A rough start to the best day ever!!

Any guesses as to how I felt this morning? Ugghhh....not pretty. Luckily, there was no throwing up this morning. My hubby woke me up at 7am, took one look at me and said "you get one more hour". This was good because the ability to open my eyes wasn't something I could master just yet. He handed me some water and Tylenol and back to sleep I went. An hour later, the alarm went off again. This time I really tried. Hard. I got up, crawled out of bed (literally), threw on some clothes and decided fresh air would be good for me. I brushed my hair and teeth and stumbled out the door. It's a good thing that the neighbours weren't around because I'm sure the sight of me was frightening. I more or less walked hunched over around the block. My head was spinning. I somehow made it home and decided that what I really needed was food in my stomach. Sadly, I had no bread for toast, so I tried the yogurt-cereal thing.

I think I ate maybe three bites. This was not going well. I crawled back into bed and my hubby gave me another half hour. Around 9am, he had exhausted his patience and he woke me back up. He packed our bags for Whistler and I worked on making myself look semi-presentable. I'm pretty sure I put make up on with one eye shut while sitting on the floor in front of a mirror. Good times. I put on my shoes, took some more Tylenol, grabbed a pillow, a bottle of water, and a bag of soda crackers and got in the car. This was feeling like it was going to be a LONG day. But we were going to Whistler dammit!!

We managed to get out of the house and on the highway around 10ish. I started eating crackers in between shutting my eyes, hoping that I would stop feeling nauseated and dizzy. And then it happened. About a half hour into our 2 hour drive, traffic on the highway came to a complete stop.

From what I understand there was a head on collision on the highway. The road was backed up big time. After about 30 minutes of not moving, everyone started getting out of their cars. Families played badminton and bocce ball along the side of the highway. I lied in my car and continued eating soda crackers. About an hour later I started feeling better so I got out of the car and sat with my hubby in the sun on the curb. The crackers worked!

All in all we were there for about 2.5 hours. This bag of crackers was full when I started eating them, but I was too dizzy to take a pic. This is the pic of when I stopped. As horrible as it was to hear of the accident, it kind of saved my day. When we eventually started moving again I was feeling well enough to not have to travel with my eyes shut. I still wasn't feeling fantastic, but generally speaking I was back in action. We stopped in Squamish and I had a Starbucks soy chai latte.

My husband wanted McDonald's so we stopped there too. I looked around to see if there was something I could eat, but my tummy wasn't quite ready for heavy food yet. So I skipped lunch and hoped the chai latte would do. My husband felt bad for me so he gave me the rest of his fries. I thought this was a fantastic idea because when I was a bit younger, McDonald's fries always seemed to cure my hangovers.

This is what it looked like when he gave them to me. I ate maybe half of what was there. It worked - kind of.

About 45 minutes later and we arrived in Whistler. Yay!! It was hot there so I changed in the car and away we went. The plan was to do the peak to peak gondola, hike around the top of Whistler and have a BBQ dinner on a patio at the top of the mountain. First up - peak to peak!

This was so cool! When we were riding across the gondola between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains we saw a marmot! Cool! We explored a bit of the top of Blackcomb and then took the gondola back to Whistler mountain. Next stop was taking a chair lift up to the summit of Whistler. It was absolutely amazing up there. It felt like we were on the top of the world!!

After exploring around the summit, we were starving and decided to go take advantage of the BBQ on the patio. For the record...this is where we ate:

By this time I was starving so I filled my plate!

It was good and I ate most of it. I also had a glass of sprite with dinner. No wine with dinner for me!

We then went back inside, where I exerted much self control. We walked through the dessert buffet and I settled for a slice of watermelon and a piece of carrot cake. All the hiking and fresh mountain air made me hungry...what can I say?

After dinner, we hiked around a bit more but the sun was starting to set and I had no desire to get lost in mountains in the dark. So, we took the lift back down to Whistler village. We wandered around the village a bit, taking it all in. I really love it here! We parked our butts on a bench and called our daughter to see how her day went. Sounded like it went pretty good...she went fishing and caught 7 fish! After saying good night to our daughter, we walked around a bit more, then went to the car and headed home. I enjoyed this ride much better than the ride up 'cause by this time I was feeling fantastic!!

We got home around 10pm and decided to finish off the night with a movie. My hubby and I opted for a comedy and watched Ted. Totally inappropriate but SO funny! After watching my husband munch out on chips, I eventually gave in and had a napkin full.

When the movie was done, we were both completely wiped out. It was a long but fabulous day. And the best thing about it was that my hubby still loves me despite the fact that my hangover almost ruined our date. And here's the evidence that proves it!