Have I mentioned that I fuckin love it out here? Well there it is again. I have been here a week as of tomorrow and I have done a lot! First day was Grouse, family time on the weekend, Capilano Monday, bike tour Tuesday, now cypress Wednesday. Tomorrow is walking Granville. I love this place.
Tuesday- Stanley Park, bike tour and Granville island!
I went downtown with Steve and went to see the Olympic Cauldron, which was really freaking cool. Then I headed over to the pacific centre mall to check it out. Entered at holt renfrew and admired the expensive clothes, shoes and accessories. I then got the call from Dave that he was ready to go in a bit so I headed out to kits. Dave got the bikes together and took me on an epic journey to get lunch which was excellent and a tour of the seawall of Stanley Park. After a wicked ride, we then decided to ride false creek and the hit Granville Island. That place is awesome. My most favorite beer of life is there- cypress honey lager. So amazingly good!! Then went back to Dave's place and walked to dinner at The White Spot which is apparently a local favourite around the Vancouver area. I made it back to Richmond just in time to get some decent sleep before my wicked day at cypress!!!
Cypress was wicked. Hands down best hill near Vancouver. Pow up top on skyline chair... Or I think that's what it's called. Either way it was a good day. I rode the run maelle ricker won the gold on!! So good.
I have no random thoughts for this one as I'm behind, and now need to post about whistler!!!
I don't want to leave this place, but the pay sucks out here apparently!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The weekend ends and a wicked week ahead
The weekend was awesome. Saturday I stayed in Richmond with steve and his friends all came over starting at 3pm and we drank beer all night and played pool. Lots of fun was had for sure!!
Sunday I spent most of my day with Koel, Marlo and Mary at her place. She made a wicked roast beef dinner with scalloped potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce, yorkshires and gravy. Delicious dinner!! Finished it off with donut dessert too! It's been years since I've seen Mary, and she's still the same lady I knew at 8 years old. Most lovely time catching up, playing scrabble and drinking tea!
This morning I left with steve and co to go downtown, and saw his office, which is wicked, and then went and grabbed timmy's and walked to Canada place to get the free shuttle to the capilano suspension bridge. Lovely tour to get there over the lions gate bridge. Got there and spent a good 4 hours Checking it all out. I walked all the way around and after found out that the only way to get my wicked certificate would be to do the passport which I had no idea about before I started. So I did it again, just a little quicker. So I got a bunch of wicked pics on my camera and only a couple on my iPod so you'll all have to wait til I get home to see full experience. It was pretty awesome. Did the treetop adventure, but cliffwalk wasn't open. If any one reading this wants to do the cliffwalk, seriously after June 2nd, unless they get set back.
After the bridge I headed down to lonsdale quay and walked straight up lonsdale road (huge ass hill) to check out the shopping and stuff in north van. Found a wicked purple fairy dress for Ryan and Tana's baby, a couple things I really liked and a new hat, as my toque was getting too warm. It's nice. I walked all the way up to the boardroom board shop and partway back as I got the bus to get to the ballpark up at the top of the hill.
The softball game was awesome! Boy do those young ladies have talent!! It was a great game. Hope I have a chance to see another before I leave!
All in all I had a wicked last few days, and I'm following it up with Stanley Park and the seawall tomorrow, then riding at cypress on weds, whistler on Friday!! Oh yeah!!!
Random thoughts:
-I love this place.
-people are really friendly here!
-one week until Tofino!
Love you all! Xoxo
Sunday I spent most of my day with Koel, Marlo and Mary at her place. She made a wicked roast beef dinner with scalloped potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce, yorkshires and gravy. Delicious dinner!! Finished it off with donut dessert too! It's been years since I've seen Mary, and she's still the same lady I knew at 8 years old. Most lovely time catching up, playing scrabble and drinking tea!
