Alright, finally a slightly more creative title. Slightly. This one encompasses two days, since we didn’t have Internet access last night. Of course, there’s no Internet tonight, either, but there is enough time to type up a blog entry to upload tomorrow.
Yesterday wasn’t too eventful, as it was mostly spent in travel. We got up a little late, and met more hosts’ neighbors’ children. I also got a graduation present from my grapndaparents’ old neighbors, which was awesome. It’s an old Kodak Browny, a foldout camera. Takes 620 roll film (hooray for medium format), and it’s thoroughly manual, in every way. There’s also apparently some odd type of flash contacts on top, so my next project will be to get some 620 film, and see if I can get this thing synced to a Pocket Wizard.
After that, we left and met with my stepdad’s mother, who just happens to live nearby, and then drove up to Whistler. Didn’t do very much that night, just checked into the hotel (for the record, the Tantalus resort is pretty nice) and went out to dinner. This morning, though, I got up early and ran (turns out running in hilly areas is awful to my shins: going downhill puts way too much pressure on them), and then my grandpa and I went on a zipline tour.
The ziplining was mighty impressive. Up above there is my awful attempt at a self-portrait while flying along on a zipline, and Grandpa also zipping along. They took us a little ways up into the mountain, and then down along a bunch of ziplines, over rivers and trees and such. A little scary, but certainly lots of fun. There’s a couple more images from the trip down below.
After that was finished, we met back up with Grandma and Aunt Rhonda, and went up to the top of Blackcomb on a chairlift. We saw a bear on the way up: that’s the first image below. Once we got up, there were lots of landscapes to be made, which I hopefully did at least a decent job at. There’s one down below the bear, that I had lots of fun making: just about fell through some snow, and had a great time trying to keep my tripod steadied. And it was cold. Very, very cold. It was a pretty great relief to make it back to the bottom.
When we finished with the mountain business, we came back down to Horseshoe Bay, and took a ferry over to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Had a nice long ride on the ferry, and got to catch up with some photographs. Then we ate at Swiss Chalet, and finally made it back to the lodge. We’re staying in a cabin-type place now, that’s pretty nice. They’ve got a gym, too, with free weights. First time I’ll get to use those since I’ve been here. And I reckon that about finishes it. Tomorrow I’ll have to post all this, plus another entry for the day.