Driving South from Whistler

What fun to visit our friends on Whidbey Island on the way home from Whistler!

Travel-Whistler

We were invited to Whistler to "nanny" my three year old nephew (we call him "C") so my sister and her husband could ski. Since I don't snow ski, when would WE ever go to Whistler in the winter (for free)!?

Of course, we are fortunate to live only four hours from Whistler, British Columbia! The entire family had to get passports, which was a little bit of an adventure and education in itself. At the last minute, my husband could not come with us due to a mandatory meeting. So I took the kids and we had an AWESOME time!

We stayed in a nice hotel with our room right next door to C, it was so fun! The highlight of the trip was not the pool, but turned out to be the Peak 2 Peak gondola that is suspended between Whistler and Blackcomb. Well, then there was Cows Ice Cream, that was pretty awesome, too!

Christmas Gathering

Our friends invited us to their home for a Christmas gathering. This year we made peppermint hot cocoa to give as gifts...oh, and bacon salt for the bacon lover!

Travel-Gray's Harbor Lighthouse-NOT

In our effort to visit a lighthouse, we took a weekend trip to Gray's Harbor...but the lighthouse was closed. And the only way we knew THAT was because I called. Though when we set out, I thought it was a well planned trip, it turned out that everything was a lot longer distance away than I expected. Not all was lost, we had a terrific time and visited a few more state parks!