Vancouver to Whistler!

Today was just one of those spontaneity days where we didn’t really accomplish too much. We need these days sometimes and I enjoy it because it doesn’t feel like there’s a schedule to keep to.

We woke to the Sun family having breakfast but both Ben and I were still so sleepy. Not sure why as we had at least 8 hours sleep. We managed to get out of the house by 10am to pick up our rental car at Metrotown. Following which we went to the Canadian Superstore to pick up some snacks, toothbrushes and water. I wish we had a store like that in Australia. There a dispensers of M&M’s, lollies, pasta and lentils. I misjudged the M&M dispenser as I ended up with about 600 grams of M&M’s. Ben made me ditch about half the bag. Cruel man I married.

We headed off for an early lunch of sushi, teriyaki chicken and tempura in the foodcourt. The noodles which accompanied the teriyaki chicken was more like spaghetti than noodles. Funny that. In Italy we ate spaghetti which seemed like egg noodles, and in Canada we ate Japanese which seemed like spaghetti.

Finally we headed off for Whistler. We were planning to stop by Shannon Falls on the way but we weren’t sure where to stop and we inadvertently passed the falls even after stopping at the right place. We headed on to Whistler as we could stop by on the way back to Burnaby.

We arrived at our hotel (Whistler Village Inn & Suites) and had to wait for our room to be cleaned. We overheard the receptionist say to her co-worker ‘we’ll need to put them in the loft’ and both of us knowing that this was a better room with a fully equipped kitchen hoped that they were talking about us!

After waiting for our room to be tidied the moment of truth came. We got the loft! Both of us were so happy! This meant we could cook our own dinner! When you’ve been traveling for 3 months, cooking for yourself is a luxury!

We went for a walk around the village which was beautiful. There are also some summer sales of winter clothes that we looked into. We planned for the next day and picked up some groceries for our feast.

The hotel has a BBQ which we used to cook our steak and chicken kebabs. I think we got over excited as we ended up with way too much food. But ah, such is the luxury of cooking for yourself!