here come some shenanigans ...

So here are some things from the past couple weeks.
ENJOY :)

You are up until 3am the night before driving 7 hours . you are exhausted. you and the 5 other people with you are sleeping at a friends place (i am that friend )
he gives you a couch , futon , air mattress , and one person takes floor. everyone gets in sleeping bags, and not a single sound before a snore. the room is extremely quiet.
Although you are sleeping you don't realize the sun is just eating its cereal and waking up . its 6am . beep beep - beep beep - beep beep . thats when Yann wakes up .

i must warn you here. the story is different from here on out . only because i took out all the swear words. i think we can agree before 8am being woken up unexpectedly sometimes brings new vocabulary out

… Who's cell phone is that , who sets if for 6 am on a saturday im going to kill whoever phone that is , i swear im going to smash it .
he was yelling pretty loud woke up everyone sleeping , probably the neighbours below us and starts moving bags, and searching around the apartment for this phone.
after making a giant ruckus and stomping around the apartment . finally he used his echo location (more yelling) and found the cell phone.
it was really good he knew how to stop the alarm rather than smashing the cell phone. especially because it was his phone the entire time .

good times .




I enjoyed some time with my grandparents cousin and uncle. we had a beer and then I was off to mee the ontario crew for a race. not the downhill longboarding kind though. this was go karting at its best.
The cars were the fastest i have ever seen . like. nerve crushingly fast. its indoor and the floors are waxed like a serene lake . yea it was slippery . pretty fun so for not much money i jumped into a cart and did the last race with four of they guys. wow what a time. i don't think we stopped smiling for a second all laughing and smashing like it was bumper cars. taking great passing lines and sometimes just swerving around to block everyone else cause it was hilarious. the guy waves the flag "FINAL LAP FINAL LAP . " conveniently all five of us are together and gun it around the first few corners . 2 - 3 cars wide in some of the corners , then we come into the first to hairpins . all of us with our own strategy. braden taking inside jakoop with the middle line and me with the outside waiting for them to crash so i can take the inside of the next corner. and thats when all three of our karts connected together, none of us can turn at all now, and SMASH thats the wall . at this point we are laughing historically. noone can believe this happened we all had it planned so well in our heads yet anything can happen. and cause we hit the wall and were all stuck , go karts have no reverse so we had to have the staff come and untangle the karts and stuff . so funny . as we are untangled noone takes off on the gas we all waited. as soon as the last kart is free 123 GO we take off and finish the lap bumping , fish tailing and flooring it all around the track.

this made me really stoked to get in on this so thank you ontario crew for an awesome weekend with some great experiences, encore



Having my grandparents was great we spent some time going around montreal checking out where my grandfather grew up for a while and it was quite interesting to see the places and hear the prices on these buildings now compared to the small amount it cost originally. we were lucky enough to have the owner of one house there to tell us about how the house is now and what its worth , and at the second building it was rather amazing to see the real estate lady standing there to give us lots of information and chat about the building now . no timing could have been better.
I also took my grand parents to a look out on the mountain that they had never seen before. i was completely excited to show them the beautiful night view across the downtown and south of montreal, you can see the towns and districts on the south shore from there quite amazing . huge view




The sunday that just passed i took a road trip with niko who rides for kebbek longboards and Ludo who rides for Rotule longboards.. we went to vermont. chatting and laughing the whole way there and back . the skating was phenomenal i don't care what anyone says. the east coast riding is really rad if you know where the hills are . we decided to ride a mountain pass that has two sides one is 4.2 km and the other is 5km hair pins and fun corners all kinds of great terrain and only a few cars all day. fantastic. :) it was really great riding with ludo and niko here. we went to five different runs one of which was at a camp ground where the guy said we could skate in the park as long as we all payed 3 dollars. how could we say no ? sooo awesome . soooo fun . thanks to will for showing us some fun stuff in your area :)

summers hear, WHAT did you say ?

So here we are. Or here i am .
Its been 4 months
I'm still loving what I do for work.
I've got a great family of friends in montreal
and on July 1st i get my new apartment.

Where do we begin. About 30million years ago when the dinosaurs roamed, there was no apartments. BUT NOW things are great in montreal, especially because we have no dinosaurs.

For the past 4 years since i moved out of London I have had , fun , wild , crazy (sometimes insane) , and weird roommates .
I lived in one apartment for a whole year with Scott at one point. Otherwise I moved every 6 months ish . In 4 years i have lived at 7 different addresses (and at one point in my car for a short period) . Pretty crazy huh ? Aside from the drama, there was always a smile on my face and lots of fun to be had. Only making better friends in barrie and still going to work.

For the first time I am going to own MY own apartment. I am very very excited about this. I have a huge apartment and the price is so good. Its a couple blocks from my work and very close to all the metro systems. This is going to be a good year (and hopefully longer if i like the place )


Skateboarding : its good and stuff .

So Montreal has some amazing skateboarding inside and out. I've been doing alot of traveling with my awesome Friends. Some of which this weekend are Ludo , MGR and Dmitri . This is the best skate crew i could ask for on a road trip. We are going to pensylvania. Wooo hooo . I have only been there once in my life and i just drove right through it. This time its going to be fun. We are going to a race called The Mustache Derby . If you wish to race you MUST have a mustache, absolutely mandatory (thats right dad you would be allowed to race with us ) . prizes for winners and participation, but also prizes for best REAL and FAKE mustache . Ridiculous .


On another note this weekend (and for a while ) I can be proud to say i will be riding for a few sponsors! The Escarpent Surfers , Moon Pucks , Team Quebec , and KEBBEK! This is really exciting for me to receive some stoke from my fellow riders and companies surrounding us. Woo hoo (go buy their stuff )

anywhom. I will write something really awesome about the last three weeks while on my trip and you can get a good laugh out of some of the things I've been through

love you all

K$