This morning I left with steve and co to go downtown, and saw his office, which is wicked, and then went and grabbed timmy's and walked to Canada place to get the free shuttle to the capilano suspension bridge. Lovely tour to get there over the lions gate bridge. Got there and spent a good 4 hours Checking it all out. I walked all the way around and after found out that the only way to get my wicked certificate would be to do the passport which I had no idea about before I started. So I did it again, just a little quicker. So I got a bunch of wicked pics on my camera and only a couple on my iPod so you'll all have to wait til I get home to see full experience. It was pretty awesome. Did the treetop adventure, but cliffwalk wasn't open. If any one reading this wants to do the cliffwalk, seriously after June 2nd, unless they get set back.
After the bridge I headed down to lonsdale quay and walked straight up lonsdale road (huge ass hill) to check out the shopping and stuff in north van. Found a wicked purple fairy dress for Ryan and Tana's baby, a couple things I really liked and a new hat, as my toque was getting too warm. It's nice. I walked all the way up to the boardroom board shop and partway back as I got the bus to get to the ballpark up at the top of the hill.
The softball game was awesome! Boy do those young ladies have talent!! It was a great game. Hope I have a chance to see another before I leave!
All in all I had a wicked last few days, and I'm following it up with Stanley Park and the seawall tomorrow, then riding at cypress on weds, whistler on Friday!! Oh yeah!!!
Random thoughts:
-I love this place.
-people are really friendly here!
-one week until Tofino!
Love you all! Xoxo
Saturday, April 9, 2011
An adventure just isn't complete without a few hiccups... Especially when they're mine.
I fucking LOVE it here. The people are nice and rush hour is like Saturday driving In Toronto. I could seriously get used to this. Don't worry Kimmy, i'm coming home. But for how long? Lol.
So I woke up nice and early around 6:45 and Uncle Steve was up and we made tea and breakfast. Hmm. Tea would make this posting experience a little less tedious. Tea and some dishes done and I'm ready to write. Here we go!
So since I was headed to grouse and steve was going to work, he dropped me and my board bag off at the sea bus. The seabus is awesome. Going across the burrard inlet was so cool, you can see the city behind you and north van and mountains ahead. So cool. So then I got on the 236 bus that takes you to capilano and grouse. I will be revisiting this bus on Monday as I plan to do the suspension bridge then. The weather says it should be a decent day. So I got off the bus and grouse doesn't give a CASI discount. $65 later and I'm on the skyride gondola going up the mountain to the hills. That gondola in itself was a most excellent experience. I do have pictures from it, but I will have to post them when I get home as they're on my camera. You see the whole city from up there and the peaks of the lions which is ultimately so awesome. I checked my board bag after I got ready and I was out! There are a couple of nice groomers and quite a few ungroomed runs. I decided to take it easy and stick to the groomers mostly for my first day out on the snow in the mountains. Wise decision though because I'm a little sore this morning! I rode a variety of runs and had a most excellent time. Went in for lunch and had the healthiest looking thing on the menu, which was the chili and it was the special. It was pretty damn tasty. Went back out in the afternoon and decided to hit an ungroomed run and sank a few times as the snow was so deep! I never has as much fun falling than I did yesterday. But the falling let to my phone getting disputed from my pocket and I'm pretty sure it fell out in a lift line when I was clearly snow put of my jacket and pantalons. So I was a little choked when I realized it was missing so I took the run again, fell a few more extra fun times and didn't find it. Hoped I was smart and left it in my bag, but no. So I called and blocked it. Went back out to ride cuz there was no use in leaving I was having so much fun! This is where I meet Jon and his coworkers on the hill. Extremely nice guys and they are in the action sports industry. Jon gave me his number which I plan on using, as he said he'd take me to the billabong party in whistler! Yeehaw! Sick! Rode with those guys for awhile and then when they left I got ready to leave too. I went to get my bag and the girl behind the desk said someone just returned my phone!! Fucking eh! People here are awesome. Had a half hour ordeal trying to get it turned back on, but then was on my way back to the city as my friend Dave said he'd make me dinner! Score! It was great seeing him again. We have plans to do the stanley park seawall next week and go to cypress as he got us passes from his work. Most excellent! Somewhere between tuesday and thursday next week. I left my board bag with him as I'll be riding next at cypress with him, and there was no point in lugging it all the way back to Richmond from kitsilano. Today I'm gonna chill, maybe check out a mall, grab some snacks for next week.
