Today, we left Vancouver and Gabi’s to go to Whistler. It was a slow start to the day, Lance was waiting the arrival of his dog, Hakkon who may be coming up to Whistler on Friday and Gabi was busy at her meeting. We packed up the car and headed off to the coat shop where Mum bought herself a long, 80% down coat which she is now in love with and after some time there we went to the ultimate tourist attraction – WAL MART!
Wal Mart is incredible, you walk in and it is giant and there is a McDonalds in the front of the store. There are sections called “Bakery” then “Cakes” then “Bread” and these sections are all massive. The aisles are stuffed full with all different kinds of foods, delicious foods, healthy foods, very yellow bananas and extremely white eggs which they keep in the fridge.
But that’s only the grocery section. There was homeware, clothes, shoes, pharmacy – just everything. There was a tire section and a section for Scrubs! Not even joking!
After we enjoyed Wal-Mart for a very long time, we left and after grabbing a regular (HUGE) McDonalds which was very salty, we started to drive up to Whistler. You get very used to driving on the other side of the road fast, but every now and then it just feels strange.
As we climbed further into Whistler, around a big lake, it was getting colder and there was snow on the side of the road – very different to the journey to Whistler in 2005. The drive didn’t seem too long as we admired the alpine views and got to Whistler just before proper dark.
The lodge is nice, but cozy. I like the electric fire place, and the fact I have internet. We also went and got all of our skiing equipment and are eating spaghetti for dinner – we are all ready to hit the slopes tomorrow, on Australia Day!
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