A Niece!!!!!

Alright well it sure has been a while and I've only got 20 mins. So I'll get through as much as i can chronologically.
First of all however, I have a niece!! Mandy had a baby girl on Saturday the 8th at 4am i believe. Also it quite funny to learn the news about 14 hours before that time where we are, crazy time zones. Pete and Mandy named her Crystal Anne Joshua. She is strong and healthy even though she came a few weeks early. From what i hear Mandy was quite seriously ill but again I think she is getting better. Crystal was also born just two days before Pete's bday on the 11th of Nov.

On thursday the 6th, a week ago it was a beautiful glorious day. When i woke up it was snowing and everything was covered in the wonderful stuff. It was so nice, like nothing i'd ever seen before. NZ wasn't like this because their was only snow at the peaks of the mountains. It was awesome but it's kinda frustrating now because it was just teasing me. It reclines quite quickly really when the snow stops and then the rain starts up. Still really can't be that long before another dump comes. And this time i've got my skis ready so i'll head straight up their and have myself a grand time. I had been looking around at all the best deals and my deal really is quite incredible, yet still expensive unfortunately. The only specification that i was really after with the skiis were twin tips because i wanna try to be going backwards and such. I'm gonna try and talk to Rachel and Bruce her dad and see if i can send it back with their stuff if it's cost effective and so on. I'm getting them back tommorow and on my first day off after that which i believe is Monday, i think i'll hike up the mountain till i find some snow. The really depressing thing about that is that once i reach the snow line i have to unstrap and walk back down as well. Still very exciting possabilities.
A very funny thing happened at the initial staff welcome meeting for the mountain job. I didn't know anyone their but fortunately I got talking to a nice guy so that was cool. While we were talking however a girl came up and sat beside me, she didn't say anything straight away, and i felt a very strange vibe so i didn't really feel like attempting conversation. At a random point during Aaron and my conversation however she plucked the courage and enlightened us with her speech. She got more strange as she went on. When it came to asking where we came from she said you'll never guess where I'm from. Then she said that she's actually had three lives, and made me try and guess. Now i was tryign to be polite here, in a way that showed i wasn't very into the conversation but polite nonetheless. Aaron was a bit more blatant but he could be because he was on the other side. So she didn't really offer me with any valuable hints about her three lives other than this is her first one as a girl??? Finally she told me that in the 1850's she'd been a Pirate. And previous to that life she was a Lion... ... .. .
Yesss. Well i thought it was quite interesting actually, not realy her but what was going on inside her head to either make herself believe that because it honestly sounded like she did. And then even more interesting of course would be if she actually did know, but that's all psychic stuff that you can't really understand, or believe when the person that is telling you this simply looks crazy and has serious sociable problems. Interesting topic for you Mum, I assume you'd pass it off as crazy talk though, certainly seemed to be that way. Apparently she's from Whistler, in this life.

Alyson and I had a lovely day off on monday. We went Ice skating at the Meadow Park sports place. It was really fun because they had an area where you can play ice hockey with plastic equipment. It was really really enjoyable. For the whole first session i was too scared to jump in there, not for myself but i thought i'd cut someone, badly. But after they cleaned the ice Aly and i rushed to the sticks and got ourself one of the few pucks. We were having a jolly old time until some kid stole the puck of Aly, let me tell you she was not happy. Hockey is one of the sports that Alyson really enjoyed and is still keen to play these days, one of the few. But this kid taking it off her was too much. She chased him for a while but he was too good so she left the area hating all children once more. It's really fun though because when your in that little thing all you do is try and steal the puck off people and have random shots at goal. I could usually compete with the kids until they were about 8 yrs old. Then they slaughtered me, Canadians are awesome at this stuff. It was really fun though, and i even got a steal off one of the guys who was about 14 once and they were really good. I got no more time left now. Have to talk about movies, lakes and of course Paintball next time.
Aly and i are gonna go see some more lakes today hopefully because its a beautiful sunny day.