It’s a Jen update today 🙂
It has been another busy week – we wrapped up our time in Vancouver with more admin, but also some fun stuff:
Visiting Stanley Park – from the lookout point we could see lots of people zubbing about in speedboats and flying their little planes overhead.
Wandering around Kitsilano and Granville Island, and a ferry trip across the river
Going to Yoga (only Jen – the yoga studios are amazing here… and everyone is really, really good at yoga!)
Enjoying beers and raspberry mojitos with Andy & Mallory
Meeting friends of friends, Alex & Alice also from the UK – they are working over here for the year so they packed up their three kids and came over about a week before we arrived. They treated us to dinner at their house and we discussed how excited we all were about being here, and all the things we want to do and see. Alice also iced an amazing green dinosaur cake that she made for her son’s birthday the next day… I wish I had taken a photo!
Picking up our new car. They brought in a box of registration plates and let us pick our own… Nick felt that this one would be most appropriate. At least with the subtle mountain biking reference I have a chance of remembering which one our car is…
So it was into car and off up the road to Whistler! I was delighted that Nick agreed to drive us out of Vancouver as they have all sorts of odd rules that you find in North America, for example turning right on a red light is fine unless you’re about to knock someone over…
We arrived in Whistler and although it was supposed to be an AFD, we felt that we had both earned a reward for making it there in one piece with all our stuff.
The next morning we ventured to Crossfit Whistler (obviously). Afterwards, spurred on by some friendly banter he had received in Glasgow, Nick was determined to reassemble our bikes by himself:
Using the free tools and bikestand available to the public (only in Whistler?!) he got them up and running, and we went out to Lost Lake for a spin. It was hot – Nick couldn’t resist jumping in!
The tiny toads were migrating so they built them their own underpass! They really were tiny.
Other highlights included a delicious dinner and beautiful views at the posh Niklaus North Golf Club:
We hadn’t realised that we could have brought our own seaplane… maybe next time(!)
And “beergaritas”
We are now in Pemberton and have moved into our new home, but this post is long enough… more to follow soon!
Yield To Bears 