I am in the middle of three days of working for Carey Park, this time leading the Burma Trail activity. Burma Trail is a rope attached between trees that winds its way through the forest. The kids put on blindfolds and try to follow the rope to its end. Honestly, it is about as much fun as it sounds, which isn't much. To take up time in the session after they finished (it only took some groups about 10 minutes) we played Camoflage and the Stick Game, both of which I'd be happy to teach you if we're ever in the same geographic locality.
But today, after work, I had something more fun to do than just going home: tonight is the Banff Festival! I got tickets for this event a while ago through the Alpine Club and it has since sold out. Basically it's a collection of films highlighting people doing incredible and adventurous things. Kat and Alana and I headed into town to check it out. We met up with Antz and used his status as an employee of NZTV to park in their underground lot for free. Then we went for pizza at an Italian place nearby. Halfway through eating I realized that I didn't have my wallet in my bag. And our tickets were in my wallet. Oh no! But Alana mentioned that some things had fallen out of my bag in the backseat of the car. So I went back to check the car and sure enough, there was the wallet. This was a really good thing because if the wallet hadn't been in the car I wouldn't have had any idea where to begin looking for it. I was certain it had been in my bag, and for once, I was right.
The festival lived up to its hype. There were short films on mountain biking (so cool with jumps set to awesome music), rock climbing (horrible watching the falls), ice climbing (I don't really understand how they do that), a free solo attempt (successful) of Half Dome (that's no ropes and no assistance! yipes), some mean whitewater kayaking in Africa, including a kayaker going over a 180-ft falls and surviving (he broke his paddle; and yes, he meant to go over), and a German guy who works with low friction materials building a ridiculous launching slide and launching himself into a tiny wading pool a good football field's length away (as seen on YouTube.) Anyway, it was a great and inspiring evening and I really enjoyed it. Alana was so inspired that as we were leaving she tried to free solo the SkyTower (see photo.) She didn't get very far. But still, it was worth the effort.
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