The time has finally come for me to update the last 30 odd days of my life. I think this will be a bit of a flick through, skipping to the good bits (and the bits that I can remember).

I think I will start where I left off again.

Wednesday 21st December, 2005.
The rainy conditions weren't really very nice for boarding so I jumped on a bus down to Function Junction to pick up a few things. My goal was to come back with two pillows, two matresses and linen for the lot. I succeeded on only one count, the pillows. I had a bit of a walk around Function Junction. It's pretty well and industrial estate with a hardware store, paint shops, mechanics, the bus depot. Not very interesting. There is a nice little break fast cafe down there that I might get down to one day but that's about the highlight.
Met up with Phil later on that arvo for a bit of Total Body Conditioning at Meadow Park. It was exactly as the name suggested, a full body workout. Felt good to do some exercise for the day though.
Played a bit of Poker round at Phil's in the evening. I quite like Texas Hold'em. Those of you familiar with late night poker will know the game.

Thursday 22nd December, 2005

Whistler Blackcomb have so many employees that they spread their Christmas party over 4 nights. This year's event was held at none other than the Fairmont Chateau ballrom. The retail accessories department (which I am losely affiliated with) had their night tonight. We had a beautiful turkey dinner and everyone was allocated two drink tickets each (of which I aquired two other peoples). There was a top live band playing a few carols and a lot of jazz as the night went on. This picture shows my turkey dinner.



We all headed off to Mojos after the party for a bit of reggae man. A thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Friday 23rd December, 2005
I dragged myself to work on Friday morning after a rather late night. Fortunately making it to work is the hardest part of my day. Once I'm at work I can sit with my feet up and listen to soothing music, but I have to be there on time with a smile, that's the deal.



I rode down at the end of the day, right to the bottom. It's the best part of my day. The parkies were setting up some rails under the Magic Chair for what is called Night Moves. They light up the slopes until 9pm and it's a jibathon (jibbing is the art of turning anything and everything into a snowboard jump/rail/slash). I had a fantastic time jibbing by myself, in the rain for two hours. What a great end to the working day.
The other highlight of the night was Ben's arrival back from his day trip to Vancouver. He picked up a whole heap of cool stuff including a webcam and speakers for his laptop and our new favourite toy, a dart board! Hours of entertainment right there. It is prooving to be a good past time for ben to keep the strength up in his right arm.

Saturday 24th December, 2005
Started christmas eve with a day up Whistler with Phil's mates Dave and Gav from Jersey. It was a pretty terrible day. Windy, rainy, most of the mountain was closed and there were heaps of people crammed into just a few accessible slopes. We braved it until about lunch time then headed down to the GLC for a few quiet ones and some appetizers. The GLC are pretty cheeky with their beer prices but the food is 20% off for staff, which isn't too bad.

Headed home for a bit of a nap to prepare for a big night at Merlins. Merlins is Whistler's Grand View on Christmas Eve, without the beer bottle throwing hooligans and arrests. I had one of the best nights out since I arrived. Santa's helpers....

brought me a lovely turkey dinner...

This was followed by copious amounts of the amber stuff and a few rounds of darts with these rather nice looking women.

(I didn't tell Claire or Sarah that I had been practicing just hours before on our board ;))

There was even a New Year's Eve style count down at mid-night which was a bit strange but everyone was in such high spirits.

Phil tried against my better judgement to fit his brand new Canon digital camera in my Altoids tin. This was the result:


I dropped the girls off at the bus stop about half an hour after the count-down and then headed off home. I decided to take a detour via Tommy Africa's night club just to see if I could find anyone I knew and I ran into these fellas...

and this guy! I hadn't seen Dave in a couple of days. Pretty strange considering he sleeps two feet away from me.


That's all I can write for now. I'm going tubing! I'll write some more as soon as I get a chance. Bye for now.