Duck.

Follow me through the magical trade show. Lots to do and see, people to chat with and the province of Quebec to annoy lol.

No alcohol in this, fine I will drink it anyway. I went through the whole day coasting on coffee pizza and pop, pretty teenagery of me. Raymi Assimilates. It’s actually quite true: Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture: “pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream”.

The boarders all got mad hooked up. Make sure you check it out next year it really was a good way to get jazzed about winter, which I for one NEVER get jazzed about.

I am what you’d call a hype girl ambassadress. Can we put that on my next business card design thanks.

I like this guy’s look. I told him I liked his hat, he was like, sure, thanks. I am a hyper-complimenter when I am shy or nervous so if I compliment something unnecessarily about you, that is why. I like your pen!

My pants blend in with the snowboards.

Make it snow.

Stack of five dollar bills? And before I could say make it rain money he dropped them all over the place lol.

I love Quebec. oh look Bonhomme. Bon-us! LOLLLL.

Glamp it up.

And then a big scary frenchman came over and was like please remove your hat and I guess Bonhomme was comforting me about it. Oh whatever Quebec you have boobs on the telly and my mom was born in Mtl so I am practically your leader.

But it’s nice to get some without hat and not to get perma-hat head for the rest of the day riziiight. Forgot to collect my pictures off their website, whoops.

Meanwhile there is death and gore and nudity sprawled across snowboard after snowboard all throughout the show.

Scoping and loving my pants, writing down for her the name of them.

Shoulda woulda coulda did’na.

I WANT THIS Polar Piece! Didn’t have an xs so I got the one that I got and I wear it all the time.

Oh colleague.

Lookit the swagger on red hoodie. He was pretty good actually.

I guess this is what spazzing out looks like. Like fun!

I convinced them of my awesome and they were like sure Raymi we’ll give you one. Colleague was impressed. Whatever I said worked.

The models Maddie and Stef are my new buddies now too!

See how it spookily zips up over your face like a body bag yikes awesome. Maybe for winter camping.

I’ll be back girls before colleague has to go and we’ll all be in onesies and then we’ll do the trade show gauntlet and mess with people.

Sold those babies like hot cakes.

I should have carried one of these over to Bonhomme for a photo.

How skinny do I look check.

Totally would love to wear those golden boots with these pants. I need golden boots just period, actually. Gold is hot right now.

Booth set-up was pro-star not no mickey mouse pop-up convention. Strobe lights, tunage, great brands. Give’r.

Thank you for reminding me that I was fungry.

Some guy is falling from outer space what, what the hell is going on?

So cool. It WAS super cool having this go on at the same time. A lot of booths had widescreen tvs playing it, experiencing a historical event with a crowd of strangers unifies us. Yeah you better believe I got deep with it. What a moment. Well, many of them. What’s the update? Still falling. Scary. I thought he would burn up in the atmosphere?

These bros were really cool. It usually starts with my pants and my colleague photographer partner in crime and me posing somewhere I am not supposed to be and on-lookers stop and watch. It’s fun.

Addicted to sneaking.

But when you have sneaking privileges it’s not exactly sneaking now is it?

“I do what I want until people just let me.”

And as luck would have it, the boys at the top were just setting up to slide down, good timing Raymbo.

Jib Jam judge time.

It’s a miracle!

Lunch time.

No not me, them, ok me, but them too.

That is impressive.

Puh-retty good, pretty good.

Lots of great wipe outs too.

Pretty good invention for those thrill seekers without snow.

Lol colleague.

Okay it’s go time.

Alrighty this is the one.

Oh, my god. Hamming it up much? Maybe I’ll make this my new FB photo. Yes I will. BRB.

I think I just got ten times cuter. Maybe this is the better FB one.OMG look how cute this one is! Someone just pissed me off on Facebook about these so I am for sure wearing it out in public several many times now.

Sam Crenshaw nose and all.

The more the merrier.

Colleague said he liked my new friends. He would.

Alright, this idea isn’t really working lets lift me instead.

And that is how it’s done.

Now we make our move. They let me steal them for a photo opp.

Come to my station now ladies.

Heheh.

So if you just show up in three’s in jogging suit outfits you can get in to anything anywhere ever.

I thought the boarders deserved a little eye candy treat for all their hard work. See how generous I am.

Here I am discovering a second set of pockets. NICE.

A little Beastie Boys homage #RIPMCA

Maybe a little bit of pretend snowboarding too for good measure.

Dopes for life.

These are great poses!

Pleasure working with you.

Look how slimming these things are, I love the fit.

Join us Dan! Finally. Someone notices.

Lets take it one step further now.

Commit commit commit.

Hi just kidding those were not real binoculars!

Alright lets get out of here.

Thattaway!

Are you getting this?

Then we found a brother.

I was over-heating like cray so it was time to take my polar piece off. And that’ all folks til next year xoxox.

