Hey everyone, we now have the internet at home, which is pretty cool. Still working up at the hill though. I did the same silly thing as El did and bought some skis. Can't really ski though so I am more just pointing down the hill and hoping for the best.
Hopefully I haven't been too silly and we will have enough dosh to keep going for a while. I am picking them up tomorrow morning. We ski for free and get free lessons so it should be good. We just have to get them back to Oz at the end of the Season.
I just updated our photo page at smugmug to show the views we get from work. They sure beat the QIMR views that we used to have.
Just a quick note tonight, hope all is well for everyone.
Love Geoff and El
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
Fitness Freaks and Freaks in General
Hey everyone,
Well, we've done it... we joined the gym. Probably not so much a shock for Geoff since he's done it all before. But it's new to me. So many machines... and I don't have a clue how to use them. hehe But I'm slowly learning about them all. With our membership we also get access to squash courts. Now that is a fun game. We have only done it once (but going again tonight hopefully). It's something I wouldn't mind starting up when we get home. :-)
I have an amusing story to share. My Mum is coming over to visit soon (yay!!) and we needed to round up a bed from somewhere. I saw an ad up at the shops about a moving sale and they had a mattress going really cheap. We didn't feel like paying good money to shift it home, so we decided that we would carry it ourselves. Geoff (aka pack horse) did a great job lugging this mattress on his head/shoulders down the main street of Jasper. It took about 20 mins to get home!! We got the funniest stares from people driving by and we couldn't stop laughing ourselves. Crazy Aussies, that's what we are!! :-)
One last thing to share with you all... I have now seen a pack-rat. At work we had a hole in the wall or ceiling and there was this little creature that kept coming into the photocopier room and startling people. It was doing a good job eating the flooring and phone wires as well. Well, they set up this live-trap to catch the little fella. I came into work on Tuesday and there it was sitting in the trap. About the size of a rat, with a bushy tail and big eyes like a possum. So cute. I think they were going to let it loose away from work. :-)
Anyway, enough of my ramblings.
Hope everyone is well.
Love El and Geoff
Well, we've done it... we joined the gym. Probably not so much a shock for Geoff since he's done it all before. But it's new to me. So many machines... and I don't have a clue how to use them. hehe But I'm slowly learning about them all. With our membership we also get access to squash courts. Now that is a fun game. We have only done it once (but going again tonight hopefully). It's something I wouldn't mind starting up when we get home. :-)
I have an amusing story to share. My Mum is coming over to visit soon (yay!!) and we needed to round up a bed from somewhere. I saw an ad up at the shops about a moving sale and they had a mattress going really cheap. We didn't feel like paying good money to shift it home, so we decided that we would carry it ourselves. Geoff (aka pack horse) did a great job lugging this mattress on his head/shoulders down the main street of Jasper. It took about 20 mins to get home!! We got the funniest stares from people driving by and we couldn't stop laughing ourselves. Crazy Aussies, that's what we are!! :-)
One last thing to share with you all... I have now seen a pack-rat. At work we had a hole in the wall or ceiling and there was this little creature that kept coming into the photocopier room and startling people. It was doing a good job eating the flooring and phone wires as well. Well, they set up this live-trap to catch the little fella. I came into work on Tuesday and there it was sitting in the trap. About the size of a rat, with a bushy tail and big eyes like a possum. So cute. I think they were going to let it loose away from work. :-)
Anyway, enough of my ramblings.
Hope everyone is well.
Love El and Geoff
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Head cold
Hey everyone. It finally happened. I have gotten sick. Not too bad though. I think it may have started on the weekend when I had to carry bags in and out of -10C all day. It is just my head that is stuffed up and my eyes are watery. Today El is working up at the hill and I am down here in Jasper doing my email and stuff. It is about -10C today but it feels nice when you are all rugged up with multiple layers of clothes-beats being hot or freezing cold. I am working tomorrow so hopefully I should be good by then.
Not much else is happening here at the moment. Just working to get by and then go travelling again. I don't think we will get much money but at least we are not touching our savings.
Hope everyone is good.
Love
Geoff and El
Not much else is happening here at the moment. Just working to get by and then go travelling again. I don't think we will get much money but at least we are not touching our savings.
Hope everyone is good.
Love
Geoff and El
Monday, February 07, 2005
Snowing Again
Hey everyone,
We are pleased to announce the arrival of Winter again in Jasper. yipee!! hehe It has dropped in temperatures to below zero and there is LOTS of snow. It is amazing how it can lift your spirits to see the town again in a blanket of white. So pretty, and so much easier to walk around without stacking on the ice or slush. :-)
I went skiing on Friday and it was awesome. :-) So soft with all the fallen snow. I had a lesson too and found out that I wasn't doing turns correctly. It is always good when you get better at something.
