i am heading up to whistler, bc, canada today to attend a great house party at shauna and glenn’s.  they throw such great parties and this year will be a special one due to the olympic games.  it has been a long time since i have had a social time in my old home town.

i use to live there from 1988 to 1998 and so much has changed since the 1980′s.  i remember having to trudge through the woods and underbrush with my puppy dog and we could barely get through.  that now is the area where the library and the iga is.  it is just a big shopping mall and parking lot.  yes sir, progress does not stop.

i hear that the games is a great success.  people are having fun.  myself, i do not like the crowds and i hanker for the times when we were just lone skiers on a hill that was empty except for locals.  now the locals are very outnumbered by the hordes of people coming to see the glorious ski hills that dot throughout the province.

i am looking forward to seeing old friends and faces.   making new ones as well.  trisha beauregard is my hostess with the mostess.  she has a downhill event registered for four of us.  we are going to a medal ceremony.  i think this will be a highlight for me.

my son and i went to a training for the opening games.  it was wonderful to see the work that has gone into this momentous time.  it is something to behold.  i am just very grateful to live in such a beautiful place such as vancouver.  i hope that once the party ends, the hangover will be short.

i remember expo 1986 and the bounty of new building that happened here.  now with the world watching us, i know that the sunshine and the kindness of the people who live here, we will see that it will attract millions more to this salt air delta.  it will be something that cannot be avoided.  who would not want to live here.

it is pristine.  it is resourceful.  it is vancouver, bc, canada!  eh!