Whistler and Van-City!

So on Jan 28th I left for whistler, which was incredible, the alpines were awesome to ski through, and contrary to Allans pessimism, the cliffs werent nearly as scary as he made them out to be. Will and I went down a few cliff, followed by will falling off a ledge, which may have been one of the funniest things I've seen in a while (hes fine, I'm not that horrible for watching my brother fall 5 ft!) Skiing in the clouds and the views were killer, but the best part was when the runs would break into the middle of the pine trees and all you could smell was the moisture of the clouds mixing in the with trees, ppl pay alot of money for that scent and never have I experienced something smelling so awesome and powerful.
The bus ride to and from whistler was pretty cool too, cliff face on one side and a massive drop on the other, I'm just glad I didnt need to drive, but it provided some pretty awesome views.
As for vancouver!!
Lauren and Kate were very gracious hosts providing me with an air mattress that puts Veros to shame (thanks anyways tho vero, it was better then the floor hahaha), and wondering around vancouver when lauren was working resulted in some interesting things. Particularly when I accidental wondered into East Van where I got to see all the wonderful homeless ppl, crackheads, heroine addicts, and prostitutes. I very quickly moved my wallet out of my back pocket and into the front where i proceeded to keep my hands on my phone and wallet just in case hahaha, and that was also around the same time that I found the signs all around me really interesting and started avoiding eye contact. Luckily it was only 630ish so the action was just getting started and I got out of there after I saw the dirty old white guys following the asian prostitutes up the stairs, good times.
The next day was pretty sweet too, once Lauren got off work we headed to the aquarium! But with my luck we got there at 430, when the place closed at 5! We still decided to go for it tho, half price entry allowed us for run through the whole place quickly watching the otters, seals, turtles and TONS of other fish and such. The belugas were defiantly the most enticing, the baby was adorable and the grandma was preggers so we were trying to see the bump, which was VERY prominent. Other then the lack of time we were able to spend there, the only other thing that sucked was that I got the song "Baby Beluga" stuck in my head until we started drinking hahaha.
Once we left the aquarium we wondered around stanely park for a while and eventually walked ourselves back into town where we had the genius idea of trying to find tickets for the Canucks game! After stopping at the liquor store to get some predrinks we downed those and hopped into a cab to get to the GM place. We were hesitant to buy from scalpers, but once we discovered that a pair of tickets for the game would cost us 135$ each, we decided to by from the guy who looked homeless 2 tickets together for 50$ a pop. Lauren and I both made mental notes in case the tickets were bad and we could come back and jump his ass to get out money back. THANKFULLY the tickets were legit and we got pretty good seats in the upper balcony.
The game itself was awesome, the canucks finally won a home game, which i accredit to us being there, but ppl could argue that. Little did i know how different the spectators were here then they are back out east, making a comment about the leafs and dropping the F-bomb resulted in the first 3 rows ahead of me shooting me evil, evil looks, but it was worth it cause I got to chirp Sundin all night. Again tho, karma turned against me and Sundin scored, got an assist and some how got the games 1st star, whats with that! Luckily Jew informed me that Sundin has a personal vendetta against me, so he probably played harder after he heard me yelling at him (this is probably why they won, again, as a result of our presence). So as the game ended, we continued to drink and be belligerent (mostly me, laurens a lady and doesnt do those things haha) and headed back to the bar, and then eventually back to the sweet sweet apartment and partied to some S Club 7 (just a bit of a throw back).
Anyways, that was Whistler and Vancouver, good times had by all, and now I must prepare for my flight tonight! 2 1/2hrs to San Fran, connect and 14hrs to Sydney!