Birthday snow!

I swear its fall.
The flowers look like they are dying, there are leaves on the ground, the trees are bare, and we get early morning frost.
I can handle it though, becuase I am an adult, an almost over the hill 20 year old, who can feel the rain in her bones. For my birthday I got some very nice cards and a garden full of the fluffy white stuff ( really, it was slushy and muddy, but no one is counting specifics.) I ended up going out with a friend of a friend, and we had a pretty decent time. We played some pool, and went to a few bars. One of which where our server lived in victoria for a few years, and knew more hiking and biking trails than I did, small world? One of hte other bars had sand for a floor. Not just any old sand , pearly white tropical island sand! And the crazy part is that it was immaculate, there were a handful of drunken dirty dancing girls who must of sloshed their drink on the floor at some point.. Do they change it every night? Ship it in from Hawaii?

My birthday present to myself was a pair of new sandals and a silk sleeping liner, all from my nex favorite store- Decathalon. Same thing as MEC , but cheaper, and bigger. It is a good thing i went there with a list. If not I might have convinced myself I needed some hip waders and a kite board.

The rest of the days have been loosly filled with rendezvous. The doctor for the yellow fever shot, The train station for some tickets, the grocery store for random ingredients....

I made cinnamon buns the other day ( which were heavenly), with a yogurt icing. I couldnt find any cream cheese, and the yogurt gave it the tangy flavour. I deceided cin buns was one of my staple foods that they needed to try, and I think I have cinvinced them to add it to a favorites list.

My Itinerary is finally set. I leave for Spain on the eighth of June, and I will be staying in Barcelona for two days visiting with julia, then i train tto Malaga, and take the ferry across to Morocco. I have about a month and a half in Morocco, and I leave out of Rabat into Douala, Cameroon for late July. i am staying in cameroon, volunteering and travelling for a litle over four months, and then i fly into England, short stay there, and then back home for early December!