Whistler's a bit short on snow at the moment! Arrived after awet bus trip up the mountains on Saturday, saw some beautiful forests and lakes en route, shrouded in mist. Checked into House and was the first in my room. I now have 2 roommates, a bloke called Happy and another guy called Matt who arrived today. Both aussies of course. We're getting a girl in too sometime soon. It's been a week officially no, and we now have a TV and ipod speakers and the compulsory...

Arrived in Vancouver, after 4 hours stopping over in Auckland, 1 hour on the tarmac waiting for a new pilot for the plane, a draining 13 hour flight to Vancouver, a 40 minute wait with seemingly half of Australia's holiday workers to get through immigration, and a Cook's tour of Vancouver on the airport shuttle. Body clock is a bit out of whack and I kept thinking it was Thursday though it was still only Wednesday. The hostel was packed to the rafters with mainl...