Birthdays, and Whistler

There's been quite a bit happening since my last post. Lots of birthdays this month so far, including my sister and me, Steph's sister and her dad. Phew. A big happy birthday to all of us!

Last weekend we spent a long weekend in Whistler with some friends, which was brilliant. There was no sun unfortunately, but lots of snow. The conditions for skiing and snowboarding were excellent, and all the "thrillseekers" had more than their fix. Steph had a great time. I did lots of snowshoeing - three days in a row in fact. For a change, I wasn't alone either - I had a friend to accompany me on each day which was cool. It was great to get away and forget about everything, and there was so much fresh air and exercise - fantastic. Makes you want to quit your office job for sure. Some of our friends took Rock Band along with them too, and there was much rejoicing.

I didn't do anything big for my birthday, but I did go out that night with some friends for a few drinks. We have this thing where we go out for booze on the same night that the wives / girlfriends have their book club meeting. It's only once a month, but this time happened to fall on my birthday. The rest of this week has been spent trying to catch up on sleep after Whistler. One of our friends from the UK has moved to Vancouver, and arrived this week, so we went out for food together last night which was cool.

That meal will be our last out for a little while. Today, we are starting on a detox for a week. Both Steph and I felt we've been eating too much crap recently and that it isn't doing us much good, so it felt like time. We've prepared pretty well and cooked a bunch of meals already, so it shouldn't be such a chore with food preparation as it has been in the past. The first time we did it, we were sick of chopping raw vegetables by the end. On the second go, we didn't even follow the rules strictly, and ended up quitting early. This time hopefully, we'll do it properly.

Got a busy weekend of boring stuff ahead - housework, paperwork, that kind of thing. The weather forecast says sun for tomorrow though which will be nice - we'll have to find an excuse to get out. If I find any time, I'll try to get some photos together from Whistler and upload them this week.