Travel Snapshot: Day 58 - Day 62

So, as it turns out, I don't have pictures for every single day in the last month of travel. BAD TRAVEL BLOGGER. But instead, I'm prepared to offer you extra pictures for some of our days so that your total picture quantity remains constant. So don't say I never did nothing for you.

We spent Days 58 through 62 in lovely British Columbia, our would-be destination if we ever decide to leave the U.S. for cooler northern climes. We squeezed in a ton in just a few days, visiting family and friends, eating very well, and enjoying our first ski day of the season up at Whistler, which finally breaks my streak of bad luck when it comes to skiing weather at Whistler.


We were able to ski both mountains thanks to the new Peak to Peak lift, and enjoyed the views on the ride across (although we spent much of the twenty-minute ride deflecting the unwelcome attentions of a particularly aggressive member of some kind of evangelical cult).


After a few days in Vancouver and its environs, we hopped the ferry to Victoria. We spent the day and evening wandering downtown and enjoying the glowing lights on the provincial government buildings.


After a lovely dinner with J-P's cousin G, we got a close up of those lights


and, finally, enjoyed a nightcap at the lounge in the very posh Empress Hotel. Amazing they let riff raff like us just wander in there.


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