We all headed to town on the bus around 9.30am. Some were ziplining or hiking, but I had plans with Alisha & James to go up to the peak of the mountain in the gondola. It was amazing views from up there! Then we went on a chair lift to even further up to the top. It was freezing but pretty spectacular. Then we did another gondola from 1 peak to the other, which is the longest spanned gondola in the world (no pillars). It even had a glass bottom! In the a...

Whistler is lovely. Had a great day! We met officially at 7.30am with Charles and did all the paperwork and tour briefing etc, and then hit the road around 8.45am. The van is crappier and older than the previous one! We drove for an hour or two before stopping at a coffee shop (caffiene, a welcome sight at that point!), drove more and stopped at a grocery shop to buy lunch, drove another 15 mins to a picnic spot to eat lunch, then went for a short walk to s...

Oh. My. Gosh! Getting up at 3am was not fun! We met in the foyer at 4am and caught the hotel shuttle to the airport. Out of the 5 of us going on, 4 girls all had overweight bags, but the guy didn't. Go figure. Considering the overweight fee was $100 there was some mad repacking going on! I had to move my jeans and shoes and a few clothes into my carryon. And then I forgot I had my sunscreen in there. It was too many mls for carryon so they confiscated it! Argh s...