The Tip of the Iceberg

A few months ago I told Jason what I wanted for my birthday: a Dairy Queen cake. I watched him record my request into his Blackberry, so I was pretty sure he would remember, and that I would get what I was hoping for.

Little did I know, Jason had other plans. BIG plans :)

A few weeks ago he wrote "Lisa's Birthday" on the calendar, blocking off THREE DAYS.

Surely it wouldn't take that long to eat a DQ cake!

Anyway, I soon found out we were going away for the weekend . . . to Whistler. Neither of us had ever been there before!

We arrived Friday afternoon. The kids LOVED the hotel and had lots of fun playing in the pillows and jumping back and forth between the beds. That evening we also checked out the pool, hot tub, sauna, and adjoining restaurant (Old Spaghetti Factory). Pretty fun, and that's without even leaving the hotel!



The next morning we headed out to see the town. Janae got a little sidetracked when she saw her best friend Miga--in giant size :)

 

But we urged her along to the ticket office where we got our Sightseers' passes to ride the gondola up the mountain, and from peak to peak between Whistler and Blackcomb.

Being new to Whistler, we weren't exactly sure what to expect, so when we saw the open ski-lift carts going up the mountain, I got a little nervous (since I was holding a wiggle baby, watching an unpredictable three year old and a very curious five year old). We were very relieved to find that we were in the wrong line--and headed over to the much more secure, closed-in gondolas.

 

We all had a lot of fun, looking down, down, down at the snowy trees, skiers, mountainside, lake, etc. One of our fellow passengers was a helpful woman who told us that when we rode from peak to peak we had to take the glass bottom "Silver Chair," even if we had to wait a little longer for it.

 

She was right! It was amazing. I had to stop looking, though, the more I thought about how high above the treacherous cavern we were dangling, by just a cable. I did continue to run the video camera, though, so I am looking forward to watching the rest now that we are home :)

 

The view at the tops of the mountains was unbelievable. It was such a clear, sunny day, and there was lots of snow.



Benjamin could have played there for hours, but Janae and Alaina didn't last long.

That evening we walked through the village--we found a great park where the kids could play, and a LOT of stores.

There was so much more to see--but we are glad that we at least got to SEE the tip of the iceberg!