The New Adventures of Martn aka Skip: I've been a bit busy....

Sorry folkes, for it's been a month since my last blogfession....

February was a bit crazy - working 3 days a week, school 3 days a week plus a ton of homework has been taking its toll. It took me about 3 weeks to find time for a haircut!

But. Obviously I've squeezed in a little play time here and there....

My snowboarding is coming along nicely - I've said goodbye to the 3-days-of-pain and I even did (and landed) my first jump last week :-)
Cypress is the place for night-boarding. Jon and I have got a "sport-swap" thing going on. I snowboard and he skis - although we're not clever enough to have the same size feet so we cant swap equipment

Havent done much biking but did squeeze in a morning on Seymour in the snow the other week.
It was also the first time I took my car in the snow since getting snow tyres - flippin amazing what they'll grip :-)

if you click the pic you can see the snow!

As he often is, Tim was our cheif shuttle driver with the excellent Honda Element and North Shore Bike Rack. Sweet.

The work I've been so tied up with has been for Canada Border services - at the airport and the border - its real odd being on the wrong side of the Immigration counter! Not as odd though as taking a quick drive down the road next to the border. And when I say next to the border, I mean next to the border! Take a closer look at the pic below - the 50kph sign is Canadian, the 35mph sign is in the USA. Somehow I thought they'd at least have a fence!?

Back to biking - popped down to the finals of the 4X a couple weeks ago. This time I first invested in some semi-slick tyres ($40 the pair - bargain!) which made the track a whooooole lot faster - The best race was with Jon, Rich and I battling out - Rich stumbled out of the start, letting Jon and I get away - Jon fluffed the first big jump and I took the lead. I flew through the next couple jumps only to mess up the rhythm section but just, and I mean just held the lead by the tip of my visor to take the win. Sweet! :-D

this is the guy who organises the series doing a demo lap on his road bike!! lol crazy guy!
He's so crazy he wears this weird fury hat with ears - and sooooo crazy that he was still wearing it when we saw him at the Earther MTB Movie premier - crazy Canucks!

Speaking of bikes, I've got another one :-) Its an old one that I'm gonna use for round town etc, I've been doing some work on it so it looks completely crap lol but its great jumping on the bike and nippin up the shops or into the city - suddenly everywhere downtown is only 5 mins away :-)

I'm not the only one who's been busy. Despite working flat out on her portfolia to get into a Design Degree, Michele whipped up this cake - with great cake comes great responsibility ;-)

and this pic from skiing last night at Cypress takes us pretty much up to date. The trees up top look craaaaaazy at the moment. We both felt like a bit of speed was in order so had a non-swap night and we had a great time. Got some cool little jumps going :-)