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        Well, my family reunion was...good! In all it was better than other years, which was a pleasant surprise. I'm sure it would have been much better if Brad would have been able to tag along, as he seems to be an excuse to make things much more enjoyable! :) We arrived at Fanshaw Park at about 4:30 and I must have been at the trailer saying "hello’s" to my relatives for a total of 15 minutes before my brother came up to me and whispered, "Hey, wanna' go fishing?" It was an excuse to leave an awkward setting so I was all in! My brother and I were in the middle of unloading our bikes off the back of our Chevy when my cousin Colin, who’s only 2 weeks younger than me, came up to us and asked what we were doing. We said, "fishing" of course, and then he decided he would come along as well. BUT, he didn't have a bicycle, so me and Kevin had to ride as slow as we possible could all the way to the dam. It was a very long bike ride. Once we arrived there after much complaining out of Colin, although we did talk about school a little bit, we were acquainted with festive east Indian music. It was actually a very nice change. There was a large group of east Indians there and they were all fishing and having fun. I felt like such an intruder. Anyways, I dipped my feet in the water while my brother threw a total of 5 casts when he said "Let's just go, okay" He was now in a whiny mood. The heat, no fish, and Colin's slight tormenting made him sink down into his bitchy/whiny/angry state. Colin then rode off with *my* bike, and Kevin was left to carry the tackle box and fishing pole by himself, which made him even more angry. He then, once we arrived at the road, tore off full speed to the camper and I was left alone with Colin, who then gave me my bike back. I had to take the whole way back slow as I could go--again, all because Colin's to cool to bring a bike and it would have been rude to tear off like Kevin did.

Once back, we ate dinner, it was very large and very good as always. I had a bunch of little portions of different things like taco salad, turkey, deviled egg, and corn flake potatoes.

After dinner we started this golf game that my Aunt Patsy brought and it was the highlight of the night. I'm sure it was just brought for my brother - - the golfer, but the whole family ended up in a big competition for prizes. You have to chip the ball onto this target and the censors beep and score accordingly to the point you got on the target. There had to be about 10 experienced golfers in this competition and you know what? I GOT SECOND!!!!! I don't even play golf. I won this rubiks cube that makes a whole bunch of adorable pictures from the jungle book! I love it! So did my big cousin Sean, he was fascinated by it. Technically I would have won a package of some really good golf balls but because I don’t play golf and said I would swap it for the booby prize. My Grandma came in first which was a complete fluke because I was in first the whole time right up until the end. I had 50 points and then all of a sudden my Grandma who is about 200lbs overweight with health problems and a dislike of golf gets two 30's! She won a large box of Ferarro Roche’s. Of course that’s just what she needs, a large box of sugar and calories. Actually, I’m happy she won in a way. I mean, the competition was fun and all and it was crazy that I somehow managed to stay in first the whole time, but Grandma had a lot of fun and she rarely gets too. These get-together’s are all she has now with all her health problems and weight so she deserved to get first prize, even if it doesn’t help in her attempt to loose pounds for the knee surgery.

The game was a bowl of laughs, so after we had a tonne of delicious desserts to celebrate! Oh-my-goodness everything was so good. I tried to only eat a bit, but I just had to try a little bit of everything! My cousin Sean had SO MUCH to eat. I kept seeing him chowin’ down brownies so I asked him how many he had. I said, "that has to be your 4^th one!" and he whispered back "8^th" Hey, it’s a party. I think there was only 16 in total so that pig ate almost half the box, I did manage to get one though and it was like heaven! I also had a sliver of pumpkin pie which was the best pumpkin pie I have had so far. During this dessert time my Grandma came and sat down beside me with a huge plate of desserts. It was a meal in itself. She appeared to be on a diet during dinner which looked great to finally see her eating healthy but she apparently caved. I guess it’s to a point where she should enjoy what little time she has left rather than starving herself.

