Minus 40... Vegetarian restaurant? And some powder! :D Lots more snow time!

So over the last week we have had a real cold front.

The days have ranged from -28 to -40 on 1 day! Pretty extreme!!!
I had been plugging my car into the power point (hehe its pretty funny) For the block heater so she starts alright in the morning. Works pretty effectively too!

On Sunday there was a free pancake breakfast put on for the womens shelter. So donations accepted.
Went down before work and loaded up on some pancakes for breakfast :) Was pretty nice, but froze my ass off! -34 that morning... Got to work with frozen toes (i cleverly wore my sneakers instead of my winter boots) And it took about 40mins till i could fully feal my toes again haha.

My Friends Raquel and Andrew were volunteering for the breakfast.

 
My FIRST Vegetarian Restaurant Experience

There is a cute little restaurant in Banff called "Nourish" http://www.nourishbistro.com/ 
This is a vegetarian restaurant, and everyone i know who has been there said it was really good.
They are all about fresh and good quality ingredients.
 
I figured may as well give it a try while i am here. Invited my vegetarian friend Heidi out for dinner and checked it out. I was very skeptical about having a dinner that didnt include some form of meat and fish, but what the heck lets try!

They have jars as your water glasses.

Heidi trying to make a decision on what to eat.

 After contemplating the menu and thinking that many of these dishes sound delicious and could be improved with some meat added :P But ended up getting a half serving of Nacho's and the Burritos

Nacho's As described on the Menu - "So you've heard of these, huh? Legend has it that there are no better nachs made in this galax. 27 ingredients, and on some days, even more.
Everything from strawberries, 10 beans, to garlic dills underneath melted aged cheddar and other goodies. meow!"

 The half serving of nacho's was huge! and i would have been relatively satisfied after eating half of the half nachos. It has quite a strange and exotic range of ingredients in the nacho's but WOW this was good. For a nachos with no meat i was impressed and the varied flavours greatly satisfied my tastebuds.

"Beautiful burrito - Ever had a dream and thought you tasted heaven? 6 beans, roasted carrots, celery, onion, garlic, spanish seasoned blueberries and pineapple, w/coconut curried rice stuffed in a tortilla, topped w/nuts, onion crisp, stawberries, guacamole and out signature stawberry pineapple salsa"

 These burrito's were very unique and tasty.

Really enjoyed the mix of flavours and the quality of food.


Bumpers Beef House

A bit later in the week i had to balance out the vegetarian trip :P So i went over to bumpers beef house with some friends. - Bumpers slogan is "if you havent been to bumpers you havent been to banff" So naturally i guess i just *had* to go.

They have an all you can eat salad bar which comes with all the meals. They had like 25 different things in the salad bar and i had a nice pig out on it :)
I got the special that day which was garlic shrimp and steak.
The steak was cooked as requested, and everything was pretty tastey :)

Over the last week and a half i have been lazy and just letting my beard grow out hehe.
This was a couple days ago, but think i will be having a shave tomorrow for a friends bday party!

SNOW

I spoke to work the other week and let them know my intentions of only working a max of 2 days a week from Feb onwards.
After a couple days they came back and asked if i could cover the 2 Canmore store days (which is Sunday and Monday that needs to be done) So i said sure :) This way i will still be getting some money in and will get to board 5 days a week if i want!

So this has mostly started from this week.

I went to sunshine village on Thursday. They had 35cm over the last 5 days. The temperatature today...
-26 degrees.
I got there nice and early to get a full day in. Little bit of a gamble because if its too cold they wont open the lifts.
But luckily by about 11 they had all lifts up and running! :D

I had an awesome day! I found a few patches of powder that was untouched and about 5-10cm deep! (Some video footage below)

There was a good covering of snow over most places and it was nice to board around.

Going up on a lift near the morning i breathed out and it fogged my goggles, Unlucky for me this instantly froze as ice on the inside of my goggles! I had to ride down the mountain on that run with about half of my vision blocked hehe. Then took them into the toilet to use the hand dryer. That was interesting how quickly it just froze over.

Did some drops down a cliff face which is really really steep into a powder base. This was lots of fun. you can see this in the video below!

Fantastic day!


I have felt pretty active this week.
After work on Wednesday i went to the gym for a cardio and core workout, then had some dinner and went back for rock climbing for an hour and a half.
Then thursday i went boarding all day.
Thursday night i went to the dancing sasquatch which had a "Masque Rave" party on.
There was free facepaints and they had the black lights cranking! :D

Got pimped up and danced my ass off till 2am!
Then Friday snowboarded a half day at Norquay and did another cardio and core session at the gym! Go me! No going out tonight cause its a friends bday party saturday and thats going to be a big night!

Pimpin some fluro!

Someone did some awesome artwork

Heidi and I

Lena and I

It was a nice warm -10 today. Much warmer than the last few days and the next week is meant to be between 0 and -5. So should be very pleasant! Just about tshirt weather hehehe