crystal chair fun

last week me and jamie headed up the glacier express and crystal chair on the blackcomb mountain for the day, exploring, finding some good snow and just generally messing about. It was such a nice day, sun shining, nice and warm and it was so much fun!

Epic Super Bowl Burgers!

The Scene;

Super Bowl Sunday, 20 minutes until kick off, feet up and the beers are out and ready... when me and Mads get the best idea ever. 'Let's make the best burgers in history to eat during the game'. Genius. So, a quick pop to the shop later and we're ready to get going!

Cheese topped buns - check, 1kg of mince - check, bacon - check, cheese - check, tomatoes, lettuce and onions - check, gherkins - check, ketchup and mayo - check and finally, chips - check.

With the chips in the oven and after a bit of prep work and some seasoning, 2 of our 4 quarter pounders were ready to be cooked.

While this was happening, i got on with frying the onions and Mads prepped the other two burgers. (Obviously, because it was Super Bowl Sunday he wasn't wearing any trousers.)

With the chips done, burgers cooked, bacon fried and veg ready, it was time to dish up...

...and finally enjoy...

...with plenty of beers and the Super Bowl.

We got round to the second one about an hour later. I genuinely thought i might have had a fat induced heart attack. So amazing.

Vancouver Canucks Vs Nashville Predators

on the 26th of January me and Jamie went to see the Vancouver Canucks (who are now 1st in the whole NHL league) play the Nashville Predators at Rogers Arena. We arrived at the game with an hour or so to spare so we decided to take advantage of the cheap, greasy, fatty food. Amazing.

We sat down in the 19,000 seater Arena for the build up to the game, which was everything I expected it to be. Flashing lights, loud music, a massive disco ball, jumbo screen action, organ playing, peanut sellers... you name it! Then after a 5 minute light show the game got under way.

 

The first period saw the Canucks soak up a fair amount of pressure but manage to finish the first period at 0-0. The first intermission was filled with yet more musics, light, jumbo screen action and a game of pee-wee hockey! The second period was much the same as before but with the Canucks starting to get more and more into the game as it went on.

The second intermission was even more crazy than the first, obviously more lights and music, along with mascots dancing, the ice girls strutting their stuff and even a t-shirt gun came out, firing all over the place!

The third period turned out to be much more exciting, with Vancouver going 1-0 down after one of their players was injured on the floor after taking a stick to the face. They pulled it back to 1-1 and eventually took the lead to make it 2-1 at the final horn, not after a full stretch block by the Vancouver keeper with the tip of his boot with 26 seconds to go however. The crowd went mental!

 

It was such a good atmosphere, and it was so good to watch, definitely going to go again if we get the chance. The highlights are here if you wanted to see. 

23rd Jan, Jamie's 19th

the 23rd of Jan saw Jamie turn 19 and finally be able to drink here in Canada. 

We started the day off with a ski up on the 7th heaven chair in near bluebird conditions. 

We skied through Xhiggy's meadow a few times and decided to hike up a ridge just outside of the boundary. Although we decided that's what we would do, both jamie's and joe gave up after a minute so i ended up going it alone. I got gorgeous views a great powder run that lead to a homemade kicker for my efforts though, so definitely worth it!

In the evening we hit it pretty hard, pretty early, jamie especially... So after many beer pong games, fifa drinking games, pyramid and lot's of picking on jamie...he was out for the count. Being the caring friends we are, we made sure he was looked after till morning though.

Happy birthday pal!