I will witness the entire moon’s life cycle from here

I am in a land where the population of Arabs is maybe 10 or 11 in this entire city. Hahaha. I had to rub that in. The quietness of this place is amazing. I am in Kelowna, British Columbia now. It’s a gorgeous place. It’s a tourist city and a place filled with celebrity homes. My brother when he first came here went on a tour, and saw Arnold Schwarzenegger’s house in this city. I want to see that, so I can Twitter Arnold (his id on there) and tell him, “hey.. I saw your pad up here man!” (Yes, I do have many celebrities on my Twitter. I love reading what they got to say. It feels so normal now that you can communicate with so many of them. The social networking world! Love it!)

Anyways, as my sister and I were flying from Calgary, Alberta to here, I saw the view of the Rocky Mountains from over 35,000 feet. Can I say, GORGEOUS PEOPLE! Seeing snow covered mountains in the summer is spectacular! The view is breath taking. No words can describe it.

I love being here. I got a free place to stay with free food. Isn’t that the perfect getaway? A lot of people are asking me how long I am staying, because I did mention on Twitter that I will be in Vancouver for a couple of days two weeks from now. Fine, I will tell you guys. I am going to be in this province for a month! My parents can get rid of us for that long, although I was talking to my dad on msn this morning, and he missed us dearly. (He loved my sister and I arguing all day. Go figure. When it is quiet, you start missing the crazy stuff!) Also, mom called us twice this morning, because she loves to talk to my sister and feels she is just a baby stuck with her brother and sister. The truth is, I wasn’t going to let my dad pay a round trip for two people for a couple of weeks. It’s not cheap! Since I got nothing else to do, and we are Arabs that believe a vacation is minimum one month, then we got to get our money’s worth!

“Mona, I want to go for a month!” my sister whined.

“Mona, book the trip for a month, she misses her brother,” my parents said.

I said, “Fine!! Fine!! Fine!! I will go for a month! It’s not like I am doing anything anyways, and I miss my little 23 months old angel of a niece!”

This trip is not going to rule out me going to Lebanon a bit after Ramadan this year. It actually ignited it, and more reason to go. (I need to book it in the next couple of months.) One trip to a city with no Arabs, to another later hopefully filled with Arabs! It’s like going from vanilla to chocolate ice cream in one cup! So, I got nothing to do, and I need to get out of my usual surroundings and vacation like crazy! And I am only going to places where I can stay for free! I think as long as I got internet anywhere in this world, then I am fine.

Anyways, the trip wasn’t bad. It was around 4.5 hours total in the plane, and a bit over an hour wait in Calgary Airport.

I woke up this morning at 4:30 am local time, which is -8GMT, and it was pure day light outside. Then my sister in-law told me that the sunrise here is 2:30 am. Umm, and sunset is around 9:30 pm? Welcome to being closer to the north poll! I thought London was bad with daylight in the summer.

So far, my brother wants to steal my SLR camera, and I want to steal the view from his apartment. Can you imagine waking up and looking outside to see the view of the mountains? It’s like a painting in front of you. I will try to share as many pics as I can while I am here on my blog. I can’t wait for tomorrow, July 1st, Canada Day! Wohoo! Festivities above Lake Okanagan. I love being in this valley!

This is the view from my brother’s apartment. Speechless!
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Dragon Boat racers stretching to get ready. This is in downtown infront of the lake. That’s a restaurant called Hanna’s in the background, that is attached to the Delta Hotel.
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The ratio of boat owners to car owners is 1:1 in this city.
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I haven’t gone over the bridge yet. It’s the other side of the city where most of the stores are. I will go over it soon!
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Practicing for the Dragon Boat race!
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A bit further on the right side of this river is where all the rich celebrity homes are. I can’t wait to go on a boat tour!

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