As an added incentive for pledging my Blogathon efforts for the Surrey Food Bank from Saturday to Sunday, I decided to give away some tickets to the Vancouver Canadians game on August 4th (Mexico Night!) Watch the YouTube video below to see whose name was picked from the hat. Thanks again everyone!
*Also, you can still pledge for Blogathon until July 31st – if you have or do pledge in the post-Blogathon days, I have a secondary prize to give away, which I’ll draw for on Wednesday August 1st*
This weekend has turned out to be entirely consumed by blogging. On Friday night we had some pre-blogstock action at Steamworks and due to prior commitments starting early yesterday morning, I missed out on meeting other local bloggers such as: rilah, Pat Zaph, Carmen, Chad, Danielle, JaG, nome, Jennifer, and Foxxy (whom we met Wednesday), who all got together later that night. (List scooped from Corinna’s post about the event).
Saturday morning, as you probably know by now, I started my Blogathon including an entry every 30 minutes for 24 hours. It was a HUGE success, raising over $400 for the Surrey Food Bank. I went to bed at 6:00 am and laid there next to my husband, who was so warm and I was so cold I didn’t dare put my icy cold blogathon’ed legs near his. My mind was racing, I was thinking that I forgot to give a nod to Buzz who publicized my efforts on Wednesday in the 24 Hours newspaper, and many other blog-related things that made me toss and turn. Yes, I know, I’m a nerd. I don’t know what time it was but I finally passed out, then emerged from my room around 4:00 pm.
A hockey blogger from up north and who we’ve interviewed on The Crazy Canucks (Sean from ‘Waiting for Stanley‘), was passing through town this evening with his lovely wife so we went out to meet them for dinner. John called up J.J. who came along with Tracy and we had a mini hockey blogger meetup. It was a really great time and I realized that without blogging, I wouldn’t know so many of these great people I’ve come to admire.
A very successful weekend indeed, and I think even though I slept in so late today, I will still be able to completely pass out tonight.
WOWSA! That was above and beyond any expectation I had folks, that’s truly fantastic.
If you don’t want to wait for an informational email from Blogathon, or if you haven’t done so already, feel free to go directly to the ‘donate online‘ page whenever you’re able to fulfill your pledge to the Food Bank.
Thanks so much to everyone who linked my blog, contributed, pledged, blogathoned along-side me, donated and offered kind words to keep me going.
I will be doing the draw for Canadians tickets on Monday. I also think I’ll start a Facebook group tomorrow night called “I am going through Blogathon withdrawl“, cause I’m sure it will happen.
For now though, I need to get some sleep and be away from the computer for a while. It’s been fun folks, you’re the best – good night!
This is it – one more to go after this! Just reading the “morning” news headlines and since I pretty much covered the fireworks and some of the post-firework hoopla in the podcast, here’s the ‘official’ word.
It was also another busy night for Vancouver Police. Constable Howard Chow says there were over 430 liquor incidents compared to 260 on Wednesday.
He adds there were six fight calls, seven weapons offences, everything from pepper spray to knives, 19 arrests and someone firing off some pepper spray. [News 1130]
And some people were getting a little crafty…
Constable Howard Chow says one man sprayed pepper spray into the air as peple were leaving through the west end. One group of people decided to try and out-smart police by hiding their booze in the waters of English Bay, but police spotted them and confiscated their liquor. [CKNW]
When we were walking back the other night someone tossed something onto the street from a balcony, it crashed into the middle of the road and although I never saw what it was, I’m glad no one was hurt. I like the fireworks, they are a part of summer, but there’s always ‘one of those people’ in the crowd that ruins it for a lot of people and heaven forbid, endangers others as well.
No, actually blogging is NOT on Tourism Vancouver’s 100 Days of Summer fun guide, although it should be – I’m having a BLAST! Okay, well I don’t have enough energy for full “blast” status right now… how about a hoot? Yes, I’m having a hoot.
July 30 – Cypress – Picnic in Cypress Provincial Park and enjoy the views of Vancouver, Mount Baker, the Gulf Islands, and Vancouver Island.
Photo credit: Mussels on Flickr – View from the top of Cypress Mtn Park
That’s a superb idea, I’ve never been to Cypress when it wasn’t snow-covered. 3,012 hectares for anything from hiking to a leisurely stroll. Being up there right now seems so appealing, maybe it’s because I haven’t left the house since 11 yesterday morning, that’s right…. yesterday hehe.
