Rubys Car
A couple of days ago Rob left the lights on in his car and drained the battery in SnowPark parking lot. We went into the lodge, asked for jumper cables, charged it for a little bit but couldn't get her started. After a few days of bad weather and no skiing we thought we'd give her another try. Heres our valiant effort of getting Robbie's car started.
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3rd Annual Winter Volympics
Yesterday was the 3rd annual winter volympics and was it ever awesome. We showed up to Kadenwood in Whistler around 3:00pm to people building amazing features. I built a nice fire without any paper, then put it in a wheel barrow, so we had a portable fire. As more people flooded in, Team Captains Darren Rayner (blue) and Mason Mahone (red) made their picks. I was picked to the blue team. Each team was given a permanent marker (red and blue) to distinguish which team they were on, by drawing on each others faces. Sean Pettit and Reno Speedman the biggest risk- were the official score keepers. Reed was also the announcer where he bashed people and handed out mandatory shotguns, which was extremely entertaining. The torch was lit and the games began. The games consisted of a beer shot gun relay, with 1 woman and 3 men. One person started with an unopened beer and a key. They had to insert the key, shotgun the beer, and run 30 meters to the the next team member, where they handed off the key. Red team won that race by a long shot. Next was the dual GT race where each team had to piggyback another teammate on a GT snow racer down a run, and across the finish line. Blue won that round, but a dispute led to a re-race and red ended up winning that round. Throughout the whole Volympics party points could be awarded to each team for doing something outrageous. Party points that counted were from Bibby and Luke setting a tree on fire then cutting it down, Josh Stack coming out of nowhere on a dirtbike and high marking a trail, boardin from Leo, Braden Dean, and VDP, skiing from Turpin and Stan, Ian Cosco (blue) took a nature poop, Barefoot hittin the river gap on a GT, and many other party points were counted from other crazy acts. Then there was the make out contest which Sasha (blue) and I dominated in against Mase and Diane (red) for some solid points. Bibby and Luke (red) went head to head against stack and barefoot (blue) in a hatchet throwing contest. They had three attempts to stick a hatchet into a tree, Red team took that round. Things started to turn around for blue team when Stack (blue) acquired ten party points for back flipping the 20 ft river gap on a GT. Then Stan (red) stepped it up and double back flipped it on his skis. Next was the one legged cross country down hill ski race where Stan (red) murdered Peter Olenick (blue). Next was the big air contest, where Luke, Stan, Barefoot, and Josh competed. Barefoot went to the next level trying to hit the river gap on a snowskate, which put Volympics to a terrifying hault. Barefoot hit the jump airing left and short, landing head first on a rock knocking him unconscious . Luke immediately called 911 ordering an ambulance, but during the call Barefoot came to and realized there was no bleeding, nothing was broken, or head injury. He rolled out of there with just a goose egg on his noggin. Thank God he was ok. He gave everyone a big scare. Next was horse shoes where Peter and I (blue) were competing against Bibby and Luke (red). Peter and I were crushing them until Mason interrupted the game by belligerently hitting the horseshoes out of the air with a cross country pole. The games ended with an announcement from each Team Capatin that Red Team had won and how thankful we are that Barefoot didn't get seriously hurt. The 3rd Annual Winter Volympics ended with Warren Williams shooting Peter Olenick with a eight shot roman candle, real mature idiots.
Marg
K2 Orage Super Post
I got to compete in the 2010 Orage Masters this year. Oh my god did we have the times of our lives. To the teams it wasn't a contest, it was who could put on the best show, to us it was who could put on the best rock concert.
Flying
I was in Squamish for Easter Weekend, visiting Bushy and Sarah. Bushy took Johnny Riddle, Ty Spence, and I out flying in his four seater sesna. We built cardboard airplanes to throw out of the plane. Check it out
The One Drink Rule
One of the funniest things to me is the phrase "lets go for one drink." Those five harmless little words hide the meaning of what actually is about to happen that evening. I've learned that in this day and age it is very hard to just go for one drink. We are young, we're having fun, experimenting, dealing with peer pressure, everyone else is having fun, why can't you.
Robin and I devised a system to guarantee that you will not have a casual evening when someone says, " lets go for just one drink." It is called "The One Drink Rule!"
