Nothing goes better with a cup of bacon grease than a couple of potato dumplings...
Been awhile, been awhile...very sorry to all my avid readers.
Enough with the apologies, with the amount I've been blogging lately I could start every entry with an apology. And maybe end with one as well depending on quality.
Had a great holiday season. Lindsey and I traveled to Banff, Alberta, Canada for Christmas with her family. Not that her family is from there, we all just met there. We had it planned, we didn't all just show up there randomly...you get the idea. Beautiful place anyway. We rented a house in Canmore which is just outside Banff National Park, about an hour drive from Calgary. The city itself is in a beautiful valley so our view was 360 degrees of mountains. The only bad part was they had a warm spell while we were there so the snow was melting. But we did manage to get a day of downhill skiing in and a couple days of cross-country as well. Canmore is home to the Canmore Nordic Center where the nordic events of the 1998 Olympics were held. It was a really cool facility, only problem it was complete ice when we were there. Which made things fun as well, like watching each other take digger after digger because we had no control on the ice. Good times though.
Ian, Leah, and Kieran stopped by GF to bring in the New Year with us. It was kind of hit or miss whether or not we were going to actually make it to midnight central time but in the end we did. We had a champagne toast at midnight eastern time just in case we didn't make it but that was a bit pre-mature, and we had another at our own midnight. We really should have had more confidence in ourselves. I think we ended up polishing off 3 bottles of champagne over the weekend...mimosas (sp?) are good...
Signing off from snowy GF...ok