BBQ and another night in town

With instructors disappearing all over the place, there have also been parties all over the place. Most of them take place in Banff, a couple take place in Canmore, and fewer still take place on hill (such as Colin's). So on Monday evening, I decided I'd head into town to attend the leaving do of the instructor who taught me how to Snowboard, Dolors from Andorra, and her room-mate Arantxa from Spain.

It was a BYOM and BYOB BBQ on the outskirts of Banff, and after turning up with just some B, I borrowed somebody's bike to get some M from Safeway, and picked up some beef sausages and buns. I could only buy the buns I wanted in packs of 12, so I simply bought 10 sausages and resolved to either give 2 of my buns away, or find 2 other sausages to fill them!

Anyway, back at the house, more and more people started arriving (most were instructors but there were also people I didn't know from Banff), and there were soon longboards, baseballs and circus twirling-things being played with everywhere. I slowly made my way through my B and M, and at about 8:00 we were all called inside due to complaints of noise (but there wasn't much!) from the landlord.

Eventually someone in our party offered me the floor of their bedroom (it's ok, they have thick-pile carpet) and a sleeping bag, so finally my bed was sorted. We went to their house to drop off our stuff, including a yoghurt I'd bought for Mum and Dad (which, over the course of the evening had been dropped and was now being held, very carefully, upside down!). We then mooched into town to the Devil's Gap which I'd not visited before, and proceeded to party, play foosball, watch extreme biking clips and say goodbye to Dolors and Arantxa the best way possible.

After a few more highballs and a shot of Jagermeister, and a 'stomach upset', my host found me staring listlessly at some people playing foosball and decided it was time for me to go back home and back to bed. At about 2:00am, it was decided I'd be better off in the living room (which was now vacant), so I moved myself to my new favourite couch in town.

In the morning, it was a rush to catch the bus (with all my belongings, some leftover sausages and buns and of course and upside down broken pot of yoghurt), but I made it to work in time- a miracle!