In Yatta We Trust

We finished working at Cypress Mountain, yesterday was our last day. A rainy, crappy day with nobody on the mountain, only some hardcore skiers. Our bus exploded on the way up to the mountain, there was white smoke inside, we nearly died :D. That was funny, the bus driver said " i think this will be my last day too!".

It's good to be finished anyway, i liked Cypress, but at the end of the season you 're just fed up with this brain dead job and want to do something else. I hope we will keep in touch with the friends we met here. On the last update, Nut the squirrel is still living on top of the sunrise chair. His eye is now much better, it's back like before, so hopefully he can see again. Nut, we ll miss you.

We will probably go snowboarding this week a couple of times, the station close for mid-April, we finish now because the night skiing is over and they don't need so many staff.

The party was wild, the beer won the battle once again. We always think that we can be stronger than a few pints of Guinness, but that's not true, the wake up was difficult this morning. And we missed the St Patrick parade in Vancouver.

More photos here!

Here are some panorama i just finished stitching up. Click on the picture to view the original size.

Yiiiahh!

Last weekend we went to see uncle Sam! Our pockets full with dollars, we took a bus and went to Seattle for 4 days! Seattle is only 3 hours away from Vancouver, so we had to go and see it for ourself! It's worth it!

We stayed in a very nice hostel (green tortoise) right in the downtown center, with free breakfast and one free dinner!
We went to see the famous Pike Place Market: one of the oldest farmers market in the USA.

We visited the museum of Music. Very cool place, where you can see the Jimi Hendrix exhibit, with the guitars he broke on stage. And a lot more with Nirvana or Pearl Jam stuff. There is a demo room as well where you can learn how to play electric guitar, bass or drums... awesome dude!!

Later we went up the space needle (184m), which is meant to look like a flying saucer. There is a nice panoramic view on top overlooking Seattle and the bay, it was bloody windy!

We also visited the oldest part of the city, the "pioneer" area and went underground the streets for a little tour back in the cowboys and gold rush time!

We quickly went to china/japan town, but it is not as nice and colorful as the Vancouver Chinatown.

Visiting places is interesting but what about drinking? Well we found some good pub with cheap 2$ beer. And we were lucky enough to see a jazz band playing live, they were excellent!

It was relaxing to get away from Vancouver a few days and get to see an american city.

There are tons of pictures on the flickr gallery. So go and look at it for more details. And don't forget to write some comments on the blog so i don't feel like writting to a mirror

Next post, after Paddy's day! If i am sober enough to write!

Hey hey!

I have just organized my photos on flickr so you can see where they were taken on the world map (well... mostly around Vancouver )

If you zoom on the map you will see more photos appearing. This is a very cool feature, you can now see where we went in details! Clic on Satellite view for a better "immersion" in Vancouver
If you zoom out enough you will see pictures around Vancouver: the North Vancouver parks and mountains and Vancouver island for example.
Let's play the game "Where is Puppy?" if you find this photo of Puppy, you will find where is our appartment.