The fourth day of the trip the weather was pretty crummy. Rain and fog, kind of the usual you expect for the time of year and BC. Nearer the end of the day however it stopped and my brother wanted to take me out and show me some more places. So we went out in his little pickup truck and offroaded our way up some sketchy roads, the ‘short cut’ to Mosquito Lake. We took the normal way home, but it wasn’t nearly as interesting. The lake itself was almost as smooth as Duffey Lake, almost as though British Columbia has never heard of a thing called the wind. The ripples that did appear in the water were only a side effect of walking on the dock to take this photo.
Later that day as the sun was about to set my brother took me out again to do the thing he’d been wanting to do the entire time I was there. Take me out shooting. I’d never shot a gun before and I didn’t really have that huge of an interest in them. And I’ll be honest, I was little bit scared of them. My brother pulls out his SKS rifle of some kind shows me how to use it as he’s firing off a couple rounds. So loud. You could hear it echo off the mountains so many times. I shot the gun 3-4 times and still kind of scared of it and frustrated thought I was done and would just watch the rest of them shoot. Nope. His roommate calls me over and says I’m going to learn how to use his 12-gauge shotgun now and that we’re going to shoot some clays.
My brother throws a clay in the air, I miss. He throws another one, I miss. Thinking that this is going to be a waste of someones bullets I say I’m done, and once again they’re all like no, you’re going to finish what’s in the gun. I hit the next three in a row. We rotated through a bunch of times and shot and missed a whole bunch and by the end of it I was having a blast. The guns were easy to use, they were easy to be safe with, I was no longer scared of them. I felt a little bad at the end though, my brother had wanted to show me his SKS and I essentially gave up on it after 3-4 shots. Sure we didn’t have any targets, but the truth of it, when I was using his gun I was still scared of it and wanted away. I should have asked to shoot a couple more using his at the end. Oh well something to do when I go back.
Oh yes, that’s not all, there were some pumpkins lying around, so we shot those and I took some photos.
Tailgrab 
Well, I’m glad you had a safe trip… and that you were able to get some nice shots.
BC is somewhere else that I have not been that I would like to see.
I hope this doesn’t come out wrong, but it makes me feel better to know that somewhere else in the developed world besides the US has been known to have donked-up air travel service from time to time (sorry it happened to you though).
Let’s see some more Horo shots.
Oh and shooting targets is a great activity. Once, one of my friends had explosive targets.
Those were cool, but I didn’t mess with those. I just looked-on and enjoyed.
Oh and check ye Skype account… I think I have a couple things still floating in the ether for you (at least it says I do).
British Columbia was awesome, I think I would move out there if given the opportunity.
All Airlines screw up, I just hope they screw up for others instead of me in the future lol
I posted all the Horo shots I took really. Didn’t get that much of a chance to take more. 😦
I always forget to login to that Skype account (I have two). Do you use Google Hangouts at all? I’m on there everywhere always. Much better place to get a hold of me. You can add me using the email address on the about page of this site.
Never used Google Hangouts… getting to where I am less than trusting of Google.
May have to look into though… Will try and leave myself on Skype for a while (just in case you decide to log in).
Can’t wait to see your final product on your other Horo costume as soon as it is done.
Those are some gorgeous photos of the landscape & those lakes in British Columbia. Love the shots of Horo & Alice with those gorgeous backgrounds, great stuff. ^^
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I really need to go back and get some more. There was so much unexplored territory and missed photo opportunities.
hi,
looking for informations after stumbling on these lovely pictures (https://secure.flickr.com/photos/91377333@N03/sets/72157632602236755/), I was “following” your “quest” to ultimate dollfie horo and spending some time reading your adventures on dollfiedreams.com (lol at the “copy accident”, the daughter thing….yeah a bit scary :)) and on reddit.
So I have a good laugh when looking at your (beautiful) report and seeing a new friend to horo which immediately remind me of this http://www.dollfiedreams.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6418&start=30#p98395.
(Anyway you have good taste sir, because Alice is freaking gorgeous…) Well at least they had some good points there sometimes…
It would seem I missed your comment until now! I apologize for that!
Ah yes, the copy incident. What a mistake, I definitely learned a lesson there. Don’t use the word “copy” with the Dollfie crowd, it’s the worst word in existence. I haven’t actually met anyone who openly uses the word daughter to refer to their dolls, usually just ‘girls’, like, “here are my girls”. I can accept that, I’ve started to use it too.
As for that link… yeah… yeah… I’ll just eat my words, I was so very wrong. But I can attribute some of that change of heart to an aspect of that comment. In it I said I had too many expensive hobbies, after building Horo, I pretty much didn’t order another figure for 8 months, only recently ordering a figure because it was 81% off. So I’ve almost dropped one of those hobbies which made room for Alice. So, while I can’t stand by every word I said, there was still some truth in it.
And there’s another aspect to it as well, but I addressed that in my post specifically about Alice.
Again, sorry I didn’t reply until now!