chargin' the freshies

Brain : "I shall pollute the water supply with this DNAdefibuliser, turning everyone into mindless slaves."
Pinky : "What about the people who drink bottled water?"
Brain : "Pinky, people who pay 5 dollars for a bottle of water are already mindless slaves."

-Pinky & The Brain

I went up to Whistler on saturday with Trevor and met up with Cortney and Trish. Although I think my attitude has improved from the days my dad used to have to coax me away from saturday morning cartoons, I'm usually still a little reluctant to get up on the mountain. Snowboarding is an expensive sport. Never mind maintaining the appropriate gear, once you own the board/bindings/boots/jacket/pants/googles, you still have to pay $75 just to use it. Also, living in Vancouver, getting there and back usually makes the whole episode a 12 hour adventure.

Sometimes though, when the conditions are right, it's all worth it. Saturday was opening day and we managed to hit quite a bit of untouched pow-pow gnar-gnar. It was great to spend the day with Trev before he takes off to Miami for 3 months tomorrow.

We were meant to go out Saturday night and party it up, as we rarely do that anymore and wanted to have a bit of a fiesta to send Trevor on his way, but several events conspired to make the night a bust. I would go into the details, but I think I would be just about as bored writing about them as you would be reading them. That's' the thing with cities sometimes, there are a million and one great things to do, but you have to wait in line, fight the crowds and then pay an excessive amount of money to do them.

Sunday was a day of sleep, laundry, phone calls and procrastination, as it should be. Three weeks to go before end of term!