Bits and Pieces - 28th Jan - 7th Feb 2010

After our visitors left things slowed down for a little while. Along with that it was back to work after a short amount of time off for entertaining. Nothing much happened during this time but I'll give you a little run down.

Thursday 28th we went to Granville Island for our first taste of theatre sports. This is a non-profit organisation that has different shows every week on certain nights. Its a great evening out and reasonably cheap. We loved it and will have to go back again some other night.

Sunday 31st Jan we headed to Whytecliff Park at Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver. This area is on edge of Howe sound and has beautiful views to the mountains and out to the ocean. The day was a little over cast but we were still able to take some nice photos out here. We walked around the waterfront and onto the beach. We were going to go over to a little island area via rocks in the water, but as the tide was coming in we decided against this. Even though I would have liked to have the night off work, I didn't particularly feel like spending a cold winter night out there. As I had to work that night we headed toward the bus to get home. Its always nice going to different parks around here, they all have their things that make them slightly different from the next park.

On Wednesday we headed out to Doolin's for dinner and somedrinks after Anna's nursing exam. Another fun night at our local, mind you it was a bit tame for us as Cam had to work the next day and I had a study day at work.

This weekend was very exciting, it was the weekend before the Olympics so we thought we'd get a weekend of snowboarding in before it all began. Friday 5th Feb I was off work and headed out to a little cafe with Paula and Lynne a couple of friends from work. It was really busy and a great place to eat. After this I headed home to pack for our weekend away. Once Cam got home from work we left for the bus station. We decided to go in the evening to get a early start the next morning.

So on the Saturday morning we got an early start, ate some breaky and then headed up the mountain. What a beautiful day, the sun was out today which was nice as it didn't look like it would be the best this weekend. Today I was on fire, I think the best day on the snow in my life, for some reason it was like I had been snowboarding for years, Cam unfortunately wasn't having the best day, always seems to turn out this way for us. This didn't stop him however, why would it we were snow boarding on Whistler mountain!! Well actually blackcomb but same difference really. They really don't know how lucky they have it here, there is no such thing as ice, well there is but not the same kind of ice we have in NZ. Even being early in the morning the snow was pretty good to us, actually it was pretty awesome. We thought it would be quite busy being the last weekend before the Olympics but it was actually the opposite, there were no queues well if you count 2-5 mins as a queue then there was. It wasn't just nice in the fact we didn't have to wait for a chairlift, but you could be snowboarding down a run, then just sit down on the ice in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by trees with a fantastic view of Whistler, and hear absolutely nothing!! It was like we were the only peopleon the mountain, absolutely stunning!!

We headed out for some dinner at the Old Spaghetti Company, it was a nice meal, nothing to rave about but I guess it had to be done at some stage. We were pretty tired at this stage so headed back to get an early night for our next day on the snow.

Sunday we packed up, put our luggage in storage and headed up the mountain again. Like I said before we always tend to have opposite days on the mountain and today was no exception. Cam had one of the best days on the snow today, and I had a pretty average day. Most of the time I put it down to fatigue but today it could have also been the weather. The day started out reasonably good but toward the afternoon first the snow came down and then some rain, along with this came the poor visibility. We were getting pretty tired by now and had to get a bus back to Vancouver, so decided to call it a day. We were pretty close to the top of the mountain and headed all the way down. Its nice to finally be at the stage where you can go down the learner section and zoom past all the learners feels great!!

Overall an awesome weekend, think we'll be heading back here more often next year now we have had a taste for Whistler. Just awesome!!