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North America » Canada » Quebec » MontrĂ©al February 8th 2006

On the 8th of Febuary ten guys from the Department decided to go snowboarding/sking for the week at Mount Tremblank... read more
A true snow angel if ever there was one !
The smallest chair lift.
Someone call the Kiwi fashion police.

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Whistler February 8th 2006

Woke up and could hardly walk. I had fallen asleep the previous night with a bag of ice on my ankle but it hadn't seemed to have helped at all. But i was adamant a sore ankle wasn't going to deter me. So got ready and went into the village. Headed up Whistler mountain up the gondola. Another beautiful day. I strapped on my board and headed off. I was ok straight lining it or on my toe or heel edge, but as soon as i tried to turn the pain set in. I knew that i had been a bit optimistic riding today. Was really gutted but i knew i couldn't possibly enjoy it. So i only did the one run from top to bottom. Decided to hang around the village and went into my ... read more

North America » Canada February 8th 2006

Phil woke us up early again to go into town with him. Big day today, our plans were to go up Grouse Mountain (gondola) and cross the Capilano suspension bridge - massive test for my fear of heights. There had been showers overnight and it was a little overcast when we got to the city. We caught the seabus across to Vancouver North, which was pretty cool. The clouds had cleared so we decided to do Grouse Mountain first. Our bus driver was a bit gruff and crazy, she drove fast and was looking at photos as she drove - she got us there though. On arrival we could hear wolves howling which was exciting. We paid to go on the gondola, and I thought the guy had ripped me off. I was going by the ... read more
Trees/Clouds/Mountains
Gondola
Glimpses of Vancouver

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Whistler February 7th 2006

Got up in the morning and had to drag myself out of bed. Another beautiful day as you can see from the photo taken from the balcony. Ryan came back home mid-morning with my new snowboard. I was so stoked. He dropped me into the village where i went to a cafe and had my favourite...bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. I went to the womens burton shop and splashed out on the old credit card. Bought new jackets, pants, thermals, goggles, gloves, socks, beanies. You name it, i bought it! Keeping in mind i already had all my own gear, but as most of it i had bought five years ago, i decided to splash out. Finally i could buy all the things i wanted in the one shop, after my previous unsucessfully attempts running ... read more
heading up blackcomb gondola
view from blackcomb
entrance to the terrain park

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver February 7th 2006

Our next thing on the list was the Harbour Centre Lookout Tower, but we called into Sears (for Beck), and a travel agent first. The travel agent was bizarre; middle aged, Indian and openly gay. He wasn't interested in what we told him we wanted to do, he kept telling us what we should be doing because it's our honeymoon. Rest assured he wont be getting any business from us. The tower was going to be tough for me being scared of heights, but I also love awesome views. We went up in a lift that was glass looking out over the city, it didn't say how many levels it was, but I was pressed up against the back wall (especially near the top it gave me heebie-jeebies). Once we were up in the tower I ... read more
Stanley Park and mountains
East Vancouver/Mountains in the distance (Mt Baker)

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » Stanley Park February 7th 2006

5/2/2006 Well a lot has happened since our last entry. We had a great day in Fiji relaxing by the pool, with both of us being sunburnt the only complication (me in particular). Sunscreen wasn't a priority when packing for the North American and European winters, but I wish it was! When we arrived at Nadi airport that night, we learnt that our flight had been delayed by 3 hours - making it two in the morning. There was also a transfer stop at Honolulu that wasn't in our itinerary. We befriended a Hawaiian chick - Bonnie, and a Canadian who had been in Sydney for two years - Mike. We shared a pizza and had some beers, before watching episodes of the OC on Mike's laptop that haven't been aired in Australia yet! When we ... read more
Plane coming in to land
Plane does land
Boats in Vancouver harbour

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver Island February 7th 2006

Hello All! Decided it was time to get out of Vancouver and check out a little Island near by (actually a huge Island!!!) We booked a place to stay and hired a car and then took off early Sat morning! Our first hurdle would be working out how exactly to drive the car onto the ferry - after driving around in circles looking for the ramp (getting increasingly worried we wouldn't make it in time) we finally found it after being directed to drive away from the ferry for 3kms before joining the on ramp. As we neered the ramp we noticed that the Ferry was slowly pulling away from the shore without us so... being in a gutsy American car, we decided to floor it and take our chances. We hit the ramp and sailed ... read more
Vancouver Is
Vancouver Is
Cathederal Grove

North America » Canada » Ontario » Toronto February 6th 2006

What am I doing??? :) So im starting this blog to keep you all posted on my crazy adventure! I leave for Australia in 11 days... I've packed and un packed so many times I think I'm sick of my clothes! I'm finally getting the butterflies and thinking what am I doing?!?! but I know this is going to be the most amazing time of my life. I will keep pictures updated and all the adventures that I get up to! ... read more

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver February 6th 2006

I had bought new snowboarding boots and bindings from Dubai and had been desperately trying to track down the snowboard that i wanted. After having no luck looking on my recent flights to Europe i decided to get my friend Ryan (who i used to work with in Whistler) to get it for me through his work. My friend Nick went to Whistler on holiday a week ago and i was going to arrange for him to pick the board up for me to bring back to Dubai. But after talking to him on the phone and hearing how much fun he was having, i thought bugger it, im going to go and pick it up myself! So thats exactly what i did. I booked my ticket and the next morning i was leaving Dubai on ... read more

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Whistler February 6th 2006

A fantastic winter season in Whistler, B.C.! ... read more
Skiing up on Whistler Mountain
Skiing up on Whistler Mountain
Last day up Blackcomb Mountain




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