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Karsa Orlong

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Sounds like you're having an epic time!! :exc: So cool that you got to see the recording of one of your favorite TV shows!! :D And that the gig was so great. It's always inexpressionably (that's a word for sure!!) amazing to hear your favorite band play songs live that you've never heard them play before :wub: 

 

I hope the show's amazing today, and that everything runs smoothly during the rest of the trip. Have a blast!!!  :yahoo:

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From Friday night - really never in a million years thought I'd see them play this live . . .

 

 

The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration

 

Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause —
Then flooding through her memory,
The echoes of old applause

 

And she limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door…

 

The writer stares with glassy eyes —
Defies the empty page,
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage

 

Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision

 

And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more…

 

Some are born to move the world —
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we’d like to be

 

Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it

 

For you — the blind who once could see —
The bell tolls for thee…

 
:cry:

 

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Excellent photo!   :yes:

 

I can hear your thought..."I am THIS happy!"  :D

 

ETA If you were to say that you were holding a book in your right hand you could enter this photo into the competition.  ;) 

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:lol:  Um, yeah, of course I was holding a book!  It was this one :giggle2:  :D

 

 

More photos . . .

 

 

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Me and John.  I always thought he was a bit wooden :giggle2:

 

 

Calgary:

 

post-6588-0-32328300-1437573477_thumb.jpg  When we went to the rodeo.  I didn't like it (poor horses and steers :(  ) but I guess we had to say we went to the Calgary Stampede.

 

post-6588-0-09064400-1437573567_thumb.jpg  First view of the Rockies!

 

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Some bloke got his big head in the way of this photo:  post-6588-0-26009400-1437573667_thumb.jpg

 

The name of this lake caused much amusement:  post-6588-0-29893400-1437573708_thumb.jpg  post-6588-0-14648900-1437573740_thumb.jpg  post-6588-0-60892300-1437573752_thumb.jpg

 

 

Woman about to be eaten by sneaky dinosaur . . .   post-6588-0-44543100-1437573788_thumb.jpg

 

 

 

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Still Calgary: 

 

Simples!  post-6588-0-88888700-1437573922_thumb.jpg

 

post-6588-0-58039000-1437573938_thumb.jpg  The Saddledome, where we saw Rush

 

post-6588-0-78023900-1437573968_thumb.jpg Standing on the glass floor of the Calgary Tower :hide:

 

 

Vancouver:

 

post-6588-0-76652600-1437574035_thumb.jpg  The city seen from Stanley Park

 

post-6588-0-33028400-1437574135_thumb.jpg  Capilano suspension bridge.  Would've been fine but for the idiot tourists rocking it from side to side (not me, of course! :P  :giggle2: )

 

post-6588-0-87582400-1437574249_thumb.jpg  The Sky Ride up Grouse Mountain

 

post-6588-0-38407500-1437574312_thumb.jpg  Me at the top of Grouse Mountain.  You'd be able to see Vancouver in the distance if my big fat head wasn't in the way :doh:  :giggle2:

 

post-6588-0-94765600-1437574381_thumb.jpg  This grizzly was trying to sneak up on me by going underwater.  Fortunately I was wise to its tricksy ways :giggle2:

 

post-6588-0-71349200-1437574466_thumb.jpg  The Olympic cauldron from Vancouver's 2010 Winter Games

 

post-6588-0-74381600-1437574559_thumb.jpg  The Rogers Arena, on the right, where we saw Rush.  Photo taken on the seaplane tour of the city.  One Direction were playing the stadium next door on the same night Rush played.  I think we got the better part of that deal :P  :giggle2:

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Fantastic photos!! :D

 

 

attachicon.gifDSC00942.JPG  First view of the Rockies!

 

 

The name of this lake caused much amusement:  attachicon.gifDSC01014.JPG

 

 

I didn't know that's where the Rockies are! They're beautiful. :wub:

 

And that sign is awesome. :lol:

 

 

attachicon.gifDSC01238.JPG  This grizzly was trying to sneak up on me by going underwater.  Fortunately I was wise to its tricksy ways :giggle2:

 

 

An actual real bear??? :o

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An actual real bear???

 

Yeah, it's real.  There were two of them, they were having a play fight :giggle2:

 

 

 

 

Great photographs! I was oohing and aahing, and have shared with husband..."The Rockies! Steve! Bear!" 

 

:lol:  Strange how most of the photos seem to be of trees and mountains, though :D

 

 

 

Great pictures! :D Did you use a selfie stick in the first one? :giggle2:

 

Yes, I called it 'Mike' :giggle2:

 

 

 

 

I know what you look like now! Nothing like I expected :P

 

I dread to think what you were expecting :lol:

 

 

 

Wow what fantastic photos! Glad you're having such a good time. :D

 

Thanks!  It's all over now, though, and I'm back home :(  :D

 

 

 

Wow ! Just WOW ! Those are some pretty magnificent pics !  :D

 

I just wish I'd realised, all the time in Calgary I had the camera on the VGA setting instead of 5MP :doh:  :blush2:  :giggle2:

 

 

Waiting for Mike to get back (he went on to Tokyo and now he's in Dubai) as he took loads of videos, too - including some at the Rush shows :exc:

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Those are great photos :)! The nature there is beautiful and the cities are nice to look at too. It's nice to see your face, as well! I finally know what you look like now :). I'm glad you had fun on your trip, though it's a shame it's over now.

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