On Monday the Japanese tour guides in Banff were invited to the Chateau Lake Louise for a hotel orientation and menu tasting where we could sample some of the main dishes on their menus that our customers will be eating this year. We had some beef tenderloin, chicken, halibut, trout, salmon, soup, salad and some desserts. The food was good and although it was officially a “sampling” they kept bringing it out until we were all quite full.
As you can see in this picture there is still a whole lot of snow left here at the lake. It will be another month or so until the lake is completely melted.


On Tuesday I made my first trip of the year up to the Columbia Icefield. The weather up there was not so nice; basically we were in a blizzard when we got off the snow coach onto the glacier. You get about 20 minutes to walk around on top of the 300 meter thick ice but that day most of the few people that were on the same tour as we were only lasted about 5 minutes outside. The three people you can see outside are the driver and two of my five clients that day. A mother and her four year old daughter whose name is Mia, although it is not pronounced the same as Mya’s name. Hers is the same as Mia Farrow. She was a cute little kid and we had fun in the snow.
Hopefully as the weather warms up I’ll be able to show you what the area really looks like on a nice day.

Oh snap!

I did get a chance to fly my plane for the first time last Saturday. It was a perfect day and I did manage to get it off the ground..... but you'll have to watch the video clip to see what happened.

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It was a short flight and I'll probably have to replace the main body but it was great fun for the few seconds it lasted. Hopefully my next try will be a little better and not quite so disasterous.

Welcome Home TJ

Looking forward this weekend to seeing TJ and everyone who will be there this weekend.

I recently visited John and Tanis's blog (it's linked at KJAMB's blog) and watched the video of Jordan flying his plane
(this one I think)

and thought it was pretty cool. I've always wanted to try that but those model R/C planes were always so expensive that I never got into it.
Now though you can buy ready-to-fly electric planes that aren't too expensive so I decided to take the plunge and get one. I wanted to get a cool looking fast one but the store guy suggested I start with an easier to fly and less expensive one to learn with so here's what i got.


I'm hoping to fly it for the first time this Saturday so anyone who will be at dad and mom's could watch me crash and burn if you like.

Tales of the Riverbank

Recently I've been trying to find video clips of old children's TV shows I barely remember watching as a kid. Do you recall any old shows that you think you remember vaguely but aren't quite sure that you didn't just dream them at some point in your childhood? There was one show in particular that, I could still kind of play the basic melody of its theme song on my guitar but could not for the life of me remember its name. Tonight I decided to try and find it and googled "hamster driving boat" and low and behold I found out that it was a show called Tales of the Riverbank. Isn't the innerweb wonderful!
I've added a few clips on my blog here. (There is also one clip of some unrelated person's fishing trip as well, that happens to be set to the same music, as it is difficult to control all the results of the video search.)
The one where they go for a ride in the jeep is pretty cool. The Dukes of Hazard had nothing on these guys. I'm sure most of you are too young to remember this show but finding these clips tonight for me has been like finally being able to scratch an itch I've had for a long long time.
Next up, Marine Boy.

UPDATE APRIL 19, 2007
I have now taken the video clip down as I think most everyone who might visit my blog has seen it. Time to make room for other things in that space.