The House

Ok time for an update. This one is about the house. Ok the place is fairly small. Its a basement unit and the house is on the side of a hill. So the interior is on 4 levels. The unit is getting renovated so there is another bedroom going on so the room Casie and I are in is just the living room thats been split temporally.

This is the view from my bedroom window!!!
This is from the front door looking at the kitchen. The living room is down the stairs to the left through the kitchen.

Here is the tiny living room

The bedroomThis is the lake that is a 5 min walk down the hill. O yeah last night while Neil was webering up some awesome ribs he spotted a bear at the top of the driveway. A dog from across the road came out and started barking at it. The bear growled at it then went back to eating flowers.

Hello from Whistler BC

Hey all a lot has happened in the last few weeks.. We arrived safely into Vancouver after getting the van back in one piece and catching our flights that had some minor delays. We really only had one day there so we got ourselves some phones and just looked around. We had to get up the next morning because the greyhound bus' don't reserve seats even though you buy a ticket in advance.... We were told by the ticket booth lady to get there early because 1000 school kids were heading up there for graduation (we assumed it was like leavers). So we got the the bus terminal at some ridicules hour of the morning to find the place was nearly empty. The bus was eventually half full by the time it left.
We spent the next few days just looking around hanging out etc. Calli and Dean headed back to Vancouver and Casie, Neil and myself moved into staff accommodation. It was filthy!!!!! We thought it had been lived in by 4 boys but turned out some girls lived in there to! We eventually cleaned the place up but it was still pretty filthy feeling.

Anyhow we are out of there now as we finally got our own place up in Emerald estates! Its quite nice inside but it has the smallest living room. But I have some really good views from my bedroom window! We headed back to Van the other day to pick up our boards and my paraglider and I bought myself a 32" LCD and an Xbox to keep me entertained. We also have got cable and Internet as well. We got it for a pretty good deal 60gb at 7.5mbs and cable tv for like $50/month!

Casie got herself a job at a restaurant called "The Old Spaghetti Factory" She had her first day the other day and starts properly tomorrow. Neil has got himself a job flippin burgers at Whistlers best burger joint called "Splitz Grill". Pretty tasty burgers but still nothing on a Ferg Burger!

The girl that lives upstairs said there was a bear at the top of the drive on Saturday night! I've seen 2 bears so far, one on the golf course and one at the bottom of the bike park. And today while I was sitting playing the xbox I spotted a Raccoon just outside the door!!!!
I've been riding my new bike almost every day. There is some really good spots to ride over here. The owner of our place took me out to the trails just behind the house yesterday morning for a ride but I'm not skilled enough to do the steep climbing over the roots and rocks. Apparently its all technique. I joined the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association the other day. Each week on a Thursday evening they do a "toonie" ($2) race. Some people race but most are just there to ride and you get a free feed and beer afterwards! This week was the first one that i entered and it rode from the village to the top of the Fitzsimmions Express chairlift via "Easy Does It". This took me about 45mins of non stop climbing to get to the top! But once at the top it was mostly down hill on the bike parks blue runs. The first section of downhill was a single track and then it opened up to a wide smooth track with banked turns and plenty of jumps, it was defiantly worth the climb up, but I'm still going to buy my self a pass for the bike park.

Virginia Beach

To the beach!!! On the way there we stopped at a servo so i could pee. But i did pick up the greatest invention on earth! A 40oz of Malt Liquor!! This thing was HUGE and it cost less then Casie's 400ml bottle of water! I think it was about $1.45!!!!So it was kinda raining the the afternoon we got there so the beach didn't look all that inviting. The next morning it was defiantly pretty out so we hired some bikes and rode along the board walk that runs just behind the beach. Its about 3 miles long and for that distance there is nearly every hotel in the area along it. On the street that runs parallel to the beach behind the hotels is much the same shops on every block. Each block had a Sunsations(general beach needs) and a subway. Reminded me of the main strip in Honolulu except colder. They did how ever have a really big Neptune statue on the boardwalk that was pretty cool. None of us swam in the ocean as it was a bit too cool and have just been in Key West wasn't as nice. There was plenty of military planes flying up and down including many fighter jets that make plenty of noise! O yeah we also had some really nice sushi there to!

