JULIAN MARLEY!

On Wednesday Julian Marley came to play at Park City on main for free. It was the opening ceremony for the FIX freestyle world Championships. Last year the bravery played to mark the opening of the championships and the turn out was HUGE, this year there wasn't even a quarter of the crowd... to be fair it has been bitterly cold here, -25C to be precise and with wind chill it feels more like -42C. Not good, so thats why we only stayed for 45 minutes. I would have stayed for longer, I just wasn't prepared to risk frostbite. Good night though...

Day 2: Sundance Film Festival

It appears Sundance film festival is once again upon us and is in full swing. Its day 2 of the 10 days of Sundance and already I am ready for it to be over. I hate Sundance Film Festival. Park City is overrun by film geeks who all look strangely alike and are completely inappropriately dressed for Utah Winters. Yesterday we hit Main Street for a friends birthday, it was completely insane. There were people everywhere, all the restaurants were full, the bars were charging outrageous cover charges and every person I came across was completely and utterly obnoxiously rude.

For me though the worst part about Sundance is that it completely screws up all the buses and therefore it takes me a life time to get home, and I usually have to stand too. Its this that makes me wish I had a car so badly. I guess I might bump into a celebrity or see a good movie, I should cheer the hell up...

Rain Rain go away...

I hate the rain! We were going to go skiing today but we have been advised to stay away from the mountain as it rained all last night and is still raining now. Its horrible. Rob made a fair point this morning... "we could have stayed at home for this shit!", he's totally right, all it would have taken is a boring 6 hour drive up to Aviemore and we could have been blessed with the exact same shitty conditions in Scotland. This sucks! I pray the temperature actually drops tonight, like they predict and it dumps...

Surprisingly Awesome Day at work

Today started off like any other ordinary day at work at the Canyons, but it turned into a pretty awesome day actually. In fact it might just have been one of the best days i've had yet. Its kind of funny because i really didn't expect it to work out that way. Firstly it was raining, which majorly sucks, it reminds me of being in Scotland skiing (which is never good) and secondly I was on Timberline, Timberline is a sucky lift, I'd always rather be on Iron Mountain. Its so much more chill over there.

Today went super fast, it was amazing. At 9.30am Iron Mountain (the new lift) had an electrical fire, so was out of service until just after 11, that also means that Timberline wasn't running either as its the access lift to Iron Mountain. That was pretty cool, it gave us the morning just to chill out. I was also working with Giles today, who is easily one of the funniest people I have met in such a long time. I've laughed so much today. The best part of the day was when I got to meet the Canyons Moose (mascot). What's even weirder is that I didn't even do a single run break.

Just a really sweet day, I hope many more are like today...

(James, Darren and I with the canyons mascot)

(Giles my work buddy for the day who is coincidentally mental)

(I thought this was really funny, Giles' blockade to prevent guests loading the lift!? wouldn't the closed sign have done???)

Banksy

So it seems Banksy has hit the streets of Park City once again. This one was from last Sundance (2010)... will the master return again this year?

(james and lewy)

Rocking the skis

This season i am making it my mission to be at least an intermediate skier. I think it would be a waste of a good opportunity not to, with $10 rentals and free lessons, i'm all set. Today was the start of our skiing experience this season, to start with i was a little sketchy to say the least. Rob rocked it as per predicted. Git! He even did a rail. Boo. Just a little bit jealous. Although by the end of the day, i reckon i was back to the standard i was at the end of last season (it didn't really take much,lol). Now i just want my own pair of skis, donations will be generously excepted.

This evening we are going for a free and delightful meal at the Christian Centre followed by a night of funky house at Ciseros, tomorrow at work should be interesting. Its a shame I was suppose to be off.

Thank you very much the Christian Centre!

Today we went to the Christian Centre as we had actually no food in the house what so ever, by the time we'd finished we had enough food to feed a small army. Result. Not bad for a $3 donation. $3 well spent!