Nita Lake Lodge Whistler

Snow is falling all around..... excitment is in the air with Whistler mountain opening at the weekend. Looking forward to riding again even if it wont be for the full season. <br> This weekend we are heading to Kamloops to visit Amy and ride at Sun Peaks resort, will be great to try somewhere new before leaving Canada. Then back to Whistler to ride ...

Hey folks,<br><br>I got a great offer for an internship for Club ESL Tours and now I am working as a Tourguide Trainee for the company=) It is unpaid, but i get the possibility to travel with the company on their trips, do a little bit of guiding and get lots of activities (e.g. this time: Bungee Jumping) =)<br>Have fun with the pictures=)<br>

Stopped at a mining museum along the way. Very interesting. Many TV shows and movies have used the shafts and buildings. Funny thing. I was in one of the shafts and in the processing building on Wednesday and on Friday night I saw them in Stargate SG1!<br>

... we left, Barbara had me take a look at the very elegant decor inside the restaurant. They had done a great job of decorating with different sizes and shapes of wine decanters. Impressive.<br><br>For dinner we raided the frig of the few items we had bought in Whistler and came up with an heirloom tomato salad, a blue cheese souffle which Barbara made, cheeses and crackers, smoked salmon with ...

After weeks of planning, the time had come. <br>The morning of April 1st 2009 began with fairly heavy snow compared to what had fallen the previous days. An early alarm woke Liz and I with Dora, our 30 year old golden campervan, sitting patiently outside on the drive, all packed, prepared and ready to go.<br><br>Maggie joined us for the short drive to Southside Diner for breakfast and ...

... she looked like a walking elephant, think she had like 3 jumpers on over the top of a few layers of tshirts. For the first time she was complaining of being too hot. Arrived in york and oh the countryside! Not that I looked much slept cause me n jg had too much fun dancing on the bus to the airport earlier pooped us out. So em n gilby left us (probably relieved to be rid of us already :p) and we headed for the "Youth hostel" which was full of old people and ...

... alpine flowers blooming. Although the trail was open, there were still big patches of snow on about half a dozen sections of the trail so we had to be careful not to slip over going across it - the last thing either of us wanted was a broken leg! We saw a couple of marmots pretty close up - they are furry creatures with beaver-like faces, a bit bigger than the average house cat. They didn't seem bothered by us walking past at all ...

... to the side of my (new) ski pants. End of the day where were my gloves? Lost. No doubt somewhere with the many other things I have lost in my travels. I'm sure one day we will all be reunited and I will never need to buy another item of clothing again. My day at Cypress though hardly prepared me for Whistler. Whistler/Blackcomb is huge, huge, huge. One run had us catching lifts to get to the top for 50 minutes! It just never stopped. In fact I ...

... when I just waive them down on the side of the road! 3) Hot showers, comfy bed, clean clothes and a refrigerator full of food available whenever I damn well please. 4) All of sudden drinking a beer on the bus is frowned upon! Who cares if its noon on a Tuesday?!? Man... 5) Everything is so freaking clean and organized, what is this - A Brave New World? 6) Did you know the toilet bowl flushes in the opposite direction down there? 7) Not getting ...