so that is the question do we go to fluid tonight or not
it is margaritta night as vania quite happily pointed out
now i have one Daniel Charles Butler with me
and its awesome
first time weve hung out just me and him since ummmm last february and that ummmm adventurous trip to plymouth
so he arrived in country on the 22nd
and dearest chelsea kinda forgot we were going to drive to nanamio ( where you get the ferry to vancouver from ) together and so i had to take the public transit and impliment plan B
so it started with a 30 minute trek
then a 2 hour greyhound ride in gorgeous sunshine
then another 30 minute trek
then a ferry ride to horseshoe bay
and we were late so i missed my bus so i implimented plan B version 2.0
so had to get the next one
which was absolutely packed no one else could fit in ( this was due to it being a vancouver vs montreal hockey game that night which the habs won the sods )
we then proceeded to travel from west van to downtown
hitting a car on route so everyone fell over in the bus
yep then into the middle of vancouver to take the sky train ( like a tube ) to vancouver airport
at this stage i was 40 minutes late and ready for butler to rip on me for always being late
and low and behold the little sod wasnt even there ( haha i win )
so we end up staying at my cousin gins for the night on tuesday. we also hung out with my buddy saskia and had beers and nachos while watching the game
then on weds we did the opposite trip
but the road from parksville to qualicum beach was supppper snowy and took like twice as long so we didnt arrive back till later than planned
we just crashed weds night
then thursday i had an epic day working at the boomerang then back to home to grab a butler then head out to troys birthday shindig
this included a 30 minute freezing walk while consuming a few bevvies
it was good fun we all had a few jars butler met the gang and then we missioned home as i had work the next day and dan wanted to go ride
so d b had a great day riding as it was blue skys and i had a hangover
and a hella busy green chair but i worked with cheeko and maxime ( 1 3rd of the french invasion ) and cheeko was his normal bubbly self we were sword fighting ( with ski poles ) and then a guy had a tiger hat on and i had to come out with a classic monty python quote
( from the meaning of life )
a tiger in canada
and then cheeko proceeded to shout get back get back while jabbing his ski pole at him the guy just laughed
anywhos we are going to the bar
so peace
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
damn Cheeko
so as the title says
damn Cheeko
him and myself decided on the bus ride home today ( i must mention after a couple of beers ) that it would be a good idea to hit up the local all you can eat fish and chips place tonight
seeing as it was only 10 dollars each
so we did and between us demolished 14 pieces of fish ( ive got to say im a little disgusted by the amount we ate ) and chips
and now im definatly in a food coma
i feel super sluggish and sleepy
darn boy
so its been a while and weve had epic powder now
yay
last weekend so the weekend of the 11th 12th ish of feb it just started bucketing snow ( courtesy of El Nina ) and it didnt stop for pretty much a week so weve had all the powder hounds out here every day
I got super lucky with my days off and scored tuesday, which just happened to be the day the boomerang finally was open ( the black double diamond runs ) , and even more luckily i was out riding with benny, chelsea, sam , em and maria just as the boom opened so we were in the first probably 20 people to get back there, it being benny and mine's first taste of the back side of the boom on 3 days worth of untouched powder
and it was incredible probably the best snowboarding ive ever had
riding in a crew with everyone getting fresh tracks and just exploring while ripping down super fast ahhh it was soo good
i only did a few runs then headed over to the front side as every man and his dog headed onto the back side and the front side was nearly as epic the glades arent as tight as on the backside so its a bit easier and it was just super fun , quick rides down and then a short 3 minute ride back up.
The next day i was working the boom with em who challenged me to a table football rematch ( at the meet and great i kind of completely destroyed her at least 5 times )
so after another great day where i got fresh tracks again ( it was equally as good as the frontside the day before ) we had a solid hour of playing hacky sack after me and big steve finished our beers ( we had decided to climb onto the lift hut for a better view and we found one so we sat up there ) see picture , shauna joined in as did grady and a couple of others after this picture was taken
so me and em went to the cona and played it was super fun then we remembered she had her hola hoops in her car so she decided to teach me how to
i kind of got it...
but im still pretty bad
i then worked thursday through sunday on the green chair and it was probably the busiest ive ever seen it
even busier than christmas week
but i managed to keep calm and not kill anyone
i even enjoyed it most of the time
except for the instance when i had to grab a young lady from falling out of the chair and shove her back in ( at head height ) and while doing this her board swung round in a perfect arc and cracked right into my ribs
i went down pretty much like a sack o spuds
not so fun
but today was on the boom and had a real good time i was working with one of the new french lads so was trying to speak some french and darn im rusty im going to make a good effort to speak some french each day to polish off the old grey matter
and then again after work someone busted out the hacky sack
and streuth me and grady were on it as was man tracker
was some freaky zone we were in when man tracker flicked it up to me and it went over my head so i turned and bicycled kicked it and grady some how managed to keep it in play for us to go around the world again
man tracker managed the same move later on
but the amazing one was cheeko
who joined in on his crutches .... ( he fractured his ankle hitting a tree stump )
and managed to kick it with his good foot, while his crutch dug in spinning him off balance, kind of fell and then managed to kick it with his bad foot for man tracker to keep the sack up
was incredible
and on the subject of injuries
ive managed to stay pretty free ( touch wood ) but a few of the boys have gone down hard this past week cheeko with his ankle rutter did his knee cap ( surgery jobby as the cap moved but the leg didnt ) and flo who has broken his humerous cleany
ive just tweaked my knee so im back to wearing the brace
anyway
peace
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