Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
New Year's Eve up at Whistler and Pemberton!
A little bit about Pemberton, its a very small town with a population of 3000 people. They only have one traffic light in the whole town, two petrol stations and one general store. However they do have a McDonald's!!..
Here's that one an only traffic light in Pemberton!
We spent the first day snowboarding up on Whistler Mountain and then the second day up at Blackcomb. Conditions were close to PERFECT on the first day. No rain, No snow, nothing but fine visibility!... can't say too much about the second day as it started to snow, and to top it off there was some crazy fog half way down the mountain!. So bad that you couldn't see your hand when you stuck it out in front of you.. not good when your hammering down the slope and not knowing whether you're gonna end up in a tree!...Being the extreme superman that I am, I was a bit ambitious on the first day, and went down a blue run a bit too fast :( (The way they grade difficulties up on the mountains is Green (Beginner), Blue (Intermediate), Black Diamond (Advanced), Double Black Diamond (Evil Kneival style!)).. So anyways I ended up doing a big stack on my stomach and slid down superman style for a little bit. Knocked the wind out of my and I think I seriously cracked a rib :( up until today its still a bit sore :(..
Here's a night shot I took in the Whistler Village. We thought we'd go down there and watch the UFC 66 fight between Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, but I guess so did everyone else in the whole village, and it turned out every bar had a huge lineup!.. Not to mention we had to wait 1 and a half hours for each restaurant.. so ended up walking around to kill time and then ended up at the Keg steakhouse to make use of my nice $75 voucher I got as a Christmas present from my boss :D..
The traffic was CRAZY driving back from Whistler on New Year's day. It took seriously 1 1/2 hrs to move 10 km's out of the main Whistler village entrance! :(.. overall over 4 1/2 hrs to get back to Vancouver when on a "normal" day it would take less than 2 hrs!.
Here's a shot of a snow plough! It's kinda a small one though as the "proper" ones are HUGE!
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Sleepless in Seattle
So we set off on our road trip, and shortly after passing the border into Washington, what a better way to take a break, but to stop at you guessed it... Krispy Kreme!!! :)
Krispy Kreme's Finest!
Now on to down town Seattle!.. due to lots of running around at all the premium shopping outlets, I really didn't get much time to do a lot of sight seeing. Of the little time I did I managed to sneak in a few shots of the Seattle tower.
On the last day, we managed to take a look down at the pier. Lots of Clam Chowder to be had along here!...
Here's a shot of one of the pier locals! :)
I got a chance to visit the famous Pike Place Markets as well!
This is the famous Pike Place Fish Company. Whenever an order is made the sales guys put on a fish throwing show, and literally throw your purchase from the surrounding crowd area into the middle!
Hockey Eh?
Well lets see where I last left off... I was fortunate enough to receive some hockey tickets to the Vancouver Canucks vs Phoenix Coyotes match a few weeks ago. I was SOOOOOoo excited as it would be my FIRST MAJOR sporting event since being here.. and to top it off the seats were 6 rows back from the front! (Thanks Rick!!) so anyways, here are a couple of shots from the night... I was lucky to have been able to sneak my DSLR in as I found out later that your not meant to bring any "pro cameras" in :).. Oh and the Canucks ended up winning!.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Snow in Vancouver!.. What The?!?
Well along with great snow comes GREAT snowboarding!! I was fortunate enough to pick up some REALLY cheap Helly Hansen gear at one of their clearance outlets.. Thanks Amy!.. I went up to Cypress Mountain with some of Amy's friends, Rick, Heidi, and Carmen.. we had an absolute blast! I was so happy to be able to pick up the sport sooo quickly!.. within 20mins or so Rick had me up on the Green downhill runs with the rest of them! I had a few big stacks, but with so much fresh powder it didn't really hurt at the time.. although as of writing this my WHOLE body is soooo sore! :(...muscles and all.. Now to get my own Board and Bindings!!!..
Here I am decked out in my new Snowboarding outfit :)..
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Finally experienced some SNOW!
Sorry about the quality of the pics but all I took with me was my Ixus 40 Happy Snap.. and to top things off.. the fog up there was pretty crazy so lighting wise it really sucked..
Dunno if there's anything I can do to clean up the noise Jamie? it was shot at iso 400 :(
and ofcourse I had to make me a SNOWMAN!!! :)
A week in Vancouver!
So anyways here's a shot of the street where I'm at just to show you guys what the houses and things look like here..
Notice the HUGE drains along the roadsides! I'm surprised there hasn't been any accidents of cars backing out into them!..
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Finally in Vancouver!!!
Well I got in touch with a recruiter here and have organised a meeting with her next week to find out some job opportunities.. Fingers crossed I hope things all go well! just have to look at getting an apartment now!!.. Oh and the WEATHER SUCKS!! nothing but RAIN!!! ARGH!!!
until next time!!.. sorry I have no pictures with this update but I think I have more than enough to keep you guys entertained!