Slacker....

I know the blog is desparately out of date... And we've done so much since the last update... I had good intentions of doing it on my days off but I'm on the couch with a cold... I promise I'll do it asap xxx

Oh Washington!

We went to Mt Baker last weekend with Adam and Steff, and Gill and Kristian to celebrate Adams birthday. After a tense few moments in US immigration (!) we were in our way. We stopped at this classy burger restaurant were us girls couldn't resist getting a photo with the stuffed moose! We opted against a photo with the stuffed turkeys... Seriously!

Steff found us a great log cabin with our own hot tub to stay at, nice one.

In true ski bunny holiday style, we decided to let a game of scrabble decide who was going to sleep where (no one evers volunteers for the couch do they?)

Getting serious guys as sleeping on the couch looms closer....

Early on Saturday morning getting ready to head to the mountain.

Finally a Jeep Commander being used for its designed purpose - getting dirty!

Looking glamourous girls...!

Snow, snow everywhere!

Gill looking hot!

Getting excited....

I'm not sure how he did it but Jesse managed to squish himself into the tiny back seat.

Mt Baker in all its glory.

As you can see from the size of the lodge, Baker is much smaller than the bigger resorts but still bloody good fun!

Base of the mountain - bring it on!

Getting all geared up to hit the snow - great socks Steff!




Me covering my helmet hair at
lunch with Gills knobby hat.

Gill doing her inpersonation of a Vancouver beggar - scarily accurate...

Steff and Adam - the newlyweds.

Relaxing on the chairlift between runs.

The best photo of the trip (except that Gill isn't in it cause she was taking it!)

Having a quiet beer at the end of the day at one of the fairly rustic lodges at Mt Baker.

The kitchen crowd all trying to get to the fridge for the all important apres-ski drinks!

Because us girls have all the brains we managed to trick the boys into offering to cook breakfast when us girls said we'd cook dinner! Here's Gill and I looking very domesticated cooking chilli while trying to cover our hat hair with our neck warmers.

The lads observing the great chilli cookup...

Is there anything better than a hot tub after a day in the snow? Especially when its an outdoor one and you're in the wilderness with a drink in hand? I think not!

Thanks to the gang for a great weekend away! We can't wait to do it again soon x

Helmet Hair

Don't we look flash?! These are our new snowboarding helmets! Everyone wears them over here and people think you're queer if you don't - quite the opposite to NZ! Jesse had a really bad headache and sore neck a couple of weeks ago and the doctor thought that he may have had a concussion from skiing at Mt Baker, opps... So we thought we should really put 'safety first' and get helmets... Hot!

Mission Mt Baker!

The great thing about Van is that there are loads of ski resorts all pretty close. The mottley crew below (I work with Kim) invited us to go to Mt Baker in Washington State with them and of course we said YES!

This is possibly my favorite place is the US... Its a lot like the mountains at home in that its no where near as commercialised as Whistler and its bit more down to earth.
Apparently the weather can be a bit and hit and miss but as you can see we hit the jackpot!

Model at work again.
What a view ah?
We're off to Baker again next week for a friends birthday.

PS did I mention that you get to hit Duty Free in the way across the border? Score!

New Years in Whistler

We took off to Whistler the day after we got back from Vegas... A mission but SO worth it! We finally got to hit the snow which was a big thing that attracted us here. And what better place to do it than at Whistler.

This is Erin, an Aussie I work with who an awesome example of making the most of her season pass!

Gee my model gets around...
My model in action - that is him to the left.
This is the view from the top of 7th Heaven Chairlift - spectular ah. What a great place to propose!
Me and Jesse - about 2 minutes before he popped the question....

And heres the ring! Beautiful! He did a good job don't ya think :)

Viva Las Vegas!

We went to Vegas on Boxing Day to celebrate Hayleys birthday. For some reason we thought it was going to be warm there and were a bit gutted to find its as cold as Vancouver in winter, bugger, but the sun shone for 3 days so it wasn't all bad.

Vegas is all about big is better and copying other people ideas. Paris Paris is a fine example of this... Here is the Eiffel Tower...

And here is the inside of one of the restaurants in Paris Paris! Its exactly how you imagine Paris to be - its hilarious! This is where we had a Vegas style buffet - they are massive!
This is one of the Christmas decorations in the Bellagio... It was pretty cool, all covered in tiny mirrors. I took this photo while I was waiting for Jesse to get off the phone - little did I know that he was on the phone to Dad asking his permission to propose!!

One of the many buildings of Caesars Palace
Outside The Mirage
Treasure Island's Pirate Ship
Mirage again

Outside the Forum at Caesars... mmm Chanel, Dior, Versace... one day...
One of the fountains at Caesars.
More Caesars extremes
This is the walkway at The Venetian... Beautiful... Unfortunately we didn't get to see much of it or go for a gondola ride in there (yes seriously!) because we were running late cause of some last minute shopping (little did I know it was cause Jesse was buying diamonds...!)

The Venetian's roof
Over looking the pool onto the Strip
My Model in a window

The craziest thing about Vegas is that you go to some of these hotels and you could actually think you were in the place its named after.... Madness really but soo cool!

Viva Las Vegas by night.

Vegas by night is quite a different place... It so much more vibrant at night and you could happily just cruise around taking it all it.

This post is a bunch of random night shots.

This is one of the many fountains outside the Wynn which is a 3000 room resort!

Our hotel is home to the 'Crazy Girls' Show - nice. Here is Hayley and Jesse seeing if they have what it takes with the classy statue out the front of the hotel.
New York - Vegas style.
Stratosphere hotel. This one has full on rides at the top of the tower... Scary!
Bunch of tourists!
Vegas version of the Eiffel Tower.
Our classy hotel.
The Strip.
New York again.
Statue of Liberty - Vegas style.