way better quality emailed from BB over text from phone to phone and the full size is huge see 1600 x 1200. bananas. these were meant for fil to cheer him up during muddy edgefest.

you’ve seen this one already, albeit warbly.

lets start off with my emo comics. emo was one of many themes for the tbag long weekend, thanks in part to raymisemo. these guys rolled with it. rye even penned his own emo character called emo emu.

then i ran out of emonergy and just tanned in the burning sun on the hammock. so nice.

my hair is sticking to my face tears from the wind too, not joking. i got a little sad. this is us on our way into the real Tbay to eat, see some sights and put me on the plane.

some creek rye and steph are gonna float around on tubes with beers. bastards.

listenin’ to the bob dylan sirius show. his voice is really funny.

awesome gas/lcbo/gift store. i was worried i wouldn’t make a wolf shirt shop in time so we stopped for me to browse this place. no dice. the building is covered in a wildlife mural the whole way ’round.

haha check the volleyball ones behind these to the left. when in rome i guess no?

love it.

i know my parents have/had one of those 7up bottles. plenty of antique junk adorned our home growing up, full on OCD about it. i can’t wait to have our own home so i can obsessively fill it up with knick knacks and vintage crap. i don’t understand how some people would want to live in a sterile modern minimalist surrounding. hi do you like hospital rooms too?

hey um do you guys sell food?

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

check that sky eh. brilliant.

whenever anyone “defies the odds” going above and beyond on top of a physical disability it makes me feel super duper lazy. like when those little people drive, or that one guy without arms drives steering with his feet!

bear-proof garbage cans are everywhere, they lock them at nite, some of them?

neil young lived here for awhile.

unintentionally pretentious. oh, strip clubs are called showbars in thunder bay. hahaha.

don’t they have these in some malls? i know erin mills town centre has/had one.

hair is finally drying can take it out of its braid now.

on friday nite we were hanging at the legion with a bunch of people, one of which was set to get blasted cos he was leavin’ for army training the next day in quebec so they kept givin’ us beer. anyway, we left with one and walked home like dazed and confused with it then ryan led us into a cop trap, and two pass us on foot. he chucked the beer onto someone’s lawn. he said the cops probably started kissing once they passed us, and hugging. hahahaa. yesterday was national aboriginal day, so the streets were closed to traffic for street jammin’ vendors dancing beer gardens and other crap.

a bar ryan likes. it was closed.

we did not hit that. we were in search of the finnish district to get food. (there’s lots of fins in t-bay cos the lay of it is exactly like home to them).

it is? i thought it was sad. aw i just remembered we forgot to go to the casino.

this is what you call a party with younger people.

almost bought one of these for fil then realised he wouldn’t give a shit.

my next collection obsession will be these vintage stuffed things fyi everybody.

i wanted the guy on the left, some sort of beaver rat deer, not sure, but it was 65 bucks.

and what the hell are you looking at?

can the attitude you little dandy, i will fight you.

i will also have a collection of blue glass in my windows.

have you heard of this band, have i for that matter? anyway, girls were lining up to hug them after they were done. hahahahaa.

bought a necklace, tried to haggle down to ten from 12 bucks. they weren’t havin’ it. fine whatever good cause. then i learned it was made in uganda and not in fact aboriginal. the other side of the wood might be bone maybe, i have to look at the ticket i have for it.

lips still plump, no need for collagen yet.

why does that name gross me out so much. reminiscent of squishy. barf word. fully.

oh get over yourself do you think you’re better than me cos you’re a virgin, mary?

gay. one of these guys drinking a cup of coffee was in this pretentious weird white people coffeehouse we visited after supper.

legendary. you have to be a fin or speak finnish to work here. our waitress had a funny voice, well inflection mostly. at the end of each sentence her voice shot right up like that woman in office space on the phone in her cubicle hi thank you for calling initech please hold thaaank YOU. ryan says that’s how they talk.

