We havent really achieved a lot since we last spoke to you. But it has been awesome to just chill out and do things out our own pace.
Of course there has been shopping, plenty of food and a few activities. The day after ski school we basically had a sleep in, then a day of shopping in Whistler and then headed up to the tube park with Jnr and Troy. The tube park was epic. The tube park can basically be explained as sitting in a big rubber tube and being pushed down a big snowy slope. It is so much fun. When you arrive at the park you pick up your tube and jump on the magic carpet to take you to the top of the hill. Once at the top you sit in your tube and the attendant pushes you down and may even spin you on the way. You go flying and as the evening progresses and it gets icier the faster you go. As we did ours at night the place is lit up with mega flood lights and blaring music. Unfortunately because it was rather icy that night they had closed down a few lanes and then closed half an hour early as it was getting dangerous. We heard later on that a lady had managed to go flying through the barrier at the end earlier in the day.
After our fun at the tube park we headed back to the village for dinner. This may seem like an easy task but of course when there is a Gordon involved, there is a stack to be had. While getting out of Jnr and Troys clown car (or in Troys words, bucket of shit) Gordo managed to get her foot caught in the seatbelt and fell flat to the ground. Thankfully Troy was standing right there and broke the fall a little or the scrape on the hand and bruised knee may be more like a broken wrist and no teeth. Gordo survived skiing and the tube park but not Lot 4!
We enjoyed a meal at The Old Spaghetti Factory which was actually a pretty decent meal at reasonable prices. Toot has currently either had a reaction to the washing powder or has heat rash all over her body. We think its the latter. I know heat rash in a Canadian winter doesn't seem likely but she has been wearing thermals and getting a little warm. So half way through dinner she's opened up the air vents in her ski pants, unbuttoned her pants and stripped down her top half to just a singlet as she was over heating at a rapid pace and the itching was starting to begin. argh! Is this what she will be like during menopause we hear you ask?!
Our last day in Whistler, we decided to travel up the Whistler Gondola to go up to the top to then jump on the Peak to Peak Gondola that travels between both Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains. The ride just to the top of Whistler Mountain takes a good 20-30minutes and then from there we caught the glass bottom gondola across to Blackcomb. Toot being afraid of heights found the whole journey pretty okay and not once did she have a panic attack - phew for that! From here was amazing views and again has to be seen to be believed.
After Peak to Peak we decided to head down to the village for lunch as it was such a nice day the mountain was crazy busy. We manged to find a cute little mexican place that made really nice nachos and burritos and stuffed ourselves stupid there before doing some grocery shopping and heading back to the hotel to chill out a little before catching up with the Rainbow gang (Lisa and her housemates Brit, Troy and Kayde) for dinner.
Dinner this time was Indian! Around the world in one day. We ate and talked and then it was time to say goodbye to the gang and head back to the hotel to pack our things as we were leaving in the morning. Once we were back at the hotel it all got too hard and we decided to go to bed early and then get up and pack in the morning.
So, the alarm goes off at 7:30am this morning and Gordo jumps out of bed. Toot however was still sleeping and managed to score breakfast in bed. Once breakfast was over it was time for showering and a serious amount of packing. All that shopping has to fit somewhere. We somehow managed to smoosh everything in without having to use the extra bag that will be required to get us home.
Once packed we checked out of the hotel and waited for our bus to take us back to Vancouver. The bus ride takes about 2 hours and has some magnificent sights along the way. We "almost" didn't make it as the bus that turned up for other people (which was our bus) didn't have us on his manifest and was going to leave without us however once he looked out our voucher and called back to base he squeezed us into his van. Phew! They had us on an afternoon transfer not the morning one. D'oh!
We arrived into Vancouver around lunchtime and dropped directly at our hotel - thank goodness since our bags are feeling very heavy!! Toot finally lost the 2kgs+ of Jnr's care package and has quite successfully filled them up.
After we settled into our room (which is much bigger than our last room here 1.5 weeks ago) this room has a mini kitchen which is nice and a large fridge and all. We headed down into Downtown Vancouver to have a look around and see what else we could spend our money on. Toot got the most fantabulous bargain this afternoon which Gordo is still snippy about. We went back to Sport Chek to see if they had the same pair of North Face pants that Claire had bought 1.5 weeks ago for which she paid $100 for. At the time they didn't but we thought while we were in the area we would check again since we had no luck in Banff, Jasper, Victoria and Whistler for the same pair. We looked in Sport Chek and they had none sitting around anywhere or any hanging up and then Claire decided to check the mannequin, and low and behold it was the last pair on the bloody mannequin and would you believe it was the exact size Toot needed - how awesome was that...but hey its gets better NOT only were they the last pair and the correct size, this pair of pants that were searched for high and low around the west coast of Canada was also on SALE yes that's right was on clearance. And can you guess what the new price was.....not $80.00..no no no...not $60 nope wrong, guess again........nope not $40... I know Toot was happy to pay $80 since Toot looked so hard for these pants. Guess again Toot got these pants for $20!!! Yup people you heard correctly for genuine The North Face pants CAD20.00 +tax (BC tax = "bring cash" according to Troy haha). So as you can see why Gordo is very dark with Toot at the moment. However Toot is fist pumping all the way to the bank! Yee hah!
After our epic afternoon, we grabbed some dinner and headed back to the hotel to write the blog for you fine folks and chill out.
We have Jnr arriving into Vancouver tomorrow and staying with us for the night as we have ice hockey tickets for sunday. Cant wait. Go Canucks!!!
