Wednesday Morning Adventure

fort langley
Originally uploaded by iBjorn.

Today I got up at 6:30 to go to this men's breakfast thing, after going to bed at 2:00 last night. I was a little late, so I got the last of the food. Then we sang songs and had a speaker talk. He talked on the importance of having a close set of friends to support you. Then I had a class at 9:00. When that was over, it was so nice and warm out, yet overcast and a little windy. It was beautiful. I love this weather. Everything was soaking wet from days of rain and so there was lots of flooding. I went down to the pond to take pictures and decided to walk around on the path. I met this guy Mike on the path who was doing the same thing. I got quite a few pictures, but when I got back to my dorm room, I felt like going on a longer walk. So I grabbed my Bible and drove down to Fort Langley. I had never been to the fort before, so I decided to stop by. I started walking around it and came to the front gate and it was open. So I just went in and started looking around. There was a class of elementary kids running around and I just started reading signs and looking in buildings. It is really quite a neat set up. You can climb the tower and look out over the wall at the river. They also have a real blacksmith shop and other things like that with people dressed up. Then I went and started looking at some exhibits. After a while this guy came and told me I wasn't supposed to be there, so I got out of there. I had seen a lot of the fort already though. Next I decided to drive across to the native reservations and get some pictures of this cool old church they have. On the way out I had to stop at this roadblock the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) had set up. They were stopping cars that were getting off the ferry and I had to go through it to get back to school. The mountie told me to pull over to the side of the road because of the crack in my windshield. I had to get out of the car to get my registration and insurance stuff out of the trunk. I told him I was going to Trinity and he asked me about my major. He also asked if I was visiting someone on the reservation and I said I was just driving around. Then he asked me if I had been smoking pot. I said no, but he said my eyes were red and asked if there was any reason they might be red. I said that I was at the fort and they had been burning branches and maybe it was that. He took me to the front of the car and made me do their drug tests. First I had to lean my head back and close my eyes and tell him when I thought thirty seconds had passed. I must have done badly on that one because he made me do the line-walking test. Then he went back to his car and wrote me up a warning for my windshield. After that I went to these trails that I like in the woods nearby. I hiked up to this quarry and read my Bible for a little while there. Then this older guy with an accent came by. I asked him some questions about the trails and he told me all about them and how he had been walking them for ten years and how they get longer as you get older. After I was there for a little while longer I walked back to the car and got some pictures of this horse across the street. Then on the way home I saw the guy again, on his bike this time, so I got a picture of him too.