Whistler

So I've decided to start up a travel blog for my upcoming trip through the States. I've never done a blog before, so this should be interesting.

I'm not leaving on the trip until Sunday the 31st which is good, because I still have a lot to do before I leave. That didn't stop me from going to Whistler this weekend though.

I went with my father on Saturday the 23rd and we stayed at the Hilton Whistler Resort. There was some sort of bike thing happening that weekend which we didn't know about when we booked the trip. It was called Crankworx or something. Anyways, it made the village very busy.

 

Crankworx

This was our fourth time at this hotel since 1998 and it hasn't failed us yet. The pool was okay, although heavily chlorinated.

Also, there were a lot of dogs. Not at the pool, but in the village.

Dad and I went to the upper village, by which I mean the Upper Village, and played some miniature golf. They say that whoever shoots a high score in golf (or mini golf) has got their money's worth. But I don't think that applies considering how much a round of mini golf costs at the Upper Village.

It was fun though. The temperature even reached 29C (or 84F) on Sunday, so we got quite burned.

Went up in the chairlift to the top of Blackcomb Mountain and rode the Peak 2 Peak between Blackcomb and Whistler Mountains. The lift ticket covered one ride up and one ride down the mountain, as well as unlimited rides on the Peak 2 Peak. I rode the Peak 2 Peak twice, once without the glass bottom floor and once with. There were only two gondolas with glass floors so I had to wait awhile before a glass one came.

 The glass bottom ones were neat, although I was kind of hoping the entire bottom would be glass. It was still neat, even if it didn't match up to the Grand Canyon Skywalk.

There was a set of bars around the glass floor so you couldn't stand on it or do pushups on it.

Went on a little bit of a hike on Monday as well. Dad wasn't up to it so I went myself. Came to a lake called Lost Lake which had a little picnic area.

There were five floating docks in the lake at random locations. The lake was small and took only between 15 to 30 minutes to walk around it.

It seems that the popularity of Whistler has increased greatly since the Olympics as there were countless Europeans here. I met a nice Dutch family on the gondola who were from Zeeland. They were surprised at the number of Canadians who had Dutch ancestry.

Oh and I read a lot. I read a book called Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity, in which the author suggested a return to the Great Commandment issued by Jesus, which is to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:30. He suggested we need to be great at obeying the Great Commandment rather than just good.

My next book that I just started reading is David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 

Only five more days until I leave for the States.

Marcel Bal