We arrived. The room at the Westin was wonderful. We all got up bright and early so I decided to take the girls swimming before the babysitter arrived at 10am. Wayne was preparing to snowboard, but not moving too fast. We breakfasted in our room (with awesome kitchen facilities). I hustled the girls downstairs. We met with a few frustrating bumps getting the girls to swim. I called the front desk for kids robes (which I saw other kids walking around in and thought a great idea) 3 times over 2 hrs and they never materialized. I took the girls down anticipating the promised robes would appear to warm their little bodies. The pool itself was neat. There was an indoor and outdoor hottub. The indoor pool was warmed and had little flaps and cool mini-tunnel leading to the outside. Outside you could see this amazing view of the mountains and watch the steam rising from the water as I tried to have as much of my body underwater due to the cold. Laura and I only did that once. The Westin provided kid sized life jackets (how neat was that). We got to go down to the pool/spa area in a lift since I had brought the stroller. Sara thought that was neat. The pool part was enjoyable. When Laura started to look blue, I hustled us into the dressing room. I expected nice warm showers to bath the girls. Instead, I tried 2 different nozzles and couldn’t get consistent hot water. What a poor occurrence for the spa of a swank hotel. We eventually used that handheld handicap faucet for warm water. Laura kept slipping. It was general mayhem, but I sheperded us thru. Unfortunately, we had no robes and Sara had no underwear (just a wet bathing suit). It was a 10 minute walk back to our room. The spa staff took pity on me and went to find the robes themselves. So we were warmer walking back.
Mom time
No photos from this time. Whistler babysitting worked very well. I felt like I had stepped into the Commonwealth with all the Aussie, English, and Kiwi accents I encountered. Rachel, the babysitter, was from England. She took the girls out to the golf course to play in the snow. I guess Laura was not as happy as Sara to be in the snow.
I went to the Westin spa for an hour massage. I lunched at the Aubergine and had an amazing chicken sandwich. I wandered up the mountain and went tubing for about an hour at the Coca-Cola park. Wayne met me. It was an icy day on the mountain.
He wasn’t able to go up to 7th Heaven since it was closed. We went down the gondola and had apres-ski/tube drinks at the Dubliner. It was only 2 steps back to the Westin to get the kids.
Reservations and an early start are the keys to dining out with kids in Whistler.
We went to the Spaghetti Factory (our 3rd attempt since the kids were born). This time, the wait was reasonable. As usual, the crowds had gathered at this comfort food station. I loved the lobby. It’s so Whistler.
We caught the tail end of this cool show called “Snow and Ice”. We watched the last 5 minutes which was the finale. That was all we and girls had energy for in the cold.
