What could be better in Novemeber than snow and snowboarding? Well normally over the years, I've definitely come to expect clouds, rain, wind, shite. However this year has been very different. With only 2 days from my birthday the rain has not yet imposed itself, but I am not holding my breath for too long!
Today has been a great day. There has been around 2 inches of snow from last night, leaving the whole place a glowing white. With today not wanting to be outdone by yesterday, we've had another inch or so. One word, awesome. So picture the snow, picture a fresh couple of degrees below zero, a drive to Stockholm in the snow with heated car seats, to arrive to a busy stadium where this years Winter Jam was taking place. Oh yes indeed.
The Winter Jam is a competition of mainly boarders and skiers over quite a big jump:
As skiing sucks balls, we watched the finals of the boarding. So up stepped the big guns, namely Stefan Gimpl, Antti Autti, Risto Matilla. After a solid combined score from 2 out of 3 jumps, our winner prevailed- Janne Korpi, yes another Fin. I took a few shots of the action, so have some inspiration for a few weeks before the official season at 'our' mountain.
How to top up this then? Erm...hard task, but when I got home, Johanna bought some dinner to celebrate my birthday (yes no not now I know but she's not here on Monday!), topped up with some Sam Adam's (my almost homo lover) and chillaxing = all in all, a very satisfied me.
In brief then: We're working hard on our apartment downstairs, trying to get the 6 layers of wallpaper off etc. I get my last course exam results, a shocking 2 months later for the 1st exam (useless course organiser indeed), so we shall see about that. Lab is going well. My birthday present from Johanna is a trip on new years eve to the ice bar in Stockholm (drinks included of course). The snow is here, as I said, gunna do some sledging me thinks. One last thing that is almost sexual is the attachment for the wii fit board as part of Shaun White snowboarding:
Yes I know I'm a sad bastard, but hey, if standing on a plastic mini snowboard pretending I'm cool is sad, then I'll just have to live with it. One day it'll be mine, one day.......
