Right an update as i have promised on the weekend.

To be honest there wasn't anything major that happened it was just alot of little things some good and and some bad that made it quite a wicked weekend.

We left on Friday morning and headed for Red on two coaches. Sadly i managed to pick the party bus and unfortunately the seat right next to self appointed DJ - Paul, who decided to play music at full blast on his Bose Sounddock all the f***ing way, all 5 hours of it. Pardon my French but that really pissed me and a number of others off.

Anyway after a stop at the Kootenay Brewery on the way we arrived in Red about 6 ish.
The accommodation was awesome - for some reason i didn't take any picy's but it was 5 star condo's i had my own room and we a had a private hottub; awesome. I was sharing the flat with Louise, Nicki and Christine although Christine ended up not staying in our condo, so we each had a room to ourselves.

The food they provided that night was terrible and could have been prepared and cooked by a monkey in a better way than they did. But we are kinda used to it now!

The following two days skiing were actually very good. It snowed the entire time we were there and the skiing was awesome in places, and excellent virtually every where else. The accommodation was right on the slope so it was a 50 yard walk to the lift in the mornings.

As i mentioned yesterday the accidents just keep coming and the weekend was no exception. One of the snowboarders got some 'absolutely awesomely brilliantly humungos air and landed on his shoulder completely destroying it - he got back to the lodge this evening and is in a really bad way - extreme sports ahy - what can one say!

Btw parents if you thought the lifts were antiquated here in Fernie dont even consider Red Mtn in Rossland as a holiday destination; their lifts are prehistoric!

Anyway sadly Sunday evening came around and we left to return home. The fun was only just beginning! I swapped coaches for the way home and that was a good thing. Firstly no music, secondly i wasn't then in the coach which got stuck going up one of the long passes and at a few points ended up sliding down the road, even with brakes and snow chains on! This meant we sat in the same place on this incline for well over an hour until the guy from the gritter truck who had driven past several times finally rescued the coach drivers from their misery and put the snow chains on the other coach which didn't have winter tyres for them.
So the journey ended up taking 7 hours! Lovely.

The skiing from the last couple of days has been good - we continue to get snow and conditions tomoz should be good as well. Level 2 is coming up fast and i only started to feel today that i was getting back in the swing of things after a whole week off, still got a way to go yet before i am at pass level.

Anyways i am currently awaiting the return of people from the pub celebrating Paddy's day cos i know its gonna get roudy in here with every one wanting to talk to Johnny or me as PJ is currently doing.

Laters