Feb. 2013

Feb. 14th 2013 Vancouver trip
This is a wonderful trip, I definitely need to record this one.
2nd time come to whistler, always good memory, same as the food from Araxi,
Every time go, same fantastic food, you do not feel disappointment.

We left Halifax on 13th, stopped at calgary to see customer, a disguising man, any way, arrived calgary 9:30am, can only see him after work,  we went straight to massage, then rest at fair mount hotel, buy a day pass in spa, steam sauna, pool, just doing nothing . After supper, we fly to VANCOUVER at 11:30pm, 24hrs on the road, tired, we fall in sleep the. Moment we hit pillow.
14th, went to see tony, ate best geoduck, full Bally , went to foot massage , had a lots of fun,  drove to whistler with Georges in the afternoon.  He brought the cookie, a quarter of cookie knock me down,   We made the best love ever, this is a nice side effect of cookie.I felt to a sleep at 7:00pm.
Wake up 9:00, man, a long sleep, so nice.

15th, we went to ski together after breakfast, hotel we stay is four season, $600 per night, they have ski concierge right close to lift, hotel bring everything to there for you, I just took the shuttle and get geared up there. Ski is hard somehow for us, leg are so pain, we did not fall through, it is a good ski, however, we both tired at 11:30, we stopped already and having lunch at millstone . Watch people ski, I found a lot more Chinese then last time. We are at black corm, maybe all Chinese go there . We walked back to hotel , watching movie, went to the hot top, water is warm, they are located with pool, all outside, sky is blue, not that cold, you stayed in hot top, shoulder and head outside in cold air, very nice feeling: wear swimming suit outside in middle of snow /winter, fell great, happy and fresh. Relaxing.  Of course, this is also because the massage after, four Season is the best (top 10) in Canada for winter resort, especially for spa. Massager is a boy Marco, he is the best, I almost felt high .
we ate at Araxi bar, watching the Japanese chef making beautiful sushi,  food there is great. Just too many people.  Never can get a seat. W enjoy the bar experience. Again, we felt sleep at 8:00 and wake up 8:30. Another good sleep.

Bruno came on Saturday 16th, Georges got his ski baddy, so, I booked school,  we ski together in the morning, it is foggy, i can not see people around me, only some times see people sit on the snow, first time, i ski in fog. Can not read blue sign, all depends on partner. cool , you need to trust people sometimes,  ot is so foggy, we end up went down with green trial.  they all said I improved a lot,
my afternoon teacher is a lady, Adina, she is a happy girl, only teach me and mike, I learned goo lesson from her, to balance. Always felt great to ski with teacher, I will come here and learn till I reach black diamond .
We went to massage again after, well restored mussel back, dinner at Chinese Restrauant, the cookie is so strong, we all stoned so bad, I tried so hard to keep awake . Bruno almost got paranoid. Finally drives hotel. Fall into sleep again right away.

Sunday, 17th, still foggy,  but, last day Kai, got to do it. Put myself together, went with them to the top of mountain, over peak to peak.
At the top of the mountain I realized why people go ski, here, snow is Virgin, skier leave mark on snow, sun light is from haven, rainbow on the sky with moon and sun, snow flake all shinning , sunlight mixed with tiny snow flake, like thousand shinning  silver thread come together. Strong sun, I can not open eyes even with ski gargle .
Snow everywhere,  but, further down hill still cloudy. Many skier here due to the bad weather down ,  ski trial are wide, white , mixed together, I am happy to stay with blue trial, even the blue is harder : bumps all over. I can go as faster a i can. Fell a Lots of freedom. Completely forgot the scare feeling when I came up inside cart. We made good timing, still got 45min. For rest and lunch.

Want to ski school, together with other 3 people, we went to lean together  Michelle is our teacher. He is good, found my problem right away and correct bad habit one time , I almost do now know how to ski when I correct myself, a lots to change.  2 hours goes very fast, he left us in the middle of mountain and we have to go down alone , Lisa said she goes with me, but only one hi,, she lost , Can not see her anywhere , I waited for about 10 min. Still can not see her . So, I decided to go on my own,  raining earlier in the morning , Temperature must be high as snow changes into slush, feet are heavy, ground has lump everywhere,  not smooth easy to fall , I kept myself in the direction towards blackcomb, does not matter what trial it is, I kept on going forward. Some trial is so hard, I felt like 5 times, To stand up on my own is always a Challenge,  I was sweat, leg shaking and feet pain, but I managed to arrived black comb . George's let tired and went back earlier, I went back with Bruno together . Took a little sneak at bar, we went to massage again,
Bruno went back to vancouver, we went to Araxi again to eat,  we ate cookie, so hungry , food service is so slow. It took us 2 hour to get our food served. but, food still very nice. We fall asleep again at 9:45 till next day.

Monday, 18th, we have to leave whistler, the nice room , food and fun ski  gave me a lots of beautiful memory . I am relax and happy, we drove to Vancouver , found a small village at north shore to ate lunch . Very cozy village with every house over 2million,

Went to office to do some business . Dinner we went to a Chinese Restrauant . Went to bed earlier and sleep again to 8:30. Had a lunch with Lyle - Cargojet west coast manager . Then,  tony brought us to -- the best Chinese Restrauant in VANCOUVER ,  normally.  very hard to book seat, we got one as Patrick knows the owner, food is extraordinary ,  from the look , the shape, the taste, really tasty, whole 鸽子 .  Tony brought wine, Manila claim, Patrick's massa and tony with Bruno, me and George's . I ate till I am sweat, long time did  not like this . We talk , joking and laughing, like friends for many years . Felt so harm inside . I will do some business together with them. We will have fun together.  Foot massage after, we went to big foot. Last vancouver happy day finished, we even want to delay the trip to stay longer .

Well, I will keep this nice memory inside my mind and credit another one soon,  VANCOUVER spring already arrived, gardening started , new leaf on the tree, sunny and warm, I can see 2 ski station from Richmond area, really, we are ski at spring here .
 
20th, we went back to Halifax , hopefully , no snow and do not need to shaver snow,