You are not allowed to leave until you have casually drank one drink, start to finish that has not been tampered with. That means if any of the following happens:
your drink gets spilt
your glass gets broken or smashed
anyone puts anything in your drink, extra straws, umbrellas, fruit, ice cubes, shots, peanuts, hands, ghb, anything, etc.
someone else feeds you your drink
someone else feeds you any drink
you drink someone elses drink
you drink out of a shoe
you drink out of a straw
the drink is a double or more
shot-gunning
beer bonging
or shots
all of the above is not considered one drink. All I am saying is to be careful when someone says lets just go for one drink, they might have rules like Robin and I.
Marg
Today in English Class
My mom is going back to school at age 45 or however young she is. I think its pretty cool that you can go to school at any age you want. You don't have to go as soon as you get out of highschool, like everyone suggests you do. She's taking English, Psychology, and Linguistic Anthropology. She was explaining to me some of the things she is learning in her classes and I didn't understand the simplest of it. I realized I don't know anything about grammar or sentence structure. In Gr.9 I hated my female English teacher, I despised her, and I didn't learn a god damn thing. In Gr.10 I had a bozo male teacher and didn't understand anything because of the year prior. Then in Gr.11 and 12 I took online English courses at the adult learning centre, so I could learn on my own while I was missing school for skiing. I didn't read one book cover to cover in all of highschool. I still managed to graduate with an 80% average and over 60 absentees. Today my mom showed me how she caught back up on her English before going back to school.
NOUNS
VERBS
ADJECTIVE
ADVERB
CONJUNCTION
I learned more today from these simple childrens videos about grammar and sentence structure than four years of highschool. If I learned what I learned today, four years ago, I would have been something successful, like a doctor or a scientist, with money, a house, and a family. Thanks for everything public school system.
SLC-GVA = SLC-ZRH
Because I'm a bozo and I dont really plan or research anything and kind of fly by the seat of my pants I accidentally booked my flights to europe wrong. I booked my flights to Euro Open to Geneva on March 1st, when I was supposed to book to Zurich on February 28th. Today in the Salt Lake City airport magic happened. I dressed nice in a collared shirt. I showered and I shaved. When I checked in I didnt have to pay overweight charges or have to pay to get my bags on the plane. Boarding never started at 2:52 like it was supposed to, so I got anxious and went to the check in desk. Apparently my flight to Denver is delayed until 5:30pm, which is when my flight to Frankfurt leaves. I told them that I needed to get to Geneva because I have a contest to go to. I asked if it was possible to get me to Zurich instead of Geneva and the girl said ",yes we have a direct flight to Zurich from Los Angeles." Bingo, now I'm going straight to Zurich from LAX, still on the wrong day. At least I don't have to take the five hour train ride to Chur now. Jeah. Life works in mysterious ways for Marg.
Josh Bibby a True Canadian
Here is a rebuttal by Josh Bibby to Luke VanValins ignorant rant about Canadian Hockey. Bibby is a proud, patriotic Canadian that defends his country, when nonsense spills out of foreigners mouths. Thanks Josh.
So I guess now you realize how tremendously stupid you are. I don't blame you though it was mean of Canada to get your hope's up. I really wish I could video you how I feel but I don’t have a camera on my computer. I mean wow, what a great game, Luongo even let one in right before the game was about to end so everyone would get to watch overtime. Then Crosby shattered your dreams with that last beautiful goal. I am happy for you though, that you got to see what a real hockey team looks like. I never heard if you accepted that bet or not. I am guessing you pussied out because that is obviously what your team did. I guess you just going to have to be second rate compared to me, a Canadian and clearly the better man. It just got demonstrated through a hockey game this time.
I know it must be tough for you since you had all that confidence coming into this game. I hope you can learn something from this experience. Well I know that you have learned for sure that Canada is the better country. You have also learned that the US is just going to be fine being second best. It really is not bad though, you guys tried your best, it just wasn't good enough. You really thought they were going to be good enough, but it turns out they just couldn't do it.
I hope your doing ok and enjoy your long flight overseas thinking about Canada's amazing hockey skills. Maybe take some of that time you have to yourself and consider shutting your big mouth for a while.... Just a thought. I can't stand to see you look like that big of an idiot again.
-Josh