I know I've only been here for like 2 days but so far it's amazing and I'm so glad I planned this trip. If anyone who reads this has never been out here I thoroughly recommend coming.
Love and hugs!
Random thoughts:
-everywhere needs a seabus. Fucking cool.
-people here are so amazing and helpful.
-the snowboarding out here is way better than onterrible.
-I fucking LOVE the mountains.
-game on. (that's for you Christine!)
So I woke up nice and early around 6:45 and Uncle Steve was up and we made tea and breakfast. Hmm. Tea would make this posting experience a little less tedious. Tea and some dishes done and I'm ready to write. Here we go!
So since I was headed to grouse and steve was going to work, he dropped me and my board bag off at the sea bus. The seabus is awesome. Going across the burrard inlet was so cool, you can see the city behind you and north van and mountains ahead. So cool. So then I got on the 236 bus that takes you to capilano and grouse. I will be revisiting this bus on Monday as I plan to do the suspension bridge then. The weather says it should be a decent day. So I got off the bus and grouse doesn't give a CASI discount. $65 later and I'm on the skyride gondola going up the mountain to the hills. That gondola in itself was a most excellent experience. I do have pictures from it, but I will have to post them when I get home as they're on my camera. You see the whole city from up there and the peaks of the lions which is ultimately so awesome. I checked my board bag after I got ready and I was out! There are a couple of nice groomers and quite a few ungroomed runs. I decided to take it easy and stick to the groomers mostly for my first day out on the snow in the mountains. Wise decision though because I'm a little sore this morning! I rode a variety of runs and had a most excellent time. Went in for lunch and had the healthiest looking thing on the menu, which was the chili and it was the special. It was pretty damn tasty. Went back out in the afternoon and decided to hit an ungroomed run and sank a few times as the snow was so deep! I never has as much fun falling than I did yesterday. But the falling let to my phone getting disputed from my pocket and I'm pretty sure it fell out in a lift line when I was clearly snow put of my jacket and pantalons. So I was a little choked when I realized it was missing so I took the run again, fell a few more extra fun times and didn't find it. Hoped I was smart and left it in my bag, but no. So I called and blocked it. Went back out to ride cuz there was no use in leaving I was having so much fun! This is where I meet Jon and his coworkers on the hill. Extremely nice guys and they are in the action sports industry. Jon gave me his number which I plan on using, as he said he'd take me to the billabong party in whistler! Yeehaw! Sick! Rode with those guys for awhile and then when they left I got ready to leave too. I went to get my bag and the girl behind the desk said someone just returned my phone!! Fucking eh! People here are awesome. Had a half hour ordeal trying to get it turned back on, but then was on my way back to the city as my friend Dave said he'd make me dinner! Score! It was great seeing him again. We have plans to do the stanley park seawall next week and go to cypress as he got us passes from his work. Most excellent! Somewhere between tuesday and thursday next week. I left my board bag with him as I'll be riding next at cypress with him, and there was no point in lugging it all the way back to Richmond from kitsilano. Today I'm gonna chill, maybe check out a mall, grab some snacks for next week.
I know I've only been here for like 2 days but so far it's amazing and I'm so glad I planned this trip. If anyone who reads this has never been out here I thoroughly recommend coming.
Love and hugs!
Random thoughts:
-everywhere needs a seabus. Fucking cool.
-people here are so amazing and helpful.
-the snowboarding out here is way better than onterrible.
-I fucking LOVE the mountains.
-game on. (that's for you Christine!)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Vancouver watch out! I'm on my way!
Sitting at gate c41 at yyz and I've got my xl double double. Will turn the cell off in a few. I am so eXcited for this trip and cannot wait to land at yvr to get the party started! Also this iPod is the greatest thing I have ever bought myself. I love the prospect of being a crazy tourist and that Kim booked our surf lesson for tuesday the 19th. I can't wait to see her!! I can't wait to hit van city hard with Dave too. I haven't seen him since 2005. Let's get this party started. If you want to follow my adventures stay tuned!! I promise to keep posting regularly! Love and hugs! Xoxo
Random thoughts
-it's possible to be too excited.