Well, we have survived yet another weekend of busy crowds up at the ski hill and just finished eating at the weekly free community dinner. I love Sunday evenings now! :-)
Not much else to say really, hope everyone survived the massive storms that hit on Wednesday. We actually heard about them here so they must have been bad?
Talk to you all later.
Love El and Geoff
We are pleased to announce the arrival of Winter again in Jasper. yipee!! hehe It has dropped in temperatures to below zero and there is LOTS of snow. It is amazing how it can lift your spirits to see the town again in a blanket of white. So pretty, and so much easier to walk around without stacking on the ice or slush. :-)
I went skiing on Friday and it was awesome. :-) So soft with all the fallen snow. I had a lesson too and found out that I wasn't doing turns correctly. It is always good when you get better at something.
Well, we have survived yet another weekend of busy crowds up at the ski hill and just finished eating at the weekly free community dinner. I love Sunday evenings now! :-)
Not much else to say really, hope everyone survived the massive storms that hit on Wednesday. We actually heard about them here so they must have been bad?
Talk to you all later.
Love El and Geoff
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Road trip
Hello everybody
I had my first go at driving yesterday in a new chrysler. Me and Jen hired a car and drove to Hinton, which is about an hour away. It is weird sitting on the left side of the car and driving on the wrong side of the road but with someone there to remind you its not too bad. We saw a herd of elk feeding in a paddock beside the highway- the views of the lakes and mountains on the drive were awesome. We went to Hinton because Jasper is only a small village and has mostly tourist shops. I bought an el-cheapo DVD player for $48 so we can get movies every now and then.I will sell it again when we leave. WE also loaded up on groceries and Jen bought some house stuff. In Hinton we went to a few big-chain shops like "The Brick" , Wal-mart and Tim-Hortons fast food restaurant. The drive to Hinton was really good but on the way back it was blowing a gail. Car was swaying all over the road and I had to really hold it. It must have been the mountain winds sweeping through the valley where we were driving. Its a good confidence builder anyway for future expeditions.
Today it is raining and it is El's friday(even though its wednesday). It is my sunday. Pretty miserable today you might say.
Otherwise the mountains are still as pretty as always and the footpaths are still slippery. I'm back to answering phones tomorrow.
Hope all is good where you are.
Geoff and El
I had my first go at driving yesterday in a new chrysler. Me and Jen hired a car and drove to Hinton, which is about an hour away. It is weird sitting on the left side of the car and driving on the wrong side of the road but with someone there to remind you its not too bad. We saw a herd of elk feeding in a paddock beside the highway- the views of the lakes and mountains on the drive were awesome. We went to Hinton because Jasper is only a small village and has mostly tourist shops. I bought an el-cheapo DVD player for $48 so we can get movies every now and then.I will sell it again when we leave. WE also loaded up on groceries and Jen bought some house stuff. In Hinton we went to a few big-chain shops like "The Brick" , Wal-mart and Tim-Hortons fast food restaurant. The drive to Hinton was really good but on the way back it was blowing a gail. Car was swaying all over the road and I had to really hold it. It must have been the mountain winds sweeping through the valley where we were driving. Its a good confidence builder anyway for future expeditions.
Today it is raining and it is El's friday(even though its wednesday). It is my sunday. Pretty miserable today you might say.
Otherwise the mountains are still as pretty as always and the footpaths are still slippery. I'm back to answering phones tomorrow.
Hope all is good where you are.
Geoff and El
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
jasperiffic
Hi everyone, another day here in lovely Jasper. Today I am on one of my days off and El is slaving away at the hill. The saturday just gone was the busiest day at the hill since 1988. We had over four thousand people there. Line ups were huge and there were people coming out of the woodwork. It was a good day though. Yesterday was quiet in comparison. I worked in customer service stuff this weekend. Hopefully it continues- the days aren't guaranteed yet but they really do need someone there at least on saturdays. We are still sliding all over the footpaths when we walk and at work on saturday I had another tumble cause I was carrying some big luggage to a trailer over some ice. I bruised my little finger but it seems to have disappeared now(the bruise not my finger).
Will keep everyone posted on our events- hope everyone is not too hot. It is about +6C today so nice and warm by jasper standards. It should drop to -20C or so in the next few days. It hasn't snowed for about a week and we really want it to so it will be easier to walk around.
Bye for now
Geoff and El
Will keep everyone posted on our events- hope everyone is not too hot. It is about +6C today so nice and warm by jasper standards. It should drop to -20C or so in the next few days. It hasn't snowed for about a week and we really want it to so it will be easier to walk around.
Bye for now
Geoff and El
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