In amongst our time in Fernie, we caught the Greyhound back to Calgary last Fri (20th March) to spend the w
eekend with Kelly, Joerg, Mia & Neisha again which was really nice. Here is a shot of Mia & I jamming through the song Mia has written, called 'Chairs In The Ocean', & a shot of Neisha looking like she's enjoying being a little taller!


We turned up in Calgary & it was like a spring day, people walking around in T-shirts, beautiful sunshine, about +13c, by the time we left on Sunday there was another 30cm of snow on the ground & it was sub zero again. The local saying in Calgary is 'if you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes & something else will come along' - & it's certainly true!
While we were in Calgary we also picked up a hire car, so we took a road trip around the Rockies on our way back to Fernie. We drove up to Jasper last Sunday, about 4 hours north of Calgary via the 'Icefields Parkway' - which is a road bet
We then drove back down south again to a town called Golden, which is basically the base town for the mountain resort of Kicking Horse. We came here mountain biking in 2007 & loved it so wanted to come back & check it out for snowboarding - for which it has gained quite a reputation in it's relatively short existence (the resort only really opened up about 8 years ago). Again, we found a great little B&B to stay at run by really nice people - in fact everyone in Canada seems to be really friendly & nice. We had a days snowboarding at Kicking Horse on the Monday, unfortunately the snow conditions weren't great & it was pretty much a total white out the whole day, so we weren't able to take advantage of what the mountain had to offer. Still a good day though.