-I hope they let me bring the rest of my coffee on board the flight.
-i heart the airport!
-GAME ON!!!
Random thoughts
-it's possible to be too excited.
-I hope they let me bring the rest of my coffee on board the flight.
-i heart the airport!
-GAME ON!!!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Vacation is within reach!!
Ok, so it's been awhile. Some exciting stuff has happened over the last month, and more exciting stuff is yet to come. My last post has left off at Blue Mountain. Since then, I went back there a few times, the teaching season has finished, and I can't believe that winter is pretty much over in Ontario. The last month of winter though, proved to be great. We had some awesome weather, great riding conditions, and I successfully completed the CASI Level 2 course. It took a second try on the teaching aspect, but it's all really because I choked on giving feedback the first time. Oh well. Got it a week later, no big deal. My goals and aspirations as a Snowboard Instructor really just include this as a part of a big process of getting to be the best I can be, and ultimately one day, I would LOVE nothing more than to have my Level 4, but this is years away. I will slowly climb this ladder, build and proceed forward with this endeavor. I know I have phenomenal support and guidance from some very amazing people in my life, who helped me get this far, and whom I know will only continue to do so in the future. So I THANK YOU ALL!!
So sadly, the teaching season has wound up. We had a good party, took over a pub in Milton, some people got sloppy, most of us did not. It was great seeing everyone, out of uniform, having a good time. Obviously some people were missing because of work/vacations and would have loved to have had them there, but alas, it's understandable. There are pictures on facebook.
My Uncle had his 40th birthday as well, which really means we're all getting older, so I made him a wicked cake. He loves the Titanic. What's better than a sinking ship cake for your 40th birthday? Nothing. LOL
A couple of my best friends in the whole entire world now have a beautiful baby girl. Riley Marie was born on March 26th, and she's cute as a freakin button. I love her already, and will spoil her rotten. That's what good Aunties do!! xoxo
AND NOW- It's almost VACATION TIME!!! OMG SO EXCITED!!
On April 7th, I head to YYZ, and I'm leaaaaavvvvinn on a jet plane!! But I know when I'll be back again. I'm going to BC for the better part of a month. I fly back in on May 3rd. I have some loose plans, but will include:
-Whistler, the 1st weekend of Telus world ski & snowboard festival. Going April 15th-17th.
-Tofino! Visiting Kim! I'll be going out there April 18th-24th. Learning to surf. Hanging out. Beach bummin' it.
-Capilano Suspension Bridge and treetop walkway tour. So cool!
-Stanley Park- renting a bike and doing the seawall. Or walking it. either way, I think I will spend more than one day discovering this park.
-Many hours spent walking downtown
-Hanging out with Dave!! Whom I haven't seen in like 5 years, easily. I'm pumped to see him. We're gonna party!!
- Hanging with my Uncle Steve and family. I don't get to see these amazing people near as much as I want to. AND I get to help them move! cool stuff!!
I will try to blog while I'm out there. Anyway....
RANDOM THOUGHTS!!
- Cats aren't the best laundry helpers.
- Trying to figure out what to pack, to go away for a month is fuckin' hard. I'm currently putting that off.
- Too many guys read too much into what women really mean. If we say we don't give a fuck about whatever it may be, we usually don't. Unless we're lying.
- If someone lies about how they feel about being in a situation, it's their own fuckin' fault if they're angry/upset/uncomfortable. Fuckin' speak your mind, and feelings or you'll only have yourself to blame.
- Snowboarding is my most favourite thing to do on this entire planet. If I could ride all year round, I seriously would.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
If it wasn't the Hard way, it would be No way!
Saturday February 19th 2011. Seemed like a nice day to go snowboarding, and the riding was great, except for the the to and from parts!! My partner in crime for this fine adventure was the excellent Christine, and there was no lack of laughs and fun, and sometimes we laughed so hard we almost peed ourselves, but rest assured, we didn't. Sometimes it was close though! lol.
