Firstly I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, I hope Santa brought you all what you wanted.

I got my bright yellow ski jacket for hitting the slopes in this year, this one has lots of pockets and covers my fat arse which is exactly what I needed, I also got some purfume.

This year is a complete contrast to last year, we actually have plans.  I messed about on Facebook and BE and will be playing my Wii resort game with Neil straight after typing this blog.

We will be having an English Fry up for Christmas dinner, including Black Pudding, English Baked Beans that I brought from the English shop.  There weren't cheap either and that's why we are doing it for Christmas dinner.  Four cans of Baked Beads cost me $12.50 and that in GBP is 7.45 or there abouts.  the Black pudding was $8.33 GBP 4.96 and I got some custard at $3.50 GBP 2.09.  We don't buy this stuff all the time and it was just a bit of a treat really.

In the afternoon we are off to the pictures to watch Avatar with some friends.  I was shocked to hear the pictures is open on Christmas Day, the poor people that have to work it I really feel sorry for.  I remember last year speaking to the family on Skype for hours and having nothing planned.  Now look at us, we've made some great friends here, and really struck it lucky. 

Nothing else to tell you guys, hope you have a great Christmas period, I'm working most of it but i'm going to try my best to enjoy it.

Love you all, Bye.

I had a full weekend off and as a rule if that happens we go away somewhere.

I decided that we hadn't been to Maligne Lake yet and would love to go and look at it.  It is just before you get to Jasper and has it's own road leading to the Lake that is 44km's long.

We got up or should I say I got up at 4:30am with a husband that wasn't best pleased about being dragged out of bed at this time of the morning.  We set off at about 6am, I think after grabbing a McDonalds and taking the Yellowhead straight to Jasper.

When we got to the turning point and headed down the road to the Lake I must say it has to be on of the prettiest drives I have ever been on!!

As you can see it snowed!

Before you get to the Lake there is a parking area to go and see the Canyon, that was quite impressive.

The Canyon is Limestone

Below you can just about make out the bridge that crosses the Canyon

It was so very pretty

A mini waterfall

This picture make me smile, we were so happy to see the snow covered mountains again.

This is Maligne Lake, it is approximatley 22.5 km long and 97 metres at its deepest point.

It was a very worth while trip and I would highly reccomend it.

We had dinner and I decided that it was going to cost too much to stop over night and I suggested we should drive back.

It was 10:10pm when we finally got throught the door and into our Condo, we were both very tired. and went straight to bed.

My god.............blink and you would miss me, for sure.

I'm sat at my computer eatting chocolate mint ice-cream and giving you guys the respect you deserve and filling you in on whats been going on in the land of Cassie.

The PR people got back in touch with us on 17th September saying what we had sent was not acceptable and they are saying we can't apply the way we did.  One of the reasons being is that daft cow Cassie forgot to send them the LMO to back up the company letter and the work permit!  What an idiot, and also the letter may not have been worded how they would have liked it.

So I sent them a begging e-mail asking them to please not send the application back!  Not sure if my begging has worked though!  probally not, hey.

Anyway, I'm not totally worried about that I just think when I send the right stuff it will be fine, the whole situation makes me nervous.  When I got the e-mail I was so up set.  I phoned Neil up in a right old state to which he replied "For gods sake, get a god damn grip of yourself woman!"  .  O.K. that may have been slightly censored.  I can laugh now but at the time it made me worse.  So I phoned my friend up and even she told me to take a "chill pill", LOL.  Work wasn't helping at the time because "that" guy I was having trouble with, had started up again.

Before I had got that e-mail I was having a bit of a rough time, thinking I wanted to go back to Blighty but once that e-mail came I was like, NO! .............I don't want to go back.  Change my mind like my knickers, god knows how my husband has put up with me through out all those years, bless him.

Life is just great at the moment, I go to work, then on my days off I meet with my friends I very rarely have time to do things, we use the dishwasher so much nowadays.  Big up, to the person who invented them.  Yes it was a man I just googled.

Neil's gone off to some talk, the other week he went paintballing, we seem to be establishing a life here in Canada, just like starting a fresh.  It's great when you feel like your really getting somewhere with it.

I do have some bigger news for you guys, I soooooooo can't wait to tell you all but I am keeping this one under wraps untill I know the final details.  No I'm not pregnant, that will be quite some time, in the future.

There are some very exciting changes for me coming very soon, I'll be back here reporting it don't you worry.  It's quite an entertaining story, nothing in my life seems to be boring and everything seems to be such a strange tale of events that unfold, and really, you couldn't even make it up.

In the meantime, take care.

Cassie

x x

I'm plugging it but I don't care, it took me ages to type.  Enjoy

An interview with ... Cassie