White Christmas

This is for our mummy's, daddy's, brother's and Kate.

Happy Chirstmas!!!!!

Thinking of you all over the holidays.

Hope you had an awesome day and ate your fair share of ham, turkey, puddings, mums apricot slice ummmm.

Hola from EM....

AND ..............cheers from joe....

Here are some pics of our day so far!!!!


Em in her new PJ's

We had over 2 feet of snow last night so we are trapped in....

Squaw is on hold at the moment so we just hanging at home might go night skiing if it opens!!!!

Em digging her way to the letter box... so much snow!!!

Looking across the street from our front door!!

AND THATS IT FOLKS OUR CHRISTMAS DAY LOTS OF SNOW AND MAYBE SOME RIDING IF THE MOUNTAIN OPENS UP!!

LOVE TO U ALL

EM AND JOE

hi guys

sorry about the slackness.

so the last 3 months after tree planting we drove back to Montreal to stay with some friends and then moved across to New York where we had 3 unreal days of being a tourist we did all the sights in one day, did a spot of shopping. during the evenings went to a Broadway which was amazing we saw Tarzan and avenue Q (classic, they were puppets, they even had a sex scene)

After new York we headed to Sarnia southern Ontario to catch up with Jessie where we spent a week chilling at his lake side house, doing the summer thing.

from there we drove across US to yellow stone park for the most amazing week cruising around all the animals. before heading up to Calgary for the worlds largest show the Calgary stampede. were we catch up with Kat, Reubs and miss Haley, had an amazing time got illegally towed and we are still fighting the company that did it..... never mind.

After that we headed to Banff were we sta had a spot of r & r and a little bit of rock climbing behind lake Louise. That lasted a couple of days then we went to whistler to jam with cam and his 320 dogs had a great time with him chilled drunk you know the story, o and played friz golf. before heading back home.

Any ways pictures means a thousand words so i shall stop ranting

PS the only reason i got round to updating the blog is cos I'm stapled to my bed i have no excuses, there is a story behind that one. it started of being a nice sunny day at BR (ski hill) the snow was a bit slush so when i landed a jump one of my skis caught an edge and twisted in the opposite direction,

results -snapped my ACL ligament in my knee

- had a sled ride

- got a chopper ride over the craggy range to chch

well apart from being in intense pain my day was pretty good. Joe was gutted cos the chopper wasn't big enough for him to come. and a little stoked cos its usually him sitting in my position

any ways i created this blog 2 months ago and it never was posted so here goes>>>>>>

HEY ALL
So this is us now professional tree planters!!!!!
Its been really hard, for one extreme to the next, we have had snow, rain for 8 days straight and a some high temps around the 30's.
Our day starts at 6 and finishes any time between 6-10.
The planting it self is OK , the company is ran like its in the 70's, and the BUGS well this is my biggest night mare come true. every day we rug up so not a bit of skin is showing but all ways come hope swollen and covered in bites. Joe had over 200 bites on his head alone the other day.
So the jobs pretty shit, but the foods good !!!!
any ways flick down there is some pics and a story or two

This is the get up!!! Joe looking like a crim.
And feeling like one

So this is the land not quite flat fields with actual soil...

So on the bus the other day our brakes failed cause a domino effect of the radiator blowing and a fire in the engine. not surprising as something ridiculous happens every day

And YES we ride in the magic school bus to work every day..............

WE ARE ROCKING THE EAST

hey everyone sorry it has been so long technology is hard when you are on the road. have been doing lots of wireless thieving in the van outside random houses. anyway our road trip across canada was a stunner, well kinda boring but cool at the same time. travelled through alberta, really really flat, whats in the phots is what it is like the whole way. flat!!!

em just as we made it to saskatchewan.
abit more flat stuff with a pretty rainbow
this is where we camped out the first night on the manitoba boarder. not such a good spot in between the main trans canada highway and the main railway line.
this lake getting close to ontario where the landscape changes dramatically from flat to interesting. it was just thawing out and the wind was blowing the ice up onto the beach. pretty cool and only happens for a couple of days a year so lucky to have seen it. all you can here is this crackling sound.
we hit into ontario on the second afternoon.

lakes everywhere along the highway, pretty nice, roades are really windy and slow.

about an hour in to ontario round 5 we broke down, very long cool story but in a huge rush so here is the short version. broke down alternater shat itself. 3 real nice people later we are sleeping at this garage in the middle of nowhere. i had to drive his car down to get ours coz he was already drunk. stayed the night at his yard then he ordered the part the next day luckily they had 2 hours away. we had lunch with his wife and played with his kids. he gave me money to go get beer for everyone as he just drunk all day. (it was his weekend) had a shot of zambuka b4 lunch with him. the part came charged us hardly anything and sent us on our way. full on redneck but absolute legend.

gotta wash on the road........fucken cold though!!!!

this is on the forth evening in saint sant marie on the boarder to the usa. chill for a bit nice to get out of the van.

so we camped that night at a random lake, was super nice to wake too. then drove the last half day to pembroke which is basically where the worlds were being held. luckly got hold of Brendan and told us where to go and meet them. was super sweet watch some sick boating. well the best in the world i guess, had some huge nights on the piss especially with all the kiwi team, absolute classic guys, and got free accomodation and managed to even steal some food. good times. here are some pics from the comp.

