February 26, 2006
Snow
Finally after a 2 week dry spell, it's snowed. There's been about a foot overnight and 10-15cm forecast every day this week, I may drag the snowboard back out of the cupboard after skiing 3 times this week my knee is feeling relatively strong, the ache kicks in after about 3 hours but it's great being back on the mountain and the time off has reinspired me... a lot of people are saying they're losing a bit of interest in riding every day. Rather annoyingly the huge contract I landed starts this week too so there may be a few quiet evenings in working.
This week has been pretty weird. Starting at the beginning, Ads and I went out Monday night, it was pretty slow and we were about to head home when two girls came over and spoke to us, somehow I was inspired enough to tell them we were Russian and a 3 hour conversation full of Ruski puns followed, Adam was on fine form and the evening was a blast.
Roll on Wednesday, I went to the Fairmont with Lisa for the most extravagant meal I've ever eaten, feeling completely out of place we managed to consume vast amounts of champagne and superb courses finishing off with a chocolate fondue. Total bill - $265, thankfully Lisa works there and after the 50% discount it didn't seem so extravagant. I also saw a guy propose at their table which was really sweet.
Friday night was Adams leaving party, starting out in Merlins for payday night and the plan was to roll round town in our "silly" hats. Elaine constructed me a helmet with streamers and condoms attached which was both beautiful and disturbing. We ran back into our Russian compadres and I totally struck it off with Robyn, having a slightly less Siberian orientated conversation.
Adam was leaving at 10 the next morning and climbed into bed with me at about 7am, my hangover wasn't particluarly welcoming but I managed to drag myself into the village for breakfast with him before he caught his bus, it wasn't until this moment that I actually considered how much I'd miss him, he's been a great laugh since day one and I'm so glad I got to meet him on this experience. *sheds tear*
Okay with Adam out of the window it was time to focus, skiing was the order of the day with Robyn and while we actually spent the majority of the day lay in the snow talking, it took my mind off Ads going. It actually turned out that I'd met my absolute match, she loves the Weakerthans and Bill Murray and also has an equally stupid sense of humour. I could go on, we had the most amazing day, dinner and drinks and then the kicker, she was heading back to school at 4am. In Montreal. So that kind of sucked but I have another incredible day to look back on when all this is over and the memories I take away from this trip are something I'll have with me forever.
Unless I get amnesia or something.
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February 18, 2006
Still alive!
Well there's not been much going on so updates haven't been necessary. The past 4 weeks have been spent hanging out in coffee shops. Joel's been here for the past 2 weeks and unfortunately I wasn't able to go up on the hill with him but Ads and the gang took him up a few days to show him round the lesser known places which I suspect he enjoyed more than being up on his own.
We've not had any snow for about a week but blazing sun and blue skies, it's odd seeing the sun for the first time in 2 months, typically the temperature dropped at the same time and we've been experiencing minus 40'c in the alpine, hitting as low as minus 10-15'c in the village. Bloody cold I tell thee. I went skiing on Monday for 2 hours where upon my knee was in quite a bit of pain but it was great to get back on the hill (even if I was restricted to greens) and my knee was feeling quite strong. A few more trips to the gym still needed however.
Thursday was extravagance day as Sarah and I sat outside the Fairmont next to a lovely big fire drinking $50 bottles of wine and consuming some of the finest lunch I've had in a long time.
I've pretty much decided to stay in Whistler during the summer, everyone I know will be gone so I'll need to find some summer friends but the last few days of sun have given a sneak peek into how beautiful it's going to be and I don't really want to miss it.
Adam leaves on Friday and Sarah moves into the palacial Blueberry pad.