my new necklace

i am now the proud owner of a beautiful new necklace after my weekend of being thoroughly spoiled at elk ridge resort! thanks goes out to my awesome boyfriend, and no, to all of you who want him to do it for you. haha..

**p.s. the la ronge ice wolves won the SJHL championship last night during game 6 in Yorkton. We will host Dolphin in LA on friday!

Game 1 of 2010 SJHL Championship

the La Ronge Ice Wolves against the Yorkton Terriers friday, april 2nd. this is the first goal of the series here in La Ronge. check out the mariah's on the ice after the goal!




unfortunately, we ended up losing this game in overtime but we won the second game yesterday 3-1.

a st. patrick's day snowstorm

for most of the past few weeks, our daytime highs have been above zero.. even yesterday was a balmy 8 degrees outside and all of our snow had disappeared and La Ronge became it's usual mudpit.

as I had to work night shift on st. patrick's day, I put myself to bed around 7pm and it was still warm and raining out... a few five hours later, this is what I walked to work in.. I'm pretty sure some of the drifts in the parking lot are now over a foot deep.

March came in like a lamb, climaxed as a lion, and probably out like a bitch...

Yay La Ronge!

Ice Wolves on the Win!

Our darling Junior A team here, the La Ronge Ice Wolves, finished 3rd in the regular season and beat the 4th place team, the Humboldt Broncos, to go up against the 1st place team in the division, the Flin Flon Bombers.. who we CREAMED Sunday night!!!

Our fans started a tradition during the Humboldt series, that when we score a goal, we throw a fish out onto the ice.. this originates from Mafia times when people who found a dead fish on their doorstep soon found themselves dead. The team has embraced it by bringing their own cooler to keep behind the bench and bbq's up the fish after every win!

Friday, our next series against the North Battleford North Stars begins in North Battleford. We will see Mr. Pearson and his team in La Ronge on Tuesday!!! May the winning continue!

some more pictures from the olympics/whistler

whistler village at night
Bonnie's Olympic podium with her Bronze-medal friend!
Bonnie and I at the top of Whistler mountain outside of Christine's restaurant!

final days in Vancouver...

me and my friend at the Aboriginal Pavillion... quite a line up to get into the gallery unfortunately so this is as close as I got.
cider at le maison du quebec...
pilsner at the saskatchewan pavillion...
At the top of Blackcomb mountain at Whistler, outside of Christine's restaurant during our peak-2-peak adventure!!!

FOR ALEXZANDRA!

Alexzandra,

These pictures are for you from the Olympics.

off to the olympics

seems like November 7th was yesterday... but in reality it was 3 months ago and I am now off to Saskatoon to catch my flight to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

thanks to the congestion, I'll catch the brand new Canada Line Skytrain from the airport to go downtown and then trek myself across the west end with my suitcase unless by some miracle I can catch a cab to Bonnie's.

more pictures will follow this week I'm sure.. it's only two days until the opening ceremonies!!

Love you all.

moon over coop

the moon over the sunset from the coop parking lot... most days the vistas in La Ronge will take your breath away.

Finally recovering from some kind of stomach sickness... I managed to eat three square meals today so that's a huge improvement.

5 days until I head to Vancouver for the OLYMPICS!!!!! Yay!!!!

Many more pictures to follow from that adventure.

a quiet saturday (*fingers crossed*)

very tired today... damn holidays.

mark and I spent the better part of yesterday doing the kitchen inventory, so needless to say my hips hurt from kneeling and climbing and i'm getting phantom pains in my fingers from being in the walk-in freezer for an hour. what a mess.

anyways, one day of rest and then we have a world junior's hockey game tomorrow and an ice wolves game tomorrow night! it shall be a good Sunday.

I'm off to my favourite place in La Ronge this afternoon, the library.

xoxo