We met in the lobby at 6.45am - yikes! Charles wanted to get on the road early as there was a music festival in town and the roads were going to be choked. We made a quick breaky stop then drove for a few hours. Around 10.30am we stopped at a grocery shop to buy some lunch, then drove another 2 hours or so before stopping at a picnic spot by a river. We saw a few chipmonks!! It was quite nice and sunny. More driving for a few hours and it started to get overc...

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...

We met at 8am in the lobby and hit the road by 9am. A pretty uneventful day - we just drove to New York and arrived around 2pm. Our rooms weren't ready so we hung around in the foyer for an hour or so. We split up as some were going shopping at a nearby shopping outlet (most of the girls!), some were going into NYC and some were just hanging around due to various departures and awaiting shuttle buses to the airport. I would have gone into NYC if it was earlier,...