i just had a cheeseburger cos i felt like a goddamn whale. stephy had the hoito burger. ryan had the saltfish (salmon).

blurry but pearl jam sat over there. some other big celebs have graced this place too. apparently they send anyone who’s anyone here.

so basically all the commie fins fled to canada and were bummed they couldn’t find a decent meal like home and for cheap, cos they’re cheapskates (ryan sez). so they started the hoito, which is a co-op. the end.

upstairs is a bar.

hoito gets their amazing bread from here.

guess who’s goin’ on a hunger strike this week?

the only redeeming feature of the pretentious coffeehouse.

unintentionally hilarious art, the guy was being serious about it, not ironic, therefore we got the giggles. if the names for each one weren’t tacked up it wouldn’t have come across so desperate, could easily show in a gallery along queen. ryan says they were rippin’ me off. oh and the artist had a TYPE-WRITTEN mission statement on a single piece of paper taped up by the milk sugar station. PRETENTIOUS blowhard. F.

full house?

oh whatever paul shaffer.

airport bar. there isn’t one after security so you have to make it quick.

global monies.

had a grand ole time but it’s great to be back. more tbag to come later, so so much more to share.

airplane jams.

look it’s me and terry. hi terry. very moving and humbling to visit this guy. you throw coins on the map of canada beneath him and try to land on your favourite province. mine landed on one of the great lakes and another on a bunch of nothing. i guess i was too humbled to aim properly.

hi guise i’m back. brb in a bit though with a long ass post k so bai for now. found these shirts at the TBag airport. it was a tough call between wolves and hunting dogs in marshes, moose, and other forest shit. fil says he shoulda got the one i chose for myself cos when he smoked weed once he thought he heard wolves howling. i tried it on in small to see how the sizing went (sometimes smalls are kinda big) then i fell in love with it and decided to be greedy FOR ONCE.

if you want to go through all of my tbay photos i made a set.

made my amends and peace and apologies, relax. wadup madonna.

nicey nicey.

had a killer nap with damp hair and it gave me mountain hair. fil’s favourite.

weekend theme drink.

boogyin’

tres sad.

we climbed a mountain yesterday!

eagle!

time to hit the tan hammock later guys. thicker fuller update comin’ soon.

oh here’s something skidly for you – i had a huge glob of mud on my leg from the hike which i noticed once we got to the truck and the only thing feasible to wipe it off with was a cigarette butt. HOT.

someone eyeing up ryan‘s truck while walking their dog with their own truck. so lazy. how hilarious would it be to watch your ride getting jacked from up top of a mountain. or your house even. oh there goes my laptop and stereo. wicked.

two-hander from raymi lauren on Vimeo.

lets get this jam started.

i’m bummed i forgot my peace t-shirt where did that thing go? i’m gonna find a wolf or some cliche hipster garbage shirt before i leave here.

i am a master flautist (one of my favourite words. so funny to say it).

mmmm what will this become?

can i get a capital jesus and holy shit.

i got the one with the most eggs.

representing in the shower with my hair, you know. steph just took one and said the S blew off so she put it back on hahahah ew.

root beer schnapps + light beer. fil and i have been wanting to try this for a long time but our lcbo has never stocked it since that one time we saw it. ps. lcbo might be striking on wednesday! these guys are paranoid. they just dumped 230 bucks on booze haha.

minnesota hotdish for dinner. wild indian rice has been added and now it’s baking in the oven. amped pumped etc and so on.

and it’s not even sunday i know! nuts!

we’re all walking around in stupid figure eights goin’ i gotta do this and that and cos we’re all ADD hung we end up doin’ nothing. pretty funny.

after three hours of mario party wherein we made zero progress we finally decided to head out to hang with some rowdy 20 year olds in a garage. met alex earlier at the legion where he works, completely different personality once blasted. hilarious. he said the legion lady asked all about us once we left.

still light out at 10.30/11 crazy. on sunday it will be the longest day of the year, summer solstice.

