Whistler

Heylo, :p

So everyone a couple weeks ago I went up to Whistler to see my brother and his partner in Whistler. It was a great journey and adventure. Went up on a Friday morning. Left my house at 7:20am and arrived in Whistler after bussing, ferry, bussing, sky-train, walking, eating, peeing, bussing, and finally stretching I got to Whistler at 4pm. 8 hrs and 40 mins to go essentially 241 km. In a few months, I will be doing farther distances on my bike in a day. I am so excited to move faster than busses and ferries.

I got up there in good spirits. Met with Sarah and walked around the lower village. Headed over to The Westin, my brother is a hotelier, played some Wii in the lobby and laughed at the phallic shaped decorations by the fire place. Soon headed home to Creekside and went shopping at the 'somewhat cheaper grocery store in Whistler.' A DOLLAR A LEMON! regular price, ours were on sale! 3 for a DOLLAR! yay back to normal. The pricing in this store was really weird. Apparently, sometimes a head of lettuces goes on sale and it cost $2 for 2 heads or $2.99 for 1. Price check in aisle three!

The rest of the evening was great, hung out, made beer bread buns that tasted like nothing, We even put 'extra' rosemary in it and it was so bland. I tried my best to like them but it wasn't happening. The cinna-buns on the other hand were not a problem for me. WOW! yummy yummy. Ate those the rest of the weekend. I gained weight while I was in Whistler, 7 pounds. It wasn't the food and I was walking ridiculous amounts. For example, I walked all the way to the top of the bobsled run, which is closed to the public. Got to the top took some photos, was informed that I was not allowed up there. Told the guy that I new that and then walked all the way down. 35 min walk up, 20 min walk down. On the walk down I kept being stopped and told that I was not allowed up this road. I had to remind them that I was walking down, not up. HEHE. But the weight gain just really showed me how much the cycling assists in maintaining my physical health. Would have been so much fun to bike up that hill.

During the weekend that I was up there it was the Para-Cross Country World Cup Finals. That was going on at the Olympic Park, but my visit to the park was thwarted by the shuttle bus drivers. Ended up just walking around, going for yoga class, massages, walking down ski runs because it was faster and safer than the roads.

On the last day I went to the top of whistler with chris, rode the Peak 2 Peak or 52 MIL.

The gondola cost 52 million dollars to build and it is essentially 2 shell buildings, 4 very big towers, and 24 gondola cars. $52 MILLION!!!! Got some nice photos tho. On the last night we all went tubing at the tube park. That was a blast. Never new tubing was so much fun. And btw magic carpets are aw

esome! 9 runs in an hour.

I came back to victoria on Monday, during the night before Vancouver and Victoria got snow 4 inches or so. During the entire weekend Whistler got 3/4 of an inch. Went through crazy vancouver where none of the buses were on time. Reached home, very tired and went to sleep at 5pm.

It was a great trip. Nice to get off the island and see the somewhere which I haven't been for 16 years. Didn't remember any of it then. hehe. This time I will. Huge thank you to both Sarah and Chris, you both were fabulous to spend the weekend with and looking forward to doing more things together in the future.

See you soon.

Nicholas

Photos are available here