oo chimpanzee that! He's only gone and written it down!!

hello one and all to the new mr bloggins!

right, first off, i'm not going to make the mistake of not writing in this most days as when i don't my crazy mother decides to ring up 'crazy legs' angela to find out of we're okay!

So today we have just got back from the hill.. Just like every other day this week! It's been the first week we have had here of solid snowboarding.
The weather here as usual is blue sky's and hot, and not a snow cloud in sight! Grrr..
But we made the most of the slush and ice having a really excellent few days.

Today it was a bit harder than usual to get up and out. Feeling a bit tired from the rest of the week boarding we took it slow and were out for about 10.30, waiting until about 11.00 to get picked up! When we arrived we were amazed how quiet it was for a saturday! No kids at all.
We did alot of the blue runs from silverlode; Red Eagle, Nest Egg, Blue Bird and Northern Bell..
Doing about 6 or 7 runs in total. Then at the end of the day i went up Red as usual to do another blue/black from there.

Yesterday i had a rather embarrassing fall from one of the chair lifts.. As i reached the top of Red to do my 'end of the day run' i came off the steep ramp from the lift a bit off balance and subsiquently crashed head on into the little metal posts at the side of the lift area, ripping each one out of the ground as i went and getting the rope all wrapped round my leg. When i finally came to a stop i noticed my bindings had exploded aswell, with all the little screws scattered across the snow.
A chap next to me at the top said 'are you okay?' after i confirmed i was he laughed his head off for about five minutes.
My ego in tatters, i headed down, taking some excellent pictures of Rossland.
On the way down, a little lad on a snowboard turned round and looked at me intently for a few moments, then said, ''hey! nice bindings"

Today Jess really got on with her exiting the lift and has finally managed it! Woohoo! With a little help from our new song.

"Lean on your front leg, Jessie, Jessie"
"Don't lean back and be scared, Jessie, Jessie"
"It will only hinder you my little Jessie Goose!"

"Don't forget to push off, Jessie, Jessie"
"Make sure to keep that board straight, Jessie, Jessie"
"You did it, you did it! My Little Jessie Gooooooose"

Last night and again tonight we have been/are going to watch the godfather again. WHich is good fun, however, because the film is quite old, the tv stops even more frequently. However, now, being a master of the reaching broom, this takes little to no effort to fix!
We are even becoming more intune with the noises of the tv, guessing when its about to turn off.

Are we the most boring people on earth?? i think so.
We are counting down the hours until James and matthew arrive so we have new things to do!!

Tomorrow evening we have decided (against our better money saving judgement) to go out for a drink at the steamshovel pub just up the road from us!! At the hill beer is $4.25 each!!!! crazy. So we havent had one drink out yet, hopefully it will be cheaper here.

Had another strange dream last night, only a short one though. I was round at Jess's house and feeling a bit peckish. Jess's mum said that there were "some little plum pies out in the garden" if i wanted one,"the kind they had on titantic!"
She went out and got me one from a little brown bag behind the bird table. It was really nice!
The next day Jess showed me a video of the previous night of me sat in my blue turtle neck??? drinking beer and speeking to Jess and her family.

Anywho we better be off now! Our time here is up. But hopefully we wil be in tomorrow to put some of the photos i took of Rossland from Red mountain on. Its a really good view when its perfect visability.

Only a week until the two brothers arrive now!
Then no more hitch hiking for two weeks!

Cheerio. Dan and Jess