Dec, 9 Update

Hi Everyone,

Sorry it has been so ong since my last message. I have ben so sick with a cold and trying to ready myself for my trip to Japan.

Oh, I am in Japan and Will see you all soon at Zonntaggu. Of course this weekend we will work on the basics. Stance, alignment , and balance!

See you soon!

Doug

Nov, 27 Update

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I have not updated in a while! It has been a busy Camp here in Banff. I have not hada PC to use as well.

The main point we have been working on here is of course basic skills. Stance, position and knee drive. I am looking forward to doing the same in Japan with all of you.

Hopefully more soon!

Doug

November 9 update

Hi everyone,

The new Accel GS panels look great! We will ahve them on both. #7 and #3 !!

More soon!

Doug

Nov, 6 update

Hello everyone,

It was a good weekend! Still very cool! Snow is still flying in the hills.

The photo is of a large sleeper truck. Many trucks are of this size in Canada ans the US! Truckers can pull over and sleep anywhere. Much ,much larger than trucks in Japan. Of course the roads are much wider here. In the counrty and cities.

Makaiya was eating a Maki roll. Maki was eating a Maki. Ha HA!

More soon!

Doug

Nov,3 Update

Hello Everyone,

Winter is here!!!!!! It has been snowing in the mountains and the forcast is for more!

Great news for those of you that are coming for the Canada camp this year!

More soon!

Best Regards

Doug

Oct, 31 Update

It's Hallowenn!!!

Most kids go out dressed up and say "trick or treat" at each house and the people give the kids some kind of candy or Chocolate. We have too much ! TJ and Makaiya both dressed up! It was fun.

Enjoy the photos!

Doug

October, 30 Update

Hi everyone,

I was working at a local ski hill at the end of last week. Big White! Of course it snowed when I was up there. My work van is old and of course the heater is breaken. Yes it was cold.

I played golf on Saturday with my dad. We have not played so much this year so it was funto play with him. I shot a 89! Not the best score.

I had to work on Sunday back at Big White for a few hours. For dinner we had BBQ burgers. Yummmmm!!! They tasted so good! Even in the winter we BBQ here!

Bye for now!

Doug

October 25 Update

Hello Everyone,

I had a long day most of it driving. Chrissy and I went to Bannf just for the day to check out what Hotel we are going to use for the Canada Camp. It was well worth the trip! 12 hours of driving, 2 hours or so in Bannf. It was a warm day today but I guess just 2 days ago there was arounf 4 cm on the ground in Banff. I have heard it is suppose to snow in a few days.

I will keep you all updated to how the camp is coming along!

More soon!

Best Regards

Doug

October 23 Update

Hello!!!

It was a great weekend here. All the leaves are changing colours and are falling off. Saturday, I took the kids to a play ground and in the afternoon I played golf. I shot a 86. Not bad. Still no gomes in the 70's this year.

Today, We prepared for the cold winter. FIRE WOOD! I borrowed my btothers truck and I chopped 3 truck loads. The whole family helped out it was perfect! I hope you enjoy the pictures.

More soon!

Best Regards

Doug

October 21 Update

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a good week! Mine was busy with work! The picture I am attaching is from today. This house I did started and completed today. I am getting faster all the time at installing kitchens. It is fun to see the finish product at the end!

Kelowna is growing very fast. There is so much new home building going on.

The weather here is getting cooler all the time! It has snowed at many local ski areas.

I am looking forward to going to The Canadian Ski Coaches Federation update soon. I will send pictures of that for sure.

More soon!

Have a great week end !

Doug

Pictures

Oct,16 update

Hi Every one,

Chrissy Had the best trip a little while ago. She Got a free ticket from her sister to go to New York. Actually from Her sisters boy friend. He travels alot and Has tonnes of airmile travel points. They stayed with a friend in New York so it was a very in expensive trip. She has never been therre before. Me too! I guess I will have to wait.

More soon!

Doug

More pictures

Oct, 12 update

Hi!,

This past weekend was the Canadaian Thanks Giving celebration. My parents and brother with his family came to our house to have the Famous Turkey dinner. Everybody brought a dish to add to the meal. My brother Rick's wife Michelle's mom made 3 pies. Pumpkin, prune and lemon marange. Chrissy made lemon cheese cake! We all ate too much.

Other good news is my brother Rick and Michelle have a new baby boy. Michelle gave birth last thursday! I bought Rick some cigars. It is a custom to smoke a cigar when a baby boy is born. I am not sure why? Rick , my dad and myself went for a walk after dinner and smoked one each. I bought chocolate flavored ones, so they were sweet when we smoked them. After we all had that smokey taste in our mouths that lasted till the next day. Yuck!!!!!

It is raining here and is cool. No snow but cool!

I hope you are all doing well.

More later!

Doug

Fire truck pictures

Oct, 8 Update

Hello !!!!

