Blogs from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 8

I am packed, ready to set off on the great African adventure at 11:30 p.m. I don't feel much like Indiana Jones but I am prepared for everything! 5 hours and off to the airport to meet up with Dori then to New York city for one night then to Africa! ... read more

Well we finally heard from the travel agent and apparently our passports as well as the visa's for Vietnam have arrived back. We depart on Feb 23 and our first stop will be in Hong Kong where we will overnight before flying to HCMC. Itinerary is land in HCMC and drive to Can Tho then HCMC, Phan Thiet, Hue, Sapa, Hanoi and then back home. It will be nice to warm up a little in the south as its been a long snowy winter here... another decent dump of snow last night and of course the Bobcat is once again sitting dead at the foot of the driveway. If the weather gods are with us we may even get to play a round of golf in Phan Thiet. Probably won't be anoth entry here until we ... read more

I'm sitting here with a mug of hot chocolate trying to recall the significant events of the past few weeks, there are many: We experienced the first of the champagne powder snow, had another couple of Christmas parties and secret santa's, saw the mountain suddenly turn to full capacity, took another trip into town, and joined in the whole Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Boxing day festivities, followed by New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. I'll start with the snow. I think we have tasted the best champagne powder that goes beyond our expectations, so much so that we are beginning to get spolit and fussy with our opinions on the snow conditions. We had a near blue bird day today with a nice coating of powder and we rode all day, mostly through the trees ... read more

Started the day chatting to family, then we headed off to central reservations. Today was my first day of skiing lessons. Claire came with me to point me in the right direction as I'd never even had a pair of ski boots on my feet before. To start I had to fill out a hire form, they wanted to know all my vital statistics, the cheek of it, I soon realised it as for a good reason. Claire contiuned to hold my hand every step of the way, which I was very grateful of, she also took the opportunity to play David Bailey with my camera. I had my feet measured, ski boots selected, now I just had to put them on!!! not quite so easy, but I got there. OMG they were heavy and I ... read more

What a day... It started with a power cut! At first we thought it was just Mike and Claires' house, but Oh no, it was the whole of Big White - after many calls (none answered) we finally got through to a very kind man who explained that a lorry had hit the electricity pylon which had cause the whole of Big Whites power to fail and it would take 6 hours to repair. Not one to miss out on a shopping trip I checked that we were able to get into Kelowna, and Yes we could we only had to make a short detour (that should be fun considering our fuel gauge read LOW FUEL). Any how, we got ready and off we set to town - Claire's getting good at this driving lark. We ... read more