Back from Kimberley...
Okie dokie, I have been really slack in blog updating of late I know, thanks Adele for pointing that out...buuuutttt, I really have been busy-ish...I promise :)
So I'll fill in a few details...
Looking back at the blog I should probably go back to January...January was pretty uneventful apart from us buying a new/old car...It's a '97 Plymouth Voyager mini van and I kinda feel like a soccer mum driving the thing but it has lotsa space and we got it for cheap (although a week after we bought it the fuel pump went and it cost us half what we paid for it to get it fixed...ass...) but we've already put another 2000kms on the ticker and plan to do much more...Here's a photo of Khan at Fernie next to it...
We should be able to resell it for more than what we paid for it (fingers crossed) back in Vancouver as cars are awfully cheap here in Alberta...It's good inside and out, maybe a little questionable in the mechanics but we're going to get one of the guys here to have a look at it as he's a mechanic back home...a slab for a service is the way things work around here...
Erm....Next was Australia Day which was pretty mad here as there are so many Aussies and we had a huge staff party with sumo suits and a blow up boxing ring with huge gloves which many people had lots of bruises from as we kind of decided it was an all in jumping, rolling wrestling castle...It was a beach theme so everybody wore their swimmers and thongs...Pretty amusing watching people outside at the bbq standing in snow in their thongs boardies and blue singlets...
I have many photos so I will upload them soon...
Erm...We're kinda in road trip mode at the moment as I said the other day, we went to Fernie. Fernie for those of you who don't know is a little town in BC which revolves around a ski hill. Now RCR owns Fernie so we get cheap accommodation and free lift passes and cheap food in their cafes which is the bomb! Khan and I went there alone for our first trip and went to Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump along the way, which is really the name of the place... The native tribes used to drive the buffalo to these cliffs where they plummeted to their deaths and then they picked the animals up from below...They had to do it this way as the buffalo are huge and hard to kill...Anyways...It was interesting...This is what the jump looked like...
and this is the carpet in the interpretive center..I thought it was cool cos there were buffalo all over it...
they also have a cool logo...
Fernie was great, it was cool to be at a different ski hill and have new runs to discover and although it hadn't snowed there in a while, the snow was still pretty soft and not too much ice...Up the top of the hill was cool...You disappeared into the clouds as you went up the chairlift and it looked like an alien environment up there cos there was so much snow...
check the overhang of the ice at the top of the mountain...If that fell it would be an incredible sight!
view from the top of the mountain...
Fernie was about a 3-4hr drive south and we came back the long way through the Kootenays National Park which has some amazing scenery...Unfortunately it was a drive done mostly in the dark as we couldn't drag ourselves off the hill at Fernie...And when we got back we found out we had the next day off work anyway which kinda sucked as we could've stayed a day longer...I also got sick the night we came back, I think it might have been the iced coffee I had at Skookemchuk (no shit...) but I couldn't stop barfing and had to take another day off as I couldn't eat and had no strength...better now though...it just lasted for about 48hrs...
Then back at res, we had a visit from the serial licker...a female moose came to the manor carpark and stood there licking the salty dirt off the cars...They put salt on the roads to stop ice build up so you need to wash yr car pretty regularly...The moose was huge! I had no idea they were that big and apparently that one was small (it's as tall as the our van!) as it was a female. Check her out below...Our van still has the tongue marks all down the sides from where it licked it...Check her out...
Now, we just got back from 2 days in Kimberley...Another RCR resort so we got an ace deal on a Marriott hotel room ($40 for 2 nights) and free lift pass again...the Marriott had an ace breakfast buffet and outdoor heated pool and spa so we took full advantage of the facilities...This time we took Alli, Johnny, Dick and Bronwyn and we all fitted very nicely in the van which ran beautifully the whole way there and back...
Went hard the first day but today we were all kind of over it by lunch as the hill hadn't had any snow in a while and it wasn't standing up very well to the amount of people that had boarded/skied over it...ie hard packed and icy in sections...kinda like Nakiska only with worse grooming...And more bumps...So we quit early and headed back through the Kootenays again to the Radium hot springs which was nice...hot water coming straight out of the mountain...bum thing was it was in a big pool and was chlorinated...yuck...so it was just like a giant outdoor heated swimming pool. All the water around here seems to be heavily chlorinated which just seems insane as it's coming straight out of the mountains! I've heard there's some more natural hot springs around so I might do some investigating and check it out...
We've decided we're not going away next days off...we're going to probably do a day trip to Sunshine Village (we have a reciprocal deal with them so free tickets again, unfortunately no cheap food though) as it's only an hour or 2 away and we haven't been there yet. Also going to try to get to a few more resorts around the place...Panorama is our next overnighter in maybe 2-3 weeks then we also want to check out Kicking Horse, Castle Mountain and Big White...We're really living the ski bum life I guess...We have 5 maps on our walls for the resorts that we've been to and we're looking to add more...We're also getting a sticker for the car for each place and a badge that I've been sticking onto our Canadian flag...
Anyway, I'd better run as it's almost midnight and I'm working tomorrow at 8...As I said I'll try to get that photo album happening in the next couple of days...
