Christmas in Canada

We crossed the border for the week of Christmas

heading towards the North Pole.

I was telling my WA neighbor what a beautiful drive it is to Whistler.  He said the highway was built for the Vancouver Olympics.  I think Lonny was dreaming of his future boat for many miles.  Just to relate a weird coincidence, our neighbors in Peru went to Whistler for Christmas last year.

We stayed at the Fairmont Chateau in Whistler.  I had spent the previous week watching Christmas movies while wrapping presents and addressing cards.  I thought I had entered a Christmas movie at the resort.

The gingerbread house was edible.

These singing girls made me laugh.

The view from our room.  

The weather had been sunny so there was snow on the mountain but it was melting on the ground.

These people were excited to ski Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

A view from the gondola.

Emily likes to take selfies with willing participants.

There were lots of reminders of the Olympics on the mountain

and off.

On Christmas Eve we enjoyed a fondue dinner, our sleigh ride was canceled for lack of snow on the flat but Santa made an appearance.  Apparently his sleigh was still functioning.

Look how excited our two little kids are anticipating Christmas morning?

Having a tree in our room was awesome.  In hindsight, if we had not had the tree, Christmas morning would have been weird.

Emily can be weird with or without a tree.

We went to Victoria, Canada maybe five years ago when we took a similar photo of Emily so we just wanted another photo for our Canadian moose collection.  

We went snowmobiling the day after Christmas
and took this awkward photo.

Our route was really beautiful and lots of fun.

Our guide took these photos

while we stood on the edge of this cliff.

  Emily flung her glove over the edge and Eric risked his life to retrieve it.

Then our guide took a photo of himself which we found later.

Lonny, Eric and Emily went zip lining on Canada's supposedly longest zipline. 

After you sign the forms saying you won't sue if you die they hand you a boatload of gear.

I could imagine going back to Whistler.
We had a merry Christmas there.