One hundred and nine: 80th Birthday Party Einhundertneun: 80. Geburtstagsparty Ciento nueve: Fiesta de 80 cumpleaños 100と9：80歳の誕生日パーティー Sto dziewięć: Przyjęcie z okazji 80. urodzin Cento e nove: Festa do 80º aniversário Сто девять: вечеринка в честь 80-летия Hundra och nio: 80-årskalas Yüz dokuz: 80. Doğum Günü Partisi 第一百零九：80岁生日聚会 第一百零九：80歲生日聚會

Mark: Hi everyone, welcome back to EnglishLingQ.

Mark here with Jill for another installment. ||||||episode ||||||bölüm ||||||次回分 ||||||parcela Mark aquí con Jill para otra entrega. I guess it's not sunny today.

Jill: Darn. |Shoot. |ちぇっ |Droga Jill: Darn.

Mark: Darn. |Kahretsin.

Jill: It was a beautiful weekend I heard though.

Mark: It was a beautiful weekend, yeah. Was it not nice where you were?

Jill: It wasn't bad. I'm just trying to think, it's all such a blur. |||||||||confusion |||||||||bulanıklık |||||||||ぼんやり |||||||||uma confusão Estoy tratando de pensar, todo está muy borroso. Yeah, Friday was nice and sunny.

Mark: Maybe you can explain a little bit about what you did.

Jill: Yeah, I actually went up to a town called Golden in sort of eastern B.C. ||||||||||||||doğu tarafında|| |||||||||||で||||| close to the Alberta border, close to the Rocky Mountains. That's where my dad lives and that side of my family is from there. It was my granddad's 80th birthday on Friday, so we had a big party on Saturday.

Mark: That's a pretty big milestone. |||||achievement marker |||||dönüm noktası |||||大きな節目 Mark: Es un gran hito.

Jill: Yeah, well, and considering a year and a half ago he had a major, major, stroke and he wasn't expected to live. ||||||||||||||||инсульт|||||| ||||||||||||||||inme|||||| Jill: Sí, bueno, y teniendo en cuenta que hace un año y medio tuvo un gran, gran, accidente cerebrovascular y no se esperaba que viviera. It was just a miracle that he even survived and he is actually even able to talk now, which was even more of a miracle. ||||mucize|||||||||||||||||||| You know, he's in a wheelchair and in a home now, which is very different than how he lived before his stroke. |||||mobility aid device|||||||||||||||| |||||cadeira de rodas|||||||||||||||| But, you know, it still was cause for celebration, his birthday. They rented out the senior center that they have in the town there and had sandwiches and desserts and everything and lots of people. |kiraladılar|||yaşlılar merkezi||||||||||||||||||| Alquilaron el centro de mayores que tienen en el pueblo de allí y tenían bocadillos y postres y de todo y mucha gente. Они арендовали центр для пожилых людей, который находится в этом городе, и там были сэндвичи, десерты и все остальное, и много людей. I think there were about 60 people that came.

Mark: Most people from Golden?

Jill: Yeah, yeah, a few people from out of town who have known my grandparents for years and years, but most people live in the town or surrounding areas. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||nearby regions| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||çevreleyen|

Mark: Right.

Jill: So yeah, it was nice. Up there it can get really cold in the winter and so it wasn't bad. I think it got up to actually one or two degrees on Friday there, which, you know, isn't cold because the week before it had been minus 20, so it really warmed up for when we went up and it was nice. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||negative|||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||için|||||||| Creo que el viernes hizo uno o dos grados, lo cual no es frío porque la semana anterior había estado a 20 bajo cero, así que hizo calor cuando subimos y fue agradable.

Mark: Yeah, that sounds really warm. Do they get the same sort of Chinook winds that they get in Calgary there? |||||||warm, dry winds|warm, dry air|||||| |||||||vento||||||| ¿Reciben el mismo tipo de vientos Chinook que en Calgary? Бывают ли там такие же ветры типа "Чинук", как в Калгари?

Jill: No, they don't, they don't; I don't know. Usually it's cold in the winter and then some days or weeks are just a little bit warmer for whatever reason.

Mark: Yeah.

Jill: So, no, it was quite nice. There was a little bit of snow, but even the day it snowed there was sun at the same time. ||||||||||||fell snow|||||||

Mark: Oh nice.

Jill: Yeah, it was quite pretty.

Mark: How long did it take you to drive there, by the way?

Jill: Going up took us quite a while because we left after work in the afternoon.

Mark: Right.

