I've put together a little photo gallery to celebrate some exciting stuff that happened at the end of 2011.
To begin, let's reverse back to November. It was off to T-Bay, Ontario for a weekend of fun for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary! The whole event was really lovely and it was great to see family.
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| Did you know that you can get a certificate from Stephen Harper for being married 50 years? I had no idea. |
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| Sister, me and mom |
Back in Squamish, I spent the month of December training and taking a class on Health, Environment and Risk, a very interesting subject.
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| Out mountain biking behind campus |
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| view from the trails |
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| Going down Half-Nelson, so fun! |
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| gorgeous waterfall, missed seeing it the first few times because that part of the trail is so fast! |
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December was also a fun time for celebration at the annual Questival school dinner. Complete with photos with "santa" aka our school president who bears an uncanny resemblance to Santa Claus.
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| Pretty sure we were the only group from class to take a photo together at Questival, a good sign that we are still friends after working on a major three week group project! |
After finishing up the semester, I traveled home to Winnipeg for a much needed break.
Of course it's my parents, not the children, playing with their food on Christmas morning! (we decided it would be nice to make a proper breakfast this year and not just eat chocolate all day..).
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| pineapple double decker pancakes, impressive. |
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| yum pumpkin fruit santa pancakes |
I was hoping to get in some skiing while home for the holidays, but was surprised to come home to strange weather and very little snow in Winnipeg. Shouldn't it be -50C with 3 feet of snow? I was determined to still get out skiing and went to check out the golf course trails. A bit rocky, but not too bad. One thing I didn't expect was sharing the course with a pair of golfers out to play a round of 18 holes! Had to dodge a few golf balls, I'm not too sure how they found the holes.
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| New sport- winter golfing! |
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| Out skiing at windsor park |
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I've also got in some quality trainer time while home for the holidays. My coach has the idea that every holiday= training camp + testing. It makes sense.
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| +5 and no snow? weird. |
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| colder temperatures pushed me to train inside with my brother's fishies. Good motivation to not fall off the rollers! |
2011 came to a wonderful end with my Aunt's wedding. She enjoyed my parents New Years marriage so much as a child that she decided to pick the same date. What better time for a celebration?!
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| Beautiful bride and groom |
That pretty much sums up the end of 2011 for me, can't wait to see what 2012 has to offer!
