It's Phil!

So for a bit of a change I thought that I would write something on here and let you know what a day off for me looks like!
Wednesday was gorgeous out here. With a high of 17 I decided that I would take full advantage of the day and climb up Cypress Mountain on my trusty bike. The total trip is 82kms and it includes 3800 vertical feet of climbing. Yikes! Anyway here we go!

I start off at home like usual...if you look just under my in focus finger you can see Cypress behind the trees.

Since I bike to work downtown everyday, the first part of my trip in exactly the same as my commute. This is a street I ride on everytime I go to work.

Next I cross over the Burrard Bridge and into downtown. To the right I see Granville Island and a bunch of really pretty condos and to the left I see my goal for the getting closer and closer.

I continue on towards my workplace. Here is the block I work on... Then I head off through Stanley Park and across the Lions gate bridge. I took a picture just for Holly's mom when I stopped on the bridge so she could see how high it is! lol Also on my left Cypress is getting closer still.

There arent really any good things to take pictures of on the way up. Here you see a really nice house, a building I put siding on last time we lived out here, a road-side waterfall.






This is the view from about 450 meters or about halfway up the mountain.

Views of the top! soon these runs will be covered in snow! This is also where Canada's first Gold medal was won at the Vancouver Olympics. Look how close I am to the sun lol!

After climbing all the way to the top at about 18kms/hr, I put on some warmer clothes and turn around. Going down I hit about 80kms/hr, that lasts only for about 8 minutes but its totally worth the rush lol. At the bottom I stopped in West van and saw a huge ship going under the Lions gate bridge. I also took a look back at Cypress standing 3800 feet above me.

So thats it! thats what I did on wednesday. Thursday was spent mostly lying on the couch cause I was so tired lol. Other than cycling out here I work, my hours have been cut from 42.5hrs to 28hr per week so I am back out looking for another job that will give me fulltime hours.

I think thats all I got for ya. I have to go out and apply for a job and get some groceries. Im also gonna make some cookies for Holly, shhhh dont tell lol