Seth, Carmen, Parker and Lindy: Whistler Canada

So... This was the most interesting trip I have ever been on. Taylor, Shayly, Russell, Jeanne and Seth and I set out for a last minute get away. Whistler was the destination, but since that is in Canada we had to first make it across the boarder, which was a problem since only a few of us had passports. But we made it through with no problems, and we were on our way. We had no plans, a ton of chips, limited funds, and we forgot Taylor's candy. Seth and I were deemed the chaperones. We finally made it to the condo, played a little rock band, unpacked and decided we were all hungry so we went to find a place to eat.

One thing about Whistler, everything is overpriced to the top dollar... kind of a problem for all of us college students. But we found some decently priced fast food and then spent some time walking around and taking pictures. Then later on that night we decided it would be best to go buy some food at the grocery store and make our meals. So I don't know what we were thinking but us girls decided to stay at the condo while the boys went to go buy the groceries... we ended up with way way way too much food and way too much milk. I guess you never know how much food will be eaten when Russell is around, but lets just say we had enough for three dinners every night!

On Wednesday night we played an intense game of Yahtzee (I won!) and then we soaked it up in the hot tub and managed to get to bed at a decent hour. Thursday morning we took our time getting up, and after a long time of debating on how to spend the day, we packed a lunch and took the lifts up to the top and explored the mountains and took over 200 pictures. We all decided that it was much more enjoyable than we expected and we had a lot of fun. Thursday night we went swimming at the rec center and it only took Shay and I a few painful tries to accomplish a well polished back flip off the rope swing. Canadian life guards are very lenient and we played chicken and had stunting competitions and climbed up the rope swing, even though we weren't supposed to.

After that we went back to the condo and tried to play phase ten but I kept getting skipped, Seth couldn't get past the first phase, Russell was dominating and so we ended up playing some more rock band and watched a movie. Friday we woke up early and managed to leave right on time, quite the accomplishment for us. We only had to wait for FOREVER at the border and because the lines were so backed up they let us back into the states with no problems, even though we all didn't have scannable id's... sweet. On the way home we almost ran out of gas, we found two gas stations with no diesel and were stressing since we were way passed "E" but managed to fill up just in the nick of time.

It was a great trip. We plan on taking at least one summer trip together every year with our friends, but this was just our first. Loved it! But we did learn a lot as well, things like, don't let the boys go grocery shopping, be prepared, have passports, bring enough clothes, wear sun screen even if you think you don't need it and pack utensils for the drive home.

Kam, this one is for you... bangin up Whistler

This picture sums up the trip quite nicely hahaha

We tried to get a cool shot over the glass bottom, but the funniest part was when an old lady got down and crawled under the railing to get a picture after we did