the mighty bus eater wave....
josh i think
brendan.....
someone kick arse.....
funnels for all, yeah!!!!
so after the worlds finished we we went on a trip with brendan and josh and the kiwi team for a bit. this was our first night on the shores of lake ontario. beautiful, can u fell the serenty.....


sunset at the lake shore. the next day we drove down to niagra falls through toronto. crazy highways and traffic everywhere. go the convoy and the kiwi boys getaway van in front!!
niagra falls was pretty sweet. the guys walking past it.we decided not to paddled it today maybe another...
so much water!!!
after we finished checking out the falls we decided to cross the boarder in the usa. stupid idea, took forever but we left the getaway van and headed up the otherside of lake ontario to montreal for acouple of days. was cool went for a kayak on the sheen wave, nice wave i have ever been on. scary as driving round though as we had no map for a day and half but we made it ok. looked round old montreal. B and i got a tandom bike and cruised, was sweet....... until we got a flat tire trying to jump the gutter an hour and a half walk away from the bike shop. suck balls. still had a good time though.

faster, faster>>>>
looking back on the city.

old montreal had cobblestone roads, pretty bumpy in the van. after montreal we drove to ottawa for the afternoon had a wee look around and a couple of beers. droped josh off at the airport for his early morning flight.


outside parliment building. this fountain is sick. water is pouring out yet there are flames coming out the top. way cool!!

respecting the war veitrians!!!

the next day we dropped B off at the airport and felt a little lost as what to do. thought we have no money left so lets go tree planting!!!!!

tree planting stuff is below we stuffed it up. our bad.

oh yeah we coming home early to. lucky for all u people coz u get to see us sooner. em will be home in august to go to uni and i will be home in sept after spending some time in aus.

peace out

joe

THE END HAS COME

hey everyone, well the end of the snowy season in lake louise has come. we had our last day at work on sunday have spent the last few days organizing all our shit. it has been dead on the hill pretty much rocking it with just the staff. super cool!! snow is still good nice and slushy by the afternoon. did my level 2 instructors last week and passed all sweet, so super happy bout that. so pretty much now we are in calgary and we are driving 3500kms east to ottawa to see josh and brendan at the worlds. we have bought this huge v8 beast of a van,(we fit right in with it over here)!! after theworlds, planning on getting a job on the river somewhere for the summer. so here are some photos of the last few days in the rockies.

me throughing down a back 3 over one of the booters. (yeah super stoked my latest tick)

em boosting it in the park on our last day skiing at the lake, a very sad day!!!

we had a our staff party on ems birthday (lucky) and we went bowling. but no ordinary bowling 5 pins and it is bingo style, crazy and very intense but way cool.

we also had to do random tasks while bowling, em bowling between our legs
hello kat....
some of the guys from work and our supervisor. drunk as a skunk,(she got kicked out of the pub later on, hahahaha!
em and her old room mate bec. after bowling we went out for em birthday to the pub with everyone. good times and sad goodbyes to everyone.
last night was our first night in the van. very excited (when the van is a rocking dont both knocking)
there is the beast!!
we spent a day kitting it out with a bed and stuff to make it our homefor the next few months. we have all our shit under there.

the front part. so we have a bed then a bench seat in the back then in the front part where we have lazyboys as seats pretty much. and all this goodness only cost $1500. wicked!!

anyway should head to bed a big drive tomoro.

will update when we get there.

joe

ROAD TRIPPING

Well finally we get round to undate our last adventures, on the last week of march we headed on a road trip to big white, Apex and kicking horse. We managed to get a blue bird powder day at kicking horse, followed by pure ice at big white and then we had apex to our selves as it was deserted almost scary western movie styles.... any ways enjoy the pics


Joe loving the pow pow at the horse

So we had the pleasure of meeting up with the lovely Hayley, no longer a member to the blonde crew she has turned to the dark side.

Me peaking on the tubes they went dam fast at first, Joe chris and my self got hooked together and span down the run way.

Dont be lazy turn ur head side ways
opps

The gondy up to the village

Big White Village, it was so sweet! we skied down to the pub and around the town....

The view from the top of apex's, where through out the day we might have seen 20 different people on the hill.

Jo Jo on the super pipe!!
So gutted that the lake doesn't have one theres to much fun to be had!!

The view headind into Kelowna, this is were we might come back to at the end of summer to do some fruit picking,. the area is beautiful with amazing lakes and mountain surrounding.

and thats a wrap until next time folks
love em

CARPARK BOMFIRE

So the other week when we did tourch light we decide to have a bomfire somewhere. what better place than in a carpark in the middle of nowhere. so after stealing some wood from work we headed up to the carpark in our friends camper van. built this little fire right there on the snow. used some flairs courtesy of work again to light it, cranked some beats and started drinking some ice cold beverages while it snowed on us. was very cool.

george and his camper...

drinking round the fire


we got the flairs and wrote our names with them. mike had a flash camera and could adjust the shutter speed and capture them. pretty sweet!

we also built a little kicker over the fire which we had to tow chris into.

enjoying the beers!

on the way home we towed chris down the road behind the camper which was crazy he had sparks and shit!!!