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December 03, 2005
More Work and Snowboarding....
Sooo, update time...
Wednesday Myself, SK, Ben, Emily (SKs friend from work) and Sam (Bens friend from work) all headed up Whistler for a days boarding (except Emily who was on Skis...)
It was awesome :o) powder or hard pack snow everywhere, we spent the whole day doing the majority of runs which were open on the mountain - and a few that weren't, including my first Black run :o)
In the evening myself and SK went to "Dusty's" (the local bar) for some beer and happened to meet up with a couple of people from my work. We chatted to them and had a good evening.
Thursday I headed up Blackcomb with SK, we got up for about 10:30am and after a brief detour to return a lost child we found to the lift station had a good day on the piste.
It was freezing cold (about -10*c) so SK left at about 2 for the warm sanctuary of the flat. I stayed until about 3:30 and investigated the glacier near the peak (bad idea it was a wind and spin drift ridden -13*c hell hole) and the park (good idea - managed to complete my first set of boxes successfully).
Thursday evening was again spent in a bar, this time with Emily and her house mates, they had been "on the high stool" since about 1 so were quite full by the time we arrived. It was a good evening though and we had a great laugh.
Work started again on Friday - another day standing behind a counter selling lessons making myself horse explaining the same things over and over... :o) Although it was payday... which was good.
Friday night myself and SK went to a local restaurant (it was our papier mache anniversary - 6 months) for a meal - The Rim Rock Cafe - there was another offer $40 for 3 courses (again it was rude not to take advantage)
It is a "Seafood and Game" restaurant - so we were quite at home. The meal consisted of 2 starters and a main - we had, in order...
Starter 1
Shared - Rim Rock Antipasto - seafood tasters (sushi, prawns, deep fried stuff..)
Starter 2
Ed - Caribou Medallions with a porcini mushroom sauce & nut crusted pastry shell
SK - Opah - With Cashew nuts and a spicy sweet sauce stuffed in a crisp sesame cone
Main
Each had - Rim Rock Mixed Grill roasted rack of lamb, beef tenderloin & caribou
All in all very posh but excellent although their definition of "medium-rare" rivaled the French in how undercooked it really was!
Work is continuing this week, I'm again working Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon - so I miss the main rush of people
More snow is forecast for the end of the weekend which is great, the snow cannons have also been working 24hours a day for the past few days getting the lower slopes and the bases ready for full mountain opening.
Christmas fever is gripping Whistler and nowhere more so than our house. Advent calenders arrived and were duly compared. Ben didn't get one, so lost immediately, SK got a rather funky chocolate Simpsons one and I, well you can be the judge of it...
Mine and SKs advent calender - with a DVD for scale...
Really quite special - thanks Mum(s) :o)
Hope all is well and the country has reopened after its dusting of snow ;o)
Posted by edwardnorthridge at December 3, 2005 06:56 PM