My fourth to last week in Vancouver was great! The Boecker grandparents visited for 4 days and we had an amazing trip. We toured a lot of downtown Vancouver, spent a day at the aquarium and met some whales, went to lynn valley ecological park and suspension bridge, drove up to Whistler where the 2010 winter games are going to be held, and went whale watching! Phew I’m tired just writing about it. We hiked a lot, ate good food (yay!), swam, took a ton of pictures, and basically had a pretty much perfect Vancouver experience. Each thing we did I could go on about for about a page each, so I’ll spare you and just tell you the cool details in person when I get back home!

As far as work goes it was an awesome time too. There was one sad thing; our other Beluga intern quit (for numerous reasons); and although I miss him a lot because we had a really fun time together at work, I am really busy now and probably doing more than I would have had the chance to otherwise. So I guess I'm sad for him, but at least the change isn't really hurting the internship (except for more days in FH).

Well to go back to the 'awesome time' part of work- This week I got to joint feed two whales and two otters, I finally gave my ‘otter talk’ in front of the public on mic (twice), I was approved on two new behaviors w/ whales, I lead a sea otter encounter, got to play with the only Harbour porpoise in captivity in North America, watched some world-class fireworks, and I had an amazing amazing last day of my 10th week here. (told you I was busy) Today was just one of those great days you can’t explain- nothing big and perfect happened, it was just a good day.

I woke up at 5:30am to go to work by 6:30 and had extra time so I grabbed a coffee and some ‘timbits’ (donut holes) for my early morning co-workers and myself. Walking to the bus stop/work it was just a perfect morning, a lot like Midwest summer mornings before the humidity hits. I was the first one at work- which was pretty fun, and when the other trainers got there we did some super-fast bucket making and fed a bunch of animals with lots of down time in between to eat our timbits. Basically it was just a nice day and really good ending to a busy week. Well Ice Cube knows what I’m talking about anyway.

And I still have the fireworks left to complete my week! Tonight is China and I’m really excited…although it is already 8pm and I haven’t gotten a call from the friend I’m going w/ to see them…but hopefully it’ll work out!

I’ll write more about what everything I did at work means later, I just wanted to get at least a short post out so that Auntie Di-Di would have something to read at work on Monday!
See you all three weeks from today!

Love,
Your favorite whatever relation I am to you