Smithers (Part Two)

When I left my blog last night I had written about my Cross country ski adventure. Cross country skiing is an amazing sport and I have a new found respect for the sport. I think the next step that I should take is trying and mastering biathlon because me with a gun and on skies would be the perfect combination. Any how back to my trip, after recovering (slightly) from the ski workout we all packed into the van and went to the movie store (to get films for the night) and to eat at Masayama, an authentic Japanese restaurant! Well almost authentic. The food was delicious but the only Asian person in the whole building was Shoshana, and she is part of our Katimavik group. Hundreds of pictures were take at the restaurant for no particular reason (most of them hideous) and one included an epic shot of Jessica fighting with me over the last Tempura (deep fried vegetables). My nose looks like a hundred times bigger than it actually is and my neck is freakishly long. Upon returning to St. Joseph's (our sleeping facility) we had a quiet night of watching movies and laying on virtually non existent mattresses as "beds".

The following morning we woke up bright and early, with aching bodies, to go on a hike. The trail was called Malkow Lookout and it was suppose to take two hours round trip. Unfortunately we read the signs wrong and ended up walking half way up the mountain and then we took a path which gradually brought us back to base. Determined to reach a good lookout point, half of our group decided to ``rough it out`` and make our own trail which went vertically up. Getting up the trail was not terrible. Pictures were taken and we even got on my camera a shot of Bigfoot. Unfortunately our sighting turned out to be a girl in our group who had strayed from the path (...oops). Coming down that ridge was not as fun. Gravity did not help us out at all and we hurtled down the side of this `trail`. Over all it was a great trip. On our ride home we stopped in Huston for a photo shoot with the World's longest fishing pole and we made it the whole way home with out any bathroom breaks, which takes skill!

Jessica and me fighting over the last bit of deep fried vegetables!

Jessica and Me looking very fine ;)

Bigfoot sighting!!!!! (it turned out to be Jessica...wow she is very popular in this story)

The World`s biggest fishing rod!

Half of my Katima-fam on our ``off the trail`` lookout :)