Whistler!

We hopped on the greyhound at 8am (after coming very close to missing it) and ventured on the 3 hours journey to Whistler! The view from the bus was amazing and we could see all the mountains surrounding the city with little snow caps on them. Beautiful.

We got into Whistler with truckloads of luggage and no idea where to go, so jumped in a taxi and made the expensive ride back to the hostel. Although it’s way out of the village, the HI Whistler is the nicest hostel I’ve ever been in – whether it’s only nice because the Olympics were here I’m not sure. But it’s a nice change all the same.

We took the bus back into the village and wandered for a bit. We grabbed our first meal in almost 24 hours (almost entering famine stage) and then went to look at the slopes. It looked so cool up there, but was super packed. People mostly come here to ski and snow board so there are just people everyyyyyywhere!

It looked pretty awesome and got us excited for snowboarding tomorrow!

We cooked our own meal at the hostel and marvelled at just how much money we saved doing so. Oops.

Woke up early (along with the majority of the hostel) to make the most of the day and get on the mountain. We picked up our gear and made the long gondola journey up to the top of Whistler mountain. It was crazy busy up there and took us about an hour to make it all the way down (a few tumbles later) but we got to the lift and rode down again. We found the learning/easy area (the bit we were originally looking for) so mucked around there for a bit, then I fell really bad on my back so had to stop and sit down.

We boarded back to the bottom and my back was in absolute agony, so Jess agreed to stop for a lunch break and then we’d head back up again. Service was suuuuuuuuper slow so we had a good 1.5hr break, headed back up and made it back down no dramas, was feeling confident and hyped to go again BUT...apparently everything closes at 3pm. And it was 3pm. It was a sad moment for us and we definitely got our cranks on after that. We were both expecting to be out there for a good 7 hours or so.

We headed back to the hostel grumpy and tired, cooked dinner, packed and went to bed ready to wake up at 5am to get on the bus to Vancouver airport tomorrow! It’s so crazy that this adventure is all over and in just 2 days we’ll be home. It only just feels like we left!

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Seeyou all back home x