My friend Dups has been setting up a toll free number for you to call  and leave a message when you are out and about celebrating St Patrick's day from wherever you are in the world... and preferably when you're drunk :) The best message gets a bottle of Screech... so don't be shy and call the drunk line... For more information, please check the website: http://stpatsdrunkdial.com/  (toll free only in US/Canada)
It's an awesome concept and it is a lot of fun!

Mon copain Dups a cree un numero gratuit pour la fete de la Saint Patrick, comme ca on peut appeler de n'importe ou dans le monde et laisser un message et il est preferable d'appeler quand on est raide :) Le meilleur message recoit une bouteille de rhum... donc ne faites pas les timides et appelez le numero gratuit... Pour plus d'information, voila le site (en anglais seulement): http://stpatsdrunkdial.com/  (numero gratuit seulement aux US/Canada)
C'est vraiment sympa et bien marrant!

This morning, Edmonton was nearly as cold as the South Pole, Antartica... Well, I guess it doesn't happen every day, but since one of my friend mentioned it today, I thought I'd check :) Well, it was true, last time I checked it was -46 °C!
This morning, we had -42 °C at the Edmonton Airport with a windchill of -52 °C... Definitely the coldest day in my life :) Wow, that hurts!

Last weekend was our last trip to the mountain at least for skiing. This time, I didn't take any photos as the weather was pretty bad. We had constant snow on Saturday which made the visibility inexistent... we had no depth of field perception whatsoever... which made it really difficult to go fast and it was pretty tiring on the legs too as you have to be ready for anything since you can't see a thing!!! It was still a good day of skiing except that I was ready to go home by 2.45 (I did just that by the way)! I was totally oblivious to what was happening on the other side of the mountain, unfortunately an avalanche was triggered out of bounds and two people perished. All the rescue efforts concentrated on the striken area and therefore the rest of lifts/gondola were closed for the rest of the afternoon. That was our reality check for the day. We are certainly not good enough to ski out of bounds, but once again it proves that mountains are dangerous places and that there are risks involved. Such a shame :(

Nous avons passe notre dernier weekend a la montagne. Cette fois ci, pas de photos a cause du temps. On a eu de la neige non-stop Samedi, et on ne voyait vraiment rien... aucune perception de profondeur... du coup on ne pouvait pas aller vite et mes jambes etaient fatiguees vu qu'il faut toujours etre pret a tout vu qu'on ne voit rien!!! C'etait une bonne journee quand meme et je suis rentree a la maison crevee a 2h45! Je ne me doutais pas de ce qu'il se passait de l'autre cote de la montagne ou une avalanche s'est declenchee par des gens qui faisaient du hors piste et deux personnes ne s'en sont pas sorties. Tous les efforts etaient concentres pour l'operation de sauvetage et toutes les chaises/oeufs ont ete ferme pour le reste de la journee. Ca nous a quand meme un peu retourne. On est franchement pas assez bon pour faire du hors piste, mais ca prouve bien que la montagne peut etre dangereuse et qu'il y a quand meme des risques. C'est dommage :(

Since Jeff's company closed for two days, ten of us decided to hit the slopes and enjoy the mountains! We rented a house in Canmore  and off we went to Lake Louise, Sunshine and Nakiska in that order :) We couldn't have had more perfect weather... the snow was really good although a little sticky the first day, we had bright sunny days and best of all, it was not even cold! To top it off, it wasn't even busy and we really enjoyed our whole time there! I kind of got scared when the car didn't want to start on the first morning, especially since we were carpooling! But everything worked out in the end :) Enjoy the photos!

Vu que la boite de Jeff etait fermee pour deux jours, dix d'entre nous avons decide d'aller skier a la montagne! On a loue une maison a Canmore et de la nous somme alle a Lake Louise, Sunshine et Nakiska dans cet ordre la :) On a eu un temps parfait... la neige etait bonne meme si elle collait un peu le premier jour, grand soleil et le mieux de tout c'est qu'il ne faisait meme pas froid! En plus de ca, il n'y avait personne sur les pistes et on s'est vraiment bien amuse! J'ai eu un peu peur quand la voiture n'a pas voulu demarrer le premier matin, surtout qu'on avait 3 voitures pour 10 + materiel! Mais tout s'est arrange :) Voila les photos!