What a great weekend!

Jimmy and Eduarda arrived on Saturday night - we crazy carpeted down to the village for some dinner and rented some skates. Back up to the lake for some skating and then we just chilled out for a while.

On Sunday we went up the Icefields Parkway and checked out the Columbia Icefield - wow! To quote columbiaicefield.com the icefield is "One of the largest accumulations of ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle, it covers an area of nearly 325 square kilometres. The continuous accumulation of snow feeds eight major glaciers including the Athabasca, Dome, and Stutfield Glaciers, all visible from the Icefields Parkway. The Columbia Icefield is a true 'hydrological apex,' for its meltwater feeds streams and rivers that pour into the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans. " I read somewhere else that the ice is something like 1000 feet thick. It was pretty awsome. I'll post some pics when I get them from Jimmy.

Monday morning my friends left and Samuel (my guy) and I went out to Kicking Horse in Golden, BC to spend the day riding and skiiing. It was cool to be somewhere new to ride and the mountains there are just awsome. Driving there you go through valleys with such steep mountains - it's really cool. On the way we passed a group of about 7 mountain goats just wandering along the road and on the way back we saw a group of about 40 of them - some of the crossing the road, the rest running up the steep mountain side. Really cool.

And today it's back to work. But that's ok, after a weekend like that and a morning in bed I'm feeling pretty refreshed!