#34 Break a world record When I first put this goal on my 10 year list, I had assumed that it would be more of a long-term goal. Lucky for me, it’s the seventh item completed on my list. Josh Dueck, a Paralympic silver medalist, partnered with Worksafe B.C. set out to break the world record…
My very last pageant, my own retirement pageant, took place this past weekend in Merritt. I drove up early on Wednesday, my first time driving on the Coquihalla highway. The 2010 B.C. Ambassador candidates had already been up in Merritt all week rehearsing and preparing for their events on Friday and Saturday. Wednesday evening, I…
This weekend was my last pageant as a B.C. Ambassador: in seven days I will be passing on my crown and banner to another deserving individual. On Friday, I travelled to Penticton with the newly crowned White Rock youth ambassadors and Miss White Rock 2010/2011, my sister, @ChloeWoodin. My mom chaperoned us, and we met…
Lytton is a small town, its city centre located about an hour outside of Hope. It’s known for it’s white water rafting, the First Nations population living there and on the reserves surrounding it, and it’s temperatures; Lytton is, after all, Canada’s Hotspot. It’s also a very cool place geographically because it is surrounded by three distinct…
I spent this past weekend in the Tournament Capital of Canada, Kamloops B.C. I drove up with some of the White Rock ambassadors and organizer Donna Friday afternoon. We made it just in time for the dinner and dance (no impromptu Graces). It was way too hot to dance, so the evening ended early. Saturday…
Today was the first day of my five day adventure: three pageants, three parades and a whole lot of dinners, socials and driving. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. and left White Rock around 6:30 a.m. to catch what should have been the 7:25 a.m. Greyhound leaving from Langley to Osoyoos. But the bus was late….