Jill: Typically, on a regular day it will take about seven and a half hours, depending if you stop a lot it will take more, right? But we don't, we pretty much go straight through. Pero nosotros no, más bien pasamos directamente. But the last stretch it had started snowing heavily, the last hour and a half to two hour stretch of highway. |||segment|||||||||||||||section|| |||trecho|||||||||||||||trecho|| Pero en el último tramo había empezado a nevar copiosamente, la última hora y media o dos horas de autopista. Но на последнем отрезке шоссе, который длился полтора-два часа, начался сильный снегопад. Going up we were going really slow that last…

Mark: Well that's a particularly bad stretch of highway too.

Jill: Revelstoke to Golden going through the Rogers Pass they get so much precipitation there, which in the winter is in the form of snow. |Revelstoke||||||||||||rain and snow||||||||||| Jill: De Revelstoke a Golden pasando por el Rogers Pass, allí hay muchas precipitaciones, que en invierno son en forma de nieve. They just get dumps of snow, so the visibility was really bad. |||heavy snowfall|||||||| |||montanhas|||||||| Sólo caen chubascos de nieve, así que la visibilidad era muy mala.

Mark: I think that might be the worst stretch of highway in Canada, if I'm not mistaken, just because of the weather conditions and the mountain roads. I think they've been fixing it up quite a bit or are in the process of fixing it up to make it safer.

Jill: The road itself, I mean, actually, was quite good. It was clear it was just that the wind was blowing and it was snowing, so you just couldn't see very far ahead of you. Plus, by the time we started there it was already midnight. К тому же, когда мы туда пришли, было уже за полночь. We'd been up since 5:15 in the morning, working all day and then driving. Llevábamos levantados desde las 5:15 de la mañana, trabajando todo el día y luego conduciendo.

Mark: It doesn't sound too safe.

Jill: No, probably not. I stayed awake too to make sure Chris was awake and everything was alright. But the drive home yesterday was beautiful and sunny the whole way. Pero el viaje de vuelta a casa de ayer fue precioso y soleado durante todo el trayecto. The roads were bare and it was great. |||free of traffic|||| |||desertas|||| I think it took us…well, we stopped for an hour for lunch, actually, yesterday, so probably total it took eight hours or something; eight and a half hours maybe, so it wasn't too bad.

Mark: On a nice day in the wintertime it's a beautiful drive.

Jill: It is.

Mark: Everything is covered in snow and through the different mountain ranges. |||||||||||mountain ranges Mark: Todo está cubierto de nieve y a través de las diferentes cadenas montañosas.

Jill: Yeah.

Mark: The Rogers Pass is a very famous pass, mountain pass.

Jill: It's closed a lot in the winter. Se cierra mucho en invierno.

Mark: Yeah, I'm sure it is. But if I'm not mistaken and my history could be wrong, but when they were putting in the railway they couldn't get through the Rockies until they finally…I think Rogers was the guy, the lead surveyor or whatever he was, who found the pass to get the railway through the mountains and that's the Rogers Pass. ||||||||||||||||||||||||Rocky Mountains||||||||||||land surveyor|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||Rocosas||||||||||||o topógrafo|||||||||||||||||||| Pero si no me equivoco, y mi historia podría estar equivocada, cuando estaban construyendo el ferrocarril no podían atravesar las Rocosas hasta que finalmente... creo que Rogers fue el tipo, el topógrafo principal o lo que fuera, que encontró el paso para que el ferrocarril atravesara las montañas, y ese es el paso Rogers.

Jill: I think you're right. The railroad tracks definitely do go through there and they've got some avalanche sheds on the tracks and also on the highway. |train tracks|||||||||||snow slide protection|protective structures|||||||| Las vías del tren definitivamente pasan por allí y tienen algunos cobertizos contra avalanchas en las vías y también en la carretera. It can be a fairly treacherous stretch of road in the wintertime. |||||dangerous|||||| Puede ser un tramo de carretera bastante traicionero en invierno. But, yeah, we're fine. We made it.

Mark: That's good, that's good.

Jill: Yeah.

What about you? How was your weekend?

Mark: We didn't get up to a whole lot. Mark: No hicimos mucho. Марк: Мы не так уж много успели сделать. Actually, everybody at home is sick, pretty much. I've even got still a bit of it, but my wife was quite sick like with a fever and, I don't know, cough for three or four days, really, it's been. |||||||||||||||||high temperature|||||||||||||

Jill: Oh wow.

Mark: She's just not feeling very well even today.

Jill: And that's what Olivia had, right, your youngest daughter? Jill: Y eso es lo que Olivia tenía, ¿verdad, su hija menor?

