Well it's been a good month since my last post. Lots of fun stuff in that month too, I don't even know where to begin. It really was just an extension of the awesomeness in Sweden, due in no small part to the awesomeness I brought back from Sweden: the lovely Feifei. Seeing American culture after being gone for a year is weird enough, but seeing it through the eyes of someone who has never been to the US is just unreal. Endless tiny oddities that we take as mundane suddenly become magical. Like why there's Chinese written on street signs (PED XING) or what exotic fruit fresh squeezed "oy" (O.J.) comes from.
Meteor Crater and the Painted Desert were both beautiful and impressive but paled in comparison to the Grand Canyon. Feifei was absolutely blown away while I was duly impressed and rather astonished that something I saw years ago actually seems bigger upon revisiting it.
The Comicon in San Diego was pretty damn cool. We saw people dressed up as pretty much anything you could imagine: from storm troopers to Klingons, Xena to Dick Tracy. Of course, it's also the perfect opportunity for girls to show off their thigh high black vinyl boots and matching corsets and not be considered oddly dressed. Navigating through the crowd of people was quite difficult, partly because we often became separated when one of us suddenly saw something interesting and veered off without telling the other person and also because it's hard to make your way through thousands of people doing the exact same thing.
I'm now Frank's roommate at his new house, which is awesome. It's strange that even while I have to find a job, return to the U of A, declare my minor and do more and more grown up, responsible things, the adventures of this past month have made me feel like a kid again.

And I have a month's worth of pictures from my travels.