1st day skiing complete

In a gondola
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The first day of skiing is complete! The sun was shining and the skies were blue, it wasn't too cold and there wasn't too much snow. What I mean to say is that conditions were perfect except for the fact that the slopes were a little bit icy due to lack of snow, however the portions with snow-makers actually were a little better.

XR and Ian
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In the morning, we dropped Chunnie off for her ski lesson at the bottom of Whistler mountain and not the other mountain in the resort Blackcomb where we are staying. I found out that her ski class would have lunch at the top of Whistler at about 12, so I said we would try to meet her there. Then off us boys went, up gondola for a morning of skiing. We went up and down and about 12 went up to the top to sit in the restaurant and have lunch. We were looking around for chunnie but in the mean time managed to bump into Liping. We said that we were looking for Chunnie as well, but Liping was kind enough to inform us that to our surprise we were actually on Blackcomb. D'oh! Later we realized we got on a gondola from Whistler mountain that was called 'Blackcomb Gondola'. This is what you call total incompetence.

Skis
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Sarah arrived today! So you thought she was travelling with us? Nah, turns out she was wrong and she needed a visa to travel to the US, all because she has an old passport without some special page which a computer can read. After a delay of 1 day and a new flight that goes directly to Vancouver, she is here with us. :-)