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English Bay, Vancouver on January 1st, 2013

Scott and I (along with 2,231 other people) did the polar bear swim again in English Bay in downtown Vancouver on January 1st. This was Scott’s third time doing it, and my second time. It was cold!! But since it wasn’t raining it was pretty easy to warm up again afterwards.

Every year we are better prepared, like this year we both brought flip flops because standing on the cold sand is actually the worst part!!! Next year I will NOT leave my towel by the tables because it got trampled by everyone rushing to get their buttons after coming out of the water. Doh!

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I made these Mario shoes for one of Scott’s Christmas presents this year. They’re a replacement for his old pair that got ruined on a wet day. These new ones have been waterproofed, and I didn’t use that horribly runny light blue Sharpie, so they should hold up much better.

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One last catch up post and then I’m back on schedule.


Scott’s present is wrapped in bacon weave fabric

We didn’t make a huge deal about gifts this year because our families were in all different places.

I got a Wacom tablet, neon nail polish, crackers, a mandoline slicer, and a few other kitchen thingies. I am really excited about the Wacom tablet, I have wanted one of those for years!!

If you haven’t already seen it on Facebook, check out the horrifying portrait I drew of Scott yesterday. I was crying from laughing so hard at it, OMG.

I had Michelle for Kris Kringle. I made her a bunting card, and commissioned my internet friend Sara to do a portrait of Michelle’s family from a picture I found on Facebook. Sara is the same person that drew the picture of me with the shaved ice that you can see on the side of my blog. I got the picture printed out, and framed it in an Ikea frame. I think it turned out pretty good!!

I made Scott a new pair of Mario shoes (pictures to come later) and got us Cirque du Soleil tickets for next week. Yippee!! And I got him a bigger bread pan so he can make sandwich sized bread. :D

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The day after santa ski day I did a skeleton session. I didn’t take any pictures.

I did one run from Maple Leaf for practice and then five from Novice start, which is one corner down from the Junior start I did last month. (Novice start was under construction before.) 10 corners out of 16, BTW.

It wasn’t the best skeleton day. Because of the order we were sliding in I never got to hear any of my speeds and I never got to talk with the coach. Also I was tired and sore from not sleeping and from skiing the day before, so I was a little floppy. I bumped the sides more than usual.

I didn’t get any bruises on my arms or legs though and I did get some pretty good speeds and times (118 km/hr), so I guess the session went better than it felt at the time.

On Monday Scott, Brian and I went out skiing/boarding again. Scott seemed to have improved heaps since the previous morning (when I ditched him, haha). Brian rode switch. It was great being able to spend the whole morning together. We did a nice tour of the green runs on Whistler and even took the Peak to Peak across to do another run together on Blackcomb. The conditions could not get any better than that morning. Clear blue skies, not even that cold or windy. Perfecto.

And it wasn’t even that crowded for a holiday!! I only found it busy at the bottom of the hill near the end of the day. I guess because every single lift was open everyone was able to spread out quite well.

scott and brian

us on the peak to peak gondola

view from the gondola

i caught scott mid-snort

It ended up clouding over just as Brian and I decided to go up to the actual peak. We couldn’t see a meter in front of us! Sucks when you can’t tell if the next part is going to go up or down. That run tired me out soooo bad!!

roasting a chicken in front of the fireplace

Brian set up a rotisserie in his fireplace so we roasted a whole chicken one night, and a big chunk of pork butt the other night. DELICIOUS!!!

getting the roast pork ready

And then Scott and I drove home on Tuesday. What an awesome holiday we had.

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Once a year Whistler has their Santa Ski Day, where if you show up at 7 AM dressed as Santa, you get a free lift ticket. Our costumes only cost $8 so this was a mega good deal. Plus it was lots of fun!

santas getting ready for the slopes in the dark at 7AM

really tired after only getting 3 hours sleep, but excited

santas waiting for the lift

all the whistler santas! via coastphoto.com

It was funny having people yell things at us all day. “SANTA!!!” “MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!” “HO HO HO” “SANTA AM I GETTING A GO-PRO FOR CHRISTMAS??”. I guess the little kids in lessons were counting santas all day, they would get soooo excited!!!

we duct taped our santa hats to our helmets

A+ day!!

santa day even made the newspaper! unfortunately we are a little out of the frame of this shot

The morning was perfect, then visibility got a bit bad in the afternoon. We still skied a good full day. Then we all came back to Rob’s cabin for a party. He brought a keg, haha. I don’t like beer at all but I still had some.

The party went on for a loooong time, even after I stopped drinking (…DAD). Two nights in a row of very little sleep. :/

Still more to come…