I'm Back..

I had a very fun few days, biking, playing tennis, fly fishing and relaxing. It's like a vacation from my vacation, it was my families vacation for the summer, but it was like vacation on steroids for me. On our first fishing expedition, we trolled for a couple hours but all we got was a couple "chubs" -supposedly they're not good for eating- it's funny because in Gulf Arabic "chub" means shut-up. I did however manage to get my knees sunburned, because I didn't bother to put sunscreen on my knees but the other parts that I did remained un-burned.

Driving up to the vacation home was boring as usual.. Something cool that I've gotten to see over the past few years is the recovery the forests have undergone since a massive forest fire decimated huge amounts of the forests in the area.. that was 7 (i think) years ago. Now a lot of the area has been re-planted and stuff but there's hundreds of acres that are just burned trees..

Oh yeah.. something that made me feel stupid was that I forgot my battery charger and battery in Canada. So I couldn't take any pictures with my dSLR.. >_<

A Trip To the Coast

I can't believe that Paul the Octopus was right. Holland lost the World Cup. I honestly think the final game was one of the worst of the whole tournament, there were 14 yellow cards!! Before the winning goal was scored, the ball should've been in Dutch possession because the Spanish goalkeeper hit the ball, but they got a goal kick instead and if they hadn't had the goal kick, they wouldn't have scored, the game was also more of an acting competition, but thats just the way life -or soccer/football is.

A couple days ago my family and I went to the Oregon coast to visit some old friends. We had a fun time there. The coast is really beautiful, also cold! We went for a long walk along a beach and we had lunch on the beach as well. There was supposed to a cove that you could get to during low-tide but it was high-tide so I, being the only adventurous one, managed to get to it, without getting too wet; but I was rewarded with an abandoned and beautiful beach, unfortunately I had decided not to take my camera (a DSLR) but I had a pretty good point and shoot with me.. Here's some of the pictures I got:

Thoughts on a Plane

Today is the 4th of July.. Happy Independence Day. Yay.. [it was actually the 5th.]
Dang. I forgot about Canada day (which was on July 1st) but that shows you how little I consider myself to be Canadian or American for that matter. I'd say I'm mostly American/Canadian by passport only.. which is funny because in some places you can get a passport by owning land or just investing money and besides almost anyone can become an Canadian. Well.. I could ramble all day about citizenship and passports and how I don't know where I'm from.


I'm bored.. this plane ride is like 3 and a half hours long and I really don't feel like sitting and doing nothing. There's internet but checking Facebook or reading articles on Wired or Lifehacker isn't worth $15 and my battery isn't fully charged, so even though I'd have internet for the whole flight, only part of the time would I even be able to use it.  [I thought it'd be cool to write what ever comes to mind and then share those thoughts with the world on my blog.]

A Taste of Home

Today we went to Dearborn to see some friends and we went out for Lebanese food! For those people who didn't know, Dearborn is the Arabic version of Chinatown in the Detroit/Michigan area.