December 2006
Nikkers and her lil buddy Blake!!

Nov 26, 2006 - Snow in Vancouver!!

Snow in Van and lots of it!! Its almost all gone now but it was

fun while it lasted!! These pics were all taken right outside

our apartment...the snow caused lots of havoc on Vancouver roads and it was

more than the one snow plow in town could handle!

Dec 2, 2006 - Nikkers 2nd Annual Martini Birthday!!

Stiffy & Alex enjoying a Martini!

Nikkers & Rohan posing for a photo!!

Mixing up some Martini's - YUMMY!!

Stiffy, Barbie & Rohan - chowing down on some late night tight!!

Nicole, Karen, Kathy and Baz chilling on the couch!!

Nov 22, 2006 - HAPPY GRADUATION TO ME!!

Finally a nurse!! All that hardwork and support from family

and friends and it definitley has paid off!!

Julia and I enjoying our first beer as graduate nurses!! I happened to be in the bar a little too long and missed recieving my award..oops!!

I can see clearly now the rain has gone!

Looking North from the Burrard St bridge at Grouse Mountain. Recent storms have bought a lot of wind and rain to Vancouver which means snow at higher levels.

A break in the storm!

Late in the day we see the sun peak through for a rare moment. We have had many storms of late whipped up in the North Pacific and pound the BC Coast and Vancouver with more that 100km hour winds and over 4 inchs of rain on 4 seperate days in 10.

Oct 28, 2006 - Halloween!

With no plans to go out - Some impromptu costumes were thrown together and next thing you know ladybugs, nursing students and tacky tourists were unleashed!!

The lady bug and the tacky tourist out on the town!!

Ahh a little snuggle!!

Looking tough Michelle...what's Aaron doing with that nipple??

A plethora of costumes

Apples - are you dressed up?

Craig and Steph

Steph and I at the Beagle

3 hours drive from home!

"On a hippie trail thats full of Zombies". Not really, but the Anniversary Glacier is in between the two peaks that you see in front.

Mt Matier on the left and Mt Joffre on the right with the glacier in between. Our camp spot is on top the hump down from Matier`s right shoulder.

Looking at the North face of Joffre in what appears to be a forrested clearing. It is actually a clearing created by a 1/100 year avalanche. If you look closely you can see the tops of the young trees on an angle away from the mountain.

After 5 hours we reach the moraines where we look South up the glacier. Matier on the left and Joffre just out off view on the right. The rocks on the Col (a sholder between two mountains) at the top centre, is where we hiked and turned arround.

Comming down.

Craig and the thousand mile mountain stare with Mt Joffre in the background. No trees and the talus slope indicates thats we are near camp and at the end of our 6 hour approach.

Home Sweet Home! for the next 3 days anyway. Nikkers is out of the wind in the kitchen making some soup. The temperature drops quickly when the sun is gone and with the camp set up we have nothing to do but admire the view.

Nikkers early on the 2nd morning enjoying the only blue sky we saw that day. The clouds fill the valley below which gave us terrible, wet and cold conditions all day.

Laurie the first on the left, has pretended to fall into a crevasse. Paul is standing watching Craig build and anchor to take Laurie`s weight. Rohan, Kathy and Nicole G with Nikkers bracing to hold Laurie.

Nikkers on belay!

Trudging up the glacier which is hard with 7 different people. From Craig you see Rohan, Nikkers, Nicole G, Kathy, Laurie and Paul to ensure we dont fall......

......into one of these!

We made it to the top arround 5pm. Enough time for a drink, a snack and one quick photo be fore we head back down getting into camp on dark to finish off a bottle of Scotch. It really does warm the cockles.

Cerise Creek looking South towards Mt Joffre.

Nicole's Nursing Grad Dinner - August 19, 2006

A beautiful Sunset over English Bay

Kim and I enjoying the view

Fellow Nurses - Sean & Kim

Ro & Sean deep in conversation..

Julia, Kim & Sean - very happy to put UBC behind them!!

Meraloma Ladies in NYC!!!

All the ladies in Times Square

Cruising the streets

With one of New York's finest

Jackie, Me and Rhonda in Times Square

Lake Lovely Water - Canada Day long weekend.

On the trail not far into our 6hr hike to the lake. You can see the trail just to the left of Nikkers never more than 2 boots wide. Hiking through i kept thinking that at any moment an Ewok would jump out and spear me.

The majority of the way we hike parrallel with the drainage from the lake. There was waterfall after waterfall. From here we are approx half way up, by my guess the trees at the top of the photo would the altitude of the lake.

Almost there! With the blue sky above(including no canopy and sun light) and the last of the winter snow still lingering tells us that we are nearly there.

We made it!!!

After 10kms and a gain of 1200m in elevation we arrived at our accomodation for the next two nights.

The other side of the hut. Looking West out the window towards the lake.

Happy Canada Day!

Fishing of the the half sunken whalf for Rainbow Trout that habitat the lake with the last of the sun hitting the peak in the background.....without luck.

Sunday and the lake to ourselves. One of the most amazing places i have ever been and there was only 11 people there all weekend. Not including the 4 people that flew in by float plane for several hours.

Touring the lake on our rest day with Nicole and Kathy admiring one of the 6 Glaciers that flow into the lake. Very, very cold water........Very cold!

After familarising ourselves with the lake we found a nice bathing/swimming/fishing rock where we spent most of the day. As we left we snaped this photo of Ali soaking up few gamas.