Until next time........
Of course there has been shopping, plenty of food and a few activities. The day after ski school we basically had a sleep in, then a day of shopping in Whistler and then headed up to the tube park with Jnr and Troy. The tube park was epic. The tube park can basically be explained as sitting in a big rubber tube and being pushed down a big snowy slope. It is so much fun. When you arrive at the park you pick up your tube and jump on the magic carpet to take you to the top of the hill. Once at the top you sit in your tube and the attendant pushes you down and may even spin you on the way. You go flying and as the evening progresses and it gets icier the faster you go. As we did ours at night the place is lit up with mega flood lights and blaring music. Unfortunately because it was rather icy that night they had closed down a few lanes and then closed half an hour early as it was getting dangerous. We heard later on that a lady had managed to go flying through the barrier at the end earlier in the day.
After our fun at the tube park we headed back to the village for dinner. This may seem like an easy task but of course when there is a Gordon involved, there is a stack to be had. While getting out of Jnr and Troys clown car (or in Troys words, bucket of shit) Gordo managed to get her foot caught in the seatbelt and fell flat to the ground. Thankfully Troy was standing right there and broke the fall a little or the scrape on the hand and bruised knee may be more like a broken wrist and no teeth. Gordo survived skiing and the tube park but not Lot 4!
We enjoyed a meal at The Old Spaghetti Factory which was actually a pretty decent meal at reasonable prices. Toot has currently either had a reaction to the washing powder or has heat rash all over her body. We think its the latter. I know heat rash in a Canadian winter doesn't seem likely but she has been wearing thermals and getting a little warm. So half way through dinner she's opened up the air vents in her ski pants, unbuttoned her pants and stripped down her top half to just a singlet as she was over heating at a rapid pace and the itching was starting to begin. argh! Is this what she will be like during menopause we hear you ask?!
Our last day in Whistler, we decided to travel up the Whistler Gondola to go up to the top to then jump on the Peak to Peak Gondola that travels between both Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains. The ride just to the top of Whistler Mountain takes a good 20-30minutes and then from there we caught the glass bottom gondola across to Blackcomb. Toot being afraid of heights found the whole journey pretty okay and not once did she have a panic attack - phew for that! From here was amazing views and again has to be seen to be believed.
After Peak to Peak we decided to head down to the village for lunch as it was such a nice day the mountain was crazy busy. We manged to find a cute little mexican place that made really nice nachos and burritos and stuffed ourselves stupid there before doing some grocery shopping and heading back to the hotel to chill out a little before catching up with the Rainbow gang (Lisa and her housemates Brit, Troy and Kayde) for dinner.
Dinner this time was Indian! Around the world in one day. We ate and talked and then it was time to say goodbye to the gang and head back to the hotel to pack our things as we were leaving in the morning. Once we were back at the hotel it all got too hard and we decided to go to bed early and then get up and pack in the morning.
So, the alarm goes off at 7:30am this morning and Gordo jumps out of bed. Toot however was still sleeping and managed to score breakfast in bed. Once breakfast was over it was time for showering and a serious amount of packing. All that shopping has to fit somewhere. We somehow managed to smoosh everything in without having to use the extra bag that will be required to get us home.
Once packed we checked out of the hotel and waited for our bus to take us back to Vancouver. The bus ride takes about 2 hours and has some magnificent sights along the way. We "almost" didn't make it as the bus that turned up for other people (which was our bus) didn't have us on his manifest and was going to leave without us however once he looked out our voucher and called back to base he squeezed us into his van. Phew! They had us on an afternoon transfer not the morning one. D'oh!
We arrived into Vancouver around lunchtime and dropped directly at our hotel - thank goodness since our bags are feeling very heavy!! Toot finally lost the 2kgs+ of Jnr's care package and has quite successfully filled them up.
After we settled into our room (which is much bigger than our last room here 1.5 weeks ago) this room has a mini kitchen which is nice and a large fridge and all. We headed down into Downtown Vancouver to have a look around and see what else we could spend our money on. Toot got the most fantabulous bargain this afternoon which Gordo is still snippy about. We went back to Sport Chek to see if they had the same pair of North Face pants that Claire had bought 1.5 weeks ago for which she paid $100 for. At the time they didn't but we thought while we were in the area we would check again since we had no luck in Banff, Jasper, Victoria and Whistler for the same pair. We looked in Sport Chek and they had none sitting around anywhere or any hanging up and then Claire decided to check the mannequin, and low and behold it was the last pair on the bloody mannequin and would you believe it was the exact size Toot needed - how awesome was that...but hey its gets better NOT only were they the last pair and the correct size, this pair of pants that were searched for high and low around the west coast of Canada was also on SALE yes that's right was on clearance. And can you guess what the new price was.....not $80.00..no no no...not $60 nope wrong, guess again........nope not $40... I know Toot was happy to pay $80 since Toot looked so hard for these pants. Guess again Toot got these pants for $20!!! Yup people you heard correctly for genuine The North Face pants CAD20.00 +tax (BC tax = "bring cash" according to Troy haha). So as you can see why Gordo is very dark with Toot at the moment. However Toot is fist pumping all the way to the bank! Yee hah!
After our epic afternoon, we grabbed some dinner and headed back to the hotel to write the blog for you fine folks and chill out.
We have Jnr arriving into Vancouver tomorrow and staying with us for the night as we have ice hockey tickets for sunday. Cant wait. Go Canucks!!!
Until next time........
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