we knew, that the neighbourhood at the keefer was a bit sketchy with lots of bums and stoners around. still I was pretty sure to leave our car at a quite safe place, right next to the keefer. well lit on a secured parking area.
(fuck you, burglars... we won't loose our sense of humor)
yet, we found our beloved 'commander' broken into in the very first night. we still had boardbags and some of our stuff in the car, thinking no one would see it through the shaded windows in the back. back window was smashed with a bold rock, some stuff missing. my brand new (yet broken) video cam, one ipod and the tomtom mount for the iphone. could have been worse, all snowboard gear untouched in the boardbags.
(thanks, nationalcar! they gave us exactly the same car again. just properly washed and without a broken back window)
police was easy, it was more hassle to drive to the airport to explain what happened and get a new rental for the last 3 days of our trip.
on the way, christian broke one of his teeth, chewing on a gum. almost perfect!
what really made the day perfect was the story we heared, when we came back to the keefer: we had already had quite some hassle before with getting our halfpipe tickets shipped to canada (they were delivered 2 days after we left germany for our trip) by DHL (Da Hella Loosers). long story short: after countless phone calls with DHL in germany and canada, they were finally delivered to whistler, and a friend of ken brought them down to vancouver.
well, i was happy to hold them in my hands, only to learn from chaka, that the category that we had bought just got cancelled because of the rainy weather. the whole site had turned into a swamp obviously and it was considered 'insecure' to let 4000 paying guests just stand there.
of course, a refund (in our case) was impossible, as we had bought the tickets through some third party reseller... what was i thinking? :D
so we now are 2 days before the contest with no tickets and no chance to see the crazyness live. bummer.
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