Greetings from mother crunkin canada!
And happy st. patricks day! (everyone seems to celebrate it here?)
Day 71 of the Dan & Jess Canada extraveganza!
The past few days we have eaten and drank better than the whole time we have been here in Rossland! Well apart from the excellent trip to Steam Plant Grill in SPokane of courses!
This is mainly down to the excellent supply package we recieved the other week (via matthew and James) from Agnes, my relative in Calgary. Also we have our cuboards full of treats galore (left overs from James and Matthews stay)
The best of which are 9 beers! (of which 3 now remain : ) We decided, wrongly, to take 2 beers up the hill to have with our lunch (as most of the people there seem to do.) This made us both feel very dehydrated, and we decided then and there that we are deffiantly not cut out for that sort of rebelious behaviour.
Oh and best till last, we can now drink tea! This was a collective effort from my mum, Jess' mum and Agnes! Cheers!
And for those who didnt send anything... well you know who you are. There's a special place in hell reserved for you! Only jokels of course!
I wrote the above at home yesterday. Now (thursday) we are in the library, taking a day off to sort out a few bits and pieces for our journey over to Vancouver in april.
It's a lovely summer like day outside and Jess is sat next to me reading her new Joyce Carol Oates book.
Right ill start with yesterday, as thats about as far back as i can remember now. We got up very early and went out in search of first lifts. We got picked up pretty quick and were on the slopes for half 9. With it being soo hot the day before, making the snow all slushy, it had frozen very hard over night making conditions pretty awful. On the way up to the top we entertained ideas of bringing ice skates rather than boards up. After a run we decided to sit it out for a bit and wait for the conditions to improve. The non stop snow sports group had the same idea and sat next to us, after a bit we got talking to the two chaps who run it, he was on his 7th season out in Canada and told us abit about the course. They take a group of people who are comfortable beginers and then teach them over three months to be expert. They have all just completed there level 1 snowboard instructors course and now they are going for there level two!
We sat in the lodge for about an hour watching there morning footage on the tv then went out for a few more runs.
At one point it even began to snow a little, though it was short lived given the very warm temperatures.
Before the end of the day i had two runs down beer belly, though i found it hard work with the icey, waist high moguls!
We hitch hiked back with a chap wearing a green bollar 'st patricks' day hat. He was driving his friends big van. It had two seats in the front and a bed in the back. I sat in the back on a deck chair. It was a fun journey sliding around in the back.
Once home i went over to the shop for some supplys (milsch,beans, donut and dog meat), then came back and had some dinner. I later rang Christa (the women matt and james stopped with last week) and asked her if we could leave our winter things in her basement for a few months whilst we were in Vancouver. She very kindly said yes and that she was missing having James and Matthew there, and that her house now seems very quiet without them.
After that we had another night of watching harry potter, what else! Im sure me and Jess are the only people in the world who can sit and watch a film over and over and still have the same amount of enthusiasm for it each time!
Today we will try and search out a way for us to watch the other 5 films!
Right youre all up to date. Thank you for reading!
Dan & Jess
p.s - i had to stop here as i am almsot at my wits end with a chap sitting in front of us on his laptop. He very annoyingly, continues (every 35 seconds) to snort flem in the back of his throat! Annoying!!
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