Wow, even more newness

We finally have our fourth compadre in our little bubble of Englishness over here in Whistler. Dave the Macham (or however you spell it) from Bedford who's a Liverpool fan. Not only is it a brand new person to talk to, but he is also a self confessed gadget head, and so has come armed with a lap-top (upon which I am now communicating on t'interweb), a PSP, a portable DVD player, and just about anything else which should hopefully keep us going over the coming weekend when we can't go out boarding!

Our boardings been slightly slack this week. Due to perhaps slightly excessive midweek drinking, Thursday was a right-off. Probably didn't miss much as the web cams showed that visibility was not existent, and there had only been an inch or two of fresh. Still, had a nice hot tub session late last night. It really is amazing sitting out in the snow in a hot tub, our lower halves baking, whilst the heavy snow settles, gradually turning our hair white! Unfortunately all this fun and excitement meant that I didn't get to bed till about 3am, which is pretty dumb when you want to get up on a powder day! 4 hours sleep and snowboarding all day do not go all that well together, hence the fact that it's about midday over here and I'm safely tucked up in the warmth of the living room typing away! Still enough time to get a couple of first tracks (but only on crappy runs that weren't reallly steep enough), get repeatedly buried up to my waist (reports say about 1ft of new snow, but it's way more in places!), and perform probably the best powder turn of my time here so far, so it's all pretty good.

Roll on the weekend now. Should snow a lot over the weekend, then my dream would be for a bluebird day on Monday. Seeing as I've seen the sun about twice in two weeks, I can't see it happening though!

By the way, I would just like to reassure Juan and the Dangerous one that my love for the sound of leather on willow will never be dulled by the allure of ice hockey! Remember, I am International Development Officer!