Mark: Yeah, Olivia. Annie had it too and Kyle's got it now, so everybody is kind of sick. That kind of takes the stuffing out of the weekend pretty much. |||||energy|||||| Eso le quita bastante importancia al fin de semana. Это, в общем-то, лишает выходные дни всякого смысла. Actually, soccer was cancelled because all the fields have snow and are frozen or wet and snowy. ||||||||||||||||covered in snow They are just a mess, so there was no soccer, which was nice.

Jill: Would you have gone though had there been? Jill: ¿Habrías ido aunque si hubiera habido? Джил: Вы бы поехали, если бы это было так?

Mark: Well, the girls are okay, like they could have gone.

Jill: They're better now?

Mark: Yeah.

And, actually, both days were nice because it was sunny. It would have been two of the nicer soccer days of the year, except the fields are unplayable. |||||||||||||||||not playable But, anyway, it was just as well because the parents have to stand out there in the freezing cold. Pero, en fin, menos mal, porque los padres tienen que estar ahí fuera con un frío que pela. They don't get to move around, so that would have been me. No pueden moverse, así que ese habría sido yo. But, otherwise, I mean I still managed to get up. Pero, por lo demás, me las arreglé para levantarme. Но, в остальном, я имею в виду, что мне все-таки удалось встать. I went for a snowshoe with the dog and that was beautiful. ||||snowshoeing||||||| I mean lots of snow because it's been snowing a lot and bright sunshine. I mean it was just awesome up there.

Jill: You can't ask for a better day than that.

Mark: You really can't. I mean it was phenomenal. I mean I guess it was fairly busy. Plus, apparently, there was someone looking for dogs off leash. |||||||||without a leash |||||||||solta Además, al parecer, había alguien buscando perros sin correa. There was a park ranger or something, so Gordie and I went off into the trees and got off the trail because it's no fun putting him on a leash. ||||park officer||||Gordie||||||||||||||||||||| Había un guardabosques o algo así, así que Gordie y yo nos adentramos en los árboles y salimos del sendero porque no es divertido llevarle con correa. The whole point is that he can run around in the snow.

Jill: And they just pull you the whole time. If you have them on a leash it's not even fun for you either. ||||||under control|||||||

Mark: It's not fun for anybody. I don't know why dogs can't run around on the mountain in the snow; like it makes no sense to me.

Jill: I don't know if they're worried that dogs are going to run out onto the run, the ski runs?

Mark: Well there's no real…I mean there is the cross country area nearby. Mark: Bueno, en realidad no hay... Es decir, hay una zona de campo a través cerca. I think it's more that because more and more people are using that trail. Creo que es más bien porque cada vez más gente utiliza ese sendero. It's a hiking trail, a snowshoeing trail; some people complain. Oh, these dogs off the leash and they're worried. A lot of people don't like dogs.

Jill: Well, it's true. I mean even lots of places where you can walk on the seawall here around the ocean there are specific areas that dogs are allowed and aren't allowed or areas where they have to be on leash. ||||||||||||coastal barrier path|||||||||||||||||||||||| Incluso en muchos lugares donde se puede pasear por el malecón, alrededor del océano, hay zonas específicas donde se permite y no se permite llevar perros, o zonas donde tienen que ir con correa.

Mark: That's right.

Jill: I mean to be fair, some people are very afraid of dogs.

Mark: For sure and there are some dogs that aren't well behaved, so you can understand, I guess, somewhat. But in that case, yeah, there's a trail but, I mean, we're not on the trail. We're hardly on the trail and the dogs not, certainly, on the trail. ||||||||||||pista

Jill: No.

Mark: The dog is charging around. Mark: El perro está embistiendo. But, I guess, I mean if the dog's loose and decides and it's not a well-behaved dog then… Pero, supongo, quiero decir si el perro está suelto y decide y no es un perro bien educado entonces...

Jill: Well and you can run into the problem because I've had this when I've been on hiking trails and I'm running or hiking. Actually, there are trails where dogs are allowed to be off leash, but it does drive me nuts when people have no control over their pets. |||||||||||||||||crazy or annoyed|||||||| De hecho, hay senderos en los que se permite llevar a los perros sin correa, pero me vuelve loco que la gente no controle a sus mascotas. Their dogs are right in your way, charging right after you, coming towards you. Sus perros están justo en tu camino, cargando tras de ti, viniendo hacia ti. They don't move and you don't know where they are going. I'm not really afraid of dogs either, so I'm okay, but if I was afraid of dogs, if I were afraid of dogs, you know, that would be horrible for me. I wouldn't go running in those places.

