First time running in a while.
I'm gonna turn red like a tomato in just like a few minutes.
Good morning everyone and welcome or welcome back to another vlog.
I am still looking a little bit red from my run.
I always get so red whenever I work out and especially when I run outside because of the sun and the heat.
But yeah, I went on a run this morning.
I want to get back into it.
So I decided to go with a short little three kilometer run just to ease back into it.
I feel like running after you've taken a break from a while is so humbling.
I was going up a hill today and I was struggling so much, but I'm proud of myself for doing that.
And now I'm just going to get ready.
I have plans to meet up with a friend for coffee this morning.
So I figured I would put in a little bit of effort and try to do my makeup for once.
But I figured it would also be a good opportunity to catch up with you guys and tell you what I've been up to.
When I'm filming this, it's Friday, July 25th, and I can't believe July is almost over.
I feel like it just started, and that's honestly how I feel about most of this summer so far.
Right now, I have less than a month left until i go back home because my sister and i are driving back home to montreal in or sorry on august 24th and right now it's the 25th of july so it's officially less than a month until i go back home and on the one hand i am trying to like soak up what i can of this last month here but i'd also be lying if i said i wasn't looking forward to Going back home, like honestly, I miss my room and just like my bed.
As dumb as it might sound.
One example of something I'm looking forward to when I go back home is my Dyson vacuum.
I miss that so much.
And also my washer and dryer, because here I have to go to a laundromat to do laundry and it's just like a whole expedition.
It takes like two hours and it's just like really a hassle.
Whereas having a washer and dryer at home and just being able to wash my sheets every week.
It's such a blessing and I'm never gonna take it for granted again.
I don't think I'm particularly like a neat freak, but I do like to, you know, tidy up and clean my space, especially like once a week I like to do like a deep clean.
And I feel like here I never feel like anything is properly clean, because I just like sweep the floor, but then I feel like there's still dust and hair in some corners of the room that I can't reach.
I don't know why I started renting about this but, all this to say, I definitely wanna soak up this last month i have here as much as possible, because when i come back in august slash september, it's gonna be back to school already and that's gonna be like such an adjustment because i'm just gonna be thrown right back into that.
Anyways, i'm getting ahead of myself here.
Um, there's still, you know, lots to look forward to.
While i'm here earlier this week i had my days off and my sister, some friends and i went on a backcountry camping trip which was so much fun and i did Try to vlog that a little bit.
So I will insert those clips now Setting up the tent.
I'm going to be helpful and help and not just stand here and film.
Tell us your name, a fun fact.
My name's Caroline, a fun fact.
We're sisters.
My name's Kaylee.
Fun fact about me, my blankie is here at the campsite.
I bring it with me everywhere.
My name's Lawrence and I speak French.
We're sisters.
Okay, we got carrot cake.
It's apparently very famous, so.
Cheers!
Review it.
So peaceful.
It's a good one.
What else can we listen to?
Thank you.
We're in, what's it called, a cooking shelter?
We're in the cooking shelter and we got a fire going here to warm us up, especially our toes.
Everyone's feet are cold.
But we did a hike this morning and it did not stop raining until we got back, of course.
But I think it's gonna be a nice evening.
What do you think?
Well, there's chocolate.
There's chocolate.
We've been singing that.
There's the fudge.
It's so good.
It looks, wait, where'd you get that from?
It's from like a local candy person.
Suspicious.
Oh no, part of him. whole day for the sun to come out but it was fully worth it 10 out of 10
It's actually like magical.
Wow.
We're doing this one that's gonna be us.
It looks like they're falling down a little.
It looks like they're falling backwards.
We're commencing back to present Clarice.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
I honestly can't wait to edit and watch back the footage that I got from our trip, because I feel like it was just such a fun time.
Obviously like the weather could have been better but these are things that happen.
I feel like we still managed to make the most of it.
Once I'm done getting ready I'm just gonna have some breakfast because I haven't eaten yet.
