Ultimate Road Trip

House advisors Will and Kim hosted an iron chef challenge today in our floor 3 lounge in staff housing. The secret ingredient was perogies. There were a total of eight teams that created dishes involving perogies. There were three judges (other house advisors) and the dishes were judged in four categories. The four categories were as follows: presentation, taste, creativity/originality and the use of perogies in the dish.

Most teams came up with one main course and some came up with a main course and a desert dish but danny, darcey and I came up with an appetizer, a main dish and a desert. Our appetizer was a home made soup with a base of chicken broth and cream of celery with one fried perogie and one deep fried perogie balanced on top. Our main dish was a perogie pizza on an English muffin bun topped with some fresh vegetables, bacon, swiss cheese and of course a sliced perogie. Our desert was a deep fried perogie topped with caramelized apple slices, a sauce of brown sugar and maple syrup and some diced pear.

The best part of the whole evening was that we ended up winning the whole thing. What we won was 4 free nights of rent each (grand total of $165) and a nice gold medal.

Nick

We are now used to the everyday life in whistler. It’s awesome! We all like our jobs but especially our days off. This week, both the Whistler peak and Blackcomb glacier opened for riding in the alpine. There are many bowls, fresh powder, wicked back country, off piste hiking and really nice scenery. This is what separates the Rockies with the ski hills in Ontario. Today, Nick and I spent most of our day up on Whistler peak. It was such a nice day. We then went for some après-ski with Tom and Ben, friends from our floor in staff housing.

 Darcey

I finally started my job. I am a parking host and I also have other duties such as shovelling, salting and a few other labour jobs. Today it snowed like 20-25 centimetres which means I was busy all day removing snow after my parking duty of the morning. I like my job and the guys I work with are all really cool. We are a small crew but we have a good one. I actually got to see a Lexus hit a cement pillar today. Poor guy didn’t see it, I guess he wasn’t really paying attention. All in all it will be a not bad job and I get fresh air everyday and some nice physical work to keep me in shape.

Danny