No alarm set this morning.
The pace of the last couple of weeks has clearly hit us hard. I managed to lie in until 9am which is great
for me, but that’s nothing compared to Simon who finally roused at noon! This is despite the Halls having workmen in,
who were building them a new deck outside in the snow. His ability to sleep is incredible…. And
sometimes annoying I have to admit, but I’m probably just jealous.
My main quest for the day – laundry. Everything smells of smoke so we were
grateful for the opportunity to do a mass freshen-up! I started catching up
with the blog and we watched the first part of a documentary with Billy
Connolly traversing the wilder side of Canada.
Must get around to finishing the series sometime. I made the most of having a gym available
whilst watching a documentary on Back-to-the-future, because it’s one of the
best film series EVER (in my opinion). That was as much as we did today, until
Mark got back from work when we had shepherd’s pie for dinner and re-visited ‘Paul’
on blue-ray in the cinema room. It was
great to have a complete down day.
Monday morning was along a similar vein - relaxing, sleeping
in and starting to put the RV back into some semblance of order. There had been heavy snow overnight again but
the roads were fine for us to venture out in the afternoon and visit the
Olympic Park. Famed for the 1988 Winter Olympics where not only did Eddie ‘the
eagle’ Edwards have his time in the limelight but also the Jamaican bobsleigh
team participated for the first time, later immortalised in the film ‘Cool
Runnings’. The original bobsleigh used in the 1993 Disney movie still takes
pride of place outside the main entrance (right). It would have been wrong for
us not to have had a go in it. 
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| We make this winter sport malarkey look easy! |
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| Bobsleigh/ luge track |
There were added opportunities to capture
classic sporting moments and we got distant views of the
ski-jumps and slopes but the Park was mostly closed. This was confirmed when we visited guest
services to ask about tubing or sledging opportunities. Both shut.
How about the Olympic Hall of Fame, that would be good to see? Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Our timing was poor.
There was nothing stopping us driving around
the park to get up close and personal to the bobsleigh and luge track built in
1986 for the Olympics at a cost of $18.8 million. Still classed as one of the
most heavily used in the World today, with approximately 18,000 descents a year
(left).
Preparing to head back onto the open road we did a grocery
shop and filled the petrol tank before heading back to Hall Manor. As a thank you to the Halls we took them for
a meal out at the Canadian Brewhouse in Cochrane. The beer, food and company was great but we
called it a night reasonably early for Mark’s sake. Back at the house, we said our goodbyes and
parted with the promise that we’d happily return the favour to accommodate them
whenever and wherever we finally decide to stop! Massive thanks to the Halls for their
hospitality.
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| Us and the Halls at the Canadian Brewhouse |
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