I'll take Biomimicry, Beauty Queens, Olympians, and No Sleep for 500

Incredibly inspiring and busy week this week. I drove down to Calgary for the weekend to visit my girlfriend and while there managed to attend a lecture on Biomimicry "Biomimicry is an innovation method that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies." www.biomimicryguild.com which was something we had kinda been talking about all since we went to the zoo earlier in the day. One of the biggest things themes that I took away from the lecture was to look at things with kid glasses on a question everything. The main theme though was to look at nature as a mentor instead of just copying it but questioning everything fits into that theme, at least for myself.

Then on Sunday I spent an evening with Miss Canada 2009 and three Olympians as they planned the last bits of a huge fundraiser they are starting this Sunday. Backing up a minute Miss Canada is one of Chelsey's roommate in Calgary and she has planned a 4000km bike ride from Calgary to L.A. to raise money for both the Canadian and American Red Cross. For the past couple weeks I've seen her working on this project endlessly and have realized that I can be quite lazy. I'm pretty sure she hasn't slept almost at all for the last month as the deadline gets closer for them to start. Her passion and dedication to this has shown me what is possible to accomplish when you set your mind to a task. The fundraiser is called The Ride For Red which you can check out for more info. It was also cool seeing everyone as real people and just having fun and being themselves. Their may have even been an incident involving a bike race in the kitchen around the island.

Since the weekend I've slept about 8 hours and have been working pretty much non stop on both work and personal projects as well as some design work that I picked up to help with The Ride For Red so today after work I think after I clean up the apartment abit cause Chelsey's coming to Edmonton for the weekend I'm gonna crash.

now some pictures from the zoo