Third Week

Banff is beginning to feel like home and right now the weather is fairly warm so it's been a pretty good week.

After finding out the infamous Canmore was infact only a stones throw away from being a shit-hole we started to regret paying $16 to get there on the greyhound bus. As soon as we got there we had a $10 all day breakfast at a typically Canadian restaurant and then wandered around town.

After 3 hours of looking at stuff we got bored and had to wait in a pub for another hour or so until our return bus arrived.

There was a ski swap this week at Norquay, one of the nearby resorts, and I got a purple one-piece ski suit for $30, deal.

Everyone is pretty much set for the snow to fall and ready to start riding, thing is there's no snow and its too warm for the snow machines meaning the oct 31 opening date isn't looking so solid anymore.

Had a fair few good nights out in the last week in Hoodoo and Aurora, the two Banff clubs, town is a bit weird at the moment as people are leaving and arriving for the winter, it seems to be full of locals at the moment but come december the clubs should be packed with rich american and asian tourists.

The last couple of days I've been doing loads of long-boarding around town in an attempt to stop myself thinking about skiing.

Its really cool to just cruise around town but i've come off it a couple of times now, turns out I'm not God's gift to board sports.

Today i tried to rent some inline skates from a shop but they had no replacement brakes for the skates so they just gave me them! I think I'll spend tomorrow looking for a skate park i've heard of.

I finally seem to have confirmed my job, it looks like I'm going to work for Sunshine Village as a retail person, selling all the stuff you wish you'd brought with you on a ski holiday for a price you wish the exchange rate would make cheap.

Hope you're all having a great time doing stuff.

Luke