Sammy and Helene had to drop me into work at 7:30am in the morning which is still dark here.
As the sun came up they headed to the 3 nearby lakes.
Abit chilly ( Approx -2 + wind chill)
After they did abit of sight seeing I was done at work (3hr shift which feels kind of bitter/sweet) and we headed into banff to try and find the last of our snow gear. The amount of stuff you need just to stay warm here is ridiculous.
LOTR Pezz (AWESOME)
So a few Halloweeners are starting creap into town. We only took shots of this guy for some reason though.
I wonder if he ski's in this? Looks warn...
So after abit of arm twisting I convinced Sandrine & Helene to come check out where I work. It's big, it's old and generally spooky.
Queen and Queen
This is the actual lighting in the hotel. Spooky right!!!
As you can see the weather is grose. Usually beautiful mountains can be scene out this window.
This is the haunted stare case, a lady getting married apparently cought fire in her wedding dress and then ran/tripped down the stair case and broke her neck which killed her. Legend says she haunts the stairs at night. WHHAAAAOOOOOOOO!!!! Spooky!
IT"S PUMPKIN CARVING TIME !!!!
For HALLOWEEN, not because we're just weird.
So we thought we are getting too old to play dress ups for Halloween and besides it's only fun when you know other people who are dressed up too. (wipes tear from cheek) So we decided to make some Halloween pumpkins instead as we have never done it before.
BEFORE
We each carved pumpkins using a different technique.
I used a Sharpie and drew on the design, then cut the roof off and scooped the insides out. Next step was cutting out chunks with a knife and creating the final details with a hack saw blade and screw driver.
Helene's technique was pinning and taping a printed stencil to the pumpkin (also wetting the page to make the paper hug the pumpkin).
She then punched the design in with a screw driver until she had a decent outline of where she needs the cut. She then cut the roof, scooped out the insides and cut out chunks with a knife.
Sammy's technique was simular to Helene's but her stencil was hand drawn by Sandrine.
AFTER
Sandrine's Pumpkin (middle) was bought 2 weeks prior to the other pumpkin's and is a different type by the looks of it as hers glows like crazy....
We were going to put them outside on the balcony but we thought we worked so hard on them we wanted to enjoy them all to ourselves.
Next day
COME ON SNOW!!!
So we are waiting for the snow. We thought snow season had started but it was just one day of snow and then back to normal...
We're getting a little impatient...
We finally got all our winter gear...
We finally got our Lift passes......
So where is the SNOW!!!! ?
We'll for now we're thrashing around in the lounge room....
Cheers
Marc