Christine and I got in my car at 7:30am. Proceeded up hwy 10, get passed by a d-bag and grab gas in Orangeville. When filling up, that same d-bag was at the pump in front of us, blasting some really terrible music, filling up his suv while still running. This prompts a Christine moment- "I hope someday you explode!" LMAO! This comment was repeated a few times this fine day. We keep on driving up, and we encounter white outs! Another d-bag decides that even though everyone else has lights and hazards on, he wasn't going to do this, so I almost rear end him in a white out- because the motherfucker couldn't turn on his fucking lights. I used my horn profusely and flashed all the lights I had at him, but to no avail, never did he turn them on. I kept on the horn every so often, just because I hated him. We get to Blue Mountain and find out later that the roads got closed after we made it through, and lock up our boards to get ready. Some other awesome d-bag decided to lock their boards up beside ours- with their highbacks up, therefore trapping our boards in place. This was not cool- and I was so ready to remove bindings after almost an hour. The guy who locked his board up on the other end came, and once his was out we wiggled ours free and started a wicked day. We had a constant musical filled with colourful comments, party bars and good times. Lunch came and we found Burton Sleeper hoodies on sale for 1/2 price, so that was wicked too.
At the end of our most excellent day the third bad thing happened. I knew there was going to be a third, as two leads to three usually. We got to the car, and the battery was dead. I swore I turned off the lights, guess not. Asking around, we found an awesome family that came to our rescue. We drove home, and I went to bed.
Random Thoughts:
- Some people should explode.
- I should have removed the bindings and left a nasty note.
- Lights are CRUCIAL in white out conditions!
- I need a flip up sign thats customizable on my car so I can tell other drivers how I feel.
- The chairlift party doesn't start til the party bar goes down. Only after that can you mingle.
Christine and I got in my car at 7:30am. Proceeded up hwy 10, get passed by a d-bag and grab gas in Orangeville. When filling up, that same d-bag was at the pump in front of us, blasting some really terrible music, filling up his suv while still running. This prompts a Christine moment- "I hope someday you explode!" LMAO! This comment was repeated a few times this fine day. We keep on driving up, and we encounter white outs! Another d-bag decides that even though everyone else has lights and hazards on, he wasn't going to do this, so I almost rear end him in a white out- because the motherfucker couldn't turn on his fucking lights. I used my horn profusely and flashed all the lights I had at him, but to no avail, never did he turn them on. I kept on the horn every so often, just because I hated him. We get to Blue Mountain and find out later that the roads got closed after we made it through, and lock up our boards to get ready. Some other awesome d-bag decided to lock their boards up beside ours- with their highbacks up, therefore trapping our boards in place. This was not cool- and I was so ready to remove bindings after almost an hour. The guy who locked his board up on the other end came, and once his was out we wiggled ours free and started a wicked day. We had a constant musical filled with colourful comments, party bars and good times. Lunch came and we found Burton Sleeper hoodies on sale for 1/2 price, so that was wicked too.
At the end of our most excellent day the third bad thing happened. I knew there was going to be a third, as two leads to three usually. We got to the car, and the battery was dead. I swore I turned off the lights, guess not. Asking around, we found an awesome family that came to our rescue. We drove home, and I went to bed.
Random Thoughts:
- Some people should explode.
- I should have removed the bindings and left a nasty note.
- Lights are CRUCIAL in white out conditions!
- I need a flip up sign thats customizable on my car so I can tell other drivers how I feel.
- The chairlift party doesn't start til the party bar goes down. Only after that can you mingle.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
It's one of THOSE days...
