winter wonderland

you wanna know why i'm so behind my deadlines? well this is it.

the ski season is upon us, and you can't expect us not to go riding. well, it was awesome. the mountains are awesome, the snowboarding is awesome, the snow is awesome, the food is awesome, the village is awesome, the staying over at sam's... not so awesome, the early morning drive up to snow-capped cypress was awesome, the initial learning to plow... see staying over at sam's, the finally getting how to plow was awesome, the first time going down a run was awesome, the finally getting how to do S-turns was awesome, the going down the blue run 'Fork' on cypress.... not awesome at all.

with so much awesomeness packed into just one activity, i'm pretty sure i'll be headed up much too much.

besides the snowboarding, we also had a yuppie shirt outing and dinner treat for ian and sam for being who they are, which culminated in a night full of non-yuppie activities like darts, pool, counterstrike, arcade games, air hockey, and, of course foosball. do i hear you say "well what about Risk?!". to you, i answer, "you must be an ignorant fool for there are 6 of us and we only play risk with 5."

these past weeks also included my birthday treat, which of course came with birthday presents and 'presents', which was nice. also santa claus parade (i don't know why we went). also the last week of school. also plenty of spontaneous moments (indeed, whole nights) of mild madness.

leaving in 16 days. am gonna miss this place.

photos below.

P.S. other than the first few Whistler shots, the rest are cypress. doesn't matter, it's all awesome.