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