Seventh Day in Canada – Walking on Sunshine in Whistler

I love Whistler. I am looking at Mum and Gabi, eating Ice Wine Chocolate Truffles, drinking herbal tea, and looking out at snow covered Whistler. I can see the (electric) fireplace out of the corner of my eye, and we’ve just had a fantastic meal, and this isn’t even the best part of the day.

I love to ski, I always have loved skiing, generally. Today was a great day – no matter how much your legs protest, it’s always great when you hit the slopes. It took a little longer to get up to the mountain today, because it’s Saturday, but once we got up there it was great. It had been snowing all night, and the village looked like a winter wonderland and the mountain had beautiful, fresh snow. It was also quite clear for most of the day.

We then did a couple of runs – Mum fell, not me! Unfortunately, she got up quite quickly so I couldn’t laugh for long. Then, we went up the mountain and across the Peak2Peak, to Blackcomb (I would upload photos, if I knew how) for lunch with Lance.  It was insanely busy, and had to hawk to get a table, but finally did. Then, the rest of the day was pretty good. Gabi was having a ski lesson, and Mum and I saw her when we were sitting on the chairlift. Mum and I had a bit of a freak moment on the chairlift today, when the bar was frozen and we had to ride the whole way without the bar down… we were perfectly safe, it’s just psychological.

It was a lot colder today, I actually felt it, particularly sitting on the chairlift. I’m not sure how cold it was, but it was far beyond freezing, hence the frozen chairlift.

Anyway, I don’t have much more to say but I do have two more things. We went out for dinner tonight, near our apartment, and I just love going out to eat in the USA or Canada.

“Hi, I’m Melanie – I’ll be your server for this evening”.

For my USA and Canada friends, you need to come to Australia and see how you get served. It’s more like…

“Whad ya want?”

And I know it’s because the servers are working off tips, which they aren’t doing in Australia but I just felt so happy and attended to by Melanie. It kind of felt like she was cheating on me when I saw her serving another table.

Basically, today was beautiful – the mountain is beautiful – Whistler is absolutely amazing. Requirement for future husband – must take me to Whistler for honeymoon. I love it here, and I absolutely love Canada. I have always, and will always, love Canada. It makes me kind of sad that I’m leaving in two days. It is one place, other than Australia, that I could see myself living in. I love the cold, I love the snow, I love to ski, I love the Canadian people and everything. There is nothing more perfect than this moment right now on God’s amazing Earth.