Whistler, Canada

We drove up to Whistler, its about a 5 hours drive, 275 miles.

Here's the Port Mann Bridge, when the loan was paid off, they removed the toll.

We go up to celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving with Kari, Eldon & their family.

In Whistler Village

Namesake: Whistler was originally called London Mountain (named in 1932 for heavy fog and rain), but was renamed Whistler in the 1960s to honor the loud, piercing warning whistles of the local marmots and attract more resort visitors.

Here's a Photo of the Hoary Marmot.

We went on a 3 mile hike to the Ancient Cedars Grove, quite a nice UPHILL hike. The trees are up to 1,000 years old.

On the way up Lan had an 'episode', kind of like low blood sugar. He was sweating and light headed and had to stop a few times. We told everyone it was his back and leg but we both know. We NEED to change our diet, lose weight and get back to being healthy.

The participants in this years Thanksgiving dinner were:

Lan & me

Kari & Eldon

Jason, Jelaine, Wilder, Wynter and Harrison

Jolly, Quinton, Anna, Amelia and Louie

and Q's sister, Crystal.

All the kids are 6 or under, with both babies only a year old. It was loud & none of the parents followed through with their threats to their kids & the kids were brats. Jumping on furniture, throwing things, yelling, crying. 

 

Camping Fun

 We borrowed Terrys RV and took Soren camping at Spillman Campground, at Tahuya OHV state forest. He's 14 now, knows everything, still a kid at heart. 

We took the sxs and the guys took it out a few times and got good & dirty.

I stayed in camp, did a lot of cross stitching and relaxing.

BUT.

And there's always a BUT.

The neighbors were tweakers and on Thursday night they were screaming at each other for a while at about 10pm, on Friday they yelled a few times during the day and raked the forest floor...  We no longer felt safe with them there and more were showing up, plus their dog barked and barked and barked.

So we came home early.

And that was OK, since Soren had had his fill of camping, he missed his electronics and his girlfriend.

Fun was had, good food was cooked over the campfire, Soren had his Taki's and I hardly limited his eating. He also got to chop as much wood as he wanted and kept the fire stoked all day. 

Camping

 We're taking the 14 1/2 year old great nephew camping for 2 nights about 30 miles from home, taking the mtn bike for him to ride and the SXS for us all to enjoy. I'll take my cross stitch so they can go ride & I'll work on that, have a nap, enjoy snacks.

It'll be fun.