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hey - I’m still alive - In quebec now, montreal in 2 days then lake rice :) Free internet in the Delta Quebec so it gets my thumbs up! I’ll blog soon as theres a queue.

As your reading this I’ll be sitting in Heathrow airport or doing some last minute shopping for some MP3 speakers (which I so desperatly need!) I’m off to Canada for two weeks.

Our first week will be spent following the tourist trail. I’m ashamed to admit I know sod all about Canada. The only tourist attraction I know of is the CN tower! But thats what the 7 hour flight and a big guide book is all for! By the time I reached China on our first trip last year I’d learn shedloads about their culture - although nothing could have prepared us for passport control in Beijing!! By the second trip my mum and I were so clued up we sailed past the other tourists and blended in quite well with the natives - even if we we’re a bit taller! I was actually tall in China!

We’re heading to Toronto first and spending a day or two there, getting a train to Montreal and again a few days spent there until we get another train to Quebec. Then back to Toronto where we’ll be hiring a car to go to Lake Rice for a week in a log cabin. I’m looking forward to a nice relaxing break by the lake after all the tourisyness!

I’ve got all my painkillers packed, I know my hips and knees will be giving me trouble the whole time. Theres no chance of getting me into the lake though - I did my A level biology coursework on fresh water mayflies which meant wading into flatford mill pond catching all the bugs that lived in there and identifying them. After that I’m never getting in freshwater again! If I’d known what I know now I would never have bathed in that river in honduras!

Dont worry I wont forget about you - I’m addicted to the internet! Dont forget to contact me with places to go etc..I wanna know where the best bars are!

Its made by Microsoft, it supports DRM, it means something rude in another language and it comes in Brown, but I still want one. A Zune.

My 3rd generation 40gig ipod has more or less given up on life so I’m in need of a new mp3 player but I just don’t like the new ipods. Their all case and not enough screen, but other than the new ipod’s there’s strikingly little choice for a 40gig and up mp3 player. I say mp3 because I’m not really interested in watching movies/tv shows. If I have a clip I want to ’share with friends’ it goes on facebook or my phone.

I’ve been doing some research and other than the Zune the only other viable option (for me) is the Zen Vision W but its all orientated on media which isn’t what I want. Even if the CF slot is mightily handy. I suspect its also massive - not something I could easily carry around. The price also leaves alot to be desired.

All this leaves me with the Zune. I’m sure with some ‘creative tweaking’ it can be made to behave itself and my music library does need a clear out and as it happens I quite like the colour brown.

So its just my luck that MsDanielle’s Blog Site is running a competition to win a 30gig Zune - Here’s hoping its brown!
What do you guys think of the new ipods by the way?!

I made smudge into a lolcat! Like it!?