Indulging in reminiscence: Snowboarding @ Grouse

Made a last minute decision to go snowboarding at Grouse Mountain with Vince, Zhenni, Joel and Geraldine. Grouse was supposed to have one of the nicest view though the terrain was not as great as Whistler for snowboarding or skiing...

Taking the cable tram up to Grouse

Arriving at Grouse..

Statues of 3 athletes, not sure of their significance though lol..

Ready to snowboard!

Was only intending to practice my snowboarding skills at first, however, as my practice went quite well, i decided to give it a shot at trying the blue (intermediate) routes as the green (easy) route was getting boring. Hence, i went with Joel to try out the blue routes after lunch and it was damn exciting and fun, though had a couple of falls and a collision into someone else *oops*. Anyway, after we tried out the blue routes, Joel suggested trying out the black route, which was the second hardest route. Guess what, i went for it and oh man, it is not labelled black for nothing haha.. I practically had to go slow all the way and almost couldn't make it all the way down! But i didn't regret, it was an eye-opener for me, especially the steepness of the slope. Well, at least now i have tried almost all the different levels of difficulty as the next time when i snowboard again after this exchange will probably be a long long time later... After all the snowboarding, i was totally exhausted and i could almost immediately feel all the aches coming...

On the lift back up to the top..

Burnt out after hours of snowboaring..

Grp pic before leaving..

After snowboarding, we decided to go to a restaurant in Gastown, which was Vancouver oldest town, called the old spaghetti factory to have our dinner. Joel told us that the food was quite good and value for money as it came with bread, coffee/tea and ice-cream! The restaurant had an old english style decor with a touch of traditional cathedral design. Quite like the ambience and the food was really not bad, recommend it to anyone who visits Vancouver. Ordered the pot-pourri spaghetti with a portion of meat, mushroom and clam sauce. Choose this dish as it was labelled as suitable for the undecided as i was getting dizzy looking at the numerous pasta dishes offered, and also i get to taste 3 sauces at one go!!

Enjoy the pics!~! =)