While we've been working on Grouse it's snowed only about 3 times, with snow makers making the rest. When it rains they can't use the snow makers, and recently its been pretty rainy and the snow has been disapearing quickly. There are rocks and plants poking through and everything is the consistancy of frozen coke. That's meant that we haven't had a chance to do any practicing because its pretty difficult conditions to learn in.

Last night while we were working a storm came through that was pretty similar to a Canterbury nor'wester. It felt like about 12c, which is pretty hot for the moutain and it was super rainy. When we left at 10 everything had turned to puddles of slush. This morning we checked and the mountain is closed til we get snow, which they are hoping might be Wednesday. Hopefully it gets snowy by the olympics. They're thinking they might have to moved the events from Seymour, which is a neighbour of Grouse, to Whistler 2 hours north where the rest of the outdoor events are happening. Anyway, because the mountain is closed we have no work, so hopefully it snows soon!

We haven't been up to too much lately. We had New Years, so on New Years eve we went to a house party that a few people we worked with went to. This is what we drank:

Pretty north american looking.
This is the party. The second is some of who we work with:

We went to another part of Stanley park and looked at a collection of totem poles:

Aparently people like to rollerblade in the park:

We also went to Granville Island which is a little island in the harbour that has a marketplace on it. It has so many delicious treats. We didn't take any digital photos but this is what it looked like:

If the snow keeps away we will have more time to do things, so maybe we will have more to report soon. Hopefully it just snows and we can go back to work though.