It is Canadian Thanks givinng weekend! So we have Monday off work. I drove with my btother Rick to Vernon. He wanted to look for a truck at the Toyota dealership there. No luck for what he was looking for though.

We stopped for a hotdog at lunch time. There were Fire men showing kids the fore trucks and so on. My daugther and Ricks had fun.

More later

Doug

Oct,8 update

Hi Everyone,

My dad helped me on Friday install a kitchen so I took him and my family out for authentic Italian food. Home made pasta ! It was very good! And the portions were very large!

We have snow in the hills around Kelowna. I heard Apex got 22cm ythis past week. Looks like it is going to be a great year for the early season camp!

More later!

Doug

October 3 Update

Hello Everyone,

Here is Gary Whittakers Pysical test results,

Date of Birth-1955
Weight- 79 kg
Hieght- 175.5 cm
Vertical jump- Left- 55cm, right-61 cm
Five jumps trial 1 Both legs 12.94 right 10.73 left 10.68 cm
trial 2 Both legs 13.49 right 10.74 left 10.99 cm

Illinois run 20.02

Box jump 0-30 seconds 35 jumps, 30-60 seconds 35 jumps, 60-90 seconds 32 jumps!

That is all he was able to do. He had a meeting.

I hope this information helps you all!

Best Regards

Doug

PS How do you like my vertical jump! We finally bought a new car. A Hyundai, Tuscon. We got a great deal on it. Chrissy is very happy as well as the kids!

More Pictures

Hi Again,

I realized Gary's big box score did not show. Sorry! He got 102!

More later!

Doug

More Pictures

September 27 update

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all doing well!

I have heard it is suppose to snow in Calgary tomorrow. I hope it does and it stays so we can have a great Fall camp.

The one test I saw my friend Gary Whittaker do was the big box test over 90 seconds. He did 102 during that time. Very good power. He did not do all the tests because he had other commitments. I believe he missed the endurance beep test.

I hope you are all pushing hard for your goals! You can do it!

Best Regards

Doug

September 25 Update

Hi Everyone,

It was a hot weekend here during the day. Very cool at night sometimes -2C!

The Kelowna ski club had thier physical testing this past weekend. My freind Trevor haaheim is the head coach and I helped him do the tests. Also a good friend of mine Steve Hatch. He was on the Canadian Ski Team as a Down hiller. He just moved back to Kelowna from Victoria, B.C..

One strong master ski racer took part. His name Gary Whittaker. He recieved an award from the Canadian ski Federation as Masters Ski racer of the year! I will give you his results in the next few days.

Makaiya goes to her first day of Ballet tomorrow. She is excited about that!

I hope you are all doing well! I am getting excited about the upcoming ski season!

More later!

Doug

September 21 Upate

Hi Everyone,

I was able to find some skis and boots for Makaiya! They were a very good deal! I was very happy!

I had to work this weekend for Chrissy's dad . I am so tired. More work tomorrow. I am definitly taking next weekend off!

More later!

Doug

September 15 Update

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would show you a more and more common Canadian house hold item. I home water cooler! It has a ice cold water dispencer and a hot water dispencer, for hot tea or cup a noodle. The total cost for the cooler and the water is about 2000 yen per month. We like it! The water is very good and has gone through reverse osmosis. Very convenient!

It is the local ski swap this weekend. People take thier old skis to the organized building and basicly price the ski equipement themslves. It is placed out in order of size. This is for boots and cloths as well. This process is done over 2 evenings. Thursday and Friday. The sale starts Friday night and goes through Saturday. The people that come to buy the skis pay a few dollars to get in to look at the equipement and search through all the equipement. There is alot of very old skis usually, but some newer items. The Kelowna ski club organizes the event. My friend Trevor is the head coach. He is going to look ahead of time for skis for Makaiya.

I will let you know how it goes.

Bye for now!

Doug

September 14 Update

Hello Everyone,

It sure has cooled done here in B.C.. It snowed at the local ski areas the other day! It has been warm during the days so I am not sure if it is still there or not! I am getting so excited about the upcoming season! I know it will be a good one for you all. It seems it will be a good early season camp in Canada and I recomend if possible you come. It is great way to get a jump on the season. I will keep you up to date with how the snow is here.

More soon.

Best Regards

Doug

Sept,5th Update

Hi Eceryone,

This weekend was a long one. Chrissy and I had to go to Red Deer Alberta for a family emergency. One the way back home to Kelowna we had to take a alternate route and saw a Canadian Onsen. It looks more like a pool! Waht do you think?

We also saw alot of snow already in the high Mountains. It was very cool in Alberta, so I hope it will be a great early season camp. It will be be the best one yet! I will keep you posted!

Best Regards

Doug

August 29 Update

Hi Everyone,

It is a rainy day here finally! It is a nice change.

Yesterday in the afternoon. Makaiya and I setup an obstical course. it was very fun for both of us. First we had to run through a SL course, then jump over sticks forwars, then backward then sideways(bothways), then diagnally. next to another diagnal jumping station, and finally a forward roll through a hoop. Chrissy and Makaiya even went through it! Makaiya improved with speed and technique every time she went through it! I was very proud of her.

