Staff Conference at Whistler: Part I

On Monday afternoon we left for Andrew's annual staff conference in Whistler. If you'll remember, I REALLY wanted to go last year, but Tink's due date was splat dang in the middle of the conference.

Anyway, we stopped along the way for some TWIX bars to help fortify us for the rest of the trip. The kids really enjoyed them:


(We finally turned her car seat around. We were having trouble getting her in the car without ramming her head on the side/top.)


Hotel rooms in Whistler are SO nice! This is our suite. We had a great room and a separate bedroom. Tink slept in the closet (no surprise there) and Davey in the kitchen. We got the nice bed. Actually, we tried Davey in the bed, but he was too excited. So we got another play pen and stuck him in that.

The first night Davey went to the day care program but Elisabeth was too tired. When the music got a little too loud we went for a walk. Just as well since we realized we forgot to bring some things and had to pick them up in the village.

Day Two: Me and Davey enjoying the balcony.


This was our view from the balcony. Not too shabby, eh?!


Elisabeth eating lunch in the Spagetti Factory.


And Davey. The people at the table next to ours seemed fascinated by our children. One lady kept turning around and staring at them. A youngish man and his wife? girlfriend? were taking pictures. I think they were trying to be sneaky but it didn't work so well. Hmn, that reminds me of the time that we were at the Aquarium and some young Asian tourists took a TONNE of pictures of my kids. Is it the blonde/bald heads??


Davey refused to eat any conference food or Old Spaghetti Factory food so I bought him some smoothies and bananas and toast. He did better on those.

At this point Davey was napping and Elisabeth came outside to play. This is one of her two latest laughing faces:


This is the second. Good to have such a happy child!!


Many of you have asked how the kids adjusted to sleeping/life from a hotel. Apart from that first night when Davey was too excited to sleep, they did really well. Davey loved day care and couldn't wait to get there every morning and evening. In the morning they had a four hour program that included walks, crafts, stories and songs. I can't believe all the crafts he came home with!! And in the evening they worked harder to get the kids to calm down for bed time. Davey really enjoyed the toys, the walks...everything!

We only put Elisabeth in for half of the morning session. She seemed to like that too. She was the oldest baby in her group (0-11 mos) and by this morning she was apparently hugging and kissing all the little babies. She had a particular crush on Benjamin. But she didn't like it so much when the babies kissed her back. Other than play time, she stuck pretty much to her normal routine which meant I spent a lot of time in the hotel room. But the plus side is, I got a lot of reading done!

At the kids' store, ROXY stuff was on half price. I got Tink this sweet hat:



Yesterday we took a trip up to the peak of Whistler mountain. It was SO hot in the gondola. I was glad it didn't get stuck or we would have melted for sure!








WAY more pictures from last night still to come. I'm seriously tired right now and desperately in need of sleep!