Meet Marty

My brother went to the upper campus engineering banquet Saturday night and was awarded the lucrative prize of "Greatest net weight gain".

You see, when you show up to this all you can eat celebration of almost being done, you weigh in and your weight is recorded.. Then you weigh out, and the largest gainer wins a prize :)

So naturally he won a Betta Fighting Fish in a neat Dollar store glass bottle.

After surviving a bus ride home in -10C temperatures, It arrived home and was planted on the kitchen counter much to my shock. As the weekend passed, the fish had no food and my brother grew comfortable with his abandonment of it. I began to feel sorry for the fish, it was after all in such a small little jar (think pin glass) and had no food.

So after deciding on a nice colorful name, we called it "Marty", I went to Aqua World and picked up Marty's new house, complete with colorful gravel, a nice algae and a sea shell, not to mention a limitless supply of blood worms. All of which I had nothing to do with (grand total, 30$ (fish was originally free, but was on $4 to buy).

so... meet marty :)

In other equally amazing news, I stumbled into "The Trail Shop" here just in the middle of an amazing year end sale. I picked up (quite unexpectedly) a North Face Crestone 75 backpack. It's amazing. The comfort, the design and the capacity is fantastic. What a find.

Certainly makes up having missed the sale on trail runners today. But the european departure is still a month away.