Trip to Canada

I love Canada. It's a great place. So it was only so long until I decided to go. I discussed with my good friend Clark (Whom I had the Easter conversation with) on Monday night. And we planned to go the next day.

Here are some pictures from our trip to Canada.

Clarky said he'd get to my house 'somewhere between 11am and 12am', I went to bed earlier than usual to MAKE SURE I'd be up in time for his arrival. I woke up at half 11. Shit. I frantically looked for my phone, expecting a text asking where the hell I was, with a bunch of missed calls, but nothing, so I washed my hair and he arrived just after I came out of the bathroom. Which was handy.

Clarky's helpful instructions guided us the entire journey. Far better than any sat-nav.

It didn't take too long before we started seeing signs for Canada. We were getting pretty excited! We'd heard so much about it.

Driving through Canada. The main road in Canada was the rather aptly named 'Canada Road'.

We found a nice place to park, called 'Canada Common'. Where we could take in the breathtaking views of Canada.

I was dead happy to finally arrive in Canada.

We got out of the car and we saw a rather large field, it's actually part of the New Forest. The very edge of it.When my friend described this as looking 'like a dump', I brought it up later as saying she 'called the New Forest a dump'... Turns out she didn't know it was the New Forest. I thought it was funny how it suddenly came off as more offensive when she knew it was a national park, it was still the same place, it still looked how it did. But it suddenly makes it *not* look like a dump. Funny that.

Clarky and I, despite just seeing this area and not a lot else, were still pretty chuffed about being in Canada. As shown in the following snaps.

I've no idea what that big brown muddy patch under me was all about. A lot of people must sit on that bench and swing their legs because they're so happy about being in Canada. When it was my turn on the bench, I took the horizontal approach.

After a while, we decided it was time to leave Canada and make our way home. On the way back we stopped at a service station, Clarky and I both share a love of these places, we've thought about doing a 'super-cool-guide'-style guide for them, a book purely following our trips to visit service stations.

Clark bought some chocolate, at least I assume he did, a Mars Duo if I'm right in thinking. And I got a packet of Walkers Roast Chicken. It was dead yummy. I did what I usually do to crisp packets. At some point I'll go into this amazing folding procedure in detail.

To sum it up, yes, Canada was boring. Yes, there was fuck all there. But would I go back?

We're planning a second trip.

GO TO CANADA! :D

Unplanned Energy Drink Test.

My head is buzzing as I write this up. Roughly a minute goes by in between the blinking of my eyes. And it took me about 6 attempts to write that sentence.

It was a lovely day today, so much so that in the late afternoon, my good friend Ed contacted me and asked if I wanted to 'go do stuff'. This usually means driving aimlessly about in his car, and at some point going to Tesco's.

Sure enough we ended up at Tesco's.

In the car journey on the way there I said how when I woke up this morning, I told my mum I planned to just go to bed later in the day as I was so tired. But that same morning I had a can of Kick (essentially Tesco's version of Red Bull) and I found I'd been restless ever since. Just wanting to clean the house.

When we arrived at Tesco's I don't think we knew what we were going in to buy, but we ended up in the aisle that sold 'Kick' and various other high-caffeine energy drinks. We started poking fun at the different sizes of the products and thought it'd be funny to do a review of them all. So we bought one of each and set off to my house...

Energy Drink Review.

The seven drinks we tested were (it was done in order of can height purely to look good):

Coca-Cola - 150ml mini can.

Tesco Diet Kick - 250ml.

V Energy Drink - 250ml.

IRN BRU 32 - 330ml.

24: Stimulation Drink - 440ml.

Red Bull - 355ml.

Relentless - 500ml.

The following is the notes we made as we drunk them.

Review started at 7:54 in the PM.

Coca Cola: 150ml mini can,

Caffeine: 11mg/100ml.

Verdict: Alright. Not too energy drink-ish, tasted pretty refreshingly good. plenty of fizz.

Tesco Diet Kick: 250ml.

Caffeine: 30mg/100ml

Verdict: Actually did have a kick. Our favourite for now. Tastes good, does what it says on the tin, and cheap!

V Energy Drink: 250ml

Caffeine: 31mg/100ml

Verdict: This has a tangy fruity flavour, and weighs in at 31mg/100ml of caffeine. Yum.

'Tastes like it should be alcoholic, espesh the last sip' - Marty.

NB: Moot cleansed his palate with an unflavoured rice turd - Ed.

UPDATE: MARTY AND ED ARE PRETTY DAMN RESTLESS ABOUT NOW!

At this point our interests were drifting off elsewhere every now and then, and Ed found some Adidas deodorant that he had to now use purely because it said 'Energy' on it.

IRN-BRU32(new bigger can): 330ml.

Caffeine: 32mg/100ml

Verdict: "This shit is freakin' orange!" - Ed.

They claim that 'Nothing else even comes close to providing the ultimate in great tasting stimulation', apart from Marty's mum that is. - Ed.

"Pretty much like normal BRU!! but with a little tang that kind of hangs there like a little.... I don't know..." - Marty

"Kind of need a piss round about now..." - Ed.

Ed: It's Sticky...
Marty: Syrupy...
Ed: Yeah...

24: Stimulation Drink: 440ml

Caffeine: 30mg/100ml

Verdict:

"When the clock is ticking, revive and conquer Jack Bauer style, you can pack a lot of action into twenty-four hours... every second counts...'

^That was gay...

It's not really piss coloured like the others.

Smells like kitchen cleaner.

(This drink makes Marty randomly giggle periodically, even before drinking.)

"Sometimes I'm like URRRRRR!' - Marty

Very palatable LOL!1!

"Surprising, like if Haribo made a drink" - Marty

Dry like a gin and tonic

This unmitigated crap has given Marty cramp in his right foot

20:40: Marty has a wee.

Red Bull: 355ml.

Caffeine: 32mg/100ml

"Is a faggy drink I always expect it to be red and it does taste different to Kick, Kick is so freakin' much better, I'm srsly." - Ed.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" - Ed.

"Please don't make me drink any more of this, my insides are starting to feel like burning and my teeth are all WEIRD!" - Ed.

Had to chuck that shit away in the end, nasty.

20:57: Marty burps rather loudly. It burnt.

Relentless: 500ml

Caffeine: 32mg/100ml.

Verdict:

21:00 - The glorious liquid that is Relentless is poured into the two glasses, it even sounds energizing.

Ed quickly asks a magic 8 ball whether he should drink the liquid inside.

Ed is now sitting a short distance away from the small glass, twitching slightly, fists clenched somewhat. Preparing mentally.

Not even sure what time it is now.

Even before the Relentless is near finished. we both decide we are hungry. Marty is no longer jumping around restlessly. instead, more drowsy and 'not with it' but still very much awake and buzzing.

21:58 - almost an hour has passed since pouring the Relentless and both Ed and I have not talked about the drink. We're not even really sure why we're doing this. Our attention spans have become ridiculously short and our notes have been minimised for the most of the hour.

"Fuckin' A!... want to go watch Office space?" - Ed.

THE RESULTS:

Caffeine in total:

Coca-Cola: 16.5mg

Tesco Diet Kick: 75mg

V Energy Drink: 80mg

IRN BRU 32: 105.6mg

24 Stimulation Drink: 132mg

Relentless: 160mg

Red bull: 106mg

(Including 2 cans of Kick Marty had earlier, and 4 cans Ed had earlier)

675.1mg
1125.1mg OR 1.1251g!!!! OMG LOL.

THE END LOL.