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YOOOOOOOOO!

Round two fight. More Ski show materialssssssssss. There’s just so much. The more you do, the more you hang, the more people like what you do and cover it for/with you, the more it accumulates. Can there be two of me’s yet please? Can I have that diaper wearing monkey Homer has yet thanks? Don’t you love it when bloggers complain? Me three.

I love interactive high-stimulus ish to do. Putting on a hat can stop the world. I didn’t want to mess with my hair too much so I didn’t pull it all the way down over my head. I feel like I know/should know exactly what character this is and from where it originates. There’s just so much beat and the pulse one can actually manage. Complaint numero deux and yes I know that’s not the right saying but you get the idea now dance.

This day was all about pants.

My co-horts for the day. DJ Hussy and Dan the MC. Solid set. It is nice to jive and meet with people who are just as “with it” “down for it” “a character” as you and let the hi-jinx begin. Also, being at a trade show event all weekend long people can get really interesting.

It was just totally awesome. It was a big real deal show, massive. So many vendors, so many people. I did the gauntlet several times and discovered new things all over the place, then every half hour a jib jam competition where I got to engage with the pro-stars, audience. Capital FUN TIMES. This is why I do what I do and love what I do.

The fake snow fights that I started, also fun/ny.

SIIICK. Lots of talent out there. And so young and brave.

All put to tunes that get your adrenaline surging. I am totally one of those crowd hysteria types where I go hyper bananas at the sound of cheering/raging/clapping. I like-it-a-lot. (Forrest Gump voice).

Fake snow throw timing for the camera. Bonus a kid watches on. Raymbotainment at all times.

That’s white carpet that they hosed down with water I think I said that already when you weren’t listening. I wanted to slide down it but then they explained the set-up and I “passed”. Seeing boarders drink from the hose before their go down the Jib was pretty bush league, something I would have done/sent me back in to nostalgia hide ‘n seek garden hose times.

Time to throw some swag away NBD (huge deal to me!) and during one of these Raymi Claus gifting moments I was high on my horse, slowly moon-walking out of the way and then a snowboarder came down at me and I just barely avoided that. I made sure to pay more attention afterward.

Come on down! You’re the next winner on the Price is Minx. I used Blue Jays/Leafs rolled-up t-shirt throwers as my inspirayshe for these moments in time.

See, I can be still sometimes. It’s very hard though TBH ahahhaa #ADD.

Like, espesh when a new guy is zipping left right center every 20 seconds. No complaints here. Right here.

I see air!

Watching people do this makes you think about all the things you can’t do with your body then makes you want to go for a long gym session.

I’ll stick to what I do best: nothing.

I really liked that shirt I am swinging. Rasta colours. Ya mon. I also like when people hold their hands out to me like I am a God.

Here I come.

I really hate having to pick just one person, I can’t deal with rejection of ANY SORT even that of others I feel the many pains of the world #weldschmertz complex so I threw it up in the air and let fate do the rest most of the time. Except for when I had a gift bag containing ski binding covers. I made an executive safety decision that throwing a box in to the air in to a crowd of people might not be a good idea exactly. The kid I directly handed it to melted. David (photog bro of mine of all these shots) was like you MADE that kid’s day/life. I saw him staring at me afterward OMG do not inflate my ego you will not like (kind of like) what happens it is worse than Gremlins.

Obvs because his hat matched my nail polish. Nah, he’d just been there ages.

This was fun too. How should I hold it? Better not turn around too fast and take someone out. #alltheseresponsibilities.

So… not to make a cougar joke or anything but, if one wanted to do that, this was your chance. j/k j/k j/k not j/k yes joking.

Grease monster. Trade show hair. Lights, camera, perspiration. The boarder/skiiers were loads sweatier so it didn’t matter. I had my hair done the day prior, having washed it the night before that, then slept on it. Do the math. Blame it on the pizza?

Look how much it hindered me. None at all. I bet I could have held this post for ten minutes.

SO many winners. The TSS&TS gave mad love to all the riders it was really good to be a part/take part in that, much bonding took part. It reminded me of Wakestock a little bit. Google raymitheminx wakestock for insight in to that mega-fantastic time your hero had once two summers ago with the blondetourage.

Ride hard and get hooked up. Such an inspiring day. I can see why people get in to others who are successful and passionate. This is good positive stuff. I had the same vibe at the She’s Connected conference on Friday that I also spoke at. Throw yourselves in to a creative group endeavour when you can and see what it does for you. Lots of good. I do, do a lot but it’s funny the second I don’t do something I get all stressed that I didn’t do enough! Stress is addicting too, I read about that once. God there is like an excuse/explanation for everything but I find that in these times of hyper-change en masse it is helpful to have techsplanations for all of it along/with. Damn what a quotable that just was.

Raymi and the mats.

Swoon. Kay bye now. I’ll do the rest of colleague’s pics next time. I told you there’s lots of stuff and when you’re meticulously OCD, it just has to wait. Microwave popcorn time!

