Hungry?

We went to the candy store. It has just about everything, even chocolate covered crickets and ants which reminded me of Judy Blume's Blubber where they make her eat the chocolate covered ants and she pukes. These were favourites:

Yum!

Can't decide between sweet or salty? Why not try both

Sexy beer

This pup came to visit, but there was no brandy

Yass' car. Wood panelling!

Sweet interior

you have to lie down if you ride in the back


Chenny still has a beard

Kelowna

Mexi and I spent a few hours down in K-Town today. Just a bit of a getaway from the mountain. Weekends are busy here (meaning you actually have to wait in lift lines for more than a minute) especially now since it's spring break. Plus it looked pretty cloudy...

Drive Through ATM. Ha ha ha

Sorry Chris, we didn't have time to get Wendy's this time, but we did make a special trip with the Checkmate taxi service in your honor. Had to have my favourite Canadian food:

Toasted bun!

With a cold glass of root beer. This is like no root beer that you've ever tasted and it's served icy cold. Almost frozen coke style.

Catch up

It's been a big week. Had a bunch of snow on Monday, the sun came out for the rest of the week (so warm that the kids that work in the park went shirtless. Probably wasn't that warm...) looks like it's spring time from now on, blue skies, slushy snow and days in the park.

Hooray! We've finally got iphoto up and running so here's a bit of a catch up of pics starting back in Van...

Chenny's hockey excitement

Outside GM place after the hockey. Chenny, Anna, Mex, me and Sopho

Boneta feat. Brand

Skratch Bastid show

Darryl shopping, trying on some gear

Yass, H and Casson

Darryls snow dance

Chenny wow's us with his circus skills




Sometimes there's nothing better to do other than spy on the fire station. You never know what you might see, sometimes they're rolling the hoses out, sometimes they're out on the driveway dancing, this time they drove the truck into a snowbank.

Sunday arvo. By Monday morning we had over a foot of fresh.

It snows real snowflakes

Our balcony on Monday morning

Tuesday arvo at Gem Lake. The sun comes out for the first time

Hooray - we know where to get good coffee!

JP and I are off to Kelowna tomorrow for some time out from the mountain. I still haven't had a day off from riding yet so it will be good to stop for a second...

I'm sick so I can have anything I want

Hot chocolate with marshmallows


Ice Cream


Canadian Bacon

Lazy snow days

We've had a fun few days here. There's been a bit of snow and friends are slowly making their way up the mountain. Had some crazy runs with Tim and Josh yesterday and Yass will be up later this arvo.

The sun came out today for the first time and although there was a bit of snow, it still wasn't enough for the locals to bother with. Just as Mr 60 said to us on the lift "Well...there could be more snow and the sky could be blue-er." Locals complain if you have to wait more than 5 minutes in a lift line. Mex and I figured that we could make some good fun out of 4cm, even though I have sars and was slapping all the way down the hill.

That's our apartment right there in the middle

Bit of the park - superpipe and boarder x

Mexi and Hayley

Lone snow ghost. Yep, that's a tree there

Falcon fun

We finally found a way to sneak in to the Sapphire Glades. Woooooo!!

This is the way to ride into a hole


Getting out of bindings in a waist deep hole is no fun

so I thought I'd have a lie down

Generation Why

OK, so I'm going to be a total bitch (it's OK, karma already got me by making my camera fall out on to the wet toilet floor. Yeah gross, I threw the arm strap in the bin). I know I'm going to sound like a complete hater, but Mexi and I are embarrassed to be Aussie.

Adelaide is in town:

Mex and I headed down to the sold out show at Sam's to say a quick hello to the boys. I kind of expected the place to be full of rowdy Aussies, but it was worse than that. The door list was written on the back of a receipt, promoters were aimlessly wandering around acting like they were king shit and shitlets. Yeah, I see your gigantic backstage pass. Here's a tip - don't get wasted at the gig you're promoting. You may have spent hours getting dressed and putting your make up on, but your gurn face doesn't match your outfit.

Aussie snowboarding generation Y's make up the majority of the mountain. I've had my turn living, working and partying here, but it was never like this. Maybe I'm getting old... Pretty much everyone had their gurn on and 90% of them were idiot beer spilling, badly dressed, yahoo-ing jerks.

Girls - just because I ask where you got your shoes, doesn't mean you need to do the 'I'm pointing at you and we're friends' dance. Don't look me up and down for no reason and if you want to get past, don't f'n touch or push me, especially if you're a guy.

There was dirty dancing

The hype man was getting the crowd rowdy by yelling "Hilltop Hoods! Are you ready? I want to see some crowd surfing!" after every track Reflux played. Shortly followed up with "You all need to calm down or they won't come on stage. The security are getting mad!"

No disrespect to the Hoods and Reflux at all. The show was good as always, it was just the punters that made it slightly unbearable.

Someone wanted to take our photo

This is her

When we left, the toilet had moved outside

And the cops came. 911 is a joke.

...yep, looks like I'm old and bitter.

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