I think I'm gonna make some peanut butter and banana toast.
And then I'm gonna head out to meet up with my friend for coffee.
Also, I forgot to mention, but I got this cute little tumbler that I'm gonna bring to the coffee shop. from this lodge that we visited that was at the lake and it's just so cute i'm so excited to drink my little matcha make myself coffee in this although i do feel like it's going to be a little bit hard to clean like just the way the lid is designed but it did say that the lid was dishwasher safe so i can put this in the dishwasher just not the actual mug my hair is getting so long which i'm very grateful for because i've been wanting to grow it out obviously i'm still probably gonna get trim like eventually probably before I go back to school but I'm so happy with growing it out especially for the winter I feel like it's gonna be really nice and yeah okay I'm kind of stalling right now but I'm gonna make myself some breakfast before I leave and head out for coffee good morning everyone and happy saturday i didn't do a great job at updating the vlog yesterday but honestly i kind of enjoyed just having that morning to catch up with my friend and just really being present so sorry about that i will try to do a better job today as i said today's saturday and it's already 11 in the morning i was planning on like bringing you guys along with me this morning and maybe going outside to the lake maybe doing some reading or journaling and kind of having like a lake morning before i have to go to work this afternoon but it's really gray and rainy today so unfortunately that plan is kind of thrown out the window and i had to readjust but it's okay i actually have quite a bit of work to catch up on so i figured i would go to a coffee shop to work on that i made a to-do list last night on my phone of everything i want to get done i also really need to pick up a package at the post office that's been waiting there for like a week now and i just haven't had the time to go there and pick that up because every time the post office is open i am unavailable or unable to go so today finally worked out that our schedules aligned and i can pick up my package finally so that's kind of a rundown of my to-do list again i think i'm gonna try new coffee shop today and just go there to get work done i'm always like 10 times more productive when i leave the house especially on a rainy day like today i just feel like if i tried to stay home to work nothing would get done whatsoever anyways that being said i'm gonna hit the road now and let's have a productive day i just pulled over for a second because look how cloudy the mountain is like it's basically hidden I spent so much time in that post office and I still don't have my package.
So here's the update.
Basically, a few weeks ago, I ordered a tumbler on Amazon.
I'll put a picture.
It's really cute.
I figured it would be great to bring my coffee and matcha to work in the morning.
So I put that order in and because I don't have like a physical tumbler, like permanent address here in banff, because i'm only working here for the summer, i at the beginning of the summer signed up to receive my packages at the post office and they gave me like this whole sheet and it had like the address i should put in for orders.
So that's the one i input into amazon.
But i guess one thing i didn't take into consideration was that the canada post post office only accepts packages that are mailed by Canada Post.
And I guess mine was assigned through Amazon to another delivery company.
So they weren't able to drop off the package.
And I don't know how, but somehow my package ended up at someone's house.
I don't know where they got this address from, because it's not the address I put into like my order information, and I saw that they did take a picture as like proof of delivery, and I'm looking at this house and I'm like I have no idea where this is.
The employee at the post office told me I should just go through Amazon customer service and let them know that the package was delivered to the wrong address and they should send me another one to the right place, hopefully.
I think I'll just like ask one of my co-workers or ask someone who has a permanent address here if I can just like use their address to get my package delivered, because I don't want to go through this whole process again, because at this point I'm going to get that package.
It's going to arrive by the time I'm back home in September.
It's currently 1230, so I'm not gonna have as much time as I wanted to to get some work done.
But I still really wanna get myself like a dirty chai and just at least sit down and like open up my computer to just do a little bit of planning, because I have to get ready to leave for work in like an hour.
So I have some time still to try to be productive and kind of turn this day around after that disappointing little Side quest.
All this to say, i'm gonna head out to the coffee shop now and hopefully next time I see you I have a dirty chai in hand, Having such wonderful places to walk when I get back home.
