Best Breakfast EVER!

Boy, the French know how to do it!  We went to breakfast at this little French creperie in Whistler.  We started with delicious cappuccino and coffee, and then got to the good stuff!

Crepe Montagne- A reason to go back to Whistler!

 I ordered these buckwheat creps smothered in cheese, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes, hollandaise, and a sunny side up egg!  It was one of the best things I'd ever eaten.

 The cheese crisped up around the edges, like cheesy croutons!  It was heavenly!

Robb's breakfast was incredible also.  The pancake batter was definitely homemade, and was so fluffy and sweet!  The little red potatoes were perfectly cooked, and the homemade bread was delicious!

 It was a great way to start the day! 

Another Cool Nail Design!

I got a dotting tool! It's so easy and so cute!

Swirl Nails

This was my first attempt of swirl nail polish. It came out pretty good! First, you scotch tape around your whole nail and finger. Then, you get a little cup and drop nail polish into room temperature water. After you get circles of polish, you take a tooth pick and gently swirl the polish around until you get a design you like. Then just dip your nail onto the design, clear out the excess polish with your toothpick, and remove from the water. Remove the tape and clean up edges with polish remover, and voila! You've got swirled nail polish! For mine I did only one finger per hand and used four colors, white, purple, light blue, and pink. Not too bad for my first attempt!

Cats make good pillows

Charley and Chester... Awwwww, babies!

Whistler Village

Whistler Village was nestled at the base of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. In the town was all the restaurants and shopping. On our first day, we spent the morning walking around and shopping. It was such a cute little town!

This is one of my favorite pictures with the Olympic rings and mountain in the background!

At Olympic Plaza, they had all the rings and all the other Olympic symbols

The cute guy is an inukshuk. An inukshuk is a Inuit symbol which means "in the likeness of human." Traditionally it's meaning is that "someone was here", or "you are on the right path." It was the symbol of the Vancouver Olympic games in 2010, to symbolize friendship and welcoming.

This is the paraolympic symbol.

There was much Native American influence every where, including totem poles, inukshuk, and signs in their language.

Standing in front of the rings

This is the cute little gazebo in the center of the village

On either side of the walking path were stores and restaurants, and above there was lodging

When people take their lunch break, they just set their equipment in racks in front of the restaurant they are eating in. This one was right at the bottom on Whistler Mountain and a popular spot to go

When you get to the bottom of the hill, you are right in Whistler Village!

It's the place (only place really) to be night or day in Whistler!

Driving to Whistler

We arrived in Vancouver to sunny blue skies!  We had about a two hour drive to get to Whistler.  

 Vancouver was a very new city.  It seemed like every building was made of entirely windows. 

 We drove through the city then into Stanley Park, which was a beautiful first taste of the Pacific Northwest. There was nothing but all diffferent kinds of pine trees!  My favorite!

 When we crossed over this bridge, we got our first clear gimple of the mountains we were headding into!

 The freeway was just cut into the sides of the mountains.  They did a major renovation for the Olympics, turning it into a 4 lane freeway with pull offs from just a 2 lane road.  Everyone we spoke to loved this as it made the drive into Whistler much smoother and faster.

 It was breathtaking to see these giant mountains coming right out of the ocean!

Here's another view of what we saw just outside Vancouver

 We stopped at this little community park on the way, and saw these skunk weed, one of the official "flowers" of March (I remember this because of my National Geographic books, and being sad that March, my birthday month was a skunk weed flower)

 All the way there, we were wondering how in the world they got these giant power line towers on the tops of these mountains!

 This was the little lake from the park.  It's one of Robb's favorite pictures because you can see the sky better in the water than the actual sky.  

 So, we'd heard of all this snow in Whistler, but still didn't see it for most of our drive.  Then about 1 and a half hours in, finally, we saw snow!

 It was interesting to be able to see the freezing level, the altitude on the mountain where rain turned to snow.  You can see in this picture the trees covered in snow higher up.

And finally, we arrived in Whistler!  

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