What I mean by that is- whatever could go wrong for awhile, did. Then it got better, so I was quite happy and am still. My day started nicely, got up, got ready and then with 5 minutes until I had to walk out the door to go to work, I picked up my snowpants. Then I got reeeeeaaaally angry, as Mr.Frodo, my kitty, had peed on them sometime overnight. I thank goodness that the only thing this was making me late for was riding my brand new WICKED snowboard that I bought on the weekend, but I was really excited to ride it, so I was pretty angry about that until I hopped on it. So I tried my hardest to clean them as best I could- and left the house. I am on the 410- past Steeles, and realize that I forgot my phone (which didn't bother me too much) AND MY CUP OF TEA. Said CUP OF TEA makes me feel human in the morning. I'm not quite right until I have it, not gonna lie. Then I turned on the foot blower in the car, and all I could smell was cat pee. Gross. So I lovingly called my pants 'pee pants' for the rest of the day.
Work is always awesome- despite pee pants today. I rode the new board, it's a beauty. I love it. I brought the ladies in my ladies day class through the tunnel of success (again for 2 of them) and we had a great time working on turning on new terrain. So happy for those women and proud of their progress. Lunch was wicked good today. Cauliflower and cheese soup was amazing, pasta salad and a cupcake with chocolate icing and sprinkles. SO GOOD. Nancy was awesome (as she always is) and took my 12:40 lesson because the pee pants needed some more febreeze. 2pm cancelled, the weather was awesome, and I was inside doing paperwork. No worries, tomorrow will be better. I ended my awesome afternoon with a great lesson, an adult, she was good. The sun was out, I got warm, so I shed the jacket (i can, if i'm wearing black) and then the sun went behind the clouds. Attack of the bad luck day strikes again.
My bad day got better, when I no longer had to wear the pee pants (which are clean now, and drying) and I got home to find my new camera was delivered today! The other new thing I got recently was yes, the new board. Saturday, I went to Corbett's, and Jon was the man and found me my new ride. so good.
Random thoughts:
- taking your snowboard off, at the top of boomerang, and not holding on to it, makes for a funny scene. Thank goodness no one got hurt.
- cats are fucking weirdos.
- retro weekend is the greatest event ever.
- I really fucking love snowboarding.
- Sundays are for watching She-Ra, before I go to work. I'm done disc 3 of 12, so I have lots to go. Note- She-Ra is actually entertaining, and not as stupid as I thought it would be.
- Valentine's day is a sham of a holiday, however the chocolate idea is wicked.
- My Parental Units are awesome.
- My trip to BC is less than 2 months away, and my Level 2 is less than 2 weeks away. excited much? yesss!!
Work is always awesome- despite pee pants today. I rode the new board, it's a beauty. I love it. I brought the ladies in my ladies day class through the tunnel of success (again for 2 of them) and we had a great time working on turning on new terrain. So happy for those women and proud of their progress. Lunch was wicked good today. Cauliflower and cheese soup was amazing, pasta salad and a cupcake with chocolate icing and sprinkles. SO GOOD. Nancy was awesome (as she always is) and took my 12:40 lesson because the pee pants needed some more febreeze. 2pm cancelled, the weather was awesome, and I was inside doing paperwork. No worries, tomorrow will be better. I ended my awesome afternoon with a great lesson, an adult, she was good. The sun was out, I got warm, so I shed the jacket (i can, if i'm wearing black) and then the sun went behind the clouds. Attack of the bad luck day strikes again.
My bad day got better, when I no longer had to wear the pee pants (which are clean now, and drying) and I got home to find my new camera was delivered today! The other new thing I got recently was yes, the new board. Saturday, I went to Corbett's, and Jon was the man and found me my new ride. so good.
Random thoughts:
- taking your snowboard off, at the top of boomerang, and not holding on to it, makes for a funny scene. Thank goodness no one got hurt.
- cats are fucking weirdos.
- retro weekend is the greatest event ever.
- I really fucking love snowboarding.
- Sundays are for watching She-Ra, before I go to work. I'm done disc 3 of 12, so I have lots to go. Note- She-Ra is actually entertaining, and not as stupid as I thought it would be.
- Valentine's day is a sham of a holiday, however the chocolate idea is wicked.
- My Parental Units are awesome.
- My trip to BC is less than 2 months away, and my Level 2 is less than 2 weeks away. excited much? yesss!!
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