lamp posts remind me of oakville walking into town at nite. sigh. this place is like a movie set, so still, no one on the streets. then we started talking about the movie the strangers BAD IDEA i felt their eyes on me i skippered along pretty fast after that.

matchy matchy.

misty emo mountain.

misty emo mountain before nitefall.

i blow at foosball. well i blame this table and i have ten other excuses reasons for it too actually. these photos made me realise how progressively disgusting my hair was getting.

yikes. the worst of the shots i have no shame, all for you. today is definitely shower day.

oh hey there who’s yer friend?

car hole party.

bannock. native bread. delicious. also good for breakfast.

oh god, so thick. did i tell you we did the vodka bacon infusion yesterday? i think i did. anyway, it’s ready for caesars now i think. will report back with my review.

saved my life this morning i tell you. i am amazed.

moose w/ flash. so lean, no fat on ‘em at all. it fills you up and the next day you feel great, no guilt, no bloat. totally soaked all the garbage up. i guess the bacon helped too.

lovin’ this photo tons right now.

thurston was on his way to party with us but then a huge fox turned up and stared at him and us, the biggest fox i’ve ever seen. rye says this one house raised it, seriously prehistoric looking motherfucker, almost wolfish. anyway the cat was using us as cover to travel further ha then f’d off to hang on some lawn and do cat things like eat grass and generally be gay.

ryan‘s goin’ places, i gathered that so i placed an imaginary phone call to a non-existent record producer to hook it up.

that’s alex. right now he is asleep in a car on his way to wienerpeg.

i taught them all the supreme worst polish word ever and warned them not to use it on the wrong person. stripe shirt programmed it into his phone. brosz7, there may be blood on your hands.

oh yeah no rogers service at all anywhere in tbay, way to go you guys.

sooo greasy full-on cottage mode here omg it smells amazing gotta go bye.

ok we just poured the baconvodka through a coffee filter and are waiting for it to drip through. this close to just pouring it straight into the sink hahaha hangover intelligence party of 3 check. scrambled cheese ham tomato toasted sandwiches are on their way to being complete. omg.

ok i’m stuffed and even greasier than i was before. these guys are spoiling me.

*somewhat of a live blog post keep refreshing and scrolling down k there baye*

moose steaks are being made for me right now and they smell delicious. we are also infusing some vodka with bacon for BLT drinks tomorrow or whenever. i bought us some fancy champagne too. just “saying”. it’s all gone now haha.

this “mountain” (whatever) is over 400 feet high, you cannot possibly grasp its overall bigness from this picture. you just gotta see it. fantastic and so on. like lookin’ out your front door at the pyramids or some such shit.

babe much. so much. sorry perfectly accurate display of what all gals picture themselves as when they throw the city all away and head the f outta there.

champagne and non-light cheeze whiz dip.

hello old friends.

sorry toronto, i hear yer weather is shit right now.

had a legion brewsky. you can’t swear in there (i did) but you can watch poltergeist?

ryan told the secretaries at work he had to get off work early cos steph had to go to the dentist and by dentist he meant legion.

where the magic happens. k gotta get some moose steaks pics xo bye!!!!!!!!!!

oh i heard a garage referred to as a car hole today. can’t stop LOLing over it. so good.

i am very happy right now, i miss fil and wish he was here though but seriously long time comin’ in the words of the offspring gotta gettaway. haha.

yay steph’s migraine finally went away.

ok i guess i’m live blog adding to this post so keep refreshing reloading.

ryan is making bannock for us right now too – it’s native bread. i thought it was the moose steaks when i first looked at it.

i just hoovered some bacon.

i’m comin’ back 130lbs babe.

wish you were here fil.

playing foosball now. i suck. so stuffed. the mountain is now covered in mist. creepy spooky whimsical charming sigh.

on mick jagger costume change 5 now.

steph is on costume change 3.

she is winning.

she also beat us all at foosball.

mountain pre-misted.

ok now they are on to whiskey sours.

i feel fuckin’ FAAAAAAAAAAAT.