Today is the first day back to work for me. I ended up taking Tuesday off too. Bar Harbor... We got to Mike and Lynne's around 7PM EST. We drank and watched Survivor and retired to the Hot tub shorty after it was over. It was a really relaxing night in general.

On Friday, we went to Ellsworth and ran errands to get ready for the Valentine's Day Toga Party. The party was a blast. About 15 people showed up to Mike and Lynne's. Angela and I won best Toga Couple. We spent about 3.5 hours in the hot tub that night. Pete, Jack, and Trina rolled in about 5 AM in the morning.

Saturday, we basically hung out at the house visiting with everyone. The Banff crowd was small this year. Mike, Lynne, Ben, Angela, Me, Pete, Jack, Trina, and 30 Seconds. Saturday night was the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Ellsworth. The Mountain Culture films were showed this night. Some of the films included a story on Pakistani women who heard sheep in the Mountains and a story on Tibetan children who are forced to move to India so that they can get a proper education. These kids have to walk over mountains to get there. After the show, we went back to Mike and Lynne's (M&L's) to pig out on leftover turkey, stuffing, and lasagne.

Sunday, We did our usual activity for the day. We snow shoed and skiied into the Lakewood Pond in Acadia National Park. It was a short, but nice hike. We showered after that activity, drank some and prepared to go out for dinner at China Hill. Sunday nights shows were the Mountain Sports films. Some films included one called Urban Ape, about a man who climbs buildings. Another movie was about Kayaking in Asia through Russia. The last film was about 2 minutes long about Unicycling. After the show we watched the Weather Channel about the big snow storm. Pete, Jack and Trina decided to stay on Monday. They live in Baltimore, MD and the state of emergency was not lifted as of yet.

Monday, Not too much happened on this day. I found a job at the Jackson Lab, that I am applying for. We drank somemore ETOH and sat in the Hot Tub most of the afternoon. The girls, Lynne & Angela, took Abby aka 30 seconds back to Orono, ME so that she could catch her flight out of Bangor on Tuesday morning. I called in to work and requested another vacation day for Tuesday.

Tuesday... we left M&L's around 12 PM EST and got back into Fredericton around 5 PM AST. We made good time. Stopped at the Canadian Tire and bought a new battery for the Generator. We got home around 6PM. I changed the battery while Angela made the fires in the house. We cleaned up from the trip and went to bed early.

Today. Not much different since we left.

Check out the Banff web site at here http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/festivals/