Silverstar

06.03 - Silverstar - Chair 01
Originally uploaded by sacrifice333.

Just spent the weekend up at Silverstar near Vernon, BC.

Unfortunately we had to drive the Coquihalla highway to get there, which can be treacherous and WAS treacherous. The snow had just started to fall as we past Hope meaning the plows and sanding trucks hadn't yet got out of the work yards. Fortunately I had just purchased a brand new set of Michelin 4X4 Synchrone tires for the Disco.

Fortunately snow on the Coq' translates into 'snow on Silverstar' so we were blessed with a bunch of the fluffy white stuff for the next day. On top of that, we also "had to" ensure we put on sunscreen as there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

As pathetic as it sounds, Thursday was my first day snowboarding all year! Lucky for me, snowboarding's a lot like riding a bike, you've just got to get back on and it comes right back.

While I was up at the 'star I did a bit more work on the website for Sacrifice Designs. Sacrifice was a small clothing company that my best friend Dave and I started almost 8 years ago. Sacrifice was started as a clothing company geared at creating streetwear for both skiers and snowboarders.

Like all good Vacations this one also had to come to an end. Thankfully the Coquihalla was completely clear for the journey home and the road was almost entirely dry. The highway is very beautiful and quite peaceful when not engulfed in a blizzard. Imagine that, eh?!

Olympics

Turino 2006 was quite the games. It was so exciting to watch the athletes compete for the last 17 days. Turino put together exceptional opening and closing ceremonies.

Mayor Sam Sullivan did an excellent job receiving the Olympic flag from the mayor of Turino for the handoff for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games.

The CBC again had oustanding coverage of the games. Iterestingly enough, they will again have the rights to the summer Olympic games in Beijing in 2008; however they will lose the rights to CTV for both the following games.

So with regards to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC a new website I've come across for Canadian travel. It appears to be new but shows excellent promise and will provide great information as the site matures.

Home, Sweet Home...

My wife and I purchased a small condo, pre-construction, last winter and the unit should be ready this fall. That means that we will no longer be living in our lovely rented condo in Coal Harbour where we can't have any pets. But it also means that we will be living in a lovely area where we CAN have pets. So the countdown to being dog owners has commenced.

We've decided that we'ld like to a Keeshond also known as a dutch barge dog. They look much like a smaller, manlier husky. They're very social dogs and have a lot of hair.

We've already been looking for dog accessories and of course dog sweaters, dog coats, dog jackets, etc. I came accross this site for dog clothes.

Flickr

06.01 - Mazatlan - Fishing Boats
Originally uploaded by sacrifice333.

I've added a Flickr sidebar to my Blog so you can check out photos I've taken. Some of them are all right, might be worth you looking. ;)

This picture is of fishing boats in Mazatlan right next to the Stone Island passenger ferry 'terminal'.



My Flickr Page

Resolutions...

Well seeing as it's a new year and all and I've been into this whole "new year's resolutions" thing and been pretty good at, I might add, I've been focusing on improving my health.

I've been eating well, exercising, and trying to get more regular sleep.

Here's a diet website I came accross that provides some pretty good information with regard to the essentials of diet, weight loss, and healthy living AND they even had a link to some great soy products from Revival Soy for a really good price.

the suck...

wow... i really suck at updating this. maybe one day i'll be a real blogging guru, for now, i'll continue to observe the blogging world from afar.

Update...

I don't have much to say, but since Josh and put me on his blog as a "friend" link I'd better write something before I get the boot from his site.

Tricia and I finally got around to picking up our Christmas present, mountain bikes. We've been on one ride near White Rock so far... but the weather's supposed to be nice over the next week or so, hopefully we'll be able to take advantage of it a bit.

Tricia has gotten a bit older since the last time I wrote anything... she's now 26! So we went to Victoria to celebrate for the weekend and spent a little time with her sister. We also took advantage of Dine Around Victoria and ate at The Marina Restaurant.