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October 12, 2005

Whistling

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Waking up with what felt like a "Stella Hangover" wasn't the best start to what was going to be a horrible trawl from Vancouver to Whistler, and of course the weather had turned typically wet. Sweating my way to the station I met up with Adam, Mark and Izzy who made the actual 3 hour bus trip pass without much boredom, the weather remained awful and spoilt what could have been incredible views across the ocean.

I'd booked into the only hostel near the village, the aptly named "Shoe String Lodge" although the Lodge part literally comes from the fact it's a building made of wood and not quite as idyllic you'd imagine. The 4 of us grabbed the same room giving the slight relief that I'd not have another episode with a fat guy, unless Ad slept below me.

The next 4 days have pretty much passed in routine, worringly. Consisting of going to the Whistler Turkey Fair, a huge past season ski and snowboard sale and us buying various necessary ski equipment, spending hours in a warm coffee shop, making the same stupid puns and jokes about various locations in the village and slumming in the hostel playing poker and watching (previously on...) Veronica Mars. The one highlight would be watching a movie called "Descent", a Canadian cinema offering that from the appearance of the formidable Luke Perry should have warned us of its quality.

Unfortunately it looks like we were premature in our adventure up to the mountain, although many others are here trying to do the same thing, the "summer" season isn't over yet and a lot of the rental property isn't yet available.

We managed to find a property for 5 weeks right in the village (above Starbucks, oh god) and it's a perfect, if somewhat small, location to find somewhere more permanent AND IT HAS A HOT TUB. I'll be heading back to Vancouver in a few days probably to meet up with Angela and pop over to Victoria before the season kicks in and the lifts open around early November.

I've uploaded a few pictures of drunken escapades, hit the link at the top.

Posted by Mark at October 12, 2005 5:07 PM

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Posted by: Billy at October 21, 2005 7:12 AM