Snow?!? It's MAY!

Originally written at 10:45AM on May 11.
 
Sometimes, living in the Interior is ridiculous. That photo is not from the February Road to Victory. That's from the drive here. I'd just like to point out that it's MAY.
 
Peter, Andrew and I made it to Kelowna ahead of the Shoolestani family, so Peter and I will figure out flyer dropping routes while Andrew continues his power nap in the back of my van and the Shoolestani's continue their trek through the snow.
 
Kev

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FORE!

Originally written at 8:45PM on May 10.
 
Pardon us if we sound cocky, but our team of BCYL'ers on this Road to Victory trip are a talented bunch. We've got future engineers, we've got budding architects, we've even got an Irish guy. We can drop flyers, we can attach stickers, some of us have mastered tasks such as taking photos and updating the Road To Victory site. But ask us to golf and all hell breaks loose...
 
The golf tournament was quite the adventure - Andrew made a golf cart do things I'd only ever seen in Gone in Sixty Seconds; the Shoolestani's golfed for the first time in their lives, and I had a period of 4 consecutive swings where I made no contact whatsoever with the ball. Despite all this, the good folks of Merritt Golf & Country Club - as well as the Fraser-Nicola Liberals - still fed us a spectacular dinner. Judging by the speed of Peter's rib consumption, I wasn't the only one who thought the meal was awesome...
 
A big thank-you to all those who made Merritt such an enjoyable trip!
 
Kev

PS - Bonus points to anyone who photoshops the picture of Andrew golfing into a swordfight or lightsaber scene. That doesn't even look REMOTELY like a golf club in his hand...

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Making Harry History

Originally written at 12:30PM on May 10.
 
The Fraser-Nicola riding is currently held by an NDPer, Harry Lali. To celebrate the 150th birthday of British Columbia, the local Liberal Riding Association has decided to Make Harry History. This morning - armed with caffeine, sugar, and the skills we honed in kindergarten - the BCYL Road to Victory crew helped the Fraser-Nicola Liberals get one step closer to that goal.
 
After driving the hotel's restaurant into a frenzy at the sight of its first ever group of nine, we made our way to Sanders & Co Contracting where our day's adventures would begin. We were greeted there by the Riding Association... and a huge pile of flyers. In an awesome return to the days of pre-school craft time, all twenty-something of the volunteers in the room grabbed a stack of flyers and a sheet of stickers and got to work putting the local group's information on the flyers. As you can tell from the second photo above, I did next to nothing and watched everyone else work. It was perfect.
 
So, with our flyers all sporting perfectly-attached stickers, we were ready to hit the streets! The huge turnout of local volunteers meant we were able to cover the entire town with BC Liberal brochures. My personal highlight came with a woman who was standing on her porch while I did the neighbour's house:
Woman (excited): Oh, are those the flyers for the soccer camp?
Kevin: It's actually some information from the BC Liberals about what we've achieved in the province, since we're only one year away from the election.
Woman (no longer even remotely excited): Oh. *takes flyer* Okay.
 
Anyway, with the flyer drop finished, the golf tournament is next up!
 
Kev

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And so it begins...

A Lesson in Murphy's Law:
On Tuesday, I cycled from my house to downtown Kelowna in just over half an hour. Today, driving that same route took just over two hours. There were cars everywhere - in trees, perched on fences, poking out of the sewers... Or perhaps I was hallucinating - things like that can happen when you're trapped inside a vehicle for two long, long hours. I resorted to taking pictures of the traffic. Photos of traffic. Thankfully, I made it through without too much mental trauma.
 
Despite the rocky start, it was smooth sailing once I got across the bridge and started on my way to Merritt. After a mercifully traffic-free drive, I checked into the Best Western to discover that I had the largest hotel room on the planet. I'm pretty confident that my van would fit comfortably in here. Unfortunately, the owner requested that I don't test this theory so we'll never know for sure.
 
It looks like we've got a fun weekend ahead of us: Tomorrow morning, we'll be up bright and early to do some door-knocking in Merritt. After convincing the riding to elect a Liberal MLA in May 09, we'll head out to the Merritt Golf & Country Club and spend the rest of the day helping out at a golf tournament being put on by the local Riding Association. Sunday morning, it's off to Kelowna to do some more doorknocking. We'll take a break in the afternoon to have lunch with Mickey Patrluk, President of the BC Liberal party, before returning for one final blast of doorknocking.
 
Check back for updates!
Kev

SUPER SATURDAY!

Tomorrow, BC Young Liberals from all over the province will be participating in Super Saturday - a province-wide door knocking campaign to mark the one-year countdown to the 2009 election!

Visit www.roadtovictory.ca throughout the weekend to see comments and photos from Super Saturdays all around the province!

Long Driveways!

My feet hurt from the long driveways and never ending roads! The short driveways took me 1min 14 seconds (Courtney timed me).
 
Happy to be home and in a warm bed!
 
 -Kevin

Finally Home!!

We started our day in Quesnel having breakfast with the Cariboo North Riding association. What we thought was going to be a beautiful day turned out to be a long cold day in Quesnel. With tempatures of -9 the sun shining, we had no idea what was comming for us.
 
We split into groups of three and were each assigned a poll. We dropped about 1300 flyers, some groups a little bit more sucessful than others. Kevin and I do not want to do flyer drops in Quesnel West ANYMORE, we once again got the side of town with overly LARGE lots and SUPER long driveways!! We were walking down dirt roads about 1km long, w/o any houses, Good thing Courtney and Kevin's legs are so long that they walk SO fast. We were not very sucessful. Karl, Bryan (Taylor) and James on the other hand were overly sucuessful in the downtown Quesnel area with Carmen, Caleb, and Nick meeting up coving over 800 houses themselves. Kristina, Annie, and Ciaran managed to drop about 250 flyers in their first assigned poll!!! GOOD WORK EVERYONE (except maybe our group, but the looong walk was kinda nice).
 
All said and done, we had a great time!! Thanks for the Pizza Chales! Thanks for joining us Cariboo!! and Thanks for EVERYONE's support.
 
See you in VICTORIA!!!
Lindsay & THE UNBC RTV CREW!!!!!

Quesnel Drop Done!

We just dropped over 1500 flyers in -10 weather in Quesnel!

- Lindsay

It's really cold

- Lindsay

Beautiful Day...

It's a beautiful day in Quesnel! Having breakfast with members of the Cariboo North BC Liberals Riding Association!

Prince George Done, Off to Quesnel!

We just dropped 500 flyers in Prince George, now we're off to Quesnel!

- Lindsay

Pizza!

We've just finished calling BC Liberal members in Prince George and are now eating some pizza! Soon we'll be going door-to-door in Prince George-Mount Robson to campaign for Shirley Bond!

- Lindsay

And We're Off!

The UNBCYL started flyer drops in Prince George this morning at 10 am in spite of the snow! They will be working hard all day, and are heading out to Quensel later tonight, for another flyer drop their tommorow. Good work UNBCYL!

Road to Victory tour kick off!!

Who's Idea was this anyways??  ITS -5 and SNOWING IN PRINCE GEORGE!!! Bring your boots nothing is stoping us were counting down the hours untill we kick off the Road to Victory Tour-Prince George Style. We will meet our big YELLOW school bus  at UNBC with 15 members of the UNBC BCYL club!! and get this show on the road!
 
Keeping you posted.
Lindsay