Jasna and I just got back from a camp­ing trip to Bruce Pen­in­sula National Park with our friends Matt and Emily. I’ve put up the pic­ture gal­lery.

It was good times, even if it was pretty cold, mean­ing swim­ming took a bit of forti­tude. We made it to the grotto this time, which was pretty excit­ing, right by the entrance to the grotto Emily even found a saska­toon bush! Since we were so far north I sup­pose they were still in sea­son, because I got a good ten ber­ries off it. We went to the Indone­sian place in Tober­mory, too, which was a first for me. It’s well worth the price, just for the veget­able soup alone.

Sadly it was rain­ing too much, so we packed up and left last night instead of this morn­ing like we’d planned. Boo.

I am off to Los Angeles for LCC tomor­row morn­ing! I’m get­ting sur­pris­ingly excited about this!

I know tomor­row will be hell trav­el­ling. I just got a con­firm­a­tion call from the shuttle to say they’ll be com­ing by at 3:30am to pick me up and take me to Detroit Air­port. I was actu­ally hop­ing to sleep in until 3:30, but I guess I’ll have to get up earlier; not a big prob­lem since I’ll prob­ably be too excited to sleep much any­way. I always have really hor­rible travel times, I sup­pose because I don’t want to lose entire days trav­el­ling. Any­one who has to leave cats at home to fend for them­selves prob­ably under­stands the desire to stay away from home for as little as possible.

The work­shop itself will be a tonne of fun, though. There are lots of cool people going and, if noth­ing else, Brian — my part­ner in crime on Pola — and I will get a week­end to work together.