We were there!

Huge crowds on the streets, 4 to 6 hour line-up's for the "Zip-Line" and spring-like weather (15°C) were awaiting us in Vanocuver. Not that we had time to stand in line with the hundreds of people for a 30 second ride on the "Zip-Line" over Robson Square. We did our daily fitness program by walking the streets and bridges and rewarded us with a Raclette at the House of Switzerland on Granville Island, where the Swiss celebrated their medals with Rivella and Nusstorte. Unfortunately both these items were sold out at the time of our visit. What a bummer! The visit of Mike Schmid, who won a Gold medal for Switzerland the same day, compensated a little for the lack of Swiss products, but only a little. Like responsible citizens, we parked our vehicle in Burnaby (thanks Metrotown for the free parking!) and took the 16min Skytrain ride to downtown. You step out of the station and you are in the middle of the happening. Just awesome!

You Gotta Be Here, the official 2010 Ad for BC

Olympic Torch Relay in BC!

Happy New Year!

Once again, we had to work on New Years Eve, but this did not bother us that much. After work we geared up with our snowshoes and went out back with Bianka, Justine and Stan on a fullmoon hike with firewood, ovomaltine chocolate, hot tea and some booze of course...
After we found the lighter, I dropped somewhere in the snow again, we finally could get a fire going. What an amazing setting in the moonlight, topped off with a "Schnupf" to welcome 2010.



We all wish you an exciting New Year!

Amazing speed stacker!

The peeing tree

After I saw this, I dropped the chainsaw and ran for the camera...

Wood-stock

With the many loads of firewood we got, we ran out of storage space and had to come up with some extra room. So we built this hopefully weatherproof, tent-like cube and stacked it all in there. By the way, did I thell you the story of the flat tire...
It happened in the middle of the forest. I already cut all the logs and was ready to load. It's just that the truck was so far away and the logs were rather on the heavy side. So I decided to bring the vehicle as close as possible and started backing up towards the logging area when I heard this Pffffffffffffffffffff!
With no spare tire on board I had no choice but to walk back home. I called my landlord and had to report the incident so he could recover his truck again. The flat tire story is no novelty, since it happened to me last winter during plowing the snow. And this was not my fault either, had he put on proper tires with the right amount of air.