a few more pics + stories

hmmm lets see, i have a few pics and i guess i will just anotate them as i go:

this is me decked out with all my shizzle gear yo - excluding my gloves. the boards upside down but oh well. the door and stuff in the foreground is tim and adams car. tim took the photo while sitting in the driver seat LOL.

up the top of the larch lift - i think that is what its called. anyway its the last run of the day. its just passed 4pm (which is when all the lifts close besides the one needed for you to ski/board back to the carpark) anyway its the last run and i see this fellow just standing around all strapped into his board up the top of the lift. naturally i had to get a photo :-D again i dont have gloves on cos i took them off to get the camera out and turn it on. anyway yeah, dude was a total champ.

now from a dude dressed up as local wildlife to actual local wildlife. another photo of a deer that was next to the staff cafe. i spotted it when i left the staff cafe and was walking into town.

i know ive posted pics of deer before but they really are such a magestic animal :-P u can see how taim they are with the dude in the background who just drove up and got out his car and the deer only ran away when i started walking towards it - i did still need to get through and head into town.

this is claud. he is one of the french canadians (easily the nicest people here besides the aussies) whom i work. he also lives in becker. i snapped this photo of him before he went to bed. its in the communial kitchen in becker. hes a pretty interesting guy. he works 4 months a year and spends the other 8 'clensing his soul' in India. he reads books about hinduism and he is currently teaching me french - i know about 10 words and i forget most of the ones he tells me. but it helps pass the time in the dishpit.

this one im sorry to say you will have to open up nice and big despite it being a big file. i dont have an image resizer here so if u wanna see the images nice and big, you gotta download the whole 1.5mb i think. anyway onto the photo -

in banff they used to have bears wandering around the town as its built in the middle of a wildlife park. bears came here for the food and so to try and prevent the bear attacks and the bears wandering down Banff ave they put this bins all around town which bears cant open. they have these fancy little handles and stuff. on each bin they have the sticker which says, ' keep bears wild use this bear-proof garbage bin'. thats all good but who ever decided on that particular photo of bears to be stuck on every single bin around town is either really neive or did it for shits n giggles and probably still gets giggles about it today.

anyway thats about it from me. its 11:21pm here and theres about 3-4cm of snow outside and ive got my weekend coming up (my two designated days off in a row which can come anytime in the week) im pretty stoked cos it probably means the snow up on sunshine will be banging. will try and get some photos and such while im up there

toodalooo for now
gerald

EDIT: well i only posted this a few minutes ago so no one will have seen it yet hopefully - I am sticking around washing dishes for another month and then i will be moving back into one of the hostels. dishwashing sucks and even though i get out to board a minimum 2 but sometimes 3/4 times a week i was having alot more fun in the hostel. you meet lots more people, its closer to town/everything and you dont have to work. although this means my money will disapear much quicker the 2 months ive spent here not paying for accomodation and raking in a bit of cash each week will be easily enough to support me. so the count is on. i think its 32 days and im free. boarding more, going out more, meeting more people and enjoying myself more. wo0o0ot :-D