Shenanigans

Road trip, schmoad trip I say... enough of Jethro posting all about the fun times he's had - YAWN!

(just kidding)

We had our Fernie Sports Christmas Party the other night. Yes, you read right... that would be "Christmas Party" as in Jingle Bells, Santa and December. But as we've been so busy serving the good people and tourists of Fernie with skis and boards over the winter, we didn't have time for one, so the end of March seemed as good a time as any... plus we are a fast depleting bunch with Chris having left us at the weekend (he's one of the ski tech boys) and there are pretty much no tourists here any more - it's bliss, if a little quiet at work!

So off we toddled to Rip N Richards eatery in Fernie - it's a family orientated diner style place with ribs, burgers, pizza etc... there's even a pizza called the Fernie Sports... it's very cheesy... fnar fnar!

The Fernie Sports gang, plus friends/better halves etc...


Ben and Jethro prove that real men hug...


Everyone wimped out at 9.30pm apart from me, Ben, Becky, Stevo and Jethro so we went onto the Central Bar where a few of our other friends were having a leaving do of sorts. I've been to so many leaving parties in the last two weeks that my liver is taking a severe beating, but it's all in the name of fun and I'm making up for lost time as the season is all but over soon. (Big waves to Len and Steve whose leaving shindig it was - we miss you guys!)

The boys and me in the Central bar (I promise I am not the only girl in Fernie, even if it looks that way sometimes)


So with all this partying going on, it's a little hard on the head first thing in the morning when you have to be at work at 8am. Hence I have discovered these wonderful things called Powerade Slurpies... they're big, blue and slushy and they give you a brain freeze and lots of energy to get you through the day. Think of it like a slush puppy, but waaaaay better and you get the idea:

Me and my new best friend, Mr Slurpy:


Chris celebrated his last day at Fernie Sports on Saturday with style. When we weren't helping customers - because that's our MAIN priority and we would NEVER mess around at work without making sure that customer satisfaction was kept at the highest level. You may think I am jesting, but we kick ass when it comes to making our customers feel loved and wanted... we really do. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, we did partake in a little bit of tomfoolering around...

Chris got dressed up in Dan's 1980s one piece ski suit and posed outside the shop:


Ben decided not to be outdone so figured out that he could zip himself up into a ski bag and hop around a bit:


And to end the era of the winter 2006 staff, we took a group photo to show off our goggle tans - except me and Chris don't have a goggle tan and Ben has been cultivating his for months, so it wasn't really a fair competition: