MMW Orlando Adventure: Day 3 Whistler

After the lovely sunshine of yesterday today's forecast was for cloud and rain. Still getting accustomed to the time change we were up earlyish and decided we'd quickly get dressed and out to see if we could get the gondola up Blackcomb mountain before the rain really started. We finished of the remaining croissants from yesterday and headed out at about ten to 9. Their was already rain in the air as we made our way from the building, past the swimming pool to the edge of the Blackcomb gondola slope. A young boy was stood on the grass very excitedly pointing up the hill saying "look, look, can you see it". Just a little way up the slope you could see a bear rummaging on the grass directly beneath the gondolas.

We stopped to watch for a few minutes before heading down to the village. Looking at the info at the gondola station revealed it didn't open til 10, I think we were a little early for Whistler!! The top of the mountain was shrouded in cloud and we decided if the weather wasn't going to lift there was probably little point venturing up there in the rain. Also the peak to peak gondolas aren't running til the weekend, which would have even one of the attractions here, although we were both a bit apprehensive.

We had a quick wander round the nearby shops, most of which were shut, the exception being the cycle hire shop lining all their bikes up outside. We decided to head back to the apartment for coffee. Had a chat with both the kids on WhatsApp before deciding to brave the rain and go for a walk to Lost Lake.

We walked through North Village and joined one of the walkways towards the lake. Its not a huge lake only a couple of kilometers around it. There were a few other walkers around but it felt so peaceful, hard to believe we weren't that far away from the village. We walked in total around two hours admiring the towering trees, the lake and the mountains, some with their tops in the cloud, others with their snowy caps shining in sunlight. Lovely place to spend a couple of hours even with the unsettled weather.

We decided too late that this might have been a nice place to hire bikes, especially electric ones, to explore, we think we might do this in Banff if time allows.

We were a little shattered by the time we walked back up the hill to The Aspens, so we had a little time relaxing while we decided what to do next. We had forgotten to pick up teabags at the supermarket yesterday so decided to drive to the Creekside market shop. Again, easily distracted, we wandered the aisles checking out all the things we recognised and all those we didn't, like the variety of mushrooms including Lions mane which we had recently heard about on Clarkson's Farm but never seen before! We found a box of Yorkshire teabags, then grabbed a meat sub roll, a sausage roll and a pot of mixed Melon pieces.

Keith decided his legs had had enough walking today so we drove north slightly to Green Lake admiring the mountain views, I don't think we will tire of seeing snow capped mountains round nearly every turn!

We decided to shower before heading out for dinner. My hair had certainly not coped very well with the earlier rain showers.

The plan had been to go to The Keg. Unfortunately when we got there it looked closed so our second option was Earls, recommended by the apartment owner, but they had a long wait list so we headed back to the Brewhouse from last night. Keith had chicken and ribs while I had steak and chips.