Happy Valentines Day
So I'll fill in a few details...
Looking back at the blog I should probably go back to January...January was pretty uneventful apart from us buying a new/old car...It's a '97 Plymouth Voyager mini van and I kinda feel like a soccer mum driving the thing but it has lotsa space and we got it for cheap (although a week after we bought it the fuel pump went and it cost us half what we paid for it to get it fixed...ass...) but we've already put another 2000kms on the ticker and plan to do much more...Here's a photo of Khan at Fernie next to it...
We should be able to resell it for more than what we paid for it (fingers crossed) back in Vancouver as cars are awfully cheap here in Alberta...It's good inside and out, maybe a little questionable in the mechanics but we're going to get one of the guys here to have a look at it as he's a mechanic back home...a slab for a service is the way things work around here...
Erm....Next was Australia Day which was pretty mad here as there are so many Aussies and we had a huge staff party with sumo suits and a blow up boxing ring with huge gloves which many people had lots of bruises from as we kind of decided it was an all in jumping, rolling wrestling castle...It was a beach theme so everybody wore their swimmers and thongs...Pretty amusing watching people outside at the bbq standing in snow in their thongs boardies and blue singlets...
I have many photos so I will upload them soon...
Erm...We're kinda in road trip mode at the moment as I said the other day, we went to Fernie. Fernie for those of you who don't know is a little town in BC which revolves around a ski hill. Now RCR owns Fernie so we get cheap accommodation and free lift passes and cheap food in their cafes which is the bomb! Khan and I went there alone for our first trip and went to Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump along the way, which is really the name of the place... The native tribes used to drive the buffalo to these cliffs where they plummeted to their deaths and then they picked the animals up from below...They had to do it this way as the buffalo are huge and hard to kill...Anyways...It was interesting...This is what the jump looked like...
and this is the carpet in the interpretive center..I thought it was cool cos there were buffalo all over it...
they also have a cool logo...
Fernie was great, it was cool to be at a different ski hill and have new runs to discover and although it hadn't snowed there in a while, the snow was still pretty soft and not too much ice...Up the top of the hill was cool...You disappeared into the clouds as you went up the chairlift and it looked like an alien environment up there cos there was so much snow...
check the overhang of the ice at the top of the mountain...If that fell it would be an incredible sight!
view from the top of the mountain...
Fernie was about a 3-4hr drive south and we came back the long way through the Kootenays National Park which has some amazing scenery...Unfortunately it was a drive done mostly in the dark as we couldn't drag ourselves off the hill at Fernie...And when we got back we found out we had the next day off work anyway which kinda sucked as we could've stayed a day longer...I also got sick the night we came back, I think it might have been the iced coffee I had at Skookemchuk (no shit...) but I couldn't stop barfing and had to take another day off as I couldn't eat and had no strength...better now though...it just lasted for about 48hrs...
Then back at res, we had a visit from the serial licker...a female moose came to the manor carpark and stood there licking the salty dirt off the cars...They put salt on the roads to stop ice build up so you need to wash yr car pretty regularly...The moose was huge! I had no idea they were that big and apparently that one was small (it's as tall as the our van!) as it was a female. Check her out below...Our van still has the tongue marks all down the sides from where it licked it...Check her out...
Now, we just got back from 2 days in Kimberley...Another RCR resort so we got an ace deal on a Marriott hotel room ($40 for 2 nights) and free lift pass again...the Marriott had an ace breakfast buffet and outdoor heated pool and spa so we took full advantage of the facilities...This time we took Alli, Johnny, Dick and Bronwyn and we all fitted very nicely in the van which ran beautifully the whole way there and back...
Went hard the first day but today we were all kind of over it by lunch as the hill hadn't had any snow in a while and it wasn't standing up very well to the amount of people that had boarded/skied over it...ie hard packed and icy in sections...kinda like Nakiska only with worse grooming...And more bumps...So we quit early and headed back through the Kootenays again to the Radium hot springs which was nice...hot water coming straight out of the mountain...bum thing was it was in a big pool and was chlorinated...yuck...so it was just like a giant outdoor heated swimming pool. All the water around here seems to be heavily chlorinated which just seems insane as it's coming straight out of the mountains! I've heard there's some more natural hot springs around so I might do some investigating and check it out...
We've decided we're not going away next days off...we're going to probably do a day trip to Sunshine Village (we have a reciprocal deal with them so free tickets again, unfortunately no cheap food though) as it's only an hour or 2 away and we haven't been there yet. Also going to try to get to a few more resorts around the place...Panorama is our next overnighter in maybe 2-3 weeks then we also want to check out Kicking Horse, Castle Mountain and Big White...We're really living the ski bum life I guess...We have 5 maps on our walls for the resorts that we've been to and we're looking to add more...We're also getting a sticker for the car for each place and a badge that I've been sticking onto our Canadian flag...
Anyway, I'd better run as it's almost midnight and I'm working tomorrow at 8...As I said I'll try to get that photo album happening in the next couple of days...
Happy Valentines Day
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