Nice to Meet You, Brooks

I’m Keri, Pete’s sister.

I’m the one screwing up on air here, sorry Pete!

I’ve been blogging and making videos since 2007… you can sit down and watch me for 8 edited hours, ha.

Meet me in some of my videos.

Pete and I are both car nuts and love driving.

I had a show for 3 years celebrating Canada. I covered the Olympics for Sun Media, was CBC’s inaugural made-for-web show, it was awesome.

But maybe my favourite episode was when… I talked my way onto a warship.

Exploring the Canadian Navy

I like this simple one, too.

Pete and I are also love playing pool, and we’re ridiculously competitive.

Find me fastest on Twitter @KeriBlog, and sorry about my messy blogs, I just finished rebuilding them.

See you around town this week, Brooks, if you see us yell hi!

Hello I'm in Brooks, Alberta

Came out yesterday for Christmas with my brother Pete!

Flew into Calgary, rented a car and drove around lost in Calgary; now I know it well.

Look, I coincidentally ended up with a Ford Focus, ha.

I’ve still not told you all about Los Angeles and Ford shipping me out to the LA Auto Show have I. I have so much to catch you up on.

Pete took me on a tour of Brooks, which I’ll share with you later.  The people are ridiculously friendly, and there is a LOT of cool stuff here, you’re going to be surprised, too.

For now:

He and his lovely girlfriend are decorated OUT for Christmas; the dining room table has under-glow.

Even my bedroom is decorated, a bowl of candy beside my bead, awwww Pete I love ya.

Watch Canadians Lose Their Minds

Blogging my hat yesterday made me daydream about wandering around the Olympics in it.

This is when we won the Gold in Hockey, our 16th Gold, more than any other country EVER.

GO CANADA GO!

I was making videos for Sun Media, writing for Vancouver 24 Hours newspaper, running around looking good because Canada Goose kitted me out… Van2010 was the best.

This was my final article.

I love how this was known around the wolrd as “The Party Olympics”.

Simultaneously, we set the record for the most gold medals ever won at a Winter Olympics.  Sums us up pretty well, eh?

This was our coming out party, Canada!

It’s important to keep this patriotic momentum going; we’ve been humble for long enough about being the best country in the wold.

You know those times when you got goosebumps during the Games, or when your eyes welled up?  When you were holding your breath and forgetting to blink while you willed us to victory?

That feeling, that’s the one that needs to be celebrated and screamed a little louder.

I don’t want to leave here.  I want to live in this bubble forever.

Thank you Vancouver, for showing me the time of my life.

See you soon.
I’m so coming back.

xoxo,
Keri

 

(sidenote: kay woah – I don’t know where all my Olympic blog photos went, my heart is beating fast now, but pretty sure they’re around here somewhere… when that site got ported over to WordPress from SquareSpace it wasn’t easy. Sorry I’ll get to cleaning it up).

Anyway.

There’s much more I could tell you about this episode, but soon soon, because…

COMING SOON: The Canadian Explorer: Director’s Cuts

Here’s a good post I did here on KeriBlog about the Olympics last summer.