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Alright newbs it’s trade show host time.

Going out as painted art was a neat idea I had. People interacted with me all day like we wanted, well, I wanted. Fun social experiment.

Sometimes I go a little bit far with it. #Diva. Give them the Raymi is what I always say.

Colleague just captures these moments and I can’t even recall why or what I am doing. Meh. It makes for good entertainment. I Think? Hello is this thing on.

What’s up Jessica. Plej workin’ with ya. Media Office coffee privileges holla!

SEE!

Let the raymes begin. Ooh this show was a rush.

SO much adrenaline, tunage, bright colours everywhere, falling snow I had a really good time. Combing the venue, the stalls, the people I met, the looks I got. They hyped me on the mic a lot too, then more people talked to me after that I was in attention-getting pleasure overload.

I got to be her. The girl of my stupid dreams I invented. Don’t get me wrong I’m ubes shy so I ignored a lot of people too blaha. Lots of young shy boys so double-negative passing ships.

RADICAAAAL.

Yep there I am again.

The first time I chucked some t-shirts to the crowd my heart was pounding so hard too much attention but I made sure to not throw like a girl and then I went back to holding a snowboard award like a Canadian version of the teen choice awards ahahha it was awesome.

I am very good at just standing around looking extremely eccentric so this was the perfect thing for me to do on Sunday.

Going zen.

Nothing but hi-jinxing around all day :).

Best trick award handling responsibilities. Big times. One kid got sponsored by a brand of some sort who won the whole jib jam comp. Gnarly.

Make way.

Look what I can do. This is how you snowboard, right?

BRB Salad time with Bechnique.

TO BE CONTINUED. More footage here!!!!!!!

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Had a magnificent blast yesterday. Trade show addict now. Here’s a few teasers just cos I dig yas. I have a writing deadline to get writ so come back later (or keep refreshing all day why not haha) for more TSS&TS coverage. If you missed it this year, I hope not. It was wild, lots of stimulation abound, perfect for a girl-bro like me. I made a lot of new friends, lots of friendly people and no bar either, not necessary.

We obvi had crazy times with you too!
The pics are so awesome! -my current profile pic MAY possibly be your pic of the moment, stef and I have been all of your wesbite this morning-basically being so unproductive laying here in our onesies. You are hilarious woman! keep the pics coming, do you have facebook?!

Good luck on your article laday!
hugs and kissezzzzz

My onesie best friends keep trying to lure me away to cozy town noooo yes noo yes. No yes no. okay back to work.

Like my new Polar Piece? Course ya do. They were selling like hot cakes. Hot cakes I tell you. Mmm. Hot cakes. Kay bye thank you very much! ME MONDAY LETS DO IT.

Shred the gnar. Righteous.

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As you know the Toronto Ski, Snowboard & Travel Show will be gracing our fine city next weekend at The Better Living Centre – Exhibition place and it is a perfect opportunity to snag some great discounted snowboard, ski, anything gear because Canada’s largest Ski & Board swap will also be taking place. For Schedule/hours click this link. TSS&TS takes place October 11-14 boasting many things to take in over the weekend while you shop for snowpants. Zach Bussey will be live-podcasting Friday 6PM I believe so be sure to catch him with Meg, ever entertaining!

We’ve also got Daniel of @evolvesnowcamps on deck lending a snow campy vibe for us beginners and likewise the Girls of Summer ski-bootin’ around the Exhibition. I can’t wait. I will be judging the Jib Jam competition on Sunday. I like power, we all know this.

So far I’ve given away 5 pairs of tickets to the following keeners because their zest for winter sport is well-deserved. I have a few pairs left, hint hint, you know what to do. #TorontoSkiShow is the event hashtag, use it well and often, stalk to us there! Stalk to me at the event and see what silly outfit I am wearing. I will have to do some serious glamping homework.

Happy Birthday Papa! You’re a stylish pleasant man I love you. See you at T-Giving dinner tonight :).

So french and groovy widow’s peak. Good hair jeans.

Oh hi mom.

Tracey the Minx will be on the TSS&TS scene too with Lois. Fun times.

That is my uncle. Skiing at night in jeans. I remember every winter he’d do this a lot and take whoever with him, whoever was game at midnight or 2 in the morning. #FamilyRules.

Mom I want to come next time.

What is that an In Living Colour hat? I can tell it’s just reflected weirdly from the flash.

Okay peace. Congratulations.

@misscmissc its my 2nd year learning to snowboard, I need lady gear, not my boyfriends! show me how to be a hill bunny xo #TorontoSkiShow

Congratulations winners! Email me for ticket collection info and ps. The RBC race will be hindering/re-routing traffic during the show down around the CNE/Ex grounds so be prepared for that and react/drive/run/walk accordingly. Here is what it looked like last year. Pumped.

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