Blogs from Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 13

Christmas Eve in Canada and we're off skiing at Lake Louise. It's Canada's 2nd largest resort, only roughly HALF the total size of Whistler/Blackcomb. Considering that it doesn't really get light until after 9am and gets dark around 4pm, it sure eats into the ski time! Add to that the logistics of gearing up with rental gear...we were on the slopes at about 11:30am! We were in the rental department (Lake Louise only has one rental outlet!!!) for close on, if not slightly more than, one hour. Lesson for Lozza Lauren likes getting lessons from me instead of the ski school. So I took her up the t-bar for the first ride and she did well getting up. The first few runs were slow and tentative, but she was getting the hang of it very quickly. ... read more

Yep that's right I am now in the hotel in Calgary enjoying the internet on my new laptop. Since I uploaded my digital pictures to my laptop I can now upload them to this site. So here I go........ just check under the gallery section and then under lake louise... read more

Yeah the low for today is negative 33, the high is something like negative 27. I am bundled up so much right now I don't know where the layers stop and I began. I guess that's what you get for living on a mountain. I went boarding two days ago when the weather was similar and I thought I was going to get frost bite on the chair lift. The snowboarding is going well so far but I did take quite the spill on saturday which caused me to back out on my plans to board yesterday. This shouldn't suprise anyone who knows me because I tend to get hurt fairly easily and strapping both feet to a board and saying just slide down this mountain is like inviting injury. It's not that bad though don't ... read more

Well after one long month of intense dishwashing I feel the need for a vacation haha. Us Shields' need our vacation time don't we dad. Next week i'm going to have four days in a row off (mon-thurs). They are actually making me take my stat holidays from rememberance day and some other holiday but i'm not complaining at all. Monday i'll be heading to Banff with my roommate and a couple other friends so they can pick up there snowboarding gear so that tuesday and wenesday we can hit the slopes for the first time. Everyone else has been out quite a bit already and i'm itching to get out as well but a bunch of us girls decided that we'll go together and take a lesson so i'm stuck waiting. Even the Aussie boys ... read more

Well the frat boys have gone but the other day while eating in The Bean the news came on. Turns out the rowdiness of the frat boys caught the attention of the media. Our hotel was shown and everyone started hooting and hollering haha. It turns out that us hosting the frat boys weekend wasted the RCMP's time. It probably did we had them out here quite a bit but oh well it entertained me and that's all that matters. In other news a fight has broken out between two of my three roommates. My friend Stacie and our unusually feisty asian roommate have been getting on each others nerves for a while now and last night when Stacie used Emily's phone without asking all hell broke loose. There was an intense screaming match and at ... read more