It was also my Birthday yesterday! Had a small party and ater lots of cake.

Well, time for work.

More later,

Best Regards

Doug

August 28 Update

Hi Everyone,

Yesterday was another hot day in Kelowna. We did a little work around the house, mowed the lawn, vacumed the house and so on. Then we went for a walk with Makaiya, Bandit and my mom. We went to a trail called the Green way! It is a walking , biking horse back riding trail. It follows Mission creek and I believe is around
20 km long. I great place for exercise. Makaiya and I splashed around in the water for a little while.

Chrissy and I went to a Mexican party last night! There was Mexixan food, drinks and games! They also had a penyata. It hangs from a tree and you try to smash it open. There was chocolate and condons inside. It was fun!

I hope you all had a geat weekend too!

More later!

Cheers!

Doug

August 24 update

Hi everyone,

How are you weeks going?

Mine has been busy so far! We are taking care of Chrissy's sisters dog for a while. We have been running together in the mornings before work. It is fun to have him to run with! I think he will be with us for a while. The kids like having him around. His name is Bandit,

More later! Have a great day!

Cheers!

Doug

August 21 update

Hi Everyone,

What a great weekend! And a bad weekend! My cousin came to Kelowna from Vancouver for a golf weekend. He ended up breaking his ankle just before we played the first game! I felt so bad for him. Since he already paid for his golf tour he gave the rounds to me! So I was able to play Preditor Ridge golf club Saturday and Sunday. It is a very beautiful place. They plated The Skins Game there a few years a ago. Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickilson, I think VJ and Mike Wier played. It was a very difficult course! The greens were very difficult, fast and lots of different angles, the fairways at times very thin. I shot 94 both days! I had way too many 3 putts. I even had a 5 putt. It was the toughest course I have ever played! Very enjoyable though.

More soon!

Doug

August 17 update

Hi everyone,

It rained finally last night! It has been so clear and hot for the last month and a half.

I thought I would show you the underground spinkler sytem at our house. It is very convenient. It even has a timing system to when they come on. Yes, they come on automatically. Miho told me they do not have any in Japan so I thought you all might think they are interesting!

Have a great day!

Oh, I have been getting up a little earlier than usual and am running before work! I like it! It starts my day right! When I wake up my first thought is to stay in bed but I get up and leave the house, right away. I start slow and as my body warms up I increase my pace. I stretch as soon as I return home. I am also doing my nightly situps still. Usually after Makaiya goes to bed. My life style is busy but I am using what time I have improve my life! I look at what my weak points are and push myself to strengthen them. I feel great! I hope you all can do the same in Ski racing and life. Lets move forward together, or as the slang is said lets kick ass!

More later!

Doug

PS My other weak point was writing my diary! I hope you are enjoying it!

August 13 update

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was busy with fun gatherings. Had a bunch of my Ito family members over Saturday night. My dads 2 sisters and 2 of thier kids and some of thier kids. Hmmmmmm! Sounds confusing! It was fun.

On Sunday went for a morning hike with the kids then in the afternoon went down to Penticton to have dinner with pld friends that use to ski race. The picture is of the Channel that runs from Okangan lake into Skaha lake. This Channel runs trough part of Penticton! Makaiya and thier daugther Sophia played all afternoon!

Back to work tomorrow! Hopefully golf on Tuesday!

Bye for now!

Doug

August 11 upadte

Hi Everyone,

It was another hot day here in Kelowna! I finished the kitchen I told you about yesterday! It looked great! It is very fun putting them together and seeing the final result!

I had dinner tonight with my mom and brother. My mom is selling her condo. It is a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom, and full kitchen. It also has a pool and underground parking.
She is selling it for $144 900! It must seem very cheap for you guys in Japan. If anyone wants to buy here in Kelowna please let me know!

Thats all for now!

Best Regards

Doug

August 10 update

Hi everyone,

I have been installing Cabinets every day so far. I will take a picture of what I have installed tomorrow!

I played 9 holes of golf yesterday. I shot 36 on a par 32 course. Not bad! I played with my dad, brother and his father inlaw. Yes, I beat them this time. On Tuesday and Wedensday It cost $12 only to play 9 holes. Hopefully we will do this every week.

Makaiya washed her fisrt plate on her own this morning. She liked it. She can do my dishes any time! Hee Hee! She is so good!

I just finished 105 situps! I hope you are all doing your nightly situps. As well as any other areas you personally need to work on. Good Luck! You can do it.

More soon!

Cheers

Doug

August 7 update

Hi Everyone,

I had a busy and fun weekend. Had Chrissy's Birthday party and went to see the Royal Canadian Mounted Police musical ride! They travel all over the world doing this show! Makaiya got to pet one of the horses!

Bye for now

Doug