Whistler Christmas - Part I

Whistler has been lots of fun. We are staying in Upper Village and it is a pleasant and fun walk to Whistler Village (10 minutes). Weather has been ideal because it has been alternately sunny and snowy.

Day 1. Total disorganization. We took our time lazing about Monday morning, thinking there was no way lessons would start earlier than 9am, and possibly even as late as 10am. Dae and I finally strolled downstairs at 8:15am to get our tickets and figure out what time lessons began. imagine our panic when the lady informed me kids are to meet for lessons at 8:30-8:45! Dae ran upstairs to get the kids dressed STAT, while I continued to wait in line for tickets. We then rushed downstairs at 8:45am to get rentals for the kids. We waited for 45 minutes and the rental line was barely moving, so we did a quick change of plans and ran up to a sports shop in our hotel to get the kids rentals instead. We ended up showing up to the lesson an hour late (9:45am) and I was aghast. ha! The staff, however, were very nice and very accommodating and they took the kids without a problem. Both kids started off at Level 3 (low 3 for Olin, high 3 for Christian). After two days of lessons they are both at 4 now! Dae and I plan to ski with the kids on Friday all day so I'm looking forward to that. I'm pretty sure we'll stick to greens and blues!

Night 1 - ramen dinner at Ohyama Ramen

Christmas morning in our condo. Kids got Harry Potter legos, a plasma ball (Olin), an all-terrain vehicle (Christian) and some other tchotchkes.

We went sledding on our day off Tuesday (Christmas Day)

Very first night we arrived, we sled down this little path near our condo, in the dark, and Olin crashed in to this tree branch. Poor fella. I told him his scab is like Harry Potter's lightning bolt scar but he wasn't buying that comparison.

Peak2Peak gondola connecting Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. By the way the weather has been perfect. It was very sunny on Day 1 of skiing, then it was overcast and snowing on Day 2 of skiing.

A run called Ratfink. haha. Dae and I took it and it was hard. Dae said it about did him in.

Rock & Gem shop that the kids loved in Whistler village. Whistler village is so cute. Tons of fun shops and restaurants.

This red contraption is a snowball maker. It is actually really effective.

Tubing park at Whistler today. We are skiing every other day and this was one of our off days. The tubing runs (7 of them) are fun, and somewhat steep and pretty long.

Nagomi Sushi last night. The places we've eaten are Tacos La Cantina (lunch two times - good), Teppan Village (Christmas dinner, teppanyaki style, and turns out the owner of our condo owns Teppan Village! We saw him there and I was like "is he a waiter here or something?" haha), Green Moustache (delicious green juice, healthy food), Nagomi Sushi (good), Il Caminetto (Italian for dinner, fancy but my fish was super salty unfortunately), Blenz for coffee (yum), Beacon Pub (dinner first night - good burgers), and Ohyama ramen (kids loved, I thought it was ok).