This Thursday, Allan and I will be heading to Apex Mountain in Penticton, BC for his hockey team’s annual outdoor hockey tournament. It also means lots of snowboarding for me! We’ll see how well my eyes are doing by then, but I’m hoping I’ll be able to snowboard and at least watch some of the hockey games, even if they are blurry. In case you’re wondering, laser eye surgery went alright — not great as it is still quite blurry, but hopefully is on the mend sooner rather than later. I can see quite well, but reading text on computer screens or books is still very difficult.

In anticipation of heading up to Apex this week, Allan and I put together a fun little movie of last year’s trip to Apex, complete with snowboarding, hockey, and some point-of-view footage with the GoPro. I have to give Allan all the credit for editing the video since I couldn’t do it with my blurry eyes, and for him putting up with my “creative input” a.k.a backseat driving of the video editing

Apex Snowboarding and Hockey Extravaganza HD Video on Vimeo

So check it out on Vimeo!

Hope you enjoy the video. It’s been quite a while since I’ve put up a snowboard flick on VancityAllie and I am hoping to put up some more before the season is over!

Have you done any snowboarding or skiing this season? If so, where have you gone and what has been your best day?

I mentioned in the post before last that I was looking for things to do this Fall. I spoke too soon! Within the last couple weeks our schedule has gotten increasingly busy… and Fall is all of a sudden looking like it’s going to whizz right by.

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely cannot wait for snowboarding… but in the meantime…

… we’ve joined a dodgeball team and play once a week…

… our team looks cool. I suck though. Badly. Definitely the worst I’ve been at a sport so far.

I’ve also started playing ice hockey on a regular basis, about once a week! (which is better than 1 or 2 times a year, haha)

… I’m finally starting to get better and feeling a little more comfortable on my skates. Here’s hoping I can keep improving!

Allan is taking a programming class once a week now too and still playing hockey once a week, work is busy, been playing Halo Reach quite a bit, I’ve started shopping for wedding dresses, and almost done reading the second book (A Clash of Kings) in RR Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series (yay HBO series!)… I’ve barely had time to breathe!

I’m also very backlogged on photos and posts… I have a whole bunch of photos from the summer, but should I bother going through them and posting now that it is Fall? What have you been up to lately?