a life of organized chaos

Wow! It's been over a month since my last posting! Where did the time go? Where do I start to tell you about the last month? What happened in the last month? Craziness!

I guess may started with the end of the ski season. What a fun time. Enjoying the sun, the soft snow, and skiing in a sweater! It was loads of fun, especially talking to friends about the exciting summer coming up.

I actually missed the last day of the ski season. Why would I do such a thing? Were 38 days on the hill in one year too much? Well, no. It was just that the person I was supposed to ski with bailed on me, and I was invited to go somewhere else... That place was Paintballing!

Oh ya!

What better way to kick off summer than by shooting all of the security department in some "friendly" war games! It was great!

I could talk about this much longer, but it's late and I'd like to get to bed soon, and typing on a blackberry doesn't go so fast!

So, on to the next big event!

May long weekend took me on a trip to sights unseen by me before. A small town known as Whistler! Apparently they plan to hold a large international sporting competition there next year?? Maybe it will be something like what brought me there. The annual fairmont western regional hockey tournament!

We totally rebuilt the hockey team for this event. We trimmed the fat, so to speak. We went with a sceleton team of 9 players (no goalie). We picked up a local goalie and took to the ice with what came to be known as "the dominators"

Well, not really.

We had a rough time with the first game - tied at half we pulled things together for the final stretch to win 6-1.

That night we cruised the downtown of whistler. It was interesting, I like the set-up, as it has a large pedestrian street where all the shops, restaraunts and bars are, but I like the feel of banff more. Less city folk. Anyway, we called it early (1am) as we had a game at 8am

That game was a total blow out. 11-1. We really took it to them! Then we wrapped up the final game of the round robin with a 3-3 tie. Actually, we almost lost as we were losing 3-1 with 10 min to go. I think we were just a little tired from the late night, early morning.

That night was supposed to be the party night... I went for the free food and then went to bed early.

The next day we were up early again, this time for golf! We got ourselves booked onto the #1 course in canada! We had enough time to play 10 holes before it was time to play hockey.

You might think how lucky I was to be there - but - I got sick that morning. I suspect it was food poisoning from that free food! I was in rough shape, but still played.

We changed the lines a little, and destroyed B pool 2nd place team 11-3 in this semi final game, setting us up for the finals against the winner of hotel van and banff springs ( we have a bit of a rivalry with banff as they play against us in the banff league )

We were hoping for banff, but they lost to hotel van (the team we tied 3-3 with in the round robin. The final was to be played the next morning at 9am.

So, I went back to the hotel hoping to finish my round of golf. That didn't happen. My stomach was not happy and I was in bed at 4pm, I got out at 8:30 to get some ginger ale, but got right back to bed and slept through the night. I was hurting!

But that didn't stop me from playing in the finals. Another line change and we were set to take hotel vancouver on! Oh, and one of our players dropped out so we were down to 8 skaters!

They took an early lead, but we tied it up and took a 3-1 lead, then they tied it up, so we took a 4-3 lead, just for them to tie it up again. So we took a 6-4 lead... Just for them to tie it up again... Finally we said enough was enough and we took a 9-6 lead. This time we held onto it and we won the game 9-7.

This marked the first year that lake louise won the tournament, the first year banff wasn't in the finals, and only the second time that banff hasn't won the tournament. (13 wins)

We were quite happy.

Some would even say exstatic!

We rejoiced in the streets... Ok, we didn't, but we held that trophy high!

Anyway, that is the end of that adventure, and it's time for bed, but soon I will update you with more stories. Tales from a youth camp retreat, softball, walking at the lake, meeting new friends, sneaking into abandoned mines, showering under waterfalls, swinging on a massive swing and spotting a bear, fox and wolf from the trail to said swing... But that all must wait until my fingers feel like typing again.

Miss you all back home!