Mark: Yeah, it's true.

Jill: So, I don't know, it's a tough call. Jill: Así que, no sé, es una decisión difícil. Джил: Так что, я не знаю, это сложный выбор.

Mark: I don't know either. I just hide in the woods. Me escondo en el bosque.

Jill: Yeah.

Well, I think if you're off trails then it really shouldn't matter. Bueno, creo que si estás fuera de los senderos entonces realmente no debería importar.

Mark: I think so. I'm not sure even what the rules would be. Like if I'm not on the trail and I see the ranger, presumably, I'm fine.

Jill: Yeah, I think so.

Mark: My dog is not on the trail and neither am I.

Jill: I think the rangers only really monitor the trails. ||||park wardens||||| That's the only time I've ever seen them is on the trails.

Mark: For sure. Once I'm off the trail I know I'm not going to run into the ranger. Una vez fuera del sendero sé que no me voy a encontrar con el guarda forestal.

Jill: No, no.

Mark: And, really, that's the best place to be in the untracked snow and nobody is around. |||||||||||untouched||||| It's just a little harder work for me and especially for the dog.

Jill: Yeah, no kidding.

Mark: Yeah, he was pretty tired when we got home, which is good. So, I mean that was pretty much our weekend. We didn't get up to much. No hicimos gran cosa. As I think we were talking about earlier, I was thinking about this dinosaur show. Como creo que hablábamos antes, estaba pensando en este espectáculo de dinosaurios. What did you say it was called again? Как, вы говорите, она называется?

Jill: Walking with the Dinosaurs.

Mark: Yeah, that's right.

Jill: I think that's what it's called.

Mark: I think that's what it is Walking with the Dinosaurs. Stephen here in our office, Stephen Coyle, was going to go or did go, in fact. I haven't spoken to him, but I think he did go. It sounds like it would be a really neat show. It's only here for five days or something, but it's this show that I guess is from Australia.

Jill: I think so. I read something and I can't be sure of the facts now, but I think it started in Australia.

Mark: It's in a big stadium like it's in the big hockey stadium.

Jill: GM Place, yeah.

Mark: Because they need the really high ceiling. Mark: Porque necesitan un techo muy alto. I don't know how many people can see it, but at least half the stadium is whatever, 10,000 people. There are these actual size dinosaur…I don't know what you'd call them…robots. Hay unos dinosaurios de tamaño real... no sé cómo los llamarías... robots.

Jill: Yeah, I'm not…like it's not an exhibit. Jill: Sí, yo no ... como si no fuera una exposición. It's not just dinosaurs standing there.

Mark: No, I think it's a show.

Jill: It's a show like showing them how they lived and moved together, so I guess they're robotic.

Mark: I would assume. I haven't seen it. I'm going by this picture that I've somehow created by looking, I don't know, on the Web or I've read somewhere. Me guío por esta imagen que de alguna manera he creado buscando, no sé, en la Web o que he leído en alguna parte. It's some kind of real, not real life, but some kind of replica dinosaurs that move around. ||||||||||||model||||

Jill: Basically re-enacting what it was like in the time of the dinosaurs. Jill: Básicamente la recreación de lo que era en la época de los dinosaurios.

Mark: I mean it sounds pretty neat.

Jill: Yeah.

Mark: I guess it's probably over now. Mark: Supongo que probablemente ya ha terminado.

Jill: I think it went from Thursday night, last Thursday night, to I believe Sunday night or tonight. Jill: Creo que fue desde el jueves por la noche, el pasado jueves por la noche, hasta creo que el domingo por la noche o esta noche. I think four nights was all it was, which is too bad because we wanted to take my nephew and it happened to be the weekend that we were away. In fact, my nephew, my brother and his kids were up in Golden for the birthday as well, so they weren't in town for it either.

Mark: Oh yeah.

Jill: But if it ever comes again I think it would be a neat thing.

Mark: That sounded really neat, but we didn't see it.

Jill: We'll live vicariously through Stephen. |||indirectly experience|| |||vicariously|| Jill: Vamos a vivir a través de Stephen. Джилл: Мы будем жить викарно через Стивена.

Mark: That's right.

We'll go find out how it was. Vamos a averiguar cómo fue.

Jill: Yeah.

Mark: It was probably bad.

Jill: Well and I think the tickets were pretty expensive too.

Mark: They were.

Jill: It should have been a good show.

Mark: Anyway, with that I think we'll probably stop there.

Jill: Alright.

Mark: We'll talk to you all next time.

Jill: Bye-bye.