Charlotte

Roll on Charlotte. Well we didn't really see much of it because we went to Carrowinds!!! Its was the theme park the people at the gun store told us to go to and we are glad we did! They were right about no lines! Except for one ride that had a half hour line for some reason, all the other rides we just basically walked onto! The best by far was this rikedy old wooden coaster called the Hurler! You we really scared for your life as this old wooden thing rattled you into oblivion and left the tracks as it went over the woops! No loops but really really scary!

Atlanta

Sorry for the delay in the postings, I'm sharing Internet at the mo. So Atlanta Georgia, i think we had 2 nights there, we were meant to have 3 but speaking to the local gun nuts in Savannah they told us to go to carrowinds instead of six flags. It turned out to be the right decision, but more on that later. Our first day we headed into town via the train as the road was packed!!! the train was quite like the one in Washington DC in the way it was made(tunnels etc). We headed to the park they built for the Olympics. At the end of the park was the Coke experience. Basically a huge advert for Coke. They give you the fun down of the history of Coke bla bla bla. Was pretty cool seeing all thhe old coke stuff but the coolest thing by far was the coke bear!!! It was basically a person in a suite but the anamatronic suite was sooo cool. Dean posted it up on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlGA18TWz3I

Day 2 we headed up to the national park near by called Stone Mountain. Its apparently the largest exposed single piece of granite on the planet or maybe North America. Either way it was big. But on the side of this thing was a carving of some civil war people on horses, i think one was general E Lee. We took a lenghy stroll to the top of this thing which was a nice hike. The power lines towards the bottom were covered in chewing gum! But the worst thing about it was that some of the gum up really high was quite fresh! meaning that some people had to climb up the poles to put the gum on!

Savannah

Next stop Savannah! This was one beautiful town! The old part at least. The historic part of the town dates to the early colony days of the US. There are some really impressive buildings that are nearly 150 years old! The first night there we booked into a dinner cruise on a river boat. Unfortunately the boat wasn't a paddle steamer. The food was a buffet and quite delish! The entertainment was some very cheesy stuff, but defiantly got a few laughs! We met a nice couple that even invited us to there place in Virginia Beach, but I don't think we will take them up on the offer.

Me and the 500 Magnum

Me and the Kriss

The next morning was spent on a walking tour in the historical part of downtown walking through the various square learning about the people that have monument/memorials in the square. There was a nice atmosphere as there is a University SCAD that is an arts uni, they own 70 buildings in the area so the whole area is a big spread out campus with students going to and from class. We had lunch in a tea house and all had some nice teas and salads.
Casie and the HK MP5

That arvo Neil stayed in town while the rest of us headed to a gun shop so we could shoot some guns!!!! We went to the first shop and were surprised at the large amount of assault rifles and sub machine guns for sale. We had to travel to there other store 45 mins away but when we got there the guns were awesome. I was all excited and told them I wanted to shoot everything! They gave us an arsenal and plenty of ammo and after a brief few seconds of "training" they were like have fun! So I got to shoot a HK MP5 a Thompson AKA a tommy gun that we got to shoot fully auto from the hip! Kriss 45 cal sub machine gun that was very loud! An M4 that was chambered down to 9mm, FN P90 that was awesome! Then a fully auto glock!!! you can't even buy them! and a 500 magnum revolver! All of the guns we were aloud to go fully auto with! Most of my rounds from the glock ended up in the ceiling!!! It was defiantly good fun!

Here is me and the auto glock

Miami

Hi all from Miami home of sunshine and really expensive cars. In our few days there we saw modified Bentley's, porches, Ferrari's and everything in between. Our first morning we went on a bike tour to look at all the art deco that Miami has to offer. Our guide Ricky showed us round at all the buildings with the corner windows, racing stripes, porthole windows and then balconies, these things typify the Miami art deco. While we were riding he was having a good perve at all the hotties that exist in Miami. We headed to a Jewish Holocaust memorial and the botanical gardens. The main shopping and cafe strip in Miami Beach Lincon Street. After our ride we spent the rest of the day lounging on the beach and playing in the tiny tiny waves.
Our next morning we headed up to the botanical gardens as it was closed during our ride the day before. Then some sushi for lunch and some more lounging on the beach. We did want to ride some jet skis again so we headed to the marina to go hire some but we were told by the guy that they were $189 per hour plus a $500 security deposit! Our 2 hour jet ski tour in Key West was only $150! So the rest of the day was spent sunning it up on the beach.
Here is Calli enjoying our bike tour