About an hour or so after dessert time people started to leave slowly. My aunt Kimmy and Uncle Jack got a motorcycle which was pretty unexpected! They don’t exactly look like the motorcycle type. They tore off down the road, leaving there kids with my Aunt Patsy and Uncle Andy. Not to long after they left as well. My cousin Melissa and her boyfriend Joe left during the golf game, and Joe was only there for about an hour because he’s busy with his job on the "New PL ," which now is becoming "A Channel." My family were the last ones to leave. We stayed and sat around the fire until about 10, and then my Grandma looked at my report card and we talked about schooling and things for a bit. We finally left around 10:30 but unfortunately I drank way to much flavored water and had to go to the bathroom when we were cruising down the highway. We had to stop at a truck stop, which was a joy. Actually, I never realized how fancy these truck stops are. Everything is so clean, big, sparkly and...clean. There wasn’t a single person in the truck stop but there was about 20 employees just standing around talking. I walked up to them but they didn’t see me, I waited for a bit expecting them to notice me and help me but they still didn’t. I then said "Excuse me" and one guy said "Oh, hi" while the others glared at me. I asked them where the washroom was and they pointed me in the direction. After I got out of the employee invested truck stop we were back on the road and on our way home. My brother fell asleep and my Mom shut her eyes. I was still wide awake as I am always while driving; there’s too much to see. The moon was fascinating last night by the way, it was glowing orange and it was huge. A beautiful, big, glowing, and rounded ending to the reunion you could say! :)

My Opinion

If you smoke (without so much as trying to quit), you automatically lose a portion of my respect.  Smoking shows stupidty (failure to know facts about smoking, yes I realize you probably know most facts, but if it doesn't click in, either by not knowing enough of the hard cold facts or just because you don't realize or think it could happen to you so much that you don't try and quit at all. ), laziness (If your not atleast trying to quit, words cannot explain how stupid that is.  You are killing yourself, and encouraging others to do the same through indirect pressure.  AND second hand smoke-please only smoke in smoking designated areas if you do, and smoke alone for the sake of others lives.) You also smell very repulsive.   I do realize that smoking is one of the hardest habits to drop, and I have seen people trying to quit and saw how terrible the cravings are and how just smelling it or looking at it on T.V makes there head spin for it. But they get through and they live and there an inspiration to others, not to mention they are that much more healthier, attractive, and cancer-free! A cigarette is a deadly drug. People who grow are drug growers, people who sell are drug dealers, people who smoke are drug users, people who are addicted are drug abusers. Smoking is one of the leading causes of deaths in the world and it’s something that can be entirely prevented. If it was illegal and completely wiped out hundreds, even millions in the long run would be saved. Is this just the governments way of dealing with the over population? If so, there murderers. 

 Facts:

--47,000 Canadians die each year prematurely due to smoking-related illness—more than alcohol, traffic accidents, AIDS and homicides combined.- It is the single biggest cause of preventable death in Canada.

--Nicotine addiction is similar to cocaine or heroin addiction

--Tobacco is the only commercial product on the market that is legal, but can kill you when intended.

--Many smokers want to quite, or have tried quitting. Makes you wonder why they started in the first place, huh? Let's change that from now on.

--Smoking clogs arteries and veins, cuts off oxygen supply, and can cause gangrene, impotence, and heartattacks or strokes.

--Filters do not make the cigarette safe. In fact, they were originally developed to stop the tobacco from sticking to the smokers lips.

-- Herbal cigarettes may not contain tobacco, but they do contain many of the same deadly chemicals. We don't know who they think there fooling, but they are not a safe alternative to tobacco cigarettes.

--You don't have to be a smoker to inhale the chemicals in a cigarette. You just have to be close enough to inhale the lit end of the cigarette

--There are about 4,000 different chemicals in cigarettes and at least 50 of them can give you cancer.

--200 young people become smokers everyday.

--Second hand smoke causes more than 1000 death a year in Canada

--A Canadian women dies every 45 minutes from tobacco related illness's

 **Know a fact,  just post it in the comments!  Maybe your fact may change a smokers view on smoking, and you may just save a life!