The Olympic day!

Day Seven: Well today was an interesting day… last night we planned on getting up and leaving early so that we could spend most of the day in Whistler. Unfortunately none of our alarms went off and the sun was hidden by the clouds so I didn’t wake up until around 9:30 A.M…. not exactly late but later then we had planned… after I took a shower, Bekah and I tried to wake Sarah and found that she was sick… dang… after figuring out what the symptoms were and figuring out how she felt we started talking about the plan and she decided that she wanted to go to Whistler and she would sleep in the car on the way up. So instead of leaving at 8 or 9 as planned we left at 11ish and headed up to Whistler! It’s crazy how quickly the scenery can change in B.C.! Within 20 min we had driven through the city, through a mini forest, along the coast, and started heading up the mountains! Along the way Sarah slept and Bekah and I talked! Good conversation!!! Once up the mountain we went to the Olympic park and were told that we couldn’t enter due to the fact that the Paralympics had just ended yesterday. So the nice guard man gave us directions to the place where the Bobsledding track was along with some SWEET window stickers! We then followed the signs to the sliding center and ended up in a construction site thingy… asked someone again and then headed up the correct direction! But I think I saw the side of the track through the trees after talking to that lady. We then got to the gate in front of the street that lead to the sliding and the lady said it was closed until Summer… NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! L Sad day! But she did tell me that I could take a gondola ride and see… so we investigated that and found that it was almost $50 per person… yeah um no… so I was satisfied to have seen the side of it! After that we headed down the mountain and tried to find the Totem poles I had heard about… we got lost… twice at least… and then FINALLY found that they were in Stanley Park and then it took us sometime to figure out how to get in there… it was really confusing… Once in we found the Totem poles and wandered around for a bit in the park. Then surprise of all surprises we saw the OLYMPIC RINGS on top of a barge in the middle of the harbor!!!!!!!!! Needless to say we took a bunch of pictures and then headed out! We then drive through the city and took some pictures again… lots of photo ops today! Now, after working on the plan for tomorrow we are going to bed! Tomorrow it’s off to Victoria hopefully and then down to see Wendy and Bryan and the family in Vancouver Washington!!!!!

~Heather~