Went to Chamonix (France) on Saturday with Harold, Steph, Jo and Gilberto
Rented a car, day tripped it, went grocery shopping, had a pic nic
ontop of the highest mountain range in Europe
Chamonix = Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc = crazy high up, altitude sickness, above clouds, amazing views, snow, two cable cars, treckers, hikers, view view view.
amazing view
surreal
photoblog it
In the morning, just before leaving
We saw some great mountains on the way and stopped to take photos - we attempted to get the mountains in the group shot...apparently four multimedia students (plus j0) couldn't figure it out. But the mountains are huge...
View while atop Mount Aiguile
view while atop Mount Aigule
This is what happens to a bottle when you bring it over 3000 m up (pressure!) 
There were quite a few people trecking around the mountains, it was pretty impressive. We all commented on how cool it would be, until we had to climb a hill to get to the second mountain and decided that we would never survive as hikers or rock climbers.
Harold and the view - see he's excited cos its so freaking awesome. We all pretty much walked around like that.
From the second mountain, south side. We're not as high up, but we are in clouds (its not foggy - thats clouds my friends)
Mont Blanc - (above clouds - its nuts)
Cool rock formationSo after this past excursion, we are thinking that our next road trip will be to Nice. Until then, here are some shopping-list updates:
* Sunday had a good bye for Mike, went to Jet D'eau with work type people and had falafel and all around good time
* Last night went to quiz night with some peeps from work, realized durring round five that there was no saving us - saw this actor at the bar, no word of a lie (we had a laptop with us and looked him up while we were there....oh we're IT people for crying out loud, OF COURSE we bring laptops to the bar)
* Steph Gilberto and I signed up for French classes today. Will last from October to June.
* Steph Jo and I officially addicted to Weeds and watched all of second season and got caught up on third season within a week. Callie, from Act, is also a fan, and I burned her all my episodes, and she watched five in a row the other night. This Weeds fanaticism has brought a Lost vs Weeds division between the two offices.
* Going to Milan and Venice on the weekend (not to Paris on Thursday, as planned due to $$ constraints) also in the process of booking hostels and flights for Munich at the end of September (for the first weekend of Oktoberfest)
* Bought an external hardrive (500 GB) for approx. 130 Canadian (!!)
* Sunday had a good bye for Mike, went to Jet D'eau with work type people and had falafel and all around good time
* Last night went to quiz night with some peeps from work, realized durring round five that there was no saving us - saw this actor at the bar, no word of a lie (we had a laptop with us and looked him up while we were there....oh we're IT people for crying out loud, OF COURSE we bring laptops to the bar)
* Steph Gilberto and I signed up for French classes today. Will last from October to June.
* Steph Jo and I officially addicted to Weeds and watched all of second season and got caught up on third season within a week. Callie, from Act, is also a fan, and I burned her all my episodes, and she watched five in a row the other night. This Weeds fanaticism has brought a Lost vs Weeds division between the two offices.
* Going to Milan and Venice on the weekend (not to Paris on Thursday, as planned due to $$ constraints) also in the process of booking hostels and flights for Munich at the end of September (for the first weekend of Oktoberfest)
* Bought an external hardrive (500 GB) for approx. 130 Canadian (!!)
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