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I open the garage door this morning to find a deer munching away on my foliage.  Umm, WTF deer.  Did I invite you over for breakfast this morning?  Was there a sign on my front lawn that said “Continental Shrubbery Buffet: 8:30 - 10:30″?  No, I think not.

Next time I catch you in my front yard, I’m getting my gloc and leaving you in the driveway as an example to all your friends.

Andrew, Caitlin, Jillian, Rachel and myself did some turbo sightseeing today. Stops included…

• Coit Tower
• Marin Headlands
• Ocean Beach
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Alamo Square
• Lombard Street
• The Presidio

Yeah, we crushed it. Picnic lunch where the Full House intro was shot, epic.

Feel free to check out the rest of the shots from our turbo day of sightseeing.

I am taking 9 days off.
NINE. Count it, NINE days where I don’t have to work. I can’t wait. I am going to turn off my iPhone e-mail from freeskier.com and disregard all work. I am going to spend time with my family, go to Justin & Becca’s wedding outside of San Francisco, head to Tahoe with my family, fly to Boston for John and Jen’s wedding, spend time with friends. What a great time.

Here is my list of “To Do’s” for this vacation…

1. Go for a run on The Embarcadero.
2. Alcatraz with my mom.  She really wants to go to Alcatraz.  Who am I to say no?
3. Cousin Justin’s wedding to the newest member of the Amirault family, Rebecca Hess.  If only she had a sister… Seriously, she’s just that amazing.  Justin and the Amirault family are blessed with our newest member.  Yeah, I still wish she had a younger sister I could scheme on.
4. A face to face with Lorelei, an awesome gal who I’ve been hooking up with some web dorkery.
5. Hang out with Rusty and Charlie, in Worcester.
6. John and Jen, two of my best friends are getting married.  I’ve known each of them since day one of freshman year.  We’ve been the best of friends since.

So, here it is.  The Dave Amirault Summer Vacation 2008.  Denver to San Francisco.  San Francisco to Warwick.  Warwick to Worcester.  Worcester to Boston.  Boston to Denver.  Too bad I’m flying a mish-mash of airlines, this would be quite the amount of airline miles.  Oh well, I did all the flights for $550!

My mom isn’t a huge fan of me doing anything dangerous.  Problem is, I like doing dangerous stuff.  Skydiving, trampolines, water ramps and skiing like an idiot.  Sure, in my old age I am mellowing out a bit.  I’m not quite as rambunctious as I used to be, however from time to time I still manage to scare the crap out of myself.  This time, it was learning backflips at Camp of Champions in Whistler.

So mom, here it is.  I’m fine.  I had my helmet on.  I didn’t break my neck.

Special thanks to coach Matt Sterbenz at Camp of Champions for talking me into this.

People like this should either be brought behind the woodshed and shot dead or permanently sterilized so they may never reproduce.

Horstman glacier. Whistler, BC. 9:00 PM.
Sunset. Private park shoot. Some of the best athletes in the world.

Choice!

Whistler has bears. Tons of them as a matter of fact. It isn’t uncommon to see 2-5 bears on your lift ride up to the glacier. Don’t worry, they aren’t grizzly bears. You know, the kind that will tear you apart like a kleenex at a snot party. These are the brown bear variety, indigenous to North America.

Turns out these guys eat plants, insects, and small and large animals. Sucks, I wanted to feed them a camper or two.

Whistler is Disneyland for anyone that enjoys skiing or snowboarding. Zillions of acres of terrain, abundant snowfall, a village/town that parties their ass off and the best thing of all is that winter lasts until August up here.

When the snow melts on the trails and alpine, remember there is always the glacier! During the morning and afternoons you’re at 7500+ feet above sea level tearing up terrain parks. In the late afternoon, you head down to the village for activities like soccer, kayaking, zip lines, paintball and in this case (my personal favorite) water ramping.

Mom, you probably won’t like this picture since I’m probably three stories in the air, upside down. Don’t worry, I stuck the landing.

Photo thanks to André Lovas!

Latarian Milton, 7 year old repeat offender.  This time he isn’t jacking his grandmother’s SUV and crashing it around town.  Instead you can enjoy some subtle racism, chicken wings and this future inmate physically abusing his grandmother at Wal Mart.

One of the best YouTube videos I have ever seen.

I am here in Canada, otherwise known as “America Junior”.  I know what some of you are thinking.  It is July.  What the crap am I doing in Canada?

Here for summer ski camp on the Horstman glacier here at Whistler-Blackcomb.  I am here with resident Canada expert / roommate / Freeskier Editor, Matthew Harvey.  One week of fun, excitement, Tim Hortons, putine, Kokanee, kilometers and north of the border excitement.  Sure, it isn’t Cancun, but we have a condo, dedicated hot tub and the finest Canadian whiskey our expense accounts can buy.

Here is Matt Harvey, enjoying some of the local cuisine, otherwise known as Tim Hortons.