Dreamin' of a white Christmas

Merry Christmas all!

I trust that Santa bought you all the goodies that you deserved (or didn't deserve) and that the holiday time has been action packed with drinking and eating excessively. Having had no fresh snow in Cochrane for a while, we headed out west on Christmas morning and drove slap bang into a snowstorm in Kananaskis (just what we were after). Sliding along on the cross country sticks is a rather theraputic way to spend crimbo morning, greeting the other skiers with a hearty 'Merry Christmas', before digging into the snow to stop for hot chocolate and, er, chocolate! (Brina found the British shop in Calgary and we were treated to real Cadbury's for Christmas).

As you can see, the festive season got a little too much for Brina;

Clearly the snow got to places where it shouldn't mid 'snow angel'.

After a while crusing around the nice fresh snow, we headed home to feast on Turkey and Christmas Pud (not in the same bowl). Boxing day was all very relaxed until it started to snow again (proper Canadian snow - like, shed loads) and we became rather twitchy at the prospect of getting out onto the slopes. So a great day was had today at Sunshine - not the best visibility as it still hasn't stopped snowing 24 hours later, but the trails are in awesome nick! We're off to Fernie tomorrow for a few days and reports are they're ten feet under powder. Hopefully we'll still make it into the states for a jolly, but who needs the bloody Yanks when you've got the wild land of the Canuck on your doorstep.

No doubt the next report will involve some kind of New Years antics too - so, before 2007, we wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

I'm off to find my wooly hat as the Christmas season has also brought a number 1 buzz cut (a bit shorter than action man's hairdo - anybody unfamiliar with action man needs to research boys' toys of the 1980s) - I almost get reflection of the top of my head nowadays.

Snow Angels at the Ready,

Have a drink for us on New Years,

S&S.