Revelstoke 22nd Dec - 24th Dec
Hitting the road....
Time to stretch the new car's legs and officially begin our roadtrip. After leaving Whistler on Tues arvo we headed to Kamloops. A small, mainly industrial city about 300km from Whistler. We got there late and didn't get the chance to see much, but from what we could gather the next morning in daylight there wasn't much to see anyways! We now refer to it as the hick-town. We stayed at Knight's Inn, which out of all of the hotels we've stayed at, was the only gross and dodgy one. But we got it for cheap and even had breakkie included so oh well! We've noticed that most hotels here offer free continental breakfast with their rooms, seems to be a standard thing here. After going to bed late we woke up to snow everywhere which was nice, but the city itself was fairly bland. We stopped by our first Wal-Mart which was a K-mart on steroids. You could even do your groceries there. We bought some necessities for our car and hit the road again on our way to Revelstoke.
On our way it started snowing which was cool and we stopped in a little town called Salmon Arm (ha!) for lunch. We had our first A&W, fast food burger chain that is absolutely everywhere here! Thats something else we have noticed, they love their fast food chains and their diner chains and they are absolutely everywhere in every town regardless of how big the town is! You're never short of A&W and Starbucks and Tim Hortons (another coffee place). After Salmon Arm we continued on to Revelstoke and checked into the Powder Springs Hotel. A lot of snow there too and all of the housed streets looked so pretty with the snow and they are very big on christmas lights so that was nice. We had dinner at yet another diner, Denny's and went to bed.
The next day we had breakkie included in our room as well as ski passes so we got all ready for that and headed to Mt Revelstoke, about a 10 min drive from the hotel. It was ridiculously quiet there and not a huge mountain (compared to whistler) but it was good all the same.The lifts at the ski hills are good as there is usually a gondola as the main lift so its nice and warm We did a run called "The Last Spike" that went pretty much around the whole mountain, top to bottom, that was 15km long. For a lot of that, we were skiing through cloud so you could barely see the end of your ski in front of you. I didn't like that much, I didn't think we were ever going to get out of it! But the run was good. We had lunch and then as usual Shaun had to stretch his legs and enjoy the mountain without having to stop every five seconds for me! So he went and did some harder runs at the top of the mountain and really enjoyed that. We headed back down about 3:30pm and checked into our second motel in Revelstoke, the Alpine Inn, which was classic motel style but fairly decent. We had dinner at a restaurant called Emo's and figured they must all be one because they were all in black and had heavy makeup etc. Either that or emo's are called something different in Canada haha!
Revelstoke was quite lovely, with a small village covered in snow too but you couldn't walk around the whole thing like you could Whistler as it was spread out more. The next morning we got up early so we could head to Lake Louise and make the most of our christmas weekend at the Fairmont!
Stay tuned for the christmas blog, coming soon!
Here are some pics from Kamloops and Revelstoke.
Love Hayley and Shaun
(Sideways) WalMart
Driving from Kamloops to Revelstoke, snow everywhere
On the Chairlift at Revelstoke
Shaun Skiing
Hayley skiing
View of Revelstoke from ski hill
Alpine Inn Motel Revelstoke
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