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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Happy Birthday Katia!

Happy Birthday gorgeous!!
Hope you had un dia fantastico and were pampered like a princesa!!

Love ya,

Nic & Rich xx

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

You really know when it's cold here in Canada!! The last 3 days have been between -10 and -20 here at the base, that's ssomewhere close to where Fahrenheit & celcius become one and the same..

There have been a few moments where I've had to ask myself whilst trudging to work through a few feet of snow, if I can really handle this kind of cold.. Every day putting my shoes on the heater at work before I can put them on.

Respect to the Canadians out there for learning to have so much fun in this kind of climate and anyone north of us here where it's anywhere between -30 and -40 - Zoinks!

The powder snow is AWESOME though so no complaints there!

nicx

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Opening Day on Whistler Mountain!!!

Oh yeah - check out the stylers on the mountain!! hehe.. We managed to get in about 4 hours up the mountain yesterday before my legs decided to turn to jelly! The snow was awesome, powder in the morning - ahhh so sweet - and then it got a little wetter & heavier as the day went on and became a lot more work on the legalongs. ouch. We're still waiting on our shipment to be cleared from Vancouver so we were a mish-mosh of borrowed gear plus the new stuff we have.. Clay's snowboard, Rich's new bindings, a borrowed board from neighbours, new jackets, 2 very retro pairs of goggles from the re-use-it centre which did anything but de-fog hahaha.

The visibility up the top was awesome. With only 3 or 4 chairs open there's not a huge choice of terrain but man this place is MASSIVE. We can't imagine what it'll be like trying to find our way around once the whole of Whistler mountain opens, and then Blackcomb Mountain opens next Thursday too!! We're gonna be so lost. As we rode down lower the visibility went from awesome to less than a metre in front of you!! And let me just say, as rad as our goggles look (hmmm..), our retro gears weren't quite cut out for it. Fogged in outside and inside we finally packed it in about 1pm after the fog had started to spread up the mountain.

So - there we are! Finally doing what we came here to do. We bumped in to Ken from Rich's work who was fixing some I.T stuff up the top of the mountain and he took this snap, through gritted teeth, as he wanted to be out playing too!

Game on!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, November 10, 2006

Oh YEAH- here comes winter!!

A real bear paw print - so perfect!! & me proudly stokin my fire

Well we woke up to half a foot of snow this morning! That was almost 10 hours ago - and it's still coming down like nothing else!! After a quick romp through the snow down to the shops, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at sledding on pieces of cardboard, and a few snowball fights, we got home and made a snow'person'! Snow person only because it has boobs but looks like a trucker.. hmmm.. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Opening day is looking to be next Saturday 20th - fingers, toes & legs crossed!

Various snow pics from around our 'hood this morning. The last one's of the freaky house with antlers above the door!