushing over how adorable I was, and then turning to her friends and telling them all about it.. She said I look like she did when she was 20 and that she had low self esteem back then, but seeing me made he realise how cute she was. We were invited to sit with her and her friends. They were all nice to us and they were a lot less drunk than she was. They spent the rest of the evening trying to hook us up with boys at the pub.. until they found out sarah had